What is AcuTouch How Liu WS came to develop

What is AcuTouch
AcuTouch is a very gentle manual work on the meridians and
acupoints. Manual work on the acupoints and meridians requires a
certain amount of force. The force per unit area involved in AcuTouch
can be reckoned to be very minute compared to the magnitude of
force employed per unit area in acupuncture or acupressure, the
contrast between the two is rather sharp. This is because both
acupunture and acupressure rely more on motory than sensory skill to
secure effective acuwork while AcuTouch relies on the opposite, i.e.
more on sensory than on motory skill.
About this weekend and basic AcuTouch course
This introductory AcuTouch weekend is a prelude to the basic
course of AcuTouch which emphasis on the expansion of the very
limited traditional (seven) emotional and spiritual (Hun, Po and Shen)
acuwork. For instance, it is possible to perform AcuTouch on L.I.4
Hegu to promote facial muscular tone for facial beauty, and to add
extra stamina to the physical appearance and internal body; a boost
to personal status especially socially. It is also possible to perform
AcuTouch on St. 36 Zusanli, for another instance, to balance
emotional excess or deficiency, to regulate unsteady mood and to
moderate extreme mental exertion. As AcuTouch is a very gentle
alternative acuwork, it is recommendable to anyone interested in
acuwork, to students, practitioners and teachers of acupuncture,
acupressure and shiatsu.
How Liu W.S. came to develop AcuTouch
In the early seventies, Liu W.S. came into contact with many
children suffering from polio, meningitis or physical trauma. Most of
them responded quite well to acupunture and acupressure. The only
drawback was their aversion to the pain or discomfort induced by
needles or strong finger pressure. To facilitate their progressive
recovery in a more pleasant manner, an alternative method of
acuwork with minimal and sensitive usage of force had to be found to
appease these young sufferers.
After a few years of hard study and research on the physiology of
the meridian system, he discovered that both meridian and acupoint
Qi not only are mobile, able to flow freely, but also are motile, able
to pulsate, ascillate and rotate rhytmically. This inherent physiological
activity, motility, never mentioned in any Chinese medical text or
literature, is vital to health; good motility means good health. This
important discovery led Liu W.S. to develop a new method of
acuwork; AcuTouch, which implies a very mild and sensitive touch, a
skilful kind of touch that has not yet been developed in traditional
acupunture or acupressure.
By properly assessing and regulating the motile Qi of the meridian
system through AcuTouch, health can be improved, especially the
health of those who need but dread acupuncture or acupressure like
the children that inspired Liu W.S. Based on the knowledge and
experience of AcuTouch of the past few decades, he recently is able
to specialise it into Craniosacral AcuTouch, Visceral AcuTouch and
Neuropsychic AcuTouch etc.
About the founder and chief tutor
Liu Wai Sang was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong. He is a
practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medecine and a Certified Senior Qi
Gong Master from China. He started to teach Acupunture and Tai Chi
Chuan to health care professionals in the seventies before coming to
Belgium. Since 1983 he has been teaching Acupunture to members of
the medical profession and has been giving courses in Tai Chi Chuan as
well as different forms of Qi Gong or energy work and massage to the
general public, mostly in and around the city of Ghent, Belgium.
Liu Wai Sang is the founder of the Craniovisceral Meridian School,
the developer and the chief tutor of:
~ CranioVisceral Qigong
~ CranioVisceral Anmo Tuina
~ CranioVisceral Acutouch
~ SomatoPsychic Integration
~ Qigong Hand
~ Macrotaoistic Massage
and the author of 'Craniosacral Qigong', 'Craniosacral Acutouch',
'Basic Yin Yang Physics, Book I' and 'Static and Dynamic Principle of Tai
Ji Quan'.