The Tui Na Massage: Between Heaven and Earth

Don’t you love rainstorms? How they wash the earth’s impurities away? How they give the flora a second breath? How they spread a breath of fresh air to prepare us for the heat?

Ancient, pragmatic and profound, Chinese medicine has that effect, pouring on me like a rainstorm. It stimulates my vital organs, wahses away impurities and makes a whole new energy flow through me, one that can move mountains.

After eperiencing a few therapies at Nubia, I was far from imagining I could still be astonished.

And yet…

« Tui » meaning « push » and « Na » meaning « Seize », the Tui Na massage covers an incredible diversity of manipulations (more than 300!) that adapt to every body and many symptoms.

With the thumbs, hands, palms, wrists, forearms and elbows, the practitioner stimulates the acupuncture points to eliminate tensions, stimulate the ability to self-­heal and favor blood and energy flow, thus reducing pain.

« The massage seeks to detoxify the body and allows it to achieve higher energy harmonization, explains the practitioner. »

First surprised by this technique “Westerners” are not used to, I finally relax. Feeling my body’s cries, the massage slowly invites me to let go, to become aware of my tensions and sore spots I have ignored and unwinds the knots especially nested in my brave back.

Although we all experience our massages differently, mine revealed its intensity three days later, making me feel unknown emotions and relieving my heart from tireless poundings.

Pragmatic and very efficient, the Tui Na massage is a Chinese pearl that deserves to be discovered…and appreciated!