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Che Young Wellness | Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, trainer and author. Forest of Dean + Online Globally.

Acumassage treatments • Coaching • Training in Acumassage, and in Workplace Wellness. • Author and Speaker. Treatments include massage, acupressure and Reiki; Coaching 1:1 for personal or professional development; Training in Stress Management, Mindfulness and Meditation - individuals or groups; Private retreats in the Forest of Dean (for 1 or 2 people); Group retreats at carefully selected venues across the UK; Corporate packages available.

10/09/2026

This literally landed in my inbox yesterday when I was actually having quite a tricky day. 🤍📨

It brought a huge smile to my face.

It's from one of the lovely people I treated at Q***r Spirit. 🏕️ Someone whose back was so bad they were struggling to get from their tent to the main area.

I was called in to help by the Health and Safety crew who were really worried about him. It turned out he'd been in pain for a long long time but camping was making it worse. 😮‍💨 I went and sat with him to explain what I do as he'd had lots of ineffective treatments and wasn't sure if it would be worth it.

I explained I wasn't charging and he could give a donation if he wanted but it wasn't necessary. And that at home I'm fully booked for months due to referrals and regulars who wouldn't be without their slots.

We agreed he'd find me the next day and I gave him an hour and a half of my time. 💫

I love transforming people's lives. And that's how I see it.

I know what it's like to be in pain. When I am, I have a selection of people I go to see, depending on the particular pain. 🙌 I'm now also training someone 1:1 in what I do, and look forward to training more this Oct / Nov. 🧠

To say I do massage would be a massive understatement.

I work with Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Meridian System, and work holistically with your body to bring it back into balance. ☯️ Any disharmony, discomfort, pain or other unpleasant symptoms can be addressed with TCM, including emotional, mental and spiritual issues.

It's nothing like a relaxing spa treatment. It's a medical treatment aimed at fixing problems. 🔥

Although as I often say, I don't fix things directly. I restore right and proper flow, of Qi, lymph and blood, and then that is what 'fixes' the problem. Be it muscular or organ-based. 🌿

Feedback like this ALWAYS makes me smile. 💚 I love what I do and I love helping people.

09/09/2026

This summer many people found me in a field and needed my help… with a twisted ankle, a migraine, crunchy knees, or years of stuck grief. 🏕️

The twisted ankle was from a football friendly that got competitive. The migraines flared due to a stiff neck from three nights on a camping mat. And an old knee injury resurfaced due to a change in diet (yes really!).

Plus someone who'd pulled a shoulder while balancing a speaker, and another with pain around old surgical scars, both got much needed relief. And someone with a tight chest full of grief they'd been carrying for years finally let some of it go. 🤍

People find me in fields. 💫

Sometimes I'm not sure how! But I love it. Genuinely.

But I'm only there for a few days. Then I'm gone. 😮‍💨

What I really love is NOT being needed. Teaching someone where to press on their own arm. Showing them the point that helps when their neck locks up. Handing over the map instead of just using it on them. 🙌

I try to do this with everyone I treat, and some are more receptive than others.

But it's also why I run training sessions. 🧠

The next SELF HELP ACUMASSAGE training is 3 days at the end of October, then Part 2 is 3 days at the end of November.

Six days in total.

In the Forest of Dean.

This October and November.

Teaching you to help yourself.

Fourteen meridians and a framework that gets imprinted in your head. For life! ✨

For the people who are open to helping themselves. For bodyworkers who want to understand the benefits of using TCM in their work. And for anyone who'd like to be the person in the field who knows what to do.

Beginner to mid-level. No TCM experience needed. Places are limited.

Message me for more info if you're feeling drawn! 🌿

08/09/2026

So I survived a tornado. 😳

It has taken a while to talk about because truthfully it was really scary. Some people seem to have taken it in their stride. But I do not mind admitting I was knocked for six by it. 🌪️ Or them.

Because apparently there were TWO. A twin funnel.

That touched down and met each other RIGHT AT RAINBOW SUMMER CAMP. 😮

It has taken me a while to process it. While others were not affected, I have been living in fields at festivals most of the summer. And as a now knowingly autistic and ADHD person, that brings a unique set of challenges.

I was already pretty overwhelmed, peopled out and running on empty BEFORE the tornadoes hit. 😮‍💨 We knew storms were coming. I had battened down the awning and had Dukie cuddled up to me, wrapped in a blanket. He was petrified and shaking all over. 🐕

The thunder was loud and the lightning bright. It was around 3pm but the sky was dark and foreboding. I did not see them hit.

But a friend of mine watched the twin funnel clouds trying to touch down, then found himself in the pitch black eerie quiet of the eye. He couldn't see even five metres in front of him! 🌪️ The winds in the outer ring reached 80mph at times. Ripping awnings off caravans. Carrying large tents and marquees across several fields.

