Balkans Shiatsu Summit

WHO'S NEXT?
-- Applications are now open for the next Balkans Shiatsu Summit -
Do you have a team spirit and a sense of the Shiatsu community? Don’t worry, we don’t need to play a rough sport like rugby – we just need to practice Shiatsu. 🥰
If you have a passion for Shiatsu in your heart and wish to promote it in the Balkans region (from Eastern Italy to Romania, from Slovenia to Greece), put together a small team and organise the next Balkans Shiatsu Summit in your country (following on from Bosnia and Croatia). 🫶
Because this region of Europe deserves Shiatsu, because unity is strength, because we deserve for this technique to be further developed, and so that practitioners can have access to world-class teachers, join the movement! 💪
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Our second day together in Zagreb 🌿
How do we restore balance when the system is either too active… or holding too much?
🌅 The morning started with energy.
With Paul Banester, we began by waking up the body that brought us fully into presence.
From there, we moved into hands-on techniques, exploring insomnia not as a single issue, but as a range of different patterns: difficulty falling asleep, restless nights, waking up too often, or not feeling restored.
Through the lens of Chinese medicine, it became a question of balance:
between Yin and Yang, between activity and rest, between a calm Shen and a disturbed one.
With touch, breath and grounded techniques – from the feet to the hara, arms, neck and head – we learned how to calm the nervous system and support the body in returning to a natural rhythm of rest.
🌇 In the afternoon, we slowed down.
Sanja Novko opened the space with a gentle vocal meditation, inviting us to arrive, listen and feel.
From there, we explored irritability in a completely new way – not as something to suppress, but as unexpressed energy, or even unexpressed power.
As her somatic maps show, irritability often appears where action is blocked, energy is held back, or the system is overwhelmed.
We discovered how different underlying patterns – stagnation, overthinking, depletion or lack of grounding – can all lead to the same surface experience.
Through precise and attentive touch, we explored how to release tension, restore flow, and reconnect with a more authentic inner strength.
✨ Throughout the day, something became clear:
balance is not about forcing calm – but about listening to what the system is trying to express.
🙏 Thank you Paul and Sanja for your depth, clarity and presence.
🤍 And thank you all for being part of this shared experience.

Our first day together in Zagreb 🌿
What happens when we truly listen to the body?
Our first day in Zagreb opened a deep exploration of emotions – through touch, presence and understanding.
🌅 In the morning, Mike Mandl guided us into the landscape of anxiety, revealing the subtle relationship between fear and control. He offered a clear way to understand anxiety as an energetic pattern – mapping how these dynamics manifest in the body and how we can meet them through touch, breath and awareness.
We explored how the body holds on, how the mind tries to create safety, and how true release cannot be forced.
🌇 In the afternoon, F***y Roque invited us to explore emotions through the lens of depression – not as a single state, but as a spectrum of different forms and experiences.
Through Shiatsu, we saw how identifying emotions can already begin to soften their intensity, and how touch creates space for real transformation – supporting both the body and the emotional process.
✨ Throughout the day, one thread connected everything:
when we stop fighting what we feel, the body begins to find its own balance.
🙏 Thank you Mike and F***y for your depth, clarity and generosity.
🤍 And thank you to everyone who shared this space with openness and presence.

Second edition of the Balkans Shiatsu Summit in Zagreb is finished.

Fantastic moments of pure Shiatsu, sharing knowledge and practice, thanks to Mike Mandl from Austria 🇦🇹, F***y Roque 🇫🇷 , Sanja Novko 🇭🇷, Paul Banester 🇪🇸, and the presence of Ivan Bel 🇮🇹 as MC of the event. All those international teachers came for free, just to share about insomnia, depression, irritability and more... Why? Because they believe in Shiatsu as a tool to gather the people across the borders.

All the participants where there to do as Gandhi says: Be the change you want to see in the world.

Now we already prepare the next event in another Balkans country.
Applications are now open.
Who is going to be the next hosting capital? 😉

Keep in touch on this account for more developments.

Take care and do Shiatsu ❤💪

The stones that stirred the calm lake have already sunk into the depths, while the surface explosively preserves the trace of that moment. Everything happens in a second. Touch, movement, depth. And now… a brief silence. Beneath the surface, the process has already begun.

These are the final days to apply for the Balkan Shiatsu Summit. Zagreb, April 11–12, 2026.

Curious about what is happening beneath the surface? Join us.

Like a stone touching the surface of water, every touch creates ripples. Seemingly small, yet they travel far — quietly, deeply, transforming the entire field.

Only about ten days left until registrations close for the Shiatsu Summit!

2 weeks to go.
And maybe this is exactly the moment you’ve been waiting for.
A space to pause.
To reconnect.
To learn something that actually makes a difference — for you and for the people you work with.
At the Balkans Shiatsu Summit, we come together to explore one of the most present themes of our time:
emotional and mental challenges in modern life.
Over two days, you’ll learn from experienced teachers from across Europe, dive into practical work, and connect with a community that shares your path.
✨ 4 teachers
✨ 4 deeply relevant topics
✨ 2 days of learning, exchange and inspiration
Whether you are a practitioner, student or a teacher — you are welcome.
📍 Zagreb
📅 April 11–12
Your place is still waiting.
https://balkans-shiatsu-summit.com

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Home - Balkans Shiatsu Summit Balkans Shiatsu Summit 2nd edition In Zagreb - April, 11-12th, 2026 LEARN With international experts This year again, 4 teachers of European stature will be on hand to teach. Their reputations have prompted us to invite them so that they can offer you quality lessons. DISCOVER New technics and topic...

Just over two weeks to go… and only a few places left 🌿
In just a short time, we’ll gather in Zagreb to learn, practice, connect and be inspired together at the Balkans Shiatsu Summit.
If you’ve been feeling the call — this is your moment.
Join an international circle of practitioners and teachers exploring the theme of emotional and mental challenges in modern life.
✨ Don’t wait too long — secure your place today.
👉 Register now: balkans-shiatsu-summit.com
We can’t wait to welcome you. :)

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