by fabian.bastianelli | Dec 3, 2024 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection, Shiatsu
Almost all of us are familiar with this Asian sign of thanks and welcome: join hands at chest level and bow. In many Japanese practices, particularly in the martial arts, before interacting with one’s partner, one makes gassho, a greeting. This bow is...
by fabian.bastianelli | Dec 3, 2024 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection
The discovery of Buddhism in the West has opened doors to practices such as meditation, yoga, the notion of happiness, and also the philosophy that allows us to re-question our own. We’ve come to realise that there are many similarities between the East and the...
by fabian.bastianelli | Jul 3, 2024 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection, Shiatsu
In the great religions of Asia, the law of karma is what is known as the law of causality. In a nutshell, it can be summed up as “action-reaction”. This concept carries with it a whole universe of understanding. It’s the law of cause and...
by fabian.bastianelli | Dec 4, 2023 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection, Shiatsu
Ichigo ichie, a moment, a meeting. This expression comes to us from Zen and more precisely from the tea ceremony. It was highlighted by Sen no Rikyu, tea master, in the 16th century, a period of refinement of Zen. This period was marked by numerous...
by fabian.bastianelli | Dec 4, 2023 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection, Shiatsu
Following a previous article on attention just at the moment (Ichi-Go, Ichi-e, a moment, a meeting), I wanted to come back to what exists in all art, all crafts: the passion of Art, the search for the right gesture which could tend towards a certain perfection. ...
by fabian.bastianelli | Apr 25, 2023 | Meditation, Phylosophical reflection, Shiatsu
“It is not easy to sit on a cloud when you have decided to stay upright inside yourself” (Daniel Meurois) This sentence is taken from the book of joshua. Even if the book is far from the practices of shiatsu and Zen, for me, it brings together on its own the...
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