Tuina Lets You Enjoy the Benefits of Acupuncture Without the Needles

We're all well aware of the benefits of acupuncture. But if you're needle-phobic, those benefits don't really matter. Thankfully, Seyhart in Santa Monica, California offers an alternative way to get the pros of acupuncture without those pointy cons via a technique known as Tuina (pronounced twee-nah).

The practice focuses on balancing the qi, or life force, and blood in your body. Like acupuncture, Tuina targets specific acupoints. Specialists apply pressure to these points using their fingers rather than needles to produce similar results.

So we headed to Seyhart to try it out for ourselves.

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