Introduction to Teate Manual Therapy (Video)

When I first started as a student at the Kototama Institute in Santa Fe in 1982, I began a journey of training in a very unique school of Traditional Japanese Medicine.  I was fortunate to have begun my education not only in Acupuncture, but in a comprehensive medical system from a foreign culture.  I was also fortunate that the training program was not just about how to practice the therapies taught there, but how to learn about treating people for their medical and health concerns on a lot of different levels, with a variety of therapeutic modalities.

Manual Therapy, as taught at the Kototama Institute by Nakazono-Sensei and other teachers at the school, was one of the foundations of the practice.  Nakazono-Sensei called manual therapy Teate, or simply “Handwork”.  For the first year of my training, I studied Asian Medical Theory along with regular practical classes (three nights a week) where my fellow students and I treated each other exclusively with Teate treatment, under close supervision by our teachers - starting and ending with pulse and other diagnostic methods, to find out the condition before and after the treatment.  This was the foundation of the treatment therapies taught at the school - eventually we learned Moxabustion and Acupuncture, as well as other treatment modalities.

I have studied and practiced what I learned at the Kototama Institute for over 25 years now, and furthered my training with some other significant teachers along the way.

Here is a video introducing some aspects of Teate treatment and evaluation methods:

I will be posting more videos soon, about many subjects that I have explored since my time at the Kototama Institute.  I will be teaching classes in a wide variety of subjects.

Please contact me if you think you or your students might like to learn more about these kinds of therapies.

For more information, please give me a call at (206) 632-5640, or email me at ed@hibikimedia.com (Click the envelope icon at the top right of this page)