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Shin Tai International We are a husband & wife team that practice and teach shiatsu shin tai in Bucks County, PA. Saul Goodman is the developer of Shin Tai and Shin Tai International.

We offer resources in contemporary shiatsu bodywork and a personal transformation practice called light body activation. 50+ years of experience creating empowering tools for the elevation of health & consciousness in you and those you touch. Shin Tai International offers video courses, live classes, treatments, and resources about Shiatsu Shin Tai, an evolving form of bodywork that has its origins in Shiatsu. Our goal is to help you become a better bodyworker and build a thriving practice, as well as help educate people about the healing benefits of this unique form of bodywork. He has taught classes throughout Europe and the U.S. for almost 40 years and runs a private practice in Doylestown, PA. Lynn Goodman, Saul's wife, is also an instructor and practitioner. There are over 30 instructors now teaching Shin Tai throughout the states and Europe, and thousands of Shin Tai practitioners.

Have you ever caught yourself thinking: “I’ll be happy as soon as the kids are grown.” “As soon as I retire.” “As soon a...
10/14/2026

Have you ever caught yourself thinking: “I’ll be happy as soon as the kids are grown.” “As soon as I retire.” “As soon as things settle down.”

That’s not just a mindset. It means part of your life force is projected into a future that hasn’t happened yet, the same way part of you can still be stuck replaying something from years ago.

Click the link below to read an article that details what it actually means to be present, why most approaches to “being here now” stop at the level of mindset, and what your body is actually capable of doing about it:

​ https://www.shintaiinternational.com/blog-1/light-body-vehicle

Back to the Present…. Light Body Activation Sep 23 Written By Shin Tai International Shin Tai International  ·  Saul & Lynn Goodman The Light Body Vehicle:Bringing Your Life Force Back to the Present Part of you is still living in the past. Part of you is already worrying about the future. Your...

You don’t have to fix everything. Each person who comes into alignment becomes a point of coherence in the larger field....
10/08/2026

You don’t have to fix everything. Each person who comes into alignment becomes a point of coherence in the larger field. No judgement, no ideology. Just raising the frequency from right where you stand.
This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s something you can feel. Try this right now if you can:
Take a moment to take a few breaths and bring your attention to your body.
Rest one hand on your heart and the other on your hara, just below the navel.
Breathe slowly and notice the space between your hands. Imagine a loop of energy circling between your heart and your hara; don’t worry what direction, etc., just see what comes to you.
Then let your attention widen to the space around your body, a few inches out. Feel any sensation along the surface of your skin, all around your body.
Then cast your focus a little further out and see what you feel there.
Don’t force anything. Just notice.
You may feel something settle and line up. Notice SENSATIONS. That’s alignment beginning. Not belief. Sensation.

10/06/2026

Monday morning. Nowhere to be, nothing to prove.

This stretch of the old towpath along the Delaware has become one of my go-to spots to do light body in nature - an opportunity to sit quietly in a beautiful, quiet spot while I focus in on feeling, activating & aligning the different parts of my energy system.

Mornings like this weren’t always available to me. There was a version of me that needed every hour accounted for, every day earning its keep. That didn’t change because I decided to relax more (although that is often very helpful). It changed because I practiced working with invisible parts of myself, like the outerbody layers and the chakras. They are a key to gather life force into the PRESENT rather than stuck in past entanglements or future worries. There is a mechanism to coming into the now and bringing it back into each moment of your life. Into days exactly like this one.

Saul didn’t build the light body practices on theory. We’ve tested it in our own lives first: our work, our relationships, our bodies, etc, long before we ever shared it with anyone else. What we’re living now wasn’t a given. It’s an effect.

If some part of you is curious whether that could be true for you too, the only real way to find out is to do it. There are tons of materials on our website and Light Body Activation Podcast that we invite you to use anytime. No pressure, just an open door.

10/02/2026

You have an energy system running constantly beneath the surface: chakras, kundalini channels, cranial rhythm, the membranes around your body. Most of us never learned to notice it, let alone drive it.

When these parts activate and start working together, they don’t just function individually, they become a vehicle. One that can help you do something specific: gather life force out of past entanglements & future projections and bring it into each present moment as it unfolds.

Right now as you read this - How much of your life force actually here NOW? Is some of it back in a conversation from last week, or circling a worry about next month? Stuck in a challenging moment of time that happened years ago? Held in suspension ‘waiting’ for some hoped for future situation?