A large willow was struck by lightning and fell right next to where we were sheltering. It landed on a tent that LUCKILY had nobody in it at the time. Although it had done ten minutes previously. 😳 It fell five metres from my car, tentbox and awning. And five metres in the other direction was my son's tent, where a bunch of his friends were sheltering.

It. Was. A. Lot. 💔

I kept telling the dog he was safe. When truthfully, at times, I was not sure that we were. I was on my own and had to hold the awning down and bang in rock pegs to stop it taking off. Others were not so lucky. Much was lost and ruined. An hour and a half, and complete devastation on so many levels. 🙏

I. Was. Exhausted.

But I am slowly recovering. A lovely trip somewhere the Shen energy is high this weekend to refill my cup. And a wonderful two hour massage to get me back into my body. Both have helped enormously. 🌿

Here is the thing I keep coming back to. I teach nervous system regulation for a living. But that doesnt mean my nervous system doesnt get disregulated! 💫

Because understanding it doesn't always mean we can prevent it. But it DOES mean we can recognise when we are out of sorts, know what to do about it. And then Actually. Do. It! ✨

That last part is the one most of us skip. What do you do to re-regulate yourself? Have you had a 'tornado moment' recently? 👇

07/09/2026

I have worn a costume nearly every day of my life. All clothes are costumes to some degree!

But I particularly like this one I put together, for the ‘Blooming Marvellous’ last dance at the Rainbow Summer Camp ✨

Festival me.

Colour, sparkle, absolute nonsense, entirely on purpose. 🌈 People assume dressing like this is about being seen by others. For me it's closer to the opposite. 🤍

I was diagnosed autistic and ADHD late. Very late.

Which means I spent decades doing something I didn't have a name for. Copying. Adjusting. Watching how other people did it and doing that instead. 😮‍💨 Twenty years in corporate rooms, wearing the right clothes and the right face, being fluent in a language that was never mine.

I was very good at it. It nearly finished me. 🔥

Here's something nobody really talks about.

The mask doesn't come off because you decided to be brave one day. It comes off in places that don't need it. 💫 A field. A tent. Glitter. People who are also just being themselves.

Nobody in that field needs me to be ‘normal’. So I put on something ridiculous, crazy, fun, colourful, and feel more myself than I have in most of my adult life.

Just being what you already are, in a place that lets you. 🙌

Fifty years old and dressed like a flower at a disco. I've never been happier. 🌞

When did you last dress up? Not to suit other people but to suit yourself?

04/09/2026

I'm 50 and I've just come off my best festival season yet. 🔥

This goes to the fields. Sundara. Q***r Spirit. Rainbow Summer Camp. 🏕️

Thank you for having me.

For giving me a space, a slot, a corner of a field, and trusting me to hold it. 🙏

I led morning meditations while the dew was still on the grass. Taught Pure Meditation to people who'd never sat still on purpose in their lives. Ran workshops on gender diversity science and intersectionality. And gave Acumassage to bodies that had been carrying things for a very long time. 💫

Some of those sessions I will not forget.

But honestly, the thing I'm most grateful for is the people. 🤍 The ones who wandered in not knowing what they'd signed up for. The ones who came back the next day and brought a friend. The ones who cried on a massage couch in a tent and then went off to dance until 3am. 😅

Old friends I only ever see in fields. New friends I now can't imagine not knowing. 💚 There's something so special about a field full of people who have all decided, for one week, to just be themselves.

So thank you. All of you. Muddy, glittery, gorgeous lot that you are. 🌞

Who are you grateful for this ?

03/09/2026

Most people come back from holidays needing another holiday. And that is not a coincidence.

A holiday and a retreat are not the same thing. Not even close. And understanding the difference might be the most important thing you do for your health this year.

A holiday requires constant decision-making. Where to eat. What to do. Which way to go. It involves social performance, stimulation, often alcohol and disrupted sleep. Uploading photos to social media even. It is enjoyable. It is wonderful. It is absolutely worth doing.

But it is not rest. Not really. Not in the physiological sense.

A retreat removes something completely different. It removes the inputs that demand output from your nervous system.

No roles.

No responsibilities.

No one to show up for but yourself.

No decisions beyond the most basic ones.

And when those demands are removed?

This happens to your body: Cortisol drops significantly. The parasympathetic nervous system finally gets uninterrupted access to its repair function. The fascia softens. The meridians flow more freely. The body begins to process what it has been quietly carrying.

This is why people often cry on retreat. Not because something bad has happened. Because the body finally has space to complete what it started.

I have travelled to 55 countries. I know the difference in my body between coming home from a holiday and coming home from a retreat. They are not comparable. One restores the surface. The other restores the root. 🙏

There are four ways to retreat and they all work differently.

