Another New Member Intro

[Guest guest]

Last year, I became a student (after deciding on a life and career

change) on the Tui Na program offered at my school (The American

Institute of Alternative Medicine), but work and family commitments

required that I switch to the Masage Therapy program so that I can

graduate at the end of the year (To meet licensing requirements in the

State of Ohio, the Tui Na program combines Tui Na along with Massage

Therapy). Once I've graduated I will be returning to the program and

will eventually study acupuncture as well.

 

I've always had an interest in alternative (from the Western viewpoint)

medicine, and Tui Na struck a cord with me. I was involved in martial

arts a number of years ago, and started practicing Taiji. As I progress

on my massage program, I've discovered a lot of other modalities that

touch on use of Qi in some form or another, and I intend to bring them

into the my practice in the future as well; Reflexology, CranioSacral

therapy (CST), ZeroBalancing, Reiki, Yoga, Qi Gong (obviously) and a few

others. One of the CranioSacral classes I intend to sit in the future

gives an overview of acupuncture in relation to CST and I'm looking

forward to reading up on that.

 

When I finally have my pratice, I want it to be very hands-on, as I

believe that's how to achieve the best healing results; by having my qi

and my client's qi interact.

 

I've been following a number of the threads so far, but haven't had a

chance to answer anything yet (work/life/school getting in the way), but

it's nice to see that there's a wide range of experience represented in

the group, and that it's a pretty open forum.

 

 

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Jason Paul McCartan

[Guest guest]

Hi Jason,

 

I have similar interests. Currently my wife and I are studying tuina

and shiatsu. I have been practicing Taiji and Qigong (for me, they are

both fundamentally the same) for 15 years. I have also studied yoga

quite a bit. My wife has similar interests as mine and also has

studied Reiki. One of the physicans we go to now and then is quite

good (and very, very successful) in combining Chinese medicine,

homeopathy, and Cranial-Sacral. All of the modalities are similar

though each a slightly different perspective depending upon who is

teaching. We find that he really big difference is the use of qigong

(qi moving) in a practice. It seems to add an entirely new level to

the treatments and the results. We never used our qigong for medicine

until recently when our tuina/qigong doctor introduced us to the

possibilities.

 

Looking forward to trading ideas with you.

 

Regards,

Rich

[Guest guest]

> I have similar interests. Currently my wife and I are studying tuina

> and shiatsu. I have been practicing Taiji and Qigong (for me, they are

> both fundamentally the same) for 15 years. I have also studied yoga

> quite a bit. My wife has similar interests as mine and also has

> studied Reiki. One of the physicans we go to now and then is quite

> good (and very, very successful) in combining Chinese medicine,

> homeopathy, and Cranial-Sacral. All of the modalities are similar

> though each a slightly different perspective depending upon who is

> teaching. We find that he really big difference is the use of qigong

> (qi moving) in a practice. It seems to add an entirely new level to

> the treatments and the results. We never used our qigong for medicine

> until recently when our tuina/qigong doctor introduced us to the

> possibilities.

>

> Looking forward to trading ideas with you.

 

Looking forward to trading ideas too. One of the things I've found in my

classes (which are all taught by Chinese doctors who graduated from

Chinese hospitals) is that they're all taught by rote, and you're

expected just to accept the information they're giving you, instead of

questioning why it works. It seems most of the questioning you are

" supposed " to do comes during diagnosis and assessment. The hard part of

that for me is that I naturally have an enquiring mind, and I want to

know why things work they way they do. The irony of course, is that most

of TCM is based on empirical evidence, which really is the disassembling

of results to find causitive factors (kinda like reverse engineering

computer software).

 

I've looked into Shiatsu as well, and will probably pursue that at some

point in the next few years. Right now I'm working full time, going to

school full time, and spending what little other time I have researching

adjunct modalities (to allow me to get my own practice going once I

graduate, keeping fit and spending time with the wife and kids. I'm

looking forward to graduating and freeing up 40-50 hours a week

 

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Jason Paul McCartan - jasonm