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from November 12, 2020
Why Amino Acids Are An Acupuncturist’s Best Friend
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Why Amino Acids Are An Acupuncturist’s Best Friend
with Carolyn Reuben
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from November 12, 2020
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Nutrition is within the scope of practice of California acupuncturists but in our schools we are not trained to use individual amino acids and a pro-recovery diet to quickly stop cravings for drugs, behaviors, and food. Yet, decades of research and empirical evidence support these quick and efficient treatment modalities. Meanwhile, during COVID-19, citizens isolated and quarantined are eating and drinking like never before. Sales of alcohol have increased 55% this year compared to last year at this time and the Mayo Clinic calls the result of our new compulsive eating habits "the quarantine 15".
This presentation reminds participants that their patients may not list overeating or over drinking or over drugging on the intake form but a great number of them ARE in the throes of addiction. Food addiction, alone, is the most dangerous and most common addiction in the United States, causing obesity and diabetes at epic levels in younger and younger individuals. On top of that anxiety and depression are epidemic and most commonly treated with pharmaceuticals such as SSRIs, SNRIs, and highly addictive benzodiazepines. Yet we as acupuncturists have at our fingertips not only excellent acupuncture points as a response, but also useful nutritional tools in amino acids and menu choices. I will detail each of the five amino acids that are useful to respond to patient needs, with results apparent within fifteen minutes, and offer the simple questionnaire that helps the practitioner figure out what the patient's most pressing needs are at that time. The same questionnaire helps both patient and practitioner figure out what dose is needed and when the supplements can be stopped.
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Carolyn Reuben
Carolyn began using acupuncture for addiction treatment in substance abuse treatment programs in 1992 in Sacramento, CA. Carolyn has lectured at state and national conferences, written magazine articles and is the founding director of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions.
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from April 30, 2020
An Exploration of Love And It's Threoretical Foundations Through the Lense of Classical Chinese Medicine
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An Exploration of Love And It's Threoretical Foundations Through the Lense of Classical Chinese Medicine
with Felice Dunas
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from April 30, 2020
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“Love” is an imperative for healthy living. “Lack of love” dramatically affects health and is a treatable condition. In this presentation Dr Dunas will introduce the qualities and complex energetic make up of love. She will address the following questions: How does the capacity to love develop in patients as they go through each jing cycle into maturity? How is love defined and what historical reference points help us understand the definition of love according to Chinese medicine? How does culture help and hinder patients as they create, experience and give love? How can you, as a practitioner, enhance a patient’s experience of love, even during globally stressful times? How do energetic imbalances and clinical health problems affect a patient’s capacity to love? What is "false love" and why is it so prevalent in our world? What happens energetically when we fall in love or fall out of love? What are the energetic patterns that make up heartsickness? How does love heal and how can we help those under our care thrive with the capasity to love during stress?
Your Teacher
Felice Dunas
Felice Dunas, Ph.D., is an international speaker, consultant, intimacy educator, and holistic healer, who has used her understanding of behavior and the human body to help clients for over 40 years. An author, she has been the recipient of the 'Acupuncturist of the Year' award.
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from April 26, 2020
Flower Essences for Emotional Health During Crisis
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Flower Essences for Emotional Health During Crisis
with Sharon Loerzer
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from April 26, 2020
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Because a person's emotional state impacts on their immunity, as practitioners it's useful having as many tools as possible to help a person cope with fear and anxiety. Expand your clinical repertoire by incorporating Flower Essences into your treatment protocols for the treatment of mental health and resilience building. Safe and effective, flower remedies are easy for patients to purchase and can be used at home. As well as extending the benefits of your acupuncture treatments, flower remedies are a safe alternative to pharmaceutical interventions.
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Sharon Loerzer
Sharon Loerzer is the founder of the Family Evolution Centre which has helped over 2,500 children, teenagers and their families over the past 25 years. Sharon is passionate about helping adults to see through the eyes of children so that a clear and empathetic bond can form outside of traditional power struggles.
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Master Class: Healing Sounds Organ Detoxification Qigong
Two Authentic Lineages: Li Qingyun & Hua Tuo
with David Lloyd
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Why should you take this course? Do you feel physically stiff and run down? Do you feel tired and stressed out? Are you looking for a way to boost your health and vitality? If so, this course is just what you are looking for; in it, you will learn everything you need to get started practicing a unique form of healing Qigong Meditation called "Healing Sounds." This gentle method of exercise is simple to learn, and you can practice at home. Qigong has many proven health benefits. These benefits include: stress hormone reduction, improved sleep quality, increased range of motion and reduced muscle stiffness, better circulation, and much more!
