Observation Reading

Find out where what you're feeling may have started.

Whether you live with pain, have a diagnosis, or simply want to understand your body better, one experienced practitioner reads your case and tells you where she thinks it may have come from, whether that's in your life now or much further back.

Fee
£850
Format
A live reading, or a written one
Read by
One independent practitioner
Turnaround
Five working days
Start a reading · £850
How it works

Three steps, all done from home.

You are paying for one experienced person's time on your case, from the first look to the final write-up.

01

You send your case

Photographs of your tongue, face, hands, nails and ears, taken in daylight to a short guide we send you. Then your full history, in your own words, with no limit on length.

02

She reads it herself

Traditional Chinese Medicine examines a person by looking and asking, among other ways, and both work remotely. The person who writes your reading is the one who looks at your photographs.

03

Live or written

Live on video with an English interpreter throughout, usually 10 to 15 minutes including your questions, then she sends it to you in writing. Or in writing only. Within five working days.

The reading

What you come away with.

Where she thinks it started, and what to do about it: what to stop doing, what to do more of, and in what order. Some of it you can start on at home. Some of it, she may tell you, is work that can only be done in person, at her practice in China.

What the reading contains

  • What she sees in the photographs, described plainly rather than in terminology you would have to look up
  • How your body has been running: the whole picture rather than a list of complaints
  • Where she thinks this may have come from, recent or long ago
  • Which of your current habits are working against you
  • What she would change first, and in what order: sleep timing, warmth, food, movement, pace
  • Sometimes, if she feels it suits your case, a few simple movements to try at home, for feeling looser and more at ease day to day. Not every reading includes these.
  • Whether some of her recommendations are best done in person, and what that would cost
  • A short window afterwards to come back with questions

What it leaves out

  • A medical diagnosis of any kind, or a second opinion on one you already have
  • Herbs or prescriptions of any kind
  • Advice on starting, changing or stopping any medication
  • A verdict on whether you qualify for sessions in person: that decision is yours
If what you have is pain

Pain, traced back to its root rather than taken as a given.

Many people who come to us live with pain: back, neck, shoulders, knees, hips. She looks at it as part of the whole of you.

i

How it started

When it started, what you were doing then, and what has made it better or worse since.

ii

Her work in person

Light hands-on energy work, with gua sha or moxibustion where she judges them right for you.

iii

In plain English

Her work is not medical treatment, and it sits alongside any care you already have. We don't claim what it will do for your pain.

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Who reads it

One practitioner, from first look to final write-up.

An independent practitioner in China, separate from Baoputang Clinic. Her work is hands-on energy work, rooted in a traditional Chinese practice.

Her background

  • Working with clients since 2002.
  • She gets to the bottom of a case quickly. Senior practitioners and TCM physicians often come to her for advice, and she is a mentor to many of them.

More about her

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Afterwards

If you want to be seen in person, that conversation starts after the reading.

The same practitioner also sees clients in person at her own practice in China. Each session is an hour, and for that hour you are the only person she is working with. Her estimate of days and cost is in writing before you commit, and confirmed once she has seen you.

If you go on to be seen in person, the £850 is deducted in full from the cost of that work. Once work on your reading has started, the fee is non-refundable, except as set out in our terms.

  • You are under no obligation

    Nothing in the reading commits you to travelling.

  • Your trip, your way

    We set aside the practitioner's time and arrange an interpreter to be with you. Flights and accommodation you book yourself, in your own name, so you can travel and stay just as it suits you. We're happy to tell you where her practice is and which areas are easiest to stay in.

What being seen in person involves

The consulting table at her practice in China

Her practice · China

Observation Reading · £850

Let's get observing.

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