jin shin jyutsu®- history
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Jin Shin Jyutsu's® origins were passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation for many centuries. It is an innate wisdom that was widely known before the birth of Gautama Buddha (India), before the birth of Moses (recorded in the Bible) and before the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Things, Japan, A.D. 712.)
Master Jiro Murai, a Japanese philosopher, rediscovered Jin Shin Jyutsu® in the early 1900s. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Murai was taken to his family mountain retreat, where for seven days, while in and out of consciousness, he meditated, fasted and held various hand mudras. Being completely healed he spent the rest of his life studying the connection between his recovery and the mudras. He named the Art “Jin Shin Jyutsu” – “Jin” meaning person of knowing and compassion, “Shin,” Creator; and “Jyutsu,” art; thus JIN SHIN JYUTSU® translates as: "Art of the Creator through person of knowing and compassion".
Master Murai met Mary Burmeister, a Japanese American, in the late 1940s while she was teaching English in Japan. When asked if she would like to study with him and take a gift from Japan to America, she answered simply “yes”, not realizing the enormity of the gift, nor that it was the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu®. Mary brought the Art to America in the 1950s, she began teaching Jin Shin Jyutsu® in the early 1960s until 1990 when Philomena Dooley, Wayne Hackett, and Muriel Carlton took over. Today there are over two dozen instructors of Jin Shin Jyutsu® throughout the world.
Master Jiro Murai, a Japanese philosopher, rediscovered Jin Shin Jyutsu® in the early 1900s. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Murai was taken to his family mountain retreat, where for seven days, while in and out of consciousness, he meditated, fasted and held various hand mudras. Being completely healed he spent the rest of his life studying the connection between his recovery and the mudras. He named the Art “Jin Shin Jyutsu” – “Jin” meaning person of knowing and compassion, “Shin,” Creator; and “Jyutsu,” art; thus JIN SHIN JYUTSU® translates as: "Art of the Creator through person of knowing and compassion".
Master Murai met Mary Burmeister, a Japanese American, in the late 1940s while she was teaching English in Japan. When asked if she would like to study with him and take a gift from Japan to America, she answered simply “yes”, not realizing the enormity of the gift, nor that it was the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu®. Mary brought the Art to America in the 1950s, she began teaching Jin Shin Jyutsu® in the early 1960s until 1990 when Philomena Dooley, Wayne Hackett, and Muriel Carlton took over. Today there are over two dozen instructors of Jin Shin Jyutsu® throughout the world.
