Jin Shin Jyutsu:
“Art of the Creator through Person of Knowing and Compassion”

Jin Shin Jyutsu (JSJ) Physio-Philosophy, (pronounced Jin-Shin-Jitsoo), is an Ancient Japanese practice of hands-on energy work which harmonizes the Universal Life Energy of the mind, body, and spirit, and facilitates our own profound healing capacity and promotes optimal health and well-being. JSJ uses light touch on combinations of specific energy locations (called Safety Energy Locks (SELs)) along energy pathways (called Flows) that feed life into every cell of our bodies, which helps release accumulations/blockages that cause various physical and mental symptoms. Jin Shin Jyutsu is also wonderful as a daily self-help routine to maintain emotional balance, vigor, and decrease physical discomfort. JSJ treatments are complimentary to conventional and integrative medicine and have proven to help treat a myriad of acute and chronic, as well as hard-to-diagnose conditions of many kinds.

The Ancient Japanese hands-on healing practices, that would later become Jin Shin Jyutsu, were verbally passed down from generation to generation, eventually becoming a “lost” art. It was rediscovered in Japan by Jiro Murai in the 1900’s after surviving a life threatening illness by using different hand positions (Mudras) and prayer to heal himself. After his miraculous recovery in 1912, he devoted the rest of his life to the study and comprehension of the process he experienced during his healing. It is only due to his research and development, as well as Mary Burmeister, that we are able to share what has become this incredible gift of Jin Shin Jyutsu.

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Japanese-American Mary Burmeister met Jiro Murai in the late 1940’s when she was in Japan teaching English and studying diplomacy. Jiro asked Mary if she would like to take the gift of Jin Shin Jyutsu back to America and she automatically said yes, not even knowing just what she had agreed to. She stayed in Japan several years studying and learning from Jiro until 1953 when she returned to America to get married and have a family with an American man she met in Japan. Because she was a translator, Mary was capable of taking the Japanese concepts Jiro had taught her and formulating them into language and practices better understood in the West. Mary continued to study and correspond with Jiro until his death in 1960. Twelve years later she began teaching JSJ to very small groups of students (several of whom Jennifer has had the privilege of studying with), and from the students of these small groups, Jin Shin Jyutsu is now taught and practiced all over the world as an accredited form of integrative medicine.

For more information about Jin Shin Jyutsu, please visit JSJ Inc. or JSJ Spirit Mind Body.