The Six Healing Sounds or Liu Zi Jue (六字訣) is a qigong method and involves the coordination of movement and breathing patterns with specific sounds. The sounds combined with the postures release trapped fasciae from around your organs. In this course, you will learn two distinct lineages of Healing Sounds Qigong, one from Hua Tuo (華佗) and the other from the Immortal Li Qingyun (李清雲). This is a unique opportunity.
This course is an in-depth study that will take you from the most fundamental Qigong practice elements to the more advanced. If you have never practiced Qigong in your life, I designed this course for you. That said, you can also gain much value from this program if you are a seasoned practitioner of things like Meditation, Yoga, and Martial arts. That is why I titled this a "Master Course," it's for everyone.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the proper breathing approach and postures for the Li Qingyun Lineage of Healing Sounds.
- Learn the history of both the Li Qingyun & Hua Lineage of Healing Sounds Qigong, as well as note the difference between each method.
- Understand the proper breathing approach and postures for the Hua Tuo Lineage of Healing Sounds.
- Learn the theory behind healing sounds qigong
- Learn the proper posture and breathing approach for general Qigong practice
Your Teacher
David Lloyd
David Hastings Lloyd, R.Ac, R.TCMP, has been practicing and teaching Chinese Medicine and Qigong for over 20 years and has also authored several books on these topics.
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The Nectar of Plants: Essential Oils and Chinese Medicine Series - Course 2
Heart & Will
with Josephine Spilka
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Part II - Heart & Will looks at what happens after we take in our world, begin, you could say, to make it our own. In effect, this is our inner world. Looking at emotional disorders, sleep disorders, and anxiety disorders, in the context of our relationship to our conscious selves, our emotional lives and the way these aspects affect our bodies.
This section of the course explores the mechanism of ying qi, the relationship between the blood and the spirit as it manifests in our daily lives, as well as in how we sleep, in how we relate to others and how we discover who we are in our world. Ying qi is intimately connected to how comfortable we feel in our bodies and whether we can adequately respond with post-natal resources to the stresses in our lives.
This section features many precious oils such as Frankincense, Neroli, Rose and Sandalwood as well as detailing the specifics for safe and effective use of all essential oils.
You'll learn to use these essential oils to calm the spirit, ease the stresses of life and build capacity for healthy interaction, opening the heart and focusing the will in service of peace, contentment and spiritual alignment.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the unique properties of essential oils including use of notes, effects on the spirit and their relationship with essence.
- Understand and discuss the relationship between wei qi, ying qi and yuan qi as a framework for post-natal life dynamics.
- Articulate the basic theory and practice of using essential oils from Chinese medical perspective.
Your Teacher
Josephine Spilka
Josephine Spilka, M.S., L.Ac., has been practicing Classical Chinese Medicine and Buddhist meditation for over 20 years, and is focused on investigating the relationship with essence in its many forms.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 3
EMF Radiation
with Sue Nelson
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* You can normally get a discount when you buy a series whole!
Overview
As a workplace concern, EMF Wireless radiation is not ‘on the radar’ for many TCM practitioners but it should be! Current safety standards continue to be based on outdated threshold limits for THERMAL-ONLY biological effects.
As a result, EMF Wireless devices have proliferated the planet with totally inappropriate emission levels. These levels fail to integrate the growing weight-of-evidence warnings about the disastrous NON-THERMAL health effects!
Lloyds of London – the biggest Insurance market in the world – will not accept liability for ‘Wi-Fi Injury’ associated with Wi-Fi devices. Lloyds has done its homework on both THERMAL and NON-THERMAL effects and thresholds.
National standards are far from unified, especially since the release of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study in 2016. This crucial 10-year Study confirmed the causal link between tumours of the Brain and Heart and excessive exposure to 2G and 3G mobile phones. Now the world is facing the 5G threat which will add to the aggregate burden of EMF radiation from digital meters, routers, and wireless devices in the community.
