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Welcome to Ryoho!

This website is specifically meant for those interested in the real tools of health.  The real tools of health are the same ones that create illness. Lifestyle creates and cures disease. Genetic predisposition is modified by lifestyle as are our body shape, emotional stability and our ability to relate to those around us.

Lifestyle is made up of how we move and what we consume. What goes in and what goes out. 

All disease is cyclic. A pattern. Health can be defined as being flexible. A flexible immune system, flexible in our attitudes and flexible with our foods.  If you cannot heal from injury or illness you are stuck or rigid. Modifying lifestyle to cure problems with our health is almost impossible due to the habits which are entrenched in the cyclic patterns of illness. The tools of health are effective, efficient and powerful habit breakers. If we can learn to heal ourselves we will learn to heal our environment.

ABOUT ANDZEJ  by Lisa Foster

Andzej Gospodarczyk established his first centre in 1981 called the Zen Shiatsu Centre. This was a first for Australia, a Centre that dealt with not only Natural Therapies but “life-style” medicine where prevention is more logical than cure and health is much more than just an absence of illness.

Andzej works principally with 3 modalities: Corrective Yoga Therapy, Shiatsu, Life Style change meaning diet. He is a world leader in his field due to the fact that he studied with the Masters of each modality, his reputation built solidly and quickly not only here but overseas as well.

  Andzej was astute enough to study with the “Teacher’s” teachers. Masunaga, the man credited with bringing Shiatsu to a standard high enough to be a medically accepted system in Asia and Europe, was Andzej’s Shiatsu teacher. Lima Oshawa was his Nutrition teacher and Masahiro Oki the tutor to the children of the Japanese Emperor, one of the last traditional Samurai Warriors and renowned for his personal Yoga training was Andzej’s principal Yoga teacher. Quite a triumvirate and thankfully he brought it all back to Australia where his standards of excellence and unsurpassed knowledge have benefited so many people.

 In the early eighties Andzej was invited by A.N.T.A. (Australian Natural Therapies Association) to establish their first two year Diploma course in Body Work and Nutrition. Shortly after that he was asked to act as a consultant to ANTA defining modalities and setting standards. The Zen Shiatsu Centre was also used by STAA (Shiatsu Therapists Association of Australia) to set both curriculum and standards for all Shiatsu education and practise in this country. As well as his own private practice , over the last 20 years he has also run The Ryoho Functional Yoga Centre and College which has been responsible for producing many Shiatsu graduates and excellent Yoga teachers. Many either work directly with him or are closely associated with him. Most of the past graduates either work full time in their own practice or are employed by the other teaching colleges.

 Andzej has also worked for some time in the corporate world giving companies and organisations’ insights into employee health and stress relief programmes as well as individual motivational sessions for executives. Some of these companies include: TAFE, Flight Centre, Prince of Wales Psychiatric faculty, Soccer Australia and has been interviewed by Sunday Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue Australia, Body and Soul magazine as well as regular spot on ABC Radio giving advice on health and nutrition.

The philosophy of the Ryoho Centre is simple as all good solutions should be. The solution should never be more complicated than the problem you are trying to solve. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the area of your health and life-style.