ANOTHER STEP

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Thank you for choosing our Ontake Warm Bamboo books and tools! This page is your gateway to everything you need to get the most out of your Ontake practice.

Getting Started: How to Load and Light Your Ontake.

Follow this link for a playlist of videos about the basics of Ontake application.

Learn how to load, light, and apply Ontake with ease.
Discover Dr Manaka’s meridian frequencies and explore much more.
Watch an interview with Oran, where he shares the background of Ontake and the concepts that inspired its development.

THE ONTAKE BASICS PLAYLIST

Expand Your Skills

Explore a range of resources designed to deepen your understanding of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion and refine your technique.

WHAT IS ONTAKE MOXIBUSTION? — A short article introducing Ontake

SAYOSHI TV AND THE ONTAKE CHANNEL –Links to hours of video about Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion

Online Courses at Net of Knowledge

Discover our comprehensive courses that will take your Ontake practice to the next level.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced practitioner, there’s something for everyone.

If you’ve not studied with Oran before, and you’d like to, here are three online courses with Net of Knowledge. If you’re looking for the basics, start with Ontake 101, which covers everything from loading and lighting Ontake to treating sore throat and midline pain. And it only costs USD30! If you’d like something a bit longer, check out the other two!

Ontake Moxibustion 101

Getting Started with the Ontake Method

In this highly practical introductory module you will:

(1) Discover what Ontake is and the kind of things the Ontake Method can do.
(2) Learn how to load, light and extinguish the Ontake.
(3) Acquire three basic strokes to get you started: tapping, rolling and super-knocking.
(4) Explore a simple treatment model for the rapid relief of pain anywhere on the midline of the body with Ontake, including sore throat, neck pain, middle back, pubic symphysis and epigastric pain.

Ontake Moxibustion for Meridian Therapy and Toyohari Practitioners

Treating the Back and Consolidating the Pulse

This highly enjoyable two-hour recorded webinar explores Ontake’s origins in Japan, with an overview of historical and contemporary uses. Using numerous short video clips, dynamic presentations, and frequent breaks for questions and reflection, students learn how to load and light Ontake and contrast the different application methods for deficient and excess areas along channels.

In this highly practical introductory two-hour, you will learn:

(1) How to load, light and extinguish Ontake
(2) Protocols to augment the root treatment
(3) Protocols for assessing the lustre of the skin and balancing kyo and jitsu with Ontake
(4) A simple routine for treating the back to consolidate the pulse

Moxa in Motion with Ontake Warm Bamboo

Rhythmic Moxibustion Methods from Japan

In this twelve hour course, you will learn:

(1) Dr Manaka’s meridian frequencies and how to apply them
(2) Protocols for symptom relief
(3) Protocols for whole-body regulation
(4) The integration of Dr Tan’s holographic models with Ontake for the rapid relief of pain

Presented by Oran Kivity and compered by Michael Max from the Qiological podcast, the format is varied and dynamic, with lectures, PowerPoints, group Q&A sessions and teaching videos. Each lesson is linked to a section in a fifty-page workbook packed with learner-centred quizzes and exercises. Engagingly filmed, produced and edited to hold the attention of distance learners, Moxa in Motion presents a step-by-step guide to utilizing the Ontake Method that will leave you confident in your new skills and more effective in your practice.

Books & Guides

Delve into the theory and practice with these essential texts.

SAYOSHI BOOKS

Live Teaching Events

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TEACHING EVENTS CALENDAR

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COACHING PAGE

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THE ONTAKE SHOP

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PINCH AND PRESS—A BRAND NEW ONTAKE TECHNIQUE

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A few years ago, I studied teishin techniques in Indonesia with Funamizu Sensei from Japan. One of the techniques he taught was easily adaptable to Ontake practice. I call it Pinch and Press.

Here’s a simple guide you can follow to practise on your thigh. If you’re right-handed, it’s easier to start off on the left stomach channel or the right spleen channel. If you’re left-handed, practise on the right stomach channel or the left spleen channel.