EMF wavelengths cannot be effectively blocked but they can be avoided or have their impact lessened to a degree. TCM practitioners need to educate themselves on this urgent health and safety issue, even if it means learning new technical jargon and contradicting the public perception of safe-use technology. In this way, they have the chance to lead the health industry.
PLEASE NOTE: While this course does cover safety-related topics, it is not accredited by NCCAOM under the "Safety Category", but rather the "AOM-BIO" category.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why the Insurance companies refuse to indemnify ‘Wi-Fi’ Injury in the clinic workplace and elsewhere.
- Identify the historical landmarks underpinning the formation of THERMAL-only EMF Safety Standards in different countries.
- Understand the current international disparities in EMF Safety Standards.
- Be informed of the scientific and medical concerns surrounding the NON-THERMAL biological effects of EMF radiation.
- Obtain a template for clinic ‘risk management’ in terms of avoidance or mitigation strategies for minimising EMF exposure.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Qigong offers a tool to better physical and mental health, wellbeing and longevity. This course teaches one of the most popular qigong forms practised throughout the world in a detail never before available. Peter has studied, practised and taught the healing arts for nearly fifty years and has created this course to share everything he has learnt during that time.
Learning Objectives
- Develop better alignment, integrated body movement and a more comfortable and enjoyable body/mind state
- Cultivate a stable body and a calm and stable mind
- Build physical, mental and emotional health
- Open the channels/fascia/fascial trains of the entire body
- Build awareness, mindfulness and connection with our deeper selves, with nature and with the absolute (dao)
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Peter Deadman
Peter Deadman has practised, taught and written about Chinese medicine and health cultivation traditions for nearly fifty years. He has practised qigong for thirty years.
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Sex has long been used as a healing tool in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The erotic healing arts practices are older than acupuncture and, though little known by the Western world, are still in use today. Sexual expression, when done with a proper understanding of how energy moves, can enhance and quicken healing. Sex, even “great sex”, practiced without TCM healing techniques, can decrease health and make your process of getting well longer and more difficult. It can even interfere with the treatments that your acupuncturist is giving you, resulting in less improvement per session.
In this 1 hour class, Dr. Felice Dunas will show you how, according to TCM theory, sex can support or inhibit health and healing. She will introduce simple practices that will enhance your pleasure while improving your health. Optimize your healing, no matter the nature of your illness or injury, with energy, or Qi (pronounced “chi”) cultivating sexual activities.
Learning Objectives
- To present the correlation between sex and health/disease according to TCM theory
- To introduce the sexual healing arts practices of TCM.
- To provide conversational tools for discussing this sensitive subject with patients.
- To give practical and theoretical info on how sex augments or detracts from the benefits of TCM treatment depending upon how it is practiced
Your Teacher
Felice Dunas
Felice Dunas, Ph.D., is an international speaker, consultant, intimacy educator, and holistic healer, who has used her understanding of behavior and the human body to help clients for over 40 years. An author, she has been the recipient of the 'Acupuncturist of the Year' award.
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Qi Gong Fundamentals
As a practitioner, it is crucial that you understand the energy that flows within your body, as this, in turn, helps you perform more effective and enriching treatments. In Qigong Fundamentals, learn all of the steps required to tap into the energy that flows within your body, including topics on how our bodies create and move energy throughout the meridians.
Understand how to use your breath to create more energy, and detoxify your organs using six distinct healing sounds. Finally, protocols on how to mobilize and store your energy using Yi Quan standing meditation, and also, the equation of Qigong using modern physics are explored.
All of these concepts are vital for anyone practicing acupuncture or any other hands-on healing art. What would you do with more energy? Looking to tap into your potential? Learn more about these vital strategies in this comprehensive course with Dr. David Lloyd, R.Ac., R.TCMP.
Learning Objectives
- To understand how Qi is created within the body using modern science.
- To be able to mobilize your Qi using Yi Quan standing meditation.
- To understand the method and practice of Qigong.
- To understand how Qi moves around the body using physics and gravity.
- To be able to practice the six healing sounds for organ detoxification
Your Teacher
David Lloyd
David Hastings Lloyd, R.Ac, R.TCMP, has been practicing and teaching Chinese Medicine and Qigong for over 20 years and has also authored several books on these topics.
