How to practice Practicing Tuiina can be physically and energetically demanding, Patience and persistence are what most of the techniques require, The therapeutic qualities of many of the techniques are brought about by performing them for relatively long periods of time so regular daily practice is essential {A the beginning of Tui na training I suggest that you create a practice regime that consists of 15 minutes Gun fa and Vi zhi chan tui fa practice on the rice bag. Practice of these two techniques strengthens the muscles, tendons and joints in the hands and arms, making the other basic and compound! techniques easy to acquire. After a ‘couple of weeks, increase your practice time by 5 minutes each week until you ate able to practice for 30 minutes = 15 minutes of Gun fa and 15 minutes of Yi 2hi chan. tui fa, After about 3 months and if you are feeling con- fident and comfortable with the techniques on the rice bag, start to practice on your fellow students or col- leagues but keep the rice bag practice going as well for the first year of practice. I also suggest that you practice Ji dian fa on the rice bag every day to build up your accuracy and ski. Al the other techniques requite much practice on lots of different bodies. One of the best ways to get this experience is to get together with other students to prac- tice and play with the techniques. If ths is not possible then ask as many friends and relatives as possible if you can practice on them. Finally, practice the area founda- tion routines in Chapter 7 ~ they will help you 0 develop the fluidity of moving from one technique 10 another.