Tuina can help people.  I know that because I see it every single day.  I also know that more people could be helped with Tuina if we had more qualified tuina practitioners to treat them.

But I don't believe in long-distance, hands-off training.  I want all the tuina graduates I train to be able to use tuina as effectively as I do.  That means one thing: they have to learn hands-on with me.  This is the way the Chinese teach tuina.  Potential tuina practitioners have to undergo an apprenticeship where they can learn from their trainer everything they need to know to be a good tuina practitioner.

Now, it is one thing me saying how hands-on it is, but it's another to experience it for yourself. So I thought I'd give you an example of what I mean when I say 'hands-on' and why I know we offer the best Tuina training in Ireland.

So here we go.  Let's take a look at a day in the life of a typical tuina student.

Our working day is from 10am to 6pm, but my student has to meet me at 9.45am so we can discuss the cases we will be working on throughout the day and schedule what she'll be doing that day.

From then on, she works alongside her teacher.  She is guided on how to use various massage techniques and she also uses them herself on the patients.  In this way she also learns treatment protocols: what to look out for, what to ask, what to do. In this way, we as teachers, also get to observe and assess the progress she is making with her massage techniques.

If there is any acupuncture being carried out, the student observes what is done and where and how the needles are placed.  Unless she is a level 3 student, in which case she will also learn how to carry out acupuncture too.

Throughout every consultation with every patient throughout the day, she takes notes.  As each patient leaves the teacher asks her about what she has noticed and observed when clients come in with various ailments and injuries.  This way she learns how to make effective diagnoses of conditions and also what treatments to offer to cure these conditions.

At the end of every day there is a question and answer session about topics and cases we have covered that day, as well as treatment protocols and techniques.

Whew!  That's a long day!  And that's a typical, normal, hands-on, learning on the job day with me.  Of course, not all days are like that - sometimes we have lectures too!

You see, I take tuina seriously and I want all practitioners of it to take it seriously too.  This isn't just any old massage; this is healing massage that really works.  And if you want to make it work for other people, then I want to make sure you're as good at tuina as I am.