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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.

10/26/2026

One particular body, on one particular walk, on one particular day. It’s real. It’s also not the whole picture.

Most of us orient to the world from our personal center: your body, your history, your patterns, your tension, your hopes. That’s all part of who you are. But as your energy system expands & aligns through bodywork, light body activation, or any consciousness/creative practice, something else happens - the sense of self quietly widens. What looked like “my” story starts to feel like one expression of something much bigger: the earth underneath, the sky overhead, the same breath moving through all of us.

That’s part of what this work actually does. Not just tending the personal, but gradually loosening the grip of experiencing only that.

Widening beyond the personal doesn’t erase you; it actually empowers your individual self to express with more freedom, more clarity and more strength.

10/23/2026

We’ve spent time activating the individual elements (the chakras, meridians, cranial rhythm, outerbody layers, etc.) to develop your energy system. The next step: you get to drive it.

Your light body becomes a vehicle that can actually travel. Not down a road, but through dimensions of time and space. Why would you want to do this? It certainly opens adventures quite different from what you may think of as travel. One of the possibilities is to gather life force out of past entanglements, as well as harmonize future experiences.

10/22/2026

Most of us were taught that happiness is something out there: a thing to reach, to earn, to find on the other side of the right job, the right person, the right moment finally arriving. Our definition of happiness is actually part of what keeps it out of reach. If happiness only exists somewhere else, in some other time, it’s never actually available now.

When your life force actually comes back into the present, something shifts. Happiness stops being a destination and becomes an ongoing recognition, something close to what people call gratefulness. It’s something almost everyone aspires to, and almost no one was ever taught how to actually cultivate.

This isn’t a mindset fix. There is a mechanism to bringing your life force, your energy, into your body where you are right now. Light Body Activation is a system of learning how to feel, activate & align your energy system. There are specific steps you can do that release stress your body’s entanglements from unresolved past events AND the anticipated future. This gathers your life force back into the one place happiness, and everything else, can actually be felt. Right now.

10/20/2026

In the Light Body Activation materials, we describe the energy body as a vehicle: the light body vehicle.

It’s not a metaphor or an image you simply imagine and hope for. It’s created from the actual components of your energy system, activating and then coordinating into an operational vehicle.

By consciously engaging in this process, you can support a smoother transition as you spiritually mature. You can become an agent of your own evolution.

We’re exploring exactly how to build and pilot this vehicle on October 30th with 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.

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

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