Diploma of Tuina & Advanced Bodywork in Acupuncture Practice

Integrating Tuina, Palpation Skills and Advanced Bodywork into Acupuncture with Applied Channel Theory

With Main Tuina Tutor Nick Lowe and Guest Tutor Jamie Hamilton

East West College is delighted to introduce a new 12-day diploma based on tuina and advanced bodywork techniques that can be fluidly integrated into your existing acupuncture practice. The addition of tuina and acupressure into your acupuncture treatments can provide patients with numerous benefits including a greater sense of nurture and wellbeing.

As well as learning specific massage techniques the course also teaches a range of in-depth, hands-on and interactive diagnostic skills including channel palpation, physical assessment, and advanced pulse diagnosis.

Applied Channel Theory and the channel palpation as taught by Dr Wang Ju Yi is at the heart of the treatment approach taught on this course. We will look in-depth at both the anatomy and physiology of the channel system from both a classical and modern scientific perspective.

You will significantly improve your confidence and skillset in assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems as well as treatment strategies for a range of internal conditions. As well as learning new massage techniques, we will also cover advanced acupuncture needling skills for a range of points.

The treatment approach taught on this course is supported by a body of real clinical data and utilises in-clinic testing methods to help determine point selection and treatment principles.

This is a great opportunity to systematically learn a range of new clinical skills with lots of in-person practical learning days with a great group of colleagues. Join us in January for what we believe will be an enriching and informative training. With Jamie Hamilton as a guest teacher on this course, we will include teaching of advanced pulse diagnosis for the Eight Extraordinary Vessels with the Mai Jing system (a pulse method based on the classics).

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You will learn

• To integrate tuina techniques into your existing acupuncture practice
• Improved diagnostic skills through palpation, physical assessment & advanced pulse diagnosis
• A systematic introduction to Applied Channel Theory as taught by Dr Wang Ju Yi
• Increased confidence treating MSK issues, specifically lower back, neck & shoulder issues
• Treatment strategies for internal conditions including migraines, anxiety and insomnia
• In-depth study of channel anatomy informed by the latest research
• Advanced point location and needling skills
• A variety of validated clinical assessment and evaluation tools
• Provide more individualized, bespoke and versatile treatments
• Treatment approach supported by a large body of clinical data and cases

Venue: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter.

Full Price: £1,500  

Option 1: Deposit / First Weekend : £375.  Course remainder, payable before second weekend : £1,125

Option 2: Pay in full: £1,450 including a £50 discount

Course dates in Exeter as follows (four 3 day blocks, Friday to Sunday):

>> 31 January, 1, 2 February 2025

>> 21, 22, 23 March 2025

>> 23, 24, 25 May 2025

>>19, 20, 21 September 2025

Watch Nick's video on reasons why to integrate tuina into your practice:

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You will also learn:

• How to integrate tuina and advanced bodywork techniques and become confident in depth of pressure work.
• Learn the Applied Channel Theory approach as taught Dr Wang Ju Yi as it relates to musculoskeletal conditions with region by region, condition by condition (mapped to channel system).
• In-depth treatment strategies for commonly seen conditions.
• Learn palpation and physical assessment skills to significantly improve diagnostic confidence.
• Improve your confidence and skillset in assessing and treating musculoskeletal problems.
• Pulse diagnosis focus on Mai Jing system for 8 EV.
• 18-stance Qigong

Teaching will be via:

• An intensive and comprehensive in-person training course with quality learning resources.
• Treatment approach supported by real clinical data.
• Case report writing training and patient outcomes with tracking software (optional) or traditional analogue use. Case Work: 10 case reports including 1 in depth case study

Location

Exeter Community Centre, St David's Hill, Exeter, Devon, EX4 3RG

Easily accessible by train. If you are travelling from abroad, Exeter has an international airport and Bristol Airport is well connected with buses (1.5 hrs).

Please get in touch with us if you need help in finding accommodation to share with other participants.

Booking may be done here or on our bookings page.

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Nick Lowe MSc MBAcC

Nick Lowe is passionate about using tuina in clinic. He has undertaken clinical training in the UK, USA and China. Nick has been in clinical practice for over 12 years now and has a strong foundation in tuina massage; studying initially in China in 2009, he completed his Masters Diploma in tuina for sports injuries at the Body Harmonics Centre in 2013. For the last seven years Nick has been practicing the Applied Channel Theory approach as taught by Dr Wang Ju-Yi. He uses a practical ‘hands-on’ approach with an emphasis on palpation, physical assessment and in-clinic testing. Nick most commonly works with musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain, while in his Masters degree he focussed on acupuncture for mental health and anxiety. He is also an active acupuncture researcher and combines his use of traditional techniques and skills with a comprehensive understanding of modern anatomy, pathology and the latest scientific research. He jointly developed the ACU-Track Clinical Registry to help standardise the reporting of real-world patient outcomes in acupuncture practice.  He has been awarded a Junior Research Scholarship from the Society for Acupuncture Research (SAR) and has presented regularly at professional conferences.

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Academic Principal of East West College: Jamie Hamilton LicAc LicCCH BSc MBAcC

Jamie Hamilton became interested in Chinese medicine on travelling from Hong Kong to West China in 1987, when after a cycling accident he received treatment from a blind Chinese Medical practitioner (doctor) who read his pulse and treated him with acupressure and herbal medicine. In 1988 he began a Shiatsu training with Macrobiotics at the East West Centre in London, studying with Rex Lascale, John Sandifer and Bill Tara. After originally qualifing in Sustainable Agriculture in the early 1990's he made a career change to study a Diploma in Therapeutic Massage with the Maitri Foundation in Stroud in the year 2000. In the same year returning to study Shiatsu with Chris Jarmey and George Dellar at the European Shiatsu School in Marlborough. Jamie graduated and became a ‘Big T’ (MRSS (T)) whilst also studying the Six Divisions with Tim Mulvagh of Classically Based Shiatsu.

Jamie went on to train as an Acupuncturist at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading. Graduating in 2013 he joined the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC). Jamie’s other training has been in Shiatsu Facelift, Cosmetic Facial acupuncture and Fertility Acupuncture. He is a Yoga teacher (a graduate from the Mount Madonna Institute in California), as well as a Shodan grade Instructor of Shintaido. He has completed his apprenticeship in Chinese Herbs with the Jing Fang Apprenticeship with Frances Turner.

About East West College: The college was founded in 2009 in Farnham to teach a three-year Diploma of Shiatsu. In 2012, with Fugaku Ito and Nicole Beauvois of Anma France, we organised two Diploma of Anma at East West College, and workshops on Japanese Sotai techniques for releasing muscular tension. Since 2016 Jamie's teaching on pulse diagnosis has been based on the Chinese pulse classic 'The Mai Jing', uncovering new aspects of diagnosis. His new book (published by Singing Dragon on 23 April 2022) entitled 'Essential Pulse Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine' outlines this teaching method. We have taught Applied Channel Theory as CPD since 2017. Jamie is our main tutor for the introductory course: 'Fundamentals of Applied Channel Theory' and our recent intermediate course: 'Explore the Yang Channels' where he explains channel differentiation and clincial reasoning.

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