What would it look like if you could physiologically shed the parts of your past that no longer serve you?This is a snak...
09/29/2026

What would it look like if you could physiologically shed the parts of your past that no longer serve you?

This is a snake skin, left behind on the rocks after molting. The snake didn’t analyze it, negotiate with it, or slowly work up the courage to release it. When it was ready, it split down the seam and moved forward, leaving the entire thing behind.

Most of us are still wearing skins we outgrew years ago. Old trauma, old griefs, moments that happened once but that our bodies never quite let go of. We carry them forward, layer after layer, mistaking the weight for who we are.

Your body actually has a mechanism to do what the snake does instinctively: release what’s already finished, and gather your life force back into who you are now, not who a past moment made you.

You can’t just decide to let go. Turns out there’s a real, learnable process for it.

We’re exploring this October 30th in a livestream class ‘The Light Body Vehicle: Back to the Present.’ Link bio or go to https://shin-tai-international.teachable.com/p/light-body-vehicle.

09/29/2026
Every spiritual tradition, every meditation practice, every self-development philosophy circles back to the same idea: b...
09/28/2026

Every spiritual tradition, every meditation practice, every self-development philosophy circles back to the same idea: be here now, come into the present. But how do we actually DO that?

What's different about this work is that it isn't mindset work. It's not about practicing letting go, setting goals, or trying to manifest with your mind. It's a system of specific steps to organize, activate, and align your energy system, so it actually brings your life force into present time. In our experience, this practice can support everything else you do for your health, relationships, profession, spiritual development, etc.

But no matter how many times we say this is true, doesn't make it truer. And no matter how much you theorize about it, read about it, or think about it, you still won't really know if it is true. The only way to actually find out if your light body can be used to gather life force into each present moment is to do it. That's because coming into present time isn't a mindset or a belief you adopt. It's a process, with specific steps you can take to make it happen.
Learn more by clicking the link below to watch a short video:
https://www.shintaiinternational.com/blog-1/be-here-now

When your chakras, kundalini channels, and cranial rhythm actually start working, real things happen: more energy, more clarity, changes you can feel in daily life. But there's another layer past that. When these systems come together as one, you get something more: a light body vehicle. This is a d

09/28/2026

When your chakras, kundalini channels, and cranial rhythm actually start working, real things happen: more energy, more clarity, changes you can feel in daily life. But there’s another layer past that. When these systems come together as one, you get something more: a light body vehicle. This is a dynamic tool built to bring your power into present time, gathering your life force out of past entanglements and future projections and into right now.

Every spiritual tradition, every meditation practice, every self-development philosophy circles back to the same idea: be here now, come into the present. What’s different about this work is that it isn’t mindset work. It’s not about practicing letting go, setting goals, or trying to manifest with your mind. It’s a system of specific steps to organize, activate, and align your energy system, so it actually brings your life force into present time. In our experience, this practice can support everything else you do for your health, relationships, profession, spiritual development, etc.

But no matter how many times we say this is true doesn’t make it truer. And no matter how much you theorize about it, read about it, or think about it, you still won’t really know if it’s true. The only way to actually find out if your light body can be used to gather life force into each present moment is to do it. That’s because coming into present time isn’t a mindset or a belief you adopt. It’s a process, with specific steps you can take to make it happen. You can learn more about this practice in the upcoming livestream class on October 30th ‘The Light Body Vehicle, Back to the Present.’

09/24/2026

For years I wanted to paddleboard on the Delaware. Every time I thought about it, there was a reason I used for why it couldn’t happen yet: not enough money to get the equipment, an old injury, needing someone to shuttle me between access points, nowhere to park.

Late last spring, one by one, those reasons just stopped being reasons. I got a board. I found the put-ins and take-outs myself. I even got my dear friend Debbie to come along for the ride :) though plenty of these trips have been solo too.

What I didn’t expect is that the river turned out to be one of the best places I’ve ever found to do light body meditation. In the slow spots, drifting, or pulled up on one of the uninhabited islands with no one around, it’s become this whole other layer of the practice. Being fully present out there, nothing to check, nowhere to be, is honestly kind of amazing.

None of this happened by deciding to “be more present.” It happened by using an actual mechanism for it, the same one we write about in our newest article: using your own body as a vehicle to gather your life force out of old excuses and into now, wherever “now” happens to be.

If there’s something you’ve been meaning to do for years, this might be worth thirty seconds of thinking about why it hasn’t happened yet.

Read the full article, link in comments below or go to https://www.shintaiinternational.com/blog-1/light-body-vehicle.

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