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One zone, three hands

Shoulder, hara, back and foot. Each zone is read in three languages that stay separate: the TCM code, the Masunaga extension, and the Namikoshi pressure region.

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Study material. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or replace your school or a health professional.

Shoulder

TCM

Girdle codes

LI15, TE14 and SI11 mark the yang shoulder. GB21 descends from the neck into the trapezius. They are numbered points, not whole zones.

Open the zone

Masunaga

Extension, not equivalence

In Zen shiatsu the shoulder may belong to an extended meridian's story. That line does not match LI15 point for point. Study it in its own layer.

Namikoshi

Pressure region

The Namikoshi shoulder tsubo is a contact area, often without a WHO code. The hand covers the girdle; the number comes later, if needed.

Hara

TCM

Abdominal mu

CV12, ST25, LR13 and CV6 are named landmarks. Place them, then listen. Not the other way around.

Open hara

Masunaga

Zone map

The Zen hara divides the abdomen into zones tied to extended meridians. A zone is not a mu. Changing maps is an explicit gesture.

Namikoshi

Abdominal contact

The Namikoshi routine treats the abdomen as a field of regular pressure, less dependent on a point number.

Back

TCM

Shu line

The inner Bladder line, one and a half cun from the spine, holds the shu. BL13, BL15, BL18, BL20 and BL23 are the study stops.

Open sheet

Masunaga

The back of the story

An extension may continue a meridian across the back with another geometry. Do not lay it on the shu line without saying you changed layers.

Namikoshi

Paravertebral

Pressure along the spine as a region, from top to bottom, before looking for a particular shu.