Tokyo
Moxa Japan
Moxibustion Workshop
A licensed practitioner teaches you to use Japanese moxa on your own body, in a Shibuya clinic that has been there since 2014.
Workshop conducted in English
About the workshop
Moxibustion is a form of traditional Japanese medicine with fifteen hundred years of history behind it. The moxa you use is made from mugwort.
Over 90 minutes, a licensed practitioner will teach you to find the points on your own body and to place and light the moxa on them yourself. Moxa needs no special equipment: you can care for your own body with your own hands.
You learn it hands-on, so you do not just try moxa once. You will be able to keep using it at home, for your own health and your family’s.
Everything you need is set out for you.
Who teaches it
Shimpei Fukumoto
Licensed acupuncturist and moxibustion practitioner (はり師・きゅう師)
Shimpei has fourteen years of experience and some fifty thousand treatments behind him. He trained under Ryu Goto in a lineage of practitioners reaching back to the Azuchi-Momoyama period (the late 1500s), and opened his own clinic in Shibuya’s Sakuragaokacho in 2014.
Working with patients day after day, he noticed that moxibustion is barely known in Japan, while doctors and practitioners abroad are deeply interested in it. With people from all over the world coming to Shibuya, he started Moxa Japan a few minutes from Shibuya Crossing so they could try it for themselves.
“If Japanese traditional medicine spreads around the world, I believe it can contribute to people’s health and to world peace. Moxa Japan is a small but important step toward that.”
— Shimpei Fukumoto, Moxa Japan
Alongside his clinical practice, he teaches traditional East Asian medicine through Shibuya City’s adult education program and heads the Traditional Medicine International Exchange Network. His work has also been featured by the BBC.
Before you book
- Language
- The workshop is conducted in English.
- Length
- 90 minutes (3:30–5:00 PM)
- Price
- ¥50,000 per person, tax included
- Included
- Materials and a full set of moxa tools to use during the workshopYou also take home some moxa of your own.
- Group size
- Up to 6 participants per sessionBook all six places and the session is yours alone.
- What to bring
- NothingAll necessary tools and materials are provided.
- Age
- Participants must be 12 or older.
- Suitability
- Moxa is placed and lit directly on the skin, so please do not take part if you have a fever or any inflammation.The workshop teaches you how to use moxa. It is not medical treatment or diagnosis.
- Where
- 1F Shibuya Uchida Bldg, 9-3 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, TokyoOpen in Google Maps →
- Cancellation
- Cancel more than 7 days before the workshop and you are refunded in full. For cancellations made 7 days or less before the workshop, a 100% cancellation fee will apply and no refund can be issued.Email: info@moxa-japan.comYou are refunded if a typhoon, an earthquake, or a canceled train or flight stops you coming. If the workshop cannot run for reasons on the organizer’s side, you are refunded in full.
What people say
Being able to really feel the points was amazing. I felt relaxed and felt like my body has a more serene flow.
Six places to a session.
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Sessions run on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons — one 90-minute session each day, starting at 3:30 PM.
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