HUMANATURE
Book and Deck
This book and companion divination deck make Asian Medicine accessible to ALL people, transforming ancient theories into energetic, embodied reality. Theories about yin/yang, the five elements, meridians and pressure points, were created out of experiencing life’s basic truths. This book reconnects us to the innate intelligence and cyclical rhythms of the natural world, so we can experience and remember the truth of these theories with our whole being.
The essential nature of the earth and cosmos move through our bodies’ vessels, meridians (energy pathways), diagnostic areas and pressure points. In this book, the meridians transmit the energetics of the natural world, as expressed through our body, mind, and spirit. We are a microcosm of the macrocosm, and can find balance through aligning with natural law.
Through provocative images and hands on exercises, HUMANATURE is a path to personal and planetary healing.
This divination deck of 60 cards, guides our healing path through nature photos and messages from the natural world.
These teachings are the foundation of many healing practices. This book is user friendly and makes it easy to integrate this information into all healing practices. People who love nature and beauty, will receive this book as inspiration and heart food. It blends exquisite nature photography, original calligraphy, the meridian pathways and pressure points of the body, and hands-on ways to bring balance into our lives.
“The brightness, the angle,
the sighting of the stars shines in the brain
luring till inner constellation matches outer.”
Marge Piercy
“Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nini brings this timeless resonance into an accessible and inspiring modern context. I recommend using the deck as a daily practice for oneself and in groups. “
Terri Nash
HUMANATURE Charts
Nini made charts to map the terrain of our embodiment of the earth and cosmos. Charts include the Five Elemental Seasonal Phases, Chinese acupuncture meridians and Japanese meridian extensions, Japanese diagnostic areas of Hara and Back and Chinese diagnostic points, Alignment - Central Channel, Conception Vessel, Governing Vessel and Daily Meridian Biorhythms.
SEASONAL CYCLES OF THE FIVE ELEMENTAL PHASES
All of life is made of the same essential elemental ingredients as the earth and cosmos. Seasonal evolutions are a metamorphic journey through the elements, integrating, harmonizing, exchanging inner and outer, interconnecting and counterbalancing.
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
Socrates
ALIGNMENT – CENTRAL CHANNEL, CONCEPTION VESSEL AND GOVERNING VESSEL
Your vertical axis is luminous, oscillating light, connecting the fire in the core of the earth with the fire in the sky. Feel your body, the sacred vessel of your spirit, breathing from the depths of the earth into the vastness of the cosmos and back. Touch and breathe into these portal points.
“Nini makes learning Shiatsu a lived experience. These charts make the complexities of ancient wisdoms easily accessible to a beginner as well as being useful and enriching for seasoned practitioners.”
Susanne Weinman
FULL BODY MERIDIAN CHART
Chinese acupuncture meridians and Japanese meridian extensions.
FRONT AND BACK HARA CHART
Japanese diagnostic areas of Hara and Back and Chinese diagnostic points.
DAILY MERIDIAN BIORHYTHMS
Our day to day reality is guided by nature’s rhythms. Our body is one long continuous meridian, circulating the elements through us throughout the day.