New dates for 2024- 2025 - in Exeter, Devon!

Diploma of Tuina and Advanced Bodywork in Acupuncture Practice

With Jamie Hamilton and Nick Lowe

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

For the first time, we are delighted to introduce a new 12-day diploma based on tuina and other bodywork techniques such as shiatsu and anma therapy, sotai stretching and other bodywork modalities that you can use in your acupuncture clinic.

We will include teaching of advanced pulse diagnosis for the Eight Extraordinary Vessels and Luo Collaterals with the Mai Jing system, devised by Jamie Hamilton based on the classics.

We believe that incorporating tuina and advanced bodywork into your practice will give you additional confidence with handling the body and giving a new way of treating channels and points with pressure and stretching.

Explore and treat the channels in a completely new way, both enhancing your current practice and possibly creating new lines of treatment. It is intended to be used in conjunction with and complementary to Acupuncture.  The addition of acupressure to an acupuncture treatment can provide patients with a greater sense of nurture and wellbeing.

Teaching is shared between Jamie Hamilton and Nick Lowe, each offering their own specialisms so as to provide a broad holistic curriculum.

Venue: Exeter Community Centre, Exeter.

Full Price: £1,500  

Option 1: Stage 1 Certificate: November 3-day Weekend : £375.  Course remainder, Stage 2, payable before second weekend : £1,125

Option 2: Pay for Diploma Stages 1 & 2 at once including a £50 discount: £1,450.

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

>> 8, 9, & 10 November 2024

>> 31 January, 1 & 2 February 2025

>> 21, 22, 23 March 2025

>> 23, 24, 25 May 2025

You will learn:

• How to integrate tuina and advanced bodywork techniques of shiatsu and anma to increase sensitivity of touch: “the listening touch” 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.
• 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.
• Refine point location skills and needling techniques.
• Pulse diagnosis focus on Mai Jing system for Luo Collaterals and 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

Optional additional in person tutorials and online lectures will be available, but are not a mandatory part of the course.

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).

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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, with over 11 years of clinical experience. He has undertaken clinical training in the UK, USA and China. For the last five years Nick has been practicing theApplied Channel Theory approach as taught by Dr Wang Ju Yi. He uses a practical ‘hands-on’ approach with an emphasis on palpation, physical assessment andin-clinic testing. Nick most commonly works with sports injuries, 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 acomprehensive understanding of modern anatomy, pathology and the latestscientific research. He jointly developed the ACU-Track Clinical Registry tohelp 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.

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.

East West 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, East West College organised a two Diploma of Anma at East West College, and workshops on Japanese Sotai techniques for releasing muscular tension. Jamie's teaching on pulse diagnosis is based on the Chinese classic 'The Mai Jing', uncovering new aspects of diagnosis. Jamie's new book (out on 23 April 2022) is entitled 'Essential Pulse Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine' outlines this teaching method. He is also our main tutor for the introductory course: 'Fundamentals of Applied Channel Theory.'

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