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The seasonal rhythms of nature have a very direct effect on our health. Having a conscious understanding of these seasonal and environmental effects adds additional support to your treatments. Living in harmony with our outer environment during the seasons will positively impact long-term health benefits. In addition, we have our own seasons of life that must be taken into consideration as we move through our life cycle. This recorded lecture will give an overview of mapping these two intersecting cycles and treatment strategies to promote healthy longevity of our patients.
Learning Objectives
- Gain an overview of the Four Seasons
- Learn how to utilize organ clock time in daily life and for treatments
- Acquire practical and clinical knowledge of basic lifestyle choices that connect with the Four Seasons
Your Teacher
Christine Chang
Dr. Christine Chang, DAOM, specializes in herbal formulas and Chinese nutrition, and brings this expertise to her private practice as well as serving as a faculty member at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. She is also the interpreter for the lectures of Dr. Wei Chieh Young.
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Problems of love and relationship may reflect the strength and movement of the body’s energy, and may not be rooted in psychology or how happy a childhood someone had. Did you know that romantic attraction, and the relationship that follows, especially if ignited for someone who is, ultimately, a bad match, can be a sign of poor energetic health, just like headaches, back pain or asthma, and can be treated by acupuncture? Knowing how attraction and relationship patterns affect one's strength and energy, and having the support of acupuncture, can speed up healthful changes in the body.
According to TCM, romance, love and a patient’s experience of them are directly related to the condition of their Qi. In this 1-hour class, Dr Felice Dunas will introduce you to how a patient’s experience of love, their romantic life and their physical health, can benefit from TCM support.
Learning Objectives
- The instructor will provide the practitioner with tools for discussing this topic with his/her patients
- Participants will learn TCM theoretical strategies for resolving love and romance related health problems
- Participants will be introduced to the correlation between a person’s behavior, in reference to love and romance, and the condition of their qi
- The instructor discusses patterns in love and romantic relationship behavior and how these patterns correlate to specific energetic syndromes
Your Teacher
Felice Dunas
Felice Dunas, Ph.D., is an international speaker, consultant, intimacy educator, and holistic healer, who has used her understanding of behavior and the human body to help clients for over 40 years. An author, she has been the recipient of the 'Acupuncturist of the Year' award.
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Intimacy and relationship issues can be awkward to discuss with patients unless you are sufficiently trained to do so. Dr. Dunas has created educational tools for your patients so they can learn about these topics on their own. You benefit by prescribing an educational opportunity without having to teach the subject yourself. Patients learn without having to engage in a direct conversation with you. Once they have been exposed to Dr. Dunas’ work, a conversation between you can be more comfortably approached from either side, should there be a need. TCM can, truly, help heal a patient’s love life and their body. A key component in the implementation of this modality is the principle of “healing through pleasure”, a perspective easily overlooked by our Western views of life and medicine, but pivotal to TCM as practiced in the past.
In this one-hour recorded presentation, Dr. Felice Dunas introduces a subject for which she received the Acupuncturist of the Year Award by the AAAOM: single-handedly bringing the “Sexual Healing Practices” of Chinese medicine to the North American acupuncture profession.
Older than acupuncture and consistently used to the present day, our professional ancestors reserved sexual teachings only for those patients whose lives would require optimal intelligence, power, vitality and longevity - in essence, the rulers of feudal China. That is how important, but secretive, these practices have always been. Why are these teachings important for acupuncturists today to understand? Because the quality of a patient’s sexual life and their ability to cultivate intimacy closeness directly affects and is affected by health. In essence, the effectiveness of your work can be helped or hindered by how a patient “loves”.
Once practitioners have viewed this initial webinar, they may be interested in directing their patients to view two recorded webinars geared specifically for patients.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will understand two of the TCM theories utilized in the erotic practices, Qiand Yin Yang
- Participants will be introduced to the sexual healing arts concepts in TCM
- Participants will learn simple, highly impactful erotic healing techniques
- Participants will learn appropriate indicators when a patient’s relationship may have a negative impact on health and when to recommend patient self-learning on these topics
- Participants will explore Western vs. Eastern attitudes towards activities that include 'healing through pleasure,' and understand how to address those concerns with patients and other medical professionals
Your Teacher
Felice Dunas
Felice Dunas, Ph.D., is an international speaker, consultant, intimacy educator, and holistic healer, who has used her understanding of behavior and the human body to help clients for over 40 years. An author, she has been the recipient of the 'Acupuncturist of the Year' award.