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September 17, 2021 - August 21, 2022
The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program
A Part-Time Year Long Journey into the Heart and Soul of the Five Elements
The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program
A Part-Time Year Long Journey into the Heart and Soul of the Five Elements
with Neil Gumenick
September 17, 2021 - August 21, 2022
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Overview
Classical Five-Element Acupuncture is one of the most profound and complete systems of medicine in the world. Practiced in accord with timeless natural laws, this system addresses the needs of the patient as a whole: at the levels of body, mind, and spirit.
The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program offers Acupuncturists and other licensed medical professionals the opportunity to become certified as Classical Five-Element practitioners. The program is taught by Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), C.T. (Adv.), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM), and a team of faculty and guest faculty approved by the Director.
Now, this part-time 10 session program is available for you online through Net of Knowledge across 2021-2022, including two practical sessions in California (if situations permit).
The Causative Factor:
Rather than palliating symptoms, which like warning lights on the dashboard of a car, are only signals of deeper imbalance, Classical Five-Element Acupuncture diagnoses and treats at the level of cause.
Every human being is born with, or develops early in life, a primary imbalance in one of the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water) and its associated organs and functions. This is known as the Causative Factor and is the source of the myriad symptoms a person develops over a lifetime. Once identified and properly treated, unless the condition is truly beyond the reach of Nature to reverse, Nature will throw the disease out, regardless of its label.
Diagnosis, Treatment, Patient Management:
Each of the Elements has a corresponding odor, color, vocal sound, and emotion. In imbalance, these correspondences will manifest inappropriately in the patient and reveal the Causative Factor. In this Program, you will learn to reawaken your innate senses: to smell, see, hear, and feel.
Become the practitioner you always wanted to be—join us for this deep learning journey!
Outline
- Session 1 - September 17-19, 2021
- Session 2 - October 16-17, 2021
- Session 3 - November 20-21, 2021
- Session 4 - December 18-19, 2021
- Session 5 - January 14-16, 2022
- Session 6 - February 19-20, 2022
- Session 7 - March 19-20, 2022
- Session 8 - April 23-24, 2022
- Session 9 - May 22-23, 2022
- Session 10 - August 19-21, 2022
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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from November 22, 2020
Understanding Paediatric Mental Health Issues: A Chinese Medicine Perspective
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Understanding Paediatric Mental Health Issues: A Chinese Medicine Perspective
with Rebecca Avern
Recording
from November 22, 2020
Overview
This one hour free webinar will provide you with an understanding of how and why children and adolescents develop mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Chinese medicine provides a radically different lens to conventional, psychological theories. Using both 5 Element and Organ/Pathogen differentiations, you will go away with an intuitive, effective and profound model through which to approach the growing number of mental issues in children.
Your Teacher
Rebecca Avern
Rebecca Avern is a senior lecturer, clinical supervisor and teaching clinic director at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, UK. In 2012, she founded an acupuncture centre for the treatment of children in Oxford – the Panda Clinic - and her clinical work is now entirely with children. She teaches paediatrics online and at undergraduate and post-graduate level.
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from April 13, 2020
How the Classical Chinese View on Emotions Can Help Us Today
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How the Classical Chinese View on Emotions Can Help Us Today
with Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
Recording
from April 13, 2020
Overview
As human beings, we cannot be without emotions. At the same time, emotions disturb us to the point that we act no more with reason or intelligence. When a situation triggers an emotion, it is usually an important matter needing an accurate reaction, true to life; and it is precisely that what the emotions prevent us to do. The classical Chinese medicine’s approach of emotions, specially agitation and anxiety, exposes what happens inside ourselves, in our heart-mind, as well as in our blood and qi, our organs, and gives leads to regulate ourselves and to come back to a more balanced assessment of the situation and efficient action.
Your Teacher
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
TCM academic and historian, Elisabeth Rochat has specialized in both medical and philosophical Classics in her 40+ years career. She co-authored 'A Survey of Chinese Medicine' and continues to teach about the Classics of TCM internationally.
