About us

Inge Vantilt

Inge Vantilt discovered shiatsu during a sabbatical after an interesting career as officemanager in a bank.

She finished the shiatsutraining of the International School of Shiatsu and the advanced trainings of Saul Goodman and Marc Vervecken. She also attended several yogatrainings.

She teaches shiatsu and Okidoyoga in the Internatioanal Shiatsu School and other organisations. She also assists in the advanced levels of shiatsu.

In her practice she offers therapeutical shiatsu treatments.

In Shiatsu Touch

- she provides professional trainings in chairmassage

- she organises in cooperation with her students, chair massages in companies and on events

- she organises interesting workshops and trainings based on the dynamic Okidoyoga

Jan Vervecken

started to study macrobiotics, oriental medicine and shiatsu in 1975 at the Oost-West Centrum in Antwerp. He worked for 15 years at De Brandnetel (trade in natural food). He accomplished his studies in Boston  1979-1980) and at the Kushi Institute (USA). In 1984-1985 he studied and worked in Mishima (Japan) in the dojo of master Masahiro Oki.

In 1986-1987 he followed  the complete shiatsutraining of The international school of Shiatsu in Kiental (Switzerland) given by the founder of the school, Saul Goodman.
In 1989 Jan becomes the director of he international Shiatsu School in Belgium and  offers with his team of teachers trainings in shiatsu in Antwerp, Hasselt, Turnhout, Brasschaat, Eindhoven (NL) and Rotterdam (NL).
Thanks to his contacts abroad Jan was invited as a guest teacher in the Jamatoku yoga school in Takazaki (Japan). He is frequently invited as a guest teacher in schools.

Marc  Vervecken

Marc used to be a real sportsfreak until severe backproblems ended his sportscareer. The diagnosis was the uncurable Bechterew's disease.

Since he didn't want to give up and the traditionel medicine couldn't help him, he started to look for alternatives. This brought him to Jan, his nephew, who just came home from his study in macrobiotics at the Kushi Institute (USA). This was the start of a new life.

A second important meeting was the one with Masahiro Oki Sensei, the founder of Okidoyoga, a dynamic yoga based on japanese martial arts and chinese medicine. Masahiro Oki Sensei gave him intensive treatments and corrective exercises. He made such a progress, so he decided to follow Oki to Japan for several months to learn more about Okidoyoga and corrective exercises

Four years later he returned to Japan eager to learn more about these corrective exercises and especially about exercises for the spine and neck.
Meanwhile he studied shiatsu, first in Belgium later also in Switserland (shiatsu as well as shin-tai). He completed his study in the USA with Saul Goodman.
Nowadays he gives, beside his shiatsu practice, a lot of lessons in Okidoyoga, corrective exercises and shiatsu in Belgium and abroad.
One of his students wrote: working  with Marc is provocative and revealing but afterwards you feel glorious,  full of energy and really relaxed