About Zarig

Zarig practices Tui Na (traditional Chinese Physiotherapy/massage) as he has learnt it in China, where treatments are often very strong and focused. Zarig uses the unique techniques of Tui Na to relieve tension, alleviate pain, and initiate change in the body and the mind.

Tui Na is a unique massage system because of the distinctive techniques employed, and as in China, Zarig uses Tui Na to treat pain conditions of multiple pathology.

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Zarig studied acupuncture formally at the London College of Traditional Acupuncture in London for 3 years obtaining a BSc in acupuncture, and trained for a further 12 months for the diploma in Tui Na medical massage. He has made three study trips to China where he has obtained certificates of clinical internship from the Zhejiang hospital of TCM, Hangzhou. These experiences were huge eye openers in how Chinese medicine is practiced in its native environment and many hours were spent practicing Acupuncture and Tui Na techniques with Chinese doctors.

Zarig is a student of the Mei Quan Academy of Tai Chi and uses Tui Na and the traditional philosophy that underpins Chinese exercise and meditation (Taoism, tai chi and qi gong) to help patients understand why they have developed their particular problems and what they may be able to do to move, work and live with more ease.

The influence of the mind in health and disease cannot be underestimated and the traditional Chinese philosophical approach to maintaining health and avoiding the build up of tension offers a most flexible and practical method to improving health. It offers ways of interpreting how our bodies and minds are coping, and where and how we have developed our particular patterns of imbalance.

“I believe that if we can eliminate the tension that we generate and hold in our bodies and minds, we will go a long way to eliminating the multitude of pathological ways that this chronic build up of tension may manifest.”

“We have more control over our health than we may think and it is as important to help people understand and regain that control, as it is to alleviate their symptoms.”


Zarig Cooper on Persistant Pain & Chronic Pain Syndrome
Persistant Pain & Chronic Pain Syndrome

It is often the case that chronic pain develops over a long period of time and may follow an injury or acute event that might have occurred many years ago. Whatever the initial trigger for the development of your chronic pain, what is probable is that you will now have developed particular types of behaviour, protection/holding patterns, poor posture or severe inflexibility in certain body areas.
In addition to these physical changes, you may also have developed concurrent coping mechanisms in your psyche and mind which now influence the way you negotiate through life, and how effectively your deal with challenges that you are faced with.
Being in pain for extended periods really can have far-reaching effects on our bodies and minds and although these changes may have occurred initially to help you cope with pain, they can become so imbedded in the way you function that they become part of your ‘normal’ behaviour and may be impeding your ability to recover.
Tui Na Therapy
If the cause of your chronic pain is to do with the condition of your soft tissues (muscles, tendons) and joints then I use Tui Na massage (Traditional Chinese Physiotherapy/Massage) to begin to restore life, movement and your trust in those parts of your body that you have lost touch with.
I feel that the techniques of Tui Na therapy are very powerful in the transformation of chronic conditions as they are very focussed, and can be very deep. Combined with working on your breath (one of the major culprits of holding or restrictive behaviour), and sometimes using acupuncture, I try to encourage you to approach the barriers that have developed and overcome them.