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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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Shen Series - Course 3
Emotions: How to Address the Jumbled Movements of Qi
with Elisa Rossi
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To us westerners it looks as a reductive over-simplification that in Chinese medical tradition there are only 5 or 7 emotions and that they do not seem to consider all the other sentiments, as hate, envy, jealousy, attachment, aggressiveness, shame, fault, regret, avarice, etc.
It is the result of recognizing the essential, of going to the root, to the core, into the heart of the primary emotions.
Chinese Medicine sees emotions as physiological events, a response of our qi and shen to what comes from the outside world. But excessive emotions are harmful: “Desires without limits and worries without end consume jing, coagulate ying qi and expel wei qi; then the shen leaves and the disease is not curable” (Suwen, ch.14) and “When euphoria and anger are not regulated, they will injure the organs, when organs are injured, illness originates in the yin” (Lingshu, ch.66).
Emotions, internal movements, affect qi. If qi does not move properly we can have qi stagnation, blood stasis, accumulation of dampness and phlegm, transformation into Fire and internal Wind, etc. Yin, blood, and jing are injured.
Sadness consumes qi, euphoria scatters the shen, thought and worry knot the flow of qi, anger rises it up, fear does not contain it.
How to recognize the single emotions in patients and in the therapeutic encounter.
Detailed clinical examples help to recognize different patterns and how to use the “shen-axis” points combination.
Learning Objectives
- How to recognize emotions in patients and in the therapeutic encounter.
- Possible use of the “shen-axis” points combination in clinical cases.
- How Chinese Medicine considers emotions.
- When emotions may become pathological and what disorders in the qi system may happen.
Your Teacher
Elisa Rossi
Elisa Rossi PhD, MD, is a Psychiatrist, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Psychotherapist. In 1994 Elisa co-founded the School of TCM “MediCina” and from 2006 she is member of Milan Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine. Elisa has written numerous books and has lectured extensively around the world.
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Tongue Diagnosis in 5 Elements Model
Diagnosing physical and emotional problems
with Aaron Zizov
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Tongue diagnosis is known as one of the main diagnostic pillars in the long history of Chinese medicine. The tongue is the first organ of the digestive system and can show us the a connection to the inside of the body.
By observing the tongue in the five elements model, we can identify in few seconds who is the person in front of us and what are his/ her emotional and physical imbalances. When diagnosis is clear, the treatment will be fast, exact and simple even in difficult conditions.
Tongue diagnosis has many advantages in comparison to other diagnostic methods. It is fast, simple, reliable, we can track changes with photographs, and of course in the technological world we live in, it is possible to diagnose people from any place on earth with the smartphone.
In the seminar Aaron Zizov will introduce the method he is using on the last 15 years of his practice step by step, in a way that will make you understand the principles of tongue diagnosis in a very easy and friendly approach that can help you in your practice immediately.
We will go briefly through the basic theories and philosophies of the Chinese medicine with their connection to the tongue, up to the main part of the workshop on the 11 categories and five association areas of the internal organs systems, with focus on each area and the different meanings of what we can see there. Then, we will see how to build a strategy for the treatment with acupuncture and herbs.
Learning Objectives
- Become a professional in Tongue Diagnosis and deliver the best results to your patients.
- Learn the theory of tongue diagnosis from another perspective that is not learned in the TCM schools.
- Learn the tongue map in details. Build your patient's trust with giving them a whole picture of their situation. This will keep them for longer periods with the ability to follow the changes of their tongue.
- Learn from Aaron's 20 years of experience and research on Tongue Diagnosis. Discover how to check the tongue step by step with a clear way to see all the pieces together.
- Treat your patients from distance with a reliable tool that will show you the inside world of your patients.
Your Teacher
Aaron Zizov
Aaron Zizov graduated studies Chinese medicine studies on 2004 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He specialized in Gynecology, Dermatology and Cosmetology at the Zhejiang university and in the provincial hospital of T.C.M, Hangzhou, China.
