
Explore how gua sha boosts surface microcirculation, reduces inflammation, and upregulates heme oxygenase-1 to modulate immune responses across conditions like infectious disease and transplantation.
Discover safe gua sha for children using a softer stone and gentle pressure, warming the stone in your hands and guiding parents for home care during fever or cough.
Showcase gua sha to clients with passion, confidence, and knowledge to boost comfort and receptivity. Mention heme oxygenase-1 and its immune-boosting potential to reinforce trust and encourage rebooking and referrals.
Practice gua sha with a smooth-edged tool on a lubricated area, using a Goldilocks amount of oil, then press into the tissue in a single direction, not back and forth.
Learn to locate acupressure points for headache relief, such as B12, B13, and GB20, using circular kneading to open meridians before gua sha therapy.
Address acute back pain with seated gua sha, using pillow support, acupressure points GV14 at the base of the neck and BL12/BL13 along the spine, with downward and lateral strokes.
In this Online Gua Sha Massage Course, Michael Eric Everson, Manual Osteopath, Registered Massage Therapist and Yoga Teacher will guide you through how to deliver Gua Sha Massage for some extremely common pain patterns every manual therapist will see.
Gua Sha Massage Therapy is traditionally a modality used by practitioners of Chinese medicine. It is used to clear blockages of ‘Qi’ in specific energy pathways of the body. Gua Sha is becoming more mainstream and extremely popular in the past few years, the tools and practices have been included in many types of healing treatments. This course will be dealing with the practical applications of Gua Sha and how to integrate Gua Sha into a massage treatment.
We’re primarily promoting the flow of 'Qi' through the body. We’re helping to ensure a better blood supply and proper nerve conduction so that everything is moving through your body as it should. In doing Gua Sha, the hope is that any symptoms someone is experiencing will subside and calm. That’s the overall goal.
You can study and complete this entire course in the comfort of your own home with lifetime access to the videos in case you need to go back, review and re-inspire yourself!
In this massage course you are going to learn how to:
> How to treat the most common painful conditions
> Learn what Gua Sha is
> How to release pain with Gua Sha techniques
> Explore the theory and origin Gua Sha
Enroll now! Grow your knowledge base and practice today!
*This course if for educational purposes and does not replace medical advice