In the 70’s Shizuto Masunaga Sensei, creator of Keiraku shiatsu (meridian shiatsu), delivered four-week correspondence courses providing students with his own purpose-written material.We saw these course books during a visit to the Iokai Shiatsu Centre in Tokyo and given their valuable content decided to translate and publish them. Other than their historical interest, we believe the four volumes (this is the second) will be extremely helpful to shiatsu students, practitioners and t...

In the 70s, Shizuto Masunaga Sensei, a great master and the creator of Keiraku shiatsu (meridian shiatsu) conducted four-month correspondence courses. He sent his students the four manuals he had written to purpose. Given their valuable content, we decided to translate them from Japanese, believing them to be of great help to students, practitioners, and teachers of shiatsu alike. This fourth and last volume illustrates clinical shiatsu, examining a series of common “ailments” and ...

Elaine Wright Christensen's third book of poems reflects her desire to keep memory alive! Many prizewinning and published poems tell of ancestors, children, and insights gained as a woman who finds herself "still that summer girl.' She writes of losing a child, loving a man for forty eight years, speaking German, and living in the desert beneath a mountain that knows her, while longing every day for the ocean--the only place she truly recognizes herself.

In this, the final tale of the Polaris of the Snows saga, Polaris, Rose, Minos and Memene, along with scientist Zenas Wright and the redoubtable crew of the rescue ship, Minnetonka, are returning from the Antarctic to America when their ship is attacked and sunk by an Atlantean force that is bent on restoring their ancient ancestral dominance over the known world. Our captured heroes are now at the mercy of a tyrannical king and his people whose evil intent is opposed only by the Goddess G...