''The calmer you feel, the calmer others are with you.
The more stable you feel, the more stable others feel with you.
The safer you feel, the safer others feel with you'' Rebecca Campbell
Let me introduce myself, my name is Martine Ricard, I am French and born in Nice. I studied and worked in Paris where I got also married. We moved to Germany in Darmstadt for 5 years and since 2007 we are living in the Netherlands.
However things change in 2016, the separation with my husband: as the result of a total new orientation of my life. After spending many years taking care of my family, I decided to pursue something that truly resonates with who I am. I became naturally inspired by holistic practices and the connection between body and mind, particularly how emotions and physical pain interact. This led me to study Eastern techniques such a shiatsu, which I began learning in 2017 a 4 year course at the Shiatsu school Den Haag (CSMBK ) ultimately completed it six years later.
I received for 6 years monthly master classes from our Japanese teacher Yoshinori Miyashita who is giving insights on shiatsu therapy for the last 40 years in our school located in the Hague. This has tremendously built my own practice whereby consistency and observation are key points.
The fundamental teaching of our school is based on the philosophy of the founder of Namikoshi Shiatsu, Master Tokujiro Namikoshi from Japan. This means that I treat and can alleviate different kinds of symptoms by following specific energetic lines on the body which alleviate pain and muscles stiffness such as:
- stiffness and tension in the neck, shoulders
- back pain
- menopausal symptoms, pelvic tightness
- chronic headaches, migraines
- lumbar disc herniation: in complement with your usual analgesics treatment, shiatsu therapy can contribute to increase quality of life. Shiatsu therapy may controls factors that amplify the pain of a lumbar disc herniation, including reflex muscle tonus, sympathetic nervous system agitation, and psychologic stress due to the acute pain, (Ryo Sasaki from Journal of Shiatsu Society of Japan).
- abdominal tension/pain
- digestive discomfort
- constipation, low digestive process
- sleep disturbances
- stress and anxiety
In 2022, I followed extra courses with the master therapist, Junichiro Tamori in Haarlem, Netherlands.
As part of my thesis, I am specialized in the menopausal symptoms by women and men. I treated three clients for four months throughout 10 sessions and the results were that all their symptoms experienced such as hot flashes, headaches, muscle stiffness, and chronic fatigue decreased around 60%. If you wish to read the content of my final research: click here.
Every year, I follow courses and practical classes in the field of manual therapy and western medecine as well as Intervision with shiatsu colleagues to maintain my professional skills optimal.