Alone. At a retreat centre. In a group. With a private facilitator. I work with all four.

And if you are ready to understand what your body actually needs right now…

Drop me a message. 🌿

02/09/2026

Everything except water is treated as food by your body. 💧

And honestly? This one can change how you think about hydration completely. 🤯

ANYTHING that is not plain water gets processed differently. And is not really any different to having a snack.

Juice. Milk. Squash. Smoothies. Cordial. Even herbal tea!

Your digestive system fires up. Insulin responds. The organs all pile in to deal with it.

That is not hydration. That is eating! 😄🧡

Water sits in a class entirely of its own. The only thing you can take in that hydrates you without asking your body to digest it is water.

And THAT is why it matters so much overnight. 💫

Because something rather brilliant happens while you sleep. It is called autophagy. Auto meaning self. Phagy meaning eating. Your cells literally consuming and clearing out their own damaged material.

Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in 2016 for working out exactly how it happens. 🔬

But it only kicks in under one condition. The absence of food. The ideal is to give your body roughly 16 hours without eating. 8pm until midday the following day. If you do this, your cells finally get proper uninterrupted time to repair and restore.

Now overlaying this with what Traditional Chinese Medicine says is happening in that exact window. Gallbladder. Liver. Lung. Large Intestine. Stomach. Spleen.

These are the heavy lifters. All doing their deepest work. All night and in the morning too. Clearing and cleansing after yesterday’s consumption.

So during that window, water only.

Not because everything else is bad.

But because everything else is food. And food stops the whole process. Including the clarity and insight the ancients sages held sacresanct!💧

Next time you are thirsty, just notice what you reach for. Water is not simply another drink on the list. It is in a category of it’s own and the best thing to rehydrate with. Full stop, no exceptions. 🚰

Did you know this?

01/09/2026

Everything you learned about anatomy was based on dead tissue.

Let that sink in for a moment. 🤯

When Dr. Jean-Claude Guimberteau became the first surgeon to film inside a living human body he did not find what the textbooks showed. Not separate structures in tidy layers. Everything connected to everything. One single shimmering liquid crystal web.

Pulsing. Fluid. Alive. ✨

Yes, it looks exactly as the meridian system describes.

Because the Primo Vascular System, confirmed by Seoul National University in 2002, found microscopic structures running through the fascia that correspond precisely to the meridian maps used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years.

The ancients did not have microscopes. They had something we have almost entirely lost. The ability to pay extraordinary attention to the living body. 🙏 And what they mapped was real. The map was always there.

We just had to learn to look at living tissue to finally see it. 👀

Full blog on the site.

31/08/2026

Nothing on this path is in a hurry. 🌿

And nothing on it is behind.

This is the Forest of Dean last week. Despite the heat, and scorching ground across the land, there were still patches of green, deep in the Forest, on shady paths.

Give me 90 seconds. Not scrolling. Actually watching. Here's what starts happening while you do.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine we'd call the way most of us live pure Yang. Heat. Push. Forward. Doing. Yang is not the enemy. You need it. But Yang without Yin burns through you. 🔥 And the West has built almost nothing that teaches the Yin.

Slow. Cool. Still. Receiving. This path is Yin. The ferns are Yin. Ninety seconds of your attention is Yin. ☯️

Your amygdala, the part of the brain that scans constantly for threat, begins to quieten. Your parasympathetic nervous system starts to engage. Cortisol begins to drop. Your body moves out of alert and back towards regulation. 🧠

Just ferns. 💚

Stay with it. All 90 seconds. 🙏

28/08/2026

This I'm grateful for silence. And for the point I recognised needing it didn’t mean something was wrong with me. Because here's what I've found.

Every breakthrough moment I've had came when there was nothing else in the room. 🌿 No noise. No distractions. No interference.

I filled every gap in my diary for years.

And the moment I stopped, my body started talking. 💫

The tiredness I'd been calling normal. The grief I'd filed away for later. The things it had been trying to tell me for decades, while I kept turning up the volume, and piling on the pressure 😅

In Traditional Chinese Medicine Yin represents stillness. Rest. The dark. The part of us that receives rather than produces. The West hands us a thousand ways to be Yang.

Push, achieve, connect, optimise, go. It gives us almost nothing that teaches Yin. ☯️ So this week I'm grateful for realising I needed to schedule regular time for silence. To top up my Yin, to balance my Yang. 🙌

Not just when the diary allows.

But BOOKED IN. Protected. Non-negotiable.

That single commitment has done more for my health than any treatment I've ever had. And I do this for a living. 😂

When did you last let yourself stop? Like REALLY stop every thing, and just be, by yourself? What’s your relationship with silence?

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