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Supporting Teenagers Through Extraordinary Times
with Rebecca Avern
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Adolescence has only been defined as a distinct psychological phase since early in the twentieth century. It was therefore obviously not discussed in historical Chinese medical texts. This talk will discuss in detail the huge transformation that occurs in the balance of the Organs, Substances and 5 Phases during adolescence, and how these manifest in the young person.
We will then take a detailed look at 2 key aetiological factors that often arise in teenage pathology: namely lack of sleep and family dynamics. We will explore these from a Chinese medical perspective, and suggest ways of minimizing the disruption they may cause.
We will then take an in depth look at each of the 5 Phases, and describe how each of them resonate with different aspects of adolescence, how the constraints of lockdown may impact them and what we can do to support their development.
Participants will leave with a better understanding of the processes underpinning adolescence, how pathology related to them may manifest and how, as parents and practitioners, we may help young people to ride this important 'gate of life' smoothy.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the developmental phase of adolescence from a 5 Phase perspective.
- Develop an understanding of sleep during adolescence from a TCM perspective and learn ways to help optimise it.
- Understand the energetic changes that underpin adolescence from the TCM perspective.
- Develop an awareness of how family dynamics impact on development throughout adolescence.
Your Teacher
Rebecca Avern
Rebecca Avern is a senior lecturer, clinical supervisor and teaching clinic director at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading, UK. In 2012, she founded an acupuncture centre for the treatment of children in Oxford – the Panda Clinic - and her clinical work is now entirely with children. She teaches paediatrics online and at undergraduate and post-graduate level.
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Will the Real Channels and Organs Please Stand Up
How Biomedicine Pulls Them Into Focus
with Dan Keown
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A 57-year-old woman come into the clinic complaining of waking in the night needing to pee; she also has a diagnosis of asthma. Patients often present with multiple symptoms. Dr. Keown discusses his strategies for history taking, formulating a diagnosis, making a plan, and then treating. Dr. Keown's style of practice is heavily influenced by Dr. Wang Ju-Yi and his channel palpation method. He considers himself a student of this method and focuses on exploring people's experience and knowledge of channel palpation. Finally, in the last part of this talk, he discusses how Western medicine strengthens our understanding of Chinese medicine, thereby giving practitioners new ways to explain TCM to their patient population.
Learning Objectives
- Understand jing luo as simply spaces in the body
- Understand the points as places where change occurs
- Understand the Chinese function of organs in biomedical terms
- Realize the channels as real physical spaces that surgeons use and acupuncturists can use in palpation
Your Teacher
Dan Keown
Dan Keown, M.B.Ch.B., B.A., received his medical degree from Manchester University and completed a degree in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture from the College of Integrated Medicine. A member of the British Acupuncture Council for 10 years, Dr. Keown is also an author on topics relating to TCM and western medicine.
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The Alchemy of the Organs - Course 1
The Red Bird and the Dark Stag (The Heart and the Kidneys)
with Peter Firebrace
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Overview
A detailed study of the heart and the kidneys, the north-south, jing-shen axis of Chinese medicine. Linked with fire and water, li and kan, the exchange between these two organs has always been considered of prime importance for physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, from fertility to longevity in tranquility and serenity. We will study the Daoist, alchemical and medical aspects of the heart and the kidneys from ancient texts and images and crystalize this knowledge into useful clinical practice by studying key points on the heart, kidney and other meridians from Shen Feng, Spirit Seal (Kid 23) to Shen Men, Spirit Gate (Ht 7), from Ming Men, Gate of Destiny (Du 4) to Zi Hu Door of the Child (Kid 13). Restoring the Shao Yin interweaving of heart and kidneys, the cooling and warming of midnight and noon, the retreat and resurgence of December and June, restores brightness to the mind, peace to the heart, strength to the body and resilience to the spirit.
Learning Objectives
- To apply this knowledge to help patients with a lifestyle that will nurture life, yang sheng, and improve their health.
- To give cases and acupuncture points for clinical application.