1) SUPPORT HAND
With your non-dominant hand, squeeze and lift a handful of muscle around ST 34. Then, release it quickly, allowing the muscle to drop back down. Move proximally and repeat.

2) DOMINANT HAND
Hold the Ontake in your dominant hand, with the lighted mouth facing down. When your support hand lifts the muscle, touch the mouth to the top of the mound. As you release the muscle, let the Ontake drop down with it, keeping the mouth in contact with the skin.

3) SEQUENCE
Pick up the muscle with your support hand, creating a mound. Place the Ontake on top of it. As you release the mound briskly, the Ontake follows, and the patient feels a sudden warmth and release. Immediately pinch the muscle again and repeat, contacting the Ontake with each release. You can repeat this at the same spot or move to another location.

4) INTEGRATING THE METRONOME
This is a fast sequence done to a beat. On each beat, perform one Pinch and Press sequence. If you’re counting to four, you do four sequences—Pinch and Press, Pinch and Press, Pinch and Press, and so on.

APPLICATIONS
The downstroke, aided by gravity, makes this a dispersing technique, excellent for easing tight muscles. You can use it anywhere there’s enough tissue to pinch—tight legs, tight arms, and especially my favourite application: tight shoulders. Enjoy!

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the Facebook Group.

To view more about Ontake and Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion see:

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Holographic Moxibustion: Applying Ontake Warm Bamboo to the Hirata Zones

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These last few weeks, I’ve been teaching Hirata Zone Therapy in Europe. It crossed my mind, several times, that HZT is not particularly easy to say. And it also occurred to me that the name, Hirata Zone Therapy doesn’t allude to Ontake. So how about Hirata Ontake Therapy instead? It’s accurate and it makes a wonderful acronym: HOT!

Anyway, whatever we call the therapy, here is an article I recently wrote for EJOM which summarises Hirata’s approach and how we can adapt it for use with Ontake.

This article was first published in the European Journal of Oriental Medicine (EJOM) Volume 10, No 1, 2022. www.ejom.co.uk.

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Change of Direction

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It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? In the light of the pandemic, I made the life-changing decision to move to Taiwan with my partner.That’s taken up a lot of time and space, from quarantine in July to looking for a place to live, a place to work and finally, this week, shipping over our elderly cat from Malaysia. In the meantime, I got to finish my second book.

In the light of all these changes, I also came to a decision about Sayoshi.com. I think it was 2018 that I launched Sayoshi.com, an online directory for practitioners of Japanese acupuncture but I didn’t put in enough time to really make it grow and few of the community that did register made much of their listings. As it was pretty much a solo project, I’ve decided to close this part of it for now and concentrate on other areas concerning Japanese acupuncture (and exploring
Taiwan!).

One of these projects is Sayoshi Books, a self-publishing imprint devoted to producing books about Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion. 2020
started very well for me with my first book about Ontake Warm Bamboo (and then…pandemic!).Next year, Sayoshi Books will launch my second, the first detailed exploration of Hirata Zone Therapy in English.

In the spring, we have scheduled The String Method, by Felip Caudet, with a foreword by Lorraine Wilcox. Felip’s book explores how to locate
effective points for moxibustion by using proportional measuring with string. Much of this is based on the teachings of Isaburo Fukaya.

Sayoshi Books is not a conventional publishing house—it’s more a guiding process to help JAM-focused authors self-publish. If you’re
interested in self-publishing your next book, do contact me. I hope to share the hard-learned lessons of self-publishing with other like-minded authors.

From next week, visitors to Sayoshi.com will be redirected to the new Sayoshi page here. In the meantime, The Sayoshi brand will continue with interviews on Japanese acupuncture on YouTube and new books on the imprint. On a personal note, I do feel sadness at closing the directory down. It was a dream of mine for many years but it’s simply not a job for one person. If there are members out there who would contemplate investing in and running the directory, then let me know, and maybe we can get the thing started again. In the meantime, I’d like to thank all our 200 members for your support along the way. I’d like to finish with a Merry Christmas to all – well, at least as merry as it can be given such a dire year. Here’s wishing you all hope and renewal for 2021.

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