Where a shiatsu practitioner can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a shiatsu practitioner already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Shiatsu practitioners provide health maintenance, health education, whole health evaluation and recommendations for wellbeing, and treatment of certain illness through energetic evaluation of the body's life energy system (Ki) and regulation of the life energy system through various energetic and manual techniques.
Also known as therapist of shiatsu massage, practitioner of shiatsu, shiatsu therapist, shiatsu acupressurist.
Technicians and associate professionals 56 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: traditional chinese medicine therapist, 75%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A shiatsu practitioner needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- identify energetic meridians assisting and caring
- give shiatsu massages assisting and caring
- massage types health and welfare
- massage theory health and welfare
- pathologies treated by acupuncture health and welfare
- traditional Chinese medicine health and welfare
- complementary and alternative medicine health and welfare
- observe healthcare users information skills
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment communication, collaboration and creativity
- relaxation techniques services
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a shiatsu practitioner does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- complementary therapist 65% covered · difficulty 42.7
- aromatherapist 64% covered · difficulty 45.4
- traditional chinese medicine therapist 63% covered · difficulty 46.1
- sophrologist 59% covered · difficulty 50
- herbal therapist 57% covered · difficulty 51.6
- acupuncturist 57% covered · difficulty 51.6
- massage therapist 41% covered · difficulty 67
- homeopath 32% covered · difficulty 73.3
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Shiatsu practitioner is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a shiatsu practitioner’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.