- To restore the insights of the Neidan Inner Alchemy tradition to Chinese medicine.
- To deepen our understanding of the heart and kidneys and their inter-relationship.
- To present the teachings in the Neijingtu, Inner Landscape Map and the Xiuzhentu, Cultivating Authenticity Map.
Your Teacher
Peter Firebrace
A graduate of the International College of Oriental Medicine, Peter Firebrace, FBAcC, has extensively studied TCM and Chinese language and philosophy. He was a co-founder of Monkey Press, teaches internationally, and also produces songs and poems on topics pertaining to TCM. Peter is in the process of setting up Guan Academy of Chinese Medicine for online teaching.
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The Alchemy of the Organs - Course 2
The Green Dragon and the White Tiger (The Liver and the Lungs)
with Peter Firebrace
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Overview
A detailed study of the liver and the lungs, the rising-falling, east-west axis of Chinese medicine. Linked with wood and metal, the power to burst out of the earth and to bury within the earth, this expressive-reflective dynamic is key to the fulfilment and attainment of our desires and dreams - or knowing when to stop at our limits. As sea of blood and master of qi, the liver and the lungs are linked to the hun and the po, the one ever searching to connect with the shen, the other ever vigilant to guard and maintain the body. We will study the Daoist, alchemical and medical aspects of the liver and the lungs from ancient texts and images and explore their application to clinical practice in modern times through studying key points on the liver, lung and other meridians such as Xuan Ji Jade Pivot (Ren 21), which restores fluidity of respiratory movement and Li Gou, Woodworm Canal (Liv 5) which restores normality to the sexual region.
Learning Objectives
- To restore the insights of the Neidan Inner Alchemy tradition to Chinese medicine.
- To present the teachings in the Neijingtu, Inner Landscape Map and the Xiuzhentu, Cultivating Authenticity Map.
- To apply this knowledge to help patients with a lifestyle that will nurture life, yang sheng, and improve their health.
- To deepen our understanding of the liver and the lungs and their inter-relationship.
- To give cases and acupuncture points for clinical application.
Your Teacher
Peter Firebrace
A graduate of the International College of Oriental Medicine, Peter Firebrace, FBAcC, has extensively studied TCM and Chinese language and philosophy. He was a co-founder of Monkey Press, teaches internationally, and also produces songs and poems on topics pertaining to TCM. Peter is in the process of setting up Guan Academy of Chinese Medicine for online teaching.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 6
The Water Element
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick will teach the Spirits of the Points of the Water Officials (Organs): Urinary Bladder, or Controller of Storage of Water and Kidney, or Controller of the Waterways.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings and uses of acupuncture points on the Urinary Bladder and Kidney meridians.
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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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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Acupuncture Sports Medicine Webinar Series - Course 14
Shin Splints: The Anterior Compartment
with Whitfield Reaves
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Overview
Shin splints is a repetitive stress injury characterized by strain or inflammation of the anterior tibialis or other anterior compartment muscles of the leg. The site of injury may be the muscle, the tendon, or at the attachment to the periosteum and bone. The patient presents with pain and tenderness along the anterior lateral aspect of the leg just lateral to the tibia.
Shin splints is the common term for anterior tibial stress syndrome. It is a frequent sports injury, as it comprises approximately 60 percent of all leg pain injuries. In this webinar, Whitfield Reaves will discuss the injury with its relatively easy diagnosis, assessment, and treatment techniques. This case is clearly Stomach meridian pathology, and sometimes the zang-fu organs are involved. It is an important injury to learn as a practitioner, as even walking and hiking can produce the symptoms.
Learning Objectives
- To know two non-local treatments that may be used in the treatment of the shin splints.
- To know location and needle technique for the motor point of the tibialis anterior.
- To diagnose the shin splints from analysis of the patients signs and symptoms.
- To use palpation in order to diagnose shin splints.
- To perform manual muscle testing of the anterior compartment-- resisted dorsiflexion-- as part of the assessment procedures.
