Nishi Shiki

Nishi Shiki (Nishi Health System) consists of health exercises purported to activate certain bodily functions^[1]. It has been founded in 1927 by Katsuz%u014D Nishi^[2].

Because Katsuz%u014D Nishi was also an aikido teacher at Aikikai Hombu Dojo hence many aikidoka were introduced to the Nishi Health System which resulted in the incorporation of certain exercises, like the fish exercise (kingy%u014D und%u014D, %u91D1%u9B5A%u904B%u52D5), into aikido and the way aikidoka took care of their health^{[3] [4]}.

The organisation around this system is called Nishikai, which helped Koichi Tohei in starting up aikido in Hawaii, which has members of Nishi-kai on all of its islands^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}.

The Nishi Health System system is partly incorporated in Genkikai by Masatomi Ikeda^[13].

Exercises

Six laws of the Nishi Health System^[2][14]

1. heisho (%u5E73%u5E8A%u5BDD%u53F0)
2. kochin (%u786C%u6795%u5229%u7528) When you sleep, use the hardest possible bed and hard semi-cylindrical pillow.
3. kingy%u014D und%u014D (%u91D1%u9B5A%u904B%u52D5) Swing your hips horizontally like fish swimming about 1 minute.
4. m%u014Dkan und%u014D (%u6BDB%u7BA1%u904B%u52D5) Lie on your back and rise your arms and legs. Then shake your arms and legs about 1 minute.
5. gassh%u014D gasseki und%u014D (%u5408%u638C%u5408%u8E60%u904B%u52D5) Lie on your back and join your hands and feet. Then slide your hands and feet horizontally about 10 times. When finished, rest with your hands and feet drawn in about 2 minutes.
6. hifuku und%u014D (%u80CC%u8179%u904B%u52D5) Sit down Japanese style and swing your upper body centering on your hips about 10 minutes. When you are incline position, pump your abdomen. When you are upright position, shrink your abdomen.

Four primary elements^[2]

1. nutrition
2. skin
3. mind
4. limbs

Five self diagnostic methods^[2]

These are five flexibility exercises that will provide diagnostics about internal organs, see reference for detailed description of the exercises. They will indicate whether the following organs are in good condition:

1. spine and stomach
2. sexual organs and sciatic nerve
3. kidneys
4. liver
5. intestines and urinary organs

Students

• Masatomi Ikeda

Books

• Live Longer the Nishi Health System Way Prevent Sickness Maintain Health and Treat Ailments by Katsuz%u014D Nishi.
• Nishi System of Health Engineering by Katsuz%u014D Nishi. Kessinger, 1936, paperback, ISBN 0766151565
• Nishi System of Health Engineering : Based on an Entirely New Theory of Blood Circulationby by Katsuz%u014D Nishi. Hardcover.
• Live Longer the Nishi Health System Way Prevent Sickness Maintain Health and Treat Ailments by Katsuz%u014D Nishi. 1997. paperback.
• Genki Kai by Eric Graf. Aikido Ikeda-Dojo La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 2003, hardcover.