Hand Reading for Beginners

Join Master Palmist Robin Lown for this 10-week online hand-reading course, introducing you to the insightful world of palmistry, palm reading and hand reading.

Hand reading and palmistry are age-old practices that analyse the hands to understand life-patterns, character and potential – both your own and other people's. By integrating the wisdom of Eastern and Western traditions, this course will guide you to discover and use many simple hand-reading skills, starting you on a fascinating journey into what nature intended for our talents and potential in this world.

What to expect

This course teaches you in easy steps how to read and interpret the hands, looking at how character, personality traits and potential relate to the nature of our hand structure. You'll also analyse hand shape, size and skin-ridge patterns, all combining to produce a unique 'hand programme'. 

This 10-week online hand-reading course includes:

• An introduction to the world of palmistry, palm reading and hand reading
• Understanding your own and others' life-patterns
• Easy step-by-step methods to read and interpret the hands
• How character, personality traits and potential relate to hand structure
• Analysis of hand shape, size and skin-ridge patterns

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for absolute beginners, as well as anyone intrigued by the holistic nature of the connection between our hands and brain and how they all work together.

Book now to start this fascinating 10-week journey with Robin Lown, and gain the confidence to practice palmistry and hand-reading on your friends and family.

Meet your tutor, Robin Lown

Master Palmist Robin Lown has been teaching palmistry and hand reading at The College of Psychic Studies for decades. His accuracy has been tested and proven through numerous television appearances, including the Paul McKenna Show and ITV's Psychic Show, and his insights have featured in numerous national newspapers and spiritual magazines. Robin's gift lies in explaining and demonstrating, in simple and effective ways, the links between personality, health and genetic inheritance.

Your learning process

• This livestream hand reading course is interactive.
• You will learn through a blend of explanation, discussion, guided meditation and pair & group work.
• It is important that you attend all classes and complete all homework where relevant to get the most from this experience.

Entry requirements

• This course is open to all.
• To enrol on this course, click 'BOOK NOW'.
• If it is fully booked, click 'REGISTER INTEREST' for updates.
• It is important that you read these 11 Course Agreements before your first class.

Exclusively live online classes

We will not be recording these classes. One of the unique aspects of the College's online courses is that they are highly interactive. Participants are encouraged to discuss and share with the tutor and the group. These sharings can be very personal, and some may not feel comfortable with them being recorded. If you need to miss any sessions, your tutor will be happy to offer a brief outline of the material covered.

Previous participants say:

"Robin created a solid foundation course of palm reading with a good balance of information, comments, observations, theory, practice etc."

"Robin is an experienced teacher with extensive knowledge and experience in Palmistry and hand reading, which he shares with warmth and generosity. Time well spent on a fascinating topic."

"I thoroughly enjoyed this well-structured Introduction to Palmistry and Palm Reading. The course helped to broaden my understanding of the subject. Although I'm still learning, I now feel better able to understand aspects of the hand."

Important: The UK switches to Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday 25 October 2026.

If you are joining from outside the UK, please double-check your time zone with the start time of the classes in this course from Sunday 25 October onwards. You will need to log in an hour later than stated.