SOTAI is the Manual Medicine which the Keizo Hashimoto, M.D. (1897 - 1993) accomplished, added the application of the essence of Oriental medical science and the modern medical knowledge to the Seitai-Jutsu which has been conveyed in Japan since the old days.

About 70 years ago (1933), Dr.Hashimoto opened his clinic and came to do treatment. However, he couldn't be cured well, especially in such cases as stiff shoulders and lumbago. One day, he knew the facts that his some patients cured very much by the acupuncturist or therapist of manual medicine. He thought whether it was strange whether a patient cured with those treatments why. So that he may acquire the skill, he went to take instruction in the acupuncturist and some healers. After that, he studied human body structure individually, and he discovered the law of one movement at last. That was a "back movement to the one for the better condition or feel comfortable" or a "reverse motion treatment". He discovered that it was returned by moving it in the direction which it moved to easily through the body in the condition that the arrangement wrong point of the frame, the strain of the frame muscle were normal.

Dr.Hashimoto kept announcing the result of the individual treatment regularly to the medical circles, and systematized it by piling up an originality idea further as SOTAI.

When a human being lives healthily, there are ideas of "four necessary balance" in SOTAI. They are the next contents.

Breath : Slowly, let's do breathing comfortably. Long breath is the "long-lived" secret.
Food : Let's think about the nutrition of a balance in the regular time.
Movement : Let's do the way of moving whose balance which met human physical construction is good.
Thoughts : Let's do the way of being generous and of thinking.

We think that both the mind and the body can become healthy by the above four balance's being kept. And then "Environment" is further added with the SOTAI as the fifth element. How many four elements of the point are filled, a balance collapses when a "Environment" is bad.

The above thought can be said as "Holistic" of sincerity. Dr.Hashimoto has already thought with the general idea of "Holistic" for the half-century against the sickness of the human body.

　

2. Physical distortion (in the SOTAI )

Human beings are mammals. Most of the mammals on the earth stands with four feet. The straight walk which only a human being uses two pairs. Say that it came to suffer from the lumbago and the piles on medical science after it comes to do a straight walk. In SOTAI, think about a human being is the same as the general mammals that four pairs are a walks, then it moves to the thought to a straight walk.

We think the body is same as the house, and explain physical distortion as follows with SOTAI.

The body's construction is same as the house's one　＞　Arms & legs are four Pillars　＞　A ridge pole is a backbone　＞　When a balance of the pillar collapses, distortion occurs in the ridge pole (backbone).

A human being does an impossible (It is unnatural) movement without knowing daily life. Then it breaks down a balance of the legs in the cause. The body tries to keep a straight balance.

The various nerves concerned with the internal organs are connected with the spine. The distortion of the backbone makes nerves become dull. Therefore, a change in vessel quality of the illness happens due to the distortion of the backbone.

　3. The treatment of SOTAI

　

The treatment of SOTAI never give pressure to the body. It's just Move the body some direction, if you feel "GOOD Feelings", continue that feelings when it has gone or satisfied. For example, stand upright, and twist the body right and left. If you feel discomfort when you twist left, try to twist slowly and try to feel your inner(body) feelings. And if you want to accept that feelings(ask your body) . If you feel satisfy or good feelings has gone, after that when you twist left again, you feel better than before. And about the worry that a shoulder or a waist are painful, the general treatment tends to cure only a shoulder and a waist. But we think that condition is the result. A shoulder and a waist don't exist independently.

In other way, If you can not move, or you are too young to move, Sotai Practirioner touches your skin for their finger.
(approach for the skin. This way is effective for relaxation.)

SOTAI is: The Leader is your BODY. Do not think your head......
1. Moving slowly and ask your body, is there good feeling this movement? Do not think your head.
2. Do not think your Head, Ask the feeling for your Body.
3. Continue that good feelings when it has gone or satisfied.

　

　

　

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