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Enjoy the freedom of relaxation.
Your reaction to stress determines how it affects your mind, body, and emotions. It is easy to respond with resistance and tension. Over time, this becomes an automatic reflex that preempts other, healthier options.
Tuina† therapeutic massage allows you to feel another way to hold your body. One that is more open and free. This experience then carries over to benefit your state of mind and emotions. The overall principle of Tuina is to increase blood circulation, improve tissue elasticity, and redistribute qi flow. This results in reduced pain and discomfort and greater function and freedom.
The Tuina practitioner utilizes diverse finger, knuckle, palm, forearm and elbow techniques to access the various tissue layers of your body – skin, flesh, sinew‡, and bone. Moreover, the quality of the practitioner's intention is also essential. It has to be clear, precise, and aware in order to simultaneously diagnose and treat your problems.
There are numerous styles of Tuina. I mainly practice Liu Style Qigong Tuina – as transmitted by Master Liu Jishun – which is a comprehensive system composed of four aspects:
Sinew Friction Techniques (Mo Jin Shu)
Point Pressure Methods (Dian Xue Fa)
Internal Organ/Abdominal Massage (Nei Zang/Fu Bu An Mo)
Energy Bodywork (Qigong Tuina)
In most cases, a combination of the above procedures is applied during a treatment while you relax fully clothed in three
postures: lying face down, face up, and sitting in a chair. 
‡ Here "sinew" is a term used to represent the Chinese medical concept of jin. It includes muscles and connective tissues such as fascia, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage.
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