| Traditional Cupping Workshops - Eastern Tradition |  |
Day One:
* Traditional Eastern theories explaining health and illness, pathogenesis and the reason why cupping is so effective.
* The safest and most refined way of applying cups.
* Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese methods of using flame and vacuum cups for soft tissue imbalances plus special warming methods to release muscle tightness.
* How to diagnostically interpret the colourations that occur when toxins and other pathogens are drawn from the body.
* The method of applying cups to the shoulders and upper back. As the cups remain, a Chinese massage sequence throughout the legs to ground and balance the client and open the meridians distally to benefit the local upper back condition is taught and practiced.
* Instruction in how to vary the suction level of the cups to be appropriate for the emotional and physical condition of the individual client.
Day Two:
* Practical cupping applications for health disorders that typically respond to cupping therapy including:
- tight and aching muscles;
- the common cold
- rheumatic pains (bi syndromes)
- lower back pain and sciatica
- menstrual pain
- gastro-intestinal problems
* Principal points to strengthen the body plus warming and tonifying methods for improving flaccid soft tissue and deficient body systems.
* Different cupping methods including stationary, sliding, flash techniques.
* Massage and external liniments to use in association with cupping.
* The cupping detoxification system. Based on Chinese medical principals, this full body treatment releases and detoxifies the body and cleanses and smoothes the skin.
'When I did Bruce Bentley’s course on Eastern Cupping, I was amazed to find the degree of subtlety and sophistication attainable in this form of therapy. I can only recommend the course. I strongly encourage students and practitioners to expand their knowledge in this area; as the usual coverage is far from adequate. Bruce is a world expert in the art of cupping, who we are lucky to have here in Australia' Steven Clavey, TCM practitioner, author of Fluid Pathology and Physiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Churchill Livingstone), and co-author of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica - 3rd Ed (Eastland Press)
Enrollment requirements:
1. Accredited health professionals such as massage therapists, acupuncturists, doctors, nurses, naturopaths, osteopaths and physiotherapists.
2. Students of an accredited course of study, who have completed a minimum of 50 hours in anatomy and physiology.Note: Women who are pregnant should not attend.
Classes are limited to 16 participants.
| 24 Hours ~ 3 Days
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