Practical Gua sha for Acupuncturists Level 2
Date(s): 15 - 16 November 2025
Time: 10am - 5pm
Eligibility: Acupuncture graduates and 3rd year students (cannot attend on a clinical day)
Venue: College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading
Building upon Level 1, this 2-day advanced course tailored to acupuncturists at CICM deepens your understanding of EIM™ Gua sha.
You’ll explore new fascia-muscle pathways, advanced techniques, and treatments for the chest and abdomen to address a wider range of conditions.
With a focus on pre- and post-treatment methods, this course ensures optimal clinical results.
Course Highlights:
- Further exploration the nature-based theory of Gua sha
- Research-backed procedures for common clinical presentations
- Debunking commonly believed myths surrounding Gua sha
- Practical application of zone-based protocols
- Techniques for the chest, abdomen, arms, hands, frontal legs and feet
- More practical clinical tips, patient communication, marketing ideas, and Q&A sessions
You will leave with a confident understanding of the application of techniques and Chinese medicine nature-based theory and be able to use them immediately in everyday treatments in the clinic.
Successful participants are certified at Level 2 at the completion of this course.
Level 2 can ONLY be attended if level 1 has been completed.
If you wish to sign up to Level 1 and 2 together, and save £50, go here now!
Clive Witham is director of the Komorebi Institute and co-runs a Research clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He is an acupuncturist and health promotion specialist and has been using and researching Gua sha for over 20 years, ten of these in his chronic illness clinic in North Africa. He teaches classes all over the world, runs international projects with the use of Gua sha in low-income communities and his five books which feature Gua sha have been published in six languages.
