Greetings

　ATSUKO HATTANDA


Once upon a time...

There lived an ordinary man and his ordinary wife in a rural city - though they moved to Shibuya after their first child was born.

Well… after my birth, a professional masseuse(Sensei), who came to my grandmother’s house a couple of times a year, heard me crying and noticed my hip-joint dislocation. She fixed it immediately. She was blind, but she treated a lot of patients by her keen sense of touch. This was my first encounter with someone who had so-called “God Hands.” (Someone who has 'God Hands' has an exceptional intuitive ability to understand and heal a person's disease or pain.) Since childhood, I had tried countless treatments and met countless Sensei, including medical doctors, because I had a lot of problems, such as with my skeleton, and internal organs.

Until I turned 20, I had had a “God Hands” Sensei, who lived in Nakamurabashi, Tokyo. He had died of cancer just two days after he last treated me. Since then, I was unsuccessful in the search for a good Sensei. At the age of 21, I could hardly walk due to a lumbar disc hernia. I was taken to hospital for an MRI, though there were only a few hospitals that had MRI machines in Japan at that time, and had a spinal injection to block the nerves.

After the 3rd spinal injection, fear gradually overwhelmed me and made me think, I SHOULD do something myself. Oriental medical science interested me particularly. I wanted to understand what was wrong with my body and to treat it myself. Thus, I started to learn about my own body in this respect. Meanwhile, it turned out that my mother had cancer and that there was only six months left for her. Consequently, I became interested in alternative medicine and in things around my life as well; things like water, food, the environment, and spontaneous cures. That’s when aromatherapy and reflexology came into my life.

At that time, there were few schools or associations of aromatherapy, but by chance I found one in a magazine, run by Kurisaki Sensei, and began my study there in Ichigaya. There was no such word as Reflexology, but only “Ashi-momi Kenko-ho”, which means “Method of Health by massaging the foot.” I also went to a school on Jyakuseki (RWO-SHR Health method) for foot-massage. Furthermore, as I found good Sensei, as long as time and money permitted, I went to them to learn every bit of what they could teach me! :-]

The more I have studied, the more impressed I have become, having learned about the depth of knowledge about the human body. In addition, the more I have learnt, the more curious I have become: so, here I am, a Kenko Otaku(a health fiend)!!! This attitude of learning is still in me.

After I learned aromatherapy, I began to use rape-seed oil, sesame oil and olive oil instead of salad oil at home. Likewise, natural salt instead of sodium chloride, brown sugar and maple syrup instead of refined(soft white) sugar. Learning reflexology made me interested in muscle reflexes, chiropractic and osteopathy. I met Maeda Sensei through craniosacral therapy and learned how to put myself in an impartial position as a therapist. I have become what I am thanks to these many wonderful Sensei and to my family who supported me a great deal.

Now, I thought, what can I do? What should I do?

One of the answers is this company, “Les Magnolier”.

I want to be of assistance to anyone who comes to this therapy industry with the same aims. You might want to express what you can in your own way. You might want to give yourself a chance to know yourself better. You might want to know a variety of information about body and health. If this is what stirs your heart and mind, allow me to present “Les Magnolier.” This is one of my dreams and I believe this company is a fruitful result of that dream.