Various forms of traditional oriental medicine have been used for millennia to restore health, vitality, and mobility, to heal injuries, and to prevent sickness, by bringing to balance and maintaining a smooth flow of life force or internal energy throughout the body's energy pathways. Jin Shin Jyutsu is an advanced form of traditional Asian medicine that is known to pre-date Buddha. Jin Shin Jyutsu predates the more well-known arts of Acupuncture, Acupressure and Shiatsu, and is thought to be the source from which these healing therapies sprang. Its origins have been traced through ancient texts to approximately 1300 B.C. and it is believed to be the innate healing art of ALL Living Things.

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an ancient Japanese art that existed for many centuries, passed from one generation to the next through oral teachings. However, over time it slowly fell into obscurity as the interest in its practice declined and eventually faded from common knowledge. Jin Shin Jyutsu was rediscovered in Japan in the early 1900's by Jiro Murai, who in his quest to heal himself from an untreatable terminal illness, researched and studied a number of different schools of traditional oriental medicine and spiritual disciplines.

By using these ancient teachings, Jiro Murai was able to miraculously heal himself, and proceeded to devote the rest of his life to further researching and refining this methodology for harmonizing vital internal energy that we now know as Jin Shin Jyutsu. He passed on this knowledge to his students, Mary Burmeister, who then brought it to the United States in 1954, and to Dr. Haruki Kato, who remains in Japan practicing and teaching Jin Shin Jyutsu to Japanese Medical Professionals.

Literally translated, Jin Shin Jyutsu means: "Art of the Creator through Compassionate Person"

JIN    ̵  Person of knowing and compassion
SHIN   ̵  Universal intelligence, Spirit, or Creator,
JYUTSU – Art.