- To describe the needle technique on the local zone of ahshi points between the tibia and the anterior compartment muscles.
Your Teacher
Whitfield Reaves
In practice for over 30 years, Whitfield Reaves, OMD, L.Ac., specializes in the field of sports medicine. Being in the forefront of the acupuncture sports medicine field, Whitfield's experience includes working with athletes at the 1984 LA Olympic Games and other sport competitions; an author, he teaches internationally as well.
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In Chinese medicine, Blood Stasis usually presents in one form or another due to the intimate relationship and physiology related to Blood in women. As such, Blood Stasis is seen in many gynecology-related conditions. Women are especially prone to Blood Stagnation in the pelvis due to the complex arrangement of the reproductive organs in that area. This can include numerous and diverse conditions such as abdominal masses, abdominal pain, ovarian cysts, flooding and trickling, heavy periods, no periods, scanty periods, painful periods, ectopic pregnancy, habitual miscarriage, infertility, menopausal syndrome, etc. This recorded lecture will give an overview of Blood Stasis as it occurs in different stages of a woman’s life.
There is a set of notes for download with this course.
Learning Objectives
- Cultivate an appreciation of how Blood Stasis is not isolated but connected to many different factors
- Learn basic treatments for Blood Stasis including diet and herbal categories
- Gain a deeper understanding of the various causes and manifestations of Blood Stasis
- Provide an overview of Blood Stasis in gynecology
Your Teacher
David Bray
A specialist in TCM Gynecology, David Bray, R.Ac., R.TCMP, Dipl C.H. (NCCAOM), graduated from Guangzhou University of TCM and has been in practice for over 35 years.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 5
The Metal Element
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick will teach the Spirits of the Points of the Metal Officials (Organs): The Lung, or Receiver of the Pure Chi From the Heavens and Large Intestine, or Drainer of the Dregs.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings and uses of acupuncture points on the Lung and Large Intestine meridians.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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Hacking Chinese Medicine - Course 8
Channel Theory Basics and a Case Study
with Janice Walton-Hadlock
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Overview
The course provides an introduction to some of the electromagnetic properties of fascia, and why western researchers are now suspecting that electrical flow in fascia corresponds with the “mysterious meridians of Chinese medicine.”
This course covers:
Conversion from one type of channel Qi to another, and the locations of these conversions; how channel Qi creates organs, and not the other way around;
how we can learn to feel the differences between one channel and another; how different types of channel Qi might be responsible for the development of the various sensory brain cells;
The importance of always bearing in mind the sequence of the channel Qi flow when diagnosing a health problem.
The case study demonstrates using channel theory to track down the very unexpected, multiple, channel blockages causing the patient to have thirty years of chronic migraines, weakness on one side of her body, and why her knee, ankle, neck, and 6th rib on her right side were always “popping out of place.” None of the traditional Pattern diagnoses helped her condition - tongue and pulse showed weakness, but didn’t help show what the problem actually was; this course will illuminate the processes used to solve the issue.
Learning Objectives
- The student will learn about cryptic aphorisms, mistranslations, and various error accumulations that have spanned over centuries.
- Depth will be added to an English-speaking practitioner's understanding of the vocabulary and phraseology of Chinese Medicine.
- The student will have a better understanding of the implications of Channel Theory from an electromagnetic, 21st-century perspective.
Your Teacher
Janice Walton-Hadlock
Janice Walton-Hadlock, DAOM, L.Ac., is a professor at Five Branches University, and specializes in Channel Theory, Yin Tui Na, Psychology and Counseling; she is the founder of the Parkinson's Recovery Project, and is an author on topics relating to Channel Theory and Parkinson's.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 2
The Fire Element, Part 1
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick will teach the Spirits of the Points of two of the Fire Officials (Organs): The Heart, or Supreme Controller, and Small Intestine, or Separator of Pure From Impure.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings, and uses of acupuncture points on the Heart and Small Intestine meridians.
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 7
The Wood Element
with Neil Gumenick
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In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick will teach the Spirits of the Points of the Wood Officials (Organs): The Gall Bladder, or Official of Decision Making and Judgment and Liver, or Official of Planning.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings and uses of acupuncture points on the Gall Bladder and Liver meridians.
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 4
The Earth Element
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick will teach the Spirits of the Points of the Earth Officials (Organs): The Stomach, or Official of Rotting and Ripening and Spleen, or Official of Transportation and Distribution.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings, and uses of acupuncture points on the Stomach and Spleen meridians.
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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The Spirits of the Points - Course 3
The Fire Element, Part 2
with Neil Gumenick
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Overview
In this two-hour recorded webinar, Professor Gumenick teaches the Spirits of the Points of the two remaining Fire Officials (Organs): The Heart Protector (AKA Circulation/Sex, Pericardium) and Three Heater (AKA San Jiao) Meridians.
The presentation features Neil on camera, accompanied by a new power point slideshow utilizing beautiful images from nature and from the worlds of mythology and fantasy. Notes on each point discussed will be available for downloading.
Learning Objectives
- To learn how treatments are strategized in the Classical Five-Element tradition.
- To learn the mental and spiritual connotations, meanings, and uses of acupuncture points on the Pericardium (aka Heart Protector) and San Jiao (aka Three heater) meridians.
- To learn how to select points to reach the needed mental and spirit levels in a patient by understanding the Spirits of the Points.
Your Teacher
Neil Gumenick
In practice for 40 years, Professor Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is Founder and Chief Instructor of The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. An accomplished author and international lecturer, he has taught at Yo San University, Emperor's College and SAMRA University.
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Hacking Chinese Medicine - Course 3
A New Look at the Axioms of Chinese Medicine
with Janice Walton-Hadlock
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Overview
When’s the last time you were helped by the carefully memorized statement: “The Lungs go up and out?”
This class explains how, in our modern times, the words “Channel Qi” have been intentionally omitted, rendering many of our lessons senseless.
For example, most of the aphorisms and axioms that we learn in school refer vaguely to “Qi” or specific organs. These axioms are so vague as to be meaningless in many cases.
By re-inserting the words “Channel Qi” into these “rules” of TCM, we can see how these axioms are helpful and provide constant reminders that we are supposed to be aware of the flow patterns of our patients’ channel Qi, using that information diagnostically and in guiding our treatment choices.
Learning Objectives
- The student will have a better understanding of the implications of Channel Theory from an electromagnetic, 21st century perspective.
- The student will learn about cryptic aphorisms, mistranslations, and various error accumulations that have spanned over centuries.
- Depth will be added to an English-speaking practitioner's understanding of the vocabulary and phraseology of Chinese Medicine.
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Janice Walton-Hadlock
Janice Walton-Hadlock, DAOM, L.Ac., is a professor at Five Branches University, and specializes in Channel Theory, Yin Tui Na, Psychology and Counseling; she is the founder of the Parkinson's Recovery Project, and is an author on topics relating to Channel Theory and Parkinson's.
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Face Reading is one of the oldest tools in Chinese Medicine. The face contains a wealth of valuable information for diagnostic purposes and reveals the blueprint of the internal state of health. The face is also a map of life experiences and a mirror of the emotions. In this course, participants will be taught how to recognize the various features and areas of the face that correspond to the organs and will learn how to read the numerous clues relating to their function.
Diagnosis from photographs will also be explored. Special attention will be paid to combining traits that amplify and contradict so that accurate diagnoses can be made. Facial diagnosis gives practitioners valuable new information that can be used immediately.
Learning Objectives
- To help participants recognize the signs from the markings on the face that indicate organ function.
- To give practitioners more insight into the psychological and emotional components of disease and illness.
- To teach the diagnostic tools of Facial Diagnosis to increase the accuracy of practitioners’ diagnoses in practice.
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Lillian Bridges
An authority on Face Reading and Diagnosis, Lillian Bridges has been teaching for over 30 years on the topic, and is the founder of The Lotus Institute. She is a featured speaker worldwide.