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).
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
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.
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.
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 a 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 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 we explain channel differentiation and clincial reasoning.
In a word: "no". All three of these teachers did emphasise the need for palpation of channels and used ideas that relate to the six channels (Taiyang, Shaoyin etc.) but Dr. Wang's approach contains a theory base very much in line with classical Chinese Medicine, whereas Dr. Tung (and Dr. Tan whose work was based on Dr. Tung) has a different lineage of thinking.
Yes we can. With about a 6 person minimum we can come to you with a similar cost stucture to the courses quoted above.
You may well be able to join our courses. If you have a reasonable TCM knowledge you should be fine with any.
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