What joined my life
with the Art of JIN SHIN JYUTSU® ?

Jyutsu = Art

Shin = Creator

Jin = Person of knowing and Compassion

“Art of the Creator through person of knowing and compassion”

Some years ago, on a spring day, I participated in a one-hour Jin Shin Jyutsu self-help class. What attracted me? I was born with a sensitive nature and generally healthy and energetic during the growing years. I suffered from low-grade depression from about age 8 and this was to become a “chronic state” of being Dawna or “The world according to me.”

During my college years, I self-medicated with recreational drugs and alcohol thinking I could push away free-floating anxieties and deep sadness. But after college, when I took on high level work, symptoms became disruptive requiring meds. Occasional insomnia and digestive ailments ran parallel with menopause in my mid-50’s and as my 60’s dawned, the effects of chronic inflammation brought osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and arthritis.

As I watched my parents age, it was clear that I inherited these ailments as my “disharmonized life story”. My daily energy was unpredictable, and I struggled with increasing pain due to the arthritis in my right hip . Surrendering, I retired in my early 60’s and slid into a rut, lacking drive, happiness, and purpose.

But my will to find some joy in life was fulfilled when I found a yoga community in Sonoma with gentle classes for seniors. I had studied many traditions of yoga starting in my 20’s, so yoga was an old friend. Once I was able to get the hip replacement I needed, 8 weeks post-op I could get out and hike and resume birding, an activity that brought me back into contact with many old friends. Life got a little better. Energy returned.

When I heard about Jin Shin Jyutsu classes at the senior center where I took a weekly yoga class, my curiosity led me to participate in a self-help class. As class began, teacher instructed us to simply hold a thumb, followed by each other finger as she talked about Jin Shin Jyutsu with it’s roots in Traditional Asian Healing Arts. We learned that holding each of our fingers harmonizes an attitude, the energy function of a pair of bodily organs, and restoring balancing to spirit, mind ad body. By the end of the hour I felt clear minded with a deep sense of well-being! I was so impressed that Jin Shin Jyutsu became my muse; a much welcome Divine spark!

I purchased The Touch of Healing, a self-help book the teacher recommended and began a life-long learning process, soon taking webinars and live classes presented by the faculty of Jin Shin Jyutsu Spirit Mind Body. I was fortunate to connect with a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner who is one of the JSJSMB faculty. In a few years of intensive study and daily self-help, guided by my practitioner and mentor, I received authorization to be a Jin Shin Jyutsu practitioner to provide sessions and teach self-help classes.

So here I am, with great joy and love of this healing Art, at your service.

You can join me in truly getting to know and heal yourself. The world we’re living in now has increased our stress levels, compromising our mental and physical well-being. Many are longing for a return to Spirit. We need this Art to live well!

I look forward to meeting you for self-help instruction or a session in my Sonoma studio.