Seitai

Seitai (整体) is a form of bodywork and alternative medicine practice, originally developed as training tool within health education.[1] It was developed in Japan by Haruchika Noguchi (1911–1976) in the mid-20th century. The kanji comprising the word are 整 sei, regulated, coordinated, in order, and 体 tai, "body, organism", therefore translated together as "the body in order".[2]

The term seitai already existed in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. In the 1920s, it was adapted and introduced Japan by Michio Takahashi, a master of seitai-jutsu, and later by Noguchi from 1943.[3] Important to its development was a regular meeting group of experts in various fields of traditional Japanese medicine, led by Noguchi, called Dainippon Rengō Chiryō-shikai.[4]

Seitai is known in Europe due to its practice by Itsuo Tsuda beginning in 1972 (with dojos in Paris, Geneva, Milan, Rome, Madrid, and Palma de Mallorca) and Katsumi Mamine in Barcelona the following year.[5]

  1. ^ Mamine, Katsumi (2014). El movimiento vital (in Spanish). Barcelona: Icaria. p. 11. ISBN 978-84-9888-586-6.
  2. ^ Mamine, Katsumi (2007). Seitai, una nueva comprensión de la naturaleza humana (in Spanish). Barcelona: Seitai de Barcelona. p. 254. ISBN 978-84-611-5066-3.
  3. ^ Bel, Andréine (2015). Le corps accordé (in French). Les Mayons: Le Tilt. p. 415-416. ISBN 978-2-9551348-0-1.
  4. ^ Naoki, Yoshida (2014). 整体法の成り立ち (Origine de la méthode Seitai). Excerpts translated from the Japanese by Mallory Fromm.
  5. ^ "La práctica japonesa Seitai trabaja en la liberación del cuerpo". Palma de Mallorca: Ultima hora. 16 November 2001. Retrieved 20 August 2024.