Five Elements and Twelve Meridians

Wilfried Rappenecker, born 1950, is one of the most distinguished Shiatsu therapists in Europe, education in Shiatsu with Wataru Ohashi (1981/84) and Saul Goodman (1986/87). Further important teachers were Pauline Sasaki and Hugh Milne (cranio sacral osteopathy). 1987 foundation of the School for Shiatsu in Hamburg, Germany; director of the International School of Shiatsu (ISS) Kiental as well as director of the European Shiatsu Conferences Kiental 2004, 2007 and 2011. As a doctor of medicine he mostly works with Shiatsu. He is co-founder of the Society for Shiatsu in Germany (GSD) and author of the books Yu Sen – Shiatsu für Anfänger und Fünf Elemente und zwölf Meridiane (both published by Felicitas Hübner Verlag), together with Meike Kockrick co-author of The Atlas of Shiatsu (that has also been published in English (Complementary Medicine Press) and other languages), as well as co-author of 5 other books on Shiatsu and complementary medicine. He also has written numerous articles on the subject of Shiatsu.