Shen Tao
Approach
The Shen Tao Approach offers both a theoretical framework, and a practical map of how to most effectively relate to one’s self (or a student) while training/working out/physical conditioning.
It is the “How” of how to change as a human being.
This approach brings together principles, and practices from disciplines such as Neuro Linguistic Programming, Sports Psychology, Self-Hypnosis, Meditation etc. to offer a map of how to most effectively direct one’s mind while the body is in motion.
This approach offers suggestions/guidelines on how to most effectively use one’s conscious mind, while cooperating with the wisdom of the complementary intelligences of the human nervous system.
The Shen Tao approach is characterized by a disciplined, compassionate method of self-to-self communication.direct
EQUIPMENT
Shen Tao equipment is designed, and crafted to be impeccably stable, utterly silent, and to offer no distractions from the experience of oneself while in use.
The visual appearance of the equipment is subtle, non-intrusive, and blends in to the existing aesthetics of whichever environment it is used in.
The tactile experience of interacting with the equipment is sensual to the touch, with all of the equipment’s edges, and surfaces being curved, rounded, sanded, and impeccably finished with hand rubbed oils.
In order to cooperate with crowded environments, and multi-use spaces the equipment has been designed to be lightweight, portable, collapsible, easy to set up, and break down, reposition, and store.
EDUCATION
The methods, techniques, practices, principles, and practical applications of the Shen Tao approach are shared within the framework of 35 different workshops, nine certification programs, five ongoing classes, and our professional mentoring program.
Pure Technique workshops provide instruction in the bio-mechanical, skeletal alignment, rhythmic, qualitative etc. levels of the exercises performed on Shen Tao equipment.
Hands-on workshops develop the universal skills of how to touch safely, gracefully, and effectively, irrespective of which discipline one is practicing.
Self-Application workshops offer the opportunity to experientially deepen one’s wisdom of how to apply the Shen Tao Approach to one’s own body.
Assisted Tractioning workshops provide the necessary training to offer Assisted Tractioning to others.
ASSISTED TRACTIONING
Assisted Tractioning is a hands-on, therapeutic approach to opening, lengthening, tractioning, stretching, gentling, relaxing a person’s body.
The vocabulary of this technique derives from how Shen Tao weight and cable apparatus can support, and assist in challenging a client’s blockages and restrictions at the end of their range of motion.
The counterbalancing properties of the Shen Tao cable systems make it possible for practitioners to work with clients of any height, weight, or age.
Assisted Tractioning as a technique can also be integrated with many complimentary therapeutic disciplines and healing modalities, such as Thai Massage, Deep Tissue Bodywork, Feldenkrais Technique etc.