Reading the Body: Ohashi's Book of Oriental Diagnosis (Compass) - Softcover

Monte, Tom; Ohashi, Wataru

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140193626 ISBN 13: 9780140193626

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

Synopsis

The goal of Oriental diagnosis is to find unity of body, mind, and spirit. Ohashi shows how both physical and spiritual condition can be revealed in posture, features, and even the texture of skin.

About this title

About the Author:

Ohashi, one of the best-known bodywork and shiatsu experts in the West, was born in Japan. In 1970, he emigrated to the United States and founded the Ohashi Institute, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to teaching his specially developed methods of shiatsu.
Tom Monte, a bestselling health writer, is the author of Staying Young; World Medicine: Your East West Guide to Healing the Body; Recalled by Life: The Story of My Recovery from Cancer; and other books about health. His work appears in many of the nation's leading magazines and newspapers. Natural Health magazine is the leading magazine on alternative health care, herbology, bodywork, personal growth, and natural foods.

Synopsis:

According to Ohashi, the body is the physical manifestation of the soul. The secrets of your life - who you are and your purpose in life - are written on your body. Oriental diagnosis is a tool for unravelling these secrets. With the help of diagrams, this book shows the reader how to analyze features, posture and the texture of skin to show individual characteristics, strengths, weaknesses and talents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0140193626
• ISBN 13: 9780140193626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208