is a Shiatsu Master, Shiatsupractor (SPR), Chairperson and CEO of th
Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy
Founder/Director of th
Canadian Shiatsu Society of BC
Director of the Canada Branch of the Japan Shiatsu Association, Registered Instructor of the International Shiatsu Association.

History

Kiyoshi Ikenaga was born in Tokyo in 1966. He studied Shiatsu directly with

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at th
Japan Shiatsu College
in Tokyo. After graduation in 1986, he obtained the license of " Anma, Massage, and Shiatsu" granted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan. After moving to Canada in 1996, he practiced and taught Shiatsu at the Shiatsu Academy of Tokyo in Toronto.

Accomplishments

He established the Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy in British Columbia and the Canadian Shiatsu Society of BC. He was appointed as the first Chairperson of the Canadian Branch of the Japan Shiatsu Association by the then Chairperson of the Japan Shiatsu Association, Tokujiro Namikoshi. Since then, he has endeavoured to popularize Shiatsu with Vancouver as his North American centre for the dissemination of Shiatsu. Graduates from the Canadian College of Shiatsu Therapy are participating as Shiatsupractors throughout Canada, the U.S.A., Europe and Australia. He is a proponent of

Tsubo Shiatsu A ''pyeong'' (abbreviationpy) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace, equal to a square '' kan'' or 36square Korean feet. The ''ping'' and ''tsubo'' are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units, similarly based on a square '' bu'' ( ja:步) ...

as it elucidates anatomical and physiological references to the Tsubos of Shiatsu. He is the author of the book
Tsubo Shiatsu
', the monograph

' and ''Shin-ryo Performed by a Shiatsupractor''. His father, Takuo Ikenaga, is the current Executive Director of the Japan Shiatsu Association.

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