422 Language as Barrier, Language as Bridge • Sarah Rivkin
Philosophy Words shape the world. But they also limit it. Especially when we mistake translation for clarity—when really, it’s an act of interpretation, adaptation, and sometimes… a kind of poetic guesswork. In this conversation with Sarah Rivkin—a clinician, scholar, and...
421 Global Acupuncture Project • Richard Mandell
Acupuncture Sometimes a few needles and a willingness to help—that’s enough to start a quiet revolution. In this conversation with Richard Mandell, we trace the roots of the Global Acupuncture Project, a training-based initiative that brings simple, effective acupuncture...
420 Nourishing Mystery • Andrew Sterman
Food & Nutrition What if the first step in healing wasn’t a pill, a treatment, or a diagnosis—but dinner? In this deliciously nourishing conversation we sit down with Andrew Sterman, a practitioner of tai qi and nutritional arts, lifelong musician, and author of Diet is Medicine for...
419 Wu Zang Lun • Qiang Cao & Yun Xiao
History Series Some treasures aren’t just hidden—they’re buried, wrapped in mystery and legend, and waiting for the right moment to surface and return to the world of human affairs. What’s astonishing isn’t just that these Dunhuang scrolls survived—but that they journeyed from caves...
418 Fire, Water and Qi Transformation—Essential Insights from Liu Du-Zhou • Eran Even
Herbal Medicine Long before “cold damage” became a checkbox on exams or a buzzword among classical enthusiasts, Dr. Liu Du-Zhou was quietly doing the work—teaching, treating, and writing from a mind steeped in both lineage and clinical experience. He wasn’t just preserving tradition;...
417 The Influence of Heaven on Earth: Rhythms of Seasonal Qi • Christine Cannon
Default Wind isn’t just a breeze, it’s also an agent of change. Not metaphorical change—but literal, seasonal, even cosmological change that moves through bodies, weather, and even geopolitics. The energies of nature are not only magnificent forces that sculpt...
416 The Meridian Is the Message, A Clinical Cartography of Emotion, Thought and Physiology • Andreas Brüch
Saam Acupuncture Ever wonder if the body tells its own version of your inner story? That maybe the channels don’t just carry qi—but also the shape of your longings, the tempo of your fears, and the echo of old emotional weather? What if meridians are a kind of cartography, not just...
415 MagnaPuncture® • Greg Bartosiewicz
Electroacupuncture Sometimes the tools that help us see most clearly aren’t visible at all—like magnetism, sound, and light. We feel their effects more than we can explain them, but when you start to work with these in clinic, something subtle shifts. In this conversation with Greg...
414 History Series, From Ideals to Institutions—The Making of a Profession • Sibyl