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Wuxing, five phases

July 20, 2025 by Lukas Rowland

Diagram of the Wuxing, with the Japanese kanji for Wood (green), Fire (red), Earth (yellow), Metal (grey), and Water (blue) in a circle with pink arrows linking them in clockwise order. A set of purple arrows forming a pentagram connect them in the middle, with a yin yang at the centre of the diagram

The wuxing describes five phases that energy moves through, that the year cycles through, and more. Read on for more about these elements of shiatsu, and a reminder about my PINKPURPLE discount.

Black-and-white thinking

July 15, 2025April 27, 2025 by Lukas Rowland

Close-up black-and-white photo of the inner left wrist held horizontally. To the left of the joint is a tattoo of a yin yang; the black dot is a solar eclipse, and the white dot is a full moon.

It is easy to get pulled back into black-and-white thinking, but where do we go from there? Shiatsu is a modality made for balancing energy and opposites, yin and yang.