Studying Chinese Medicine is a life-changing and life-long experience. It is exciting and challenging, but also enormously empowering. All of us come to it via our own unique route, and, inspired by a variety of experienced teachers, develop into unique practitioners. Yet we are united in our passion for the subject and a desire to help people with compassion and understanding, be it students or patients.
If you want to study Tui na from scratch as you do not have an existing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) qualification, your course will last two years.
If you have an existing degree-level Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) qualification, your course will only last one year.
Tui na (‘push-pull’) is one of the branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) along with Acupuncture, Herbal medicine and Qi gong. It is a form of medical massage based around the acupuncture points and meridians. Tui Na practitioners need to have a thorough understanding of TCM principles in order to make an accurate diagnosis.
Tui na is becoming increasingly popular in the UK. All hospitals in China have a Tui na department and the therapy is seen to be on the same level as acupuncture.
Appropriate life experience or 120 points at ‘A’ level
No previous practitioner experience or science qualifications are required
You may want to study Tui na massage as a career change and may not have previous academic qualifications. This need not be as a barrier to becoming a successful practitioner!
Our in-depth interview techniques will be able to establish if you are suitable to enrol on our course.
