As a Shiatsu Practitioner, you will need to master following:

• apply context specific clinical competences
• complementary and alternative medicine
• develop therapeutic relationships
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
• give shiatsu massages
• identify customer's needs
• identify energetic meridians
• observe healthcare users
• pathologies treated by acupuncture
• promote mental health
• traditional Chinese medicine

More generally, a shiatsu practitioner is also versed in:

• communicate with customers
• empathise with the healthcare user
• human anatomy
• human physiology
• listen actively
• maintain work area cleanliness
• massage theory
• massage types
• provide health education
• relaxation techniques

It also helps to know the following:

• accept own accountability
• acupressure
• acupuncture methods
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• advise on mental health
• apply a holistic approach in care
• apply acupuncture
• apply aromatherapy
• auriculotherapy
• balneotherapy
• homeopathy remedies
• iridology
• kinesiology
• phytotherapy
• promote healthy lifestyle
• select acupuncture points
• types of aromatherapy treatments
• advise on healthy lifestyles
• apply deep tissue massage
• apply massage therapy
• demonstrate professional attitude to clients
• educate on the prevention of illness
• etiopathy
• fasciatherapy
• general medicine
• give massages
• homeopathy
• kinetics
• neurophysiology
• reflexology
• skin types
• sterilization techniques