Best Friends offers a workshop introducing this harmonizing Art that will balance body/mind/spirit and strengthen the bond between you and your animals.

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient hands-on Art …

for energizing the total Be-ing. Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ) for Your Animal Companion is a direct outgrowth of JSJ as practiced by thousands of people who receive sessions and use daily self-help. Over the past decade, Adele Leas has pioneered this work and made it applicable for domesticated animals. The animals have an innate understanding of this non-verbal Art and seem to have been waiting all their lives to be touched like this.

In JSJ we acknowledge that all life is sourced from the "Universal Life Force" which means that the same principals and truths that apply to work with people also bring harmony to animals. JSJ is an Art and not a technique, thus it is creative and always evolving. While the principals of this Art remain the same, sharing this work with different species affords different expressions of harmonizing.

An Art more that 2000 years old, JSJ was dramatically revived in the early 1900's by Japanese Master Jiro Murai. One of his original students, Mary Burmeister introduced it to the Unites States in the1960's where it has quietly become recognized as a powerful path for self transformation as well as a great aid for healing alone or in conjunction with traditional "Western" medical care.

Jin ShinJyutsu brings balance to the body's energy. This allows the body to function better and heal more quickly. The application of one's hands is utilized to harmonize the 26 "Safety Energy Locks" (places where energy becomes backed up in the body). Holding these locks in specific combinations can reinstate balance and harmony to one's body. The effects are cumulative and frequent application of these techniques will greatly facilitate the reduction of stress, tension and toxins which accumulate through normal daily living.

Sharing JSJ with your animal…

is a deeply rewarding experience. The tools needed to start sharing this work are easily learned through hands on experience. Disharmonies and health conditions addressed include:
     -lessening healing time after injury or surgery
     -digestive and elimination concerns
     -skeletal and muscular issues
     -circulatory problems
     -arthritis, rheumatism and other age related imbalances.

In addition to these and many other physical ailments, Jin Shin Jyutsu can effectively assist in attitudinal disharmonies such as:
     -stubbornness or aggressive behavior
     -fear issues
     -grief

Many of us have longed for a way to connect more deeply with our own animals or those we work with in animal rescue. This 2-day workshop will give you tools to do just that!