Welcome to the first section of the course where you learn how to treat yourself. We will go through each part of the body starting at the head.

Here is how to do self Gua Sha for your head, neck and shoulders. It is great to relieve upper back tension and stress, headaches, neck pain and anxiety. It is a very calming treatment.

The Chinese use Gua Sha to help with tonifying their skin such as the face and they swear by it. A non-surgical facelift! If it is good enough for  Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow, then its good enough for me. You should do this everyday to see great results.

Apart from being great for facial skin rejuvenation, it is also very good to relax the facial muscles from stress and is a beautiful distressing treatment in itself.

This is a fabulous way to treat your own neck. It is great for neck pain and tension, it feels fabulous and works brilliantly. Here I also show a couple of very powerful acupressure points to help with neck pain. Let in the course we will incorporate a lot more acupressure points with our treatments.

This is great for tight chest muscles, respiratory problems, anxiety, coughs , colds and flus.

Here is a great way to loosen up the shoulders and get much better balance in the muscles.

This is good for shoulder, elbow and arm pain and also lung and respiratory problems, sore throat, toothache and headache.

As you may have noticed from the last lecture, I have some speckling appearing known as Sha which is perfectly fine. Here I go through some important points for you about this in regards to treating.

This is good for hand and thumb pain, poor circulation in the hands and just to refresh your poor tired hands after a long day.

This is great for lower back pain. Try to work up as high as you can and work the areas that are more sensitive more than the other areas. If you find ashi points then concentrate more on this areas as well.

I am keeping my pants on for once. I will show you how to work the hips in regards to tight buttocks, hip pain and piriformis syndrome

This is great for bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, menstrual  and intestinal disorders

This is great for leg pain and fatigue, knee problems and lower legs pain such as shin splints

This great for foot pain, plantar fasciitis, leg and foot swelling, ankle pain, headaches, cold feet, anxiety, high blood pressure, insomnia

You can do this routine daily. It not only feels great but you will also be loosening up your muscles as well. If you find that you have redness or are sore from the Gua Sha then wait until you have no soreness or redness before treating yourself again

Now it is time to use your new skills to treat ailments such as emotional conditions, digestive disorders whilst not only using Gua Sha but we also start using acupressure points and work the energy channels known as meridians in traditional Chinese medicine. Make sure that you download the PDF file as this has all of the instructions for you to use if needed later on if you forget which points to use.

I want to first show you where the stress relieving point are so that if you are treating a condition that is caused or exacerbated by stress and tension then these points should be added to your treatment .

This is a great way to treat yourself or others that suffer from headaches and/or migraines.

Using Gua Sha in China for nasal conditions such as allergies and sinusitis is very common and very effective

I am going to teach you in this lecture how to address emotional conditions such as excess anger, worry, fear, grief and their associated physical manifestations.

A great way to treat insomnia is by using a combination of Gua Sha and acupressure on the calming points which I teach you in this lecture.

Here are some great points to incorporate into your Gua sha treatments to give you more energy. It may take some time if you are very depleted though and remember to try to look for the core reasons to your poor energy and treat appropriately

How to treat these coughs, colds, flus etc with Gua Sha

How to treat these disorders with Gua Sha

Treating diarrhea is very similar to the treatment of constipation but there is one very important point that you need to add.

Ok, it is time to take a look at how to help musculoskeletal problems such as joint and muscle aches and pains. Please download the PDF file as it has all of your points and areas to treat for each painful condition.

Here are the general guidelines for treating areas. I will guide you in more detail through this section but just to give you a bit of an idea of how to treat painful conditions.

Ok, let's have a look firstly at how you should treat neck pain by combining both Gua Sha and also the acupressure points to really help neck pain and stiffness.

Here is how you would treat shoulder pain, rotator cuff pain, impingement syndromes effectively with your Gua Sha tool and dredging the meridians.

Here you learn how to treat tennis elbow and other forms of elbow pain and lateral forearm pain and tightness

Here I show you how to treat wrist pain and carpal tunnel syndrome using Gua Sha and specific acupressure points that work wonders.

I will show you the best methods to help lower back pain and also any hip pain and sciatica. It is important to work all of the way down the meridians if you can wit the Gua Sha tool.

Here is how you treat knee pain and also the acupressure points that are so brilliant at alleviating pain around the knee.

These points are great for chronic ankle pain and also stiffness that so often happens after sprains.

Ok...now that you have got a handle on what you are doing, here are some more advanced techniques for you to try.

Well done-you did it! You now have another great technique that you can use on yourself or for clients, friends or family.

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