Acupressure Massage for Health and Wellbeing
What you'll learn
- Different acupressure massage techniques that can be used to elicit different responses
- How to effectively locate acupressure points on the body using anatomical measurement
- The functions and benefits of a selection of the most powerful acupressure points
- Chinese Medicine Fundamentals as a basis for understanding acupressure
- The full name (English and Chinese) of each point
Requirements
- No previous experience is required for this course
Description
Learn how to locate acupressure points that can help with your physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing with our extensive course, taught by Ray Ford - leading Australia-based acupuncturist and Qi Flow Acupressure App Founder, and acupressure expert Fiona Lackinger.
Why You Should Consider this Over other Acupressure Courses?
Ray's 35 years of experience in clinical practice in acupuncture are the foundation of this unique course, where you will discover how to apply different acupressure massage techniques to points.
During the course you will learn how to locate a selection of powerful acupressure points that can help with the following conditions:
- Pain /headaches
- Digestive conditions
- Female issues (eg. menstruation, menopause)
- Mental health (anxiety, insomnia, depression)
- Respiratory conditions (eg colds and coughs)
- Emergency conditions.
- Improved energy and vitality
- Immunity
What Else is Included?
- Learn how to measure the exact location of points on the body
- Discover different point combinations/sequences that can be used for a specific health concern.
- For each point that is included you will be given a image and guided video of how to locate the point.
Who is this Course Suitable for?
- This course is ideal for practitioners such as massage therapists, yoga teachers, physios, or any body workers who want to use acupressure techniques in their treatments to help their clients with specific health issues.
- It is also suitable for complete beginners who would like to use acupressure in their daily life to help with symptoms and to improve their own health and wellbeing.
How is the Course Structured?
The course consists of short bite-sized videos on each acupressure point, with the following information:
- How to locate the point
- The functions/benefits of the point
- An anatomical diagram of the point
- The English and Chinese name of the point
What you will also have access to after the course?
- Access to our Facebook Group for ongoing support in using acupressure on yourself or others.
Who this course is for:
- Complete beginners with an interest in healing their body or relieving symptoms with acupressure
- Natural Health Practitioners or massage therapists who want to learn how to incorporate the use of acupressure into their treatment sessions
Instructors
- 3.5 Instructor Rating
- 1 Review
- 7 Students
- 1 Course
Fiona is a author, acupressure expert, Chinese Medicine clinic owner and director and childbirth educator.
She is (together with Ray Ford) the creator and developer of the Qi Flow Acupressure App (which has a 4.8 star average rating on the App Store).
Together with Dr Ray Ford, she is the Co-Director of the thriving Sydney, Australia based Acupuncture Clinic - Experience Acupuncture , which treats 100s of patients weekly and has a 4.9 star rating on Google reviews.
This is a community style acupuncture clinic, which offers low priced acupuncture treatments to the community. She has been involved in the running of Experience Acupuncture Bondi Junction clinic and Crows Nest clinic since 2010.
She also runs monthly Acupressure, Gua Sha and cupping workshops with Ray Ford, where she teaches patients how to use acupressure on themselves and their own clients.
- 3.5 Instructor Rating
- 1 Review
- 7 Students
- 1 Course
Dr Ray Ford is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine in Sydney Australia - the includes both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine.
He has been is private practice for 35 years continuously.
His current private practice is in Crows Nest Sydney Australia. He has a Masters degree in Acupuncture from UTS and graduated from several periods of post graduate study in China - at the Zhejiang Academy of TCM from 1998 -2003.
He opened Sydney's first low cost community style clinics in Australia (baed in Bondi Junction and Crows Nest). To date he has completed 60,000 treatments and employed 40 plus acupuncturists both full and part time, during this time.
He has practiced the Daoist 3 Dan Tien meditation for many years and is a certified teacher.
He has studied TCM as well as many other traditions such as Japanese, Korean and more modern techniques such as Dry Needling. He has a special interest in the Five Elements known as Wu Xing in Chinese Medicine.
Ray is the author of the book Clinical Aromatherapy - using essential oils on acu - points and Channels.
He is also the Co-Founder of the Qi Flow app - a very useful acupressure app that encompasses the breadth and depth of using the points and channels of Chinese Medicine with acupressure. He created this together with Fiona Lackinger.