Learn Cupping

Contraindications: this workshop is not for you if you have cancer, skin infections/open wounds on your back, blood disorders, uncontrolled diabetes, on pain medication or are currently pregnant.

Sunday May 3rd 12-2pm
Sliding scale $30-$60 cash preferred, venmo + zelle accepted
The workshop is capped at 8 people; register to reserve your spot + complete the questionnaire that follows.

This workshop includes:
Teachings on use, practices and limitations of cupping.
Light teaching of anatomy.
Guidance on using a cupping set.
Cupping yourself.
Practicing consent and communication around sensations, wants and needs.
Giving and receiving a cupping session (on the back) to/from another person.

Learn to use an air/plastic cupping set on yourself and on another. This 2 hour workshop focuses on consent and communication and cupping’s purpose, techniques and methods of use. Bring a partner to cup or be paired up with someone who’s attending. We will stay in the same dyad (group of two) for the workshop. If you are interested in learning to just cup yourself (this has limitations based on your arm reach/mobility) and not in the dyad form, send me an email- thrubodytherapy@proton.me

Learn Cupping is birthed from my life long experience of receiving cupping and learning to cup at a very young age. Cupping has always been a practice in my family of origin. My parents taught me to cup when we migrated to America and got our first plastic cupping set. When I moved out, a cupping set came with me. Since then, I taught my partners, friends, and anyone who wants to learn how to cup. Continuing and avidly supporting the tradition of physical, energetic, and emotional care having a place in the home, in the family [biological and chosen], and in community. I am extending this offering to you. I will have cupping sets for sale at the workshop, in case you would like to have one in your household.

*There are many forms of cupping. There is dry cupping, wet cupping, air suction cupping, fire cupping and more. This will be a dry cupping workshop using suction which means there will not be any cutting of skin and we will use plastic cupping sets with suction pumps. Wet cupping is the practice of blood letting- we will not be doing this. Cupping using fire and glass jars or cups is an ancient and common and we will not be learning this form of cupping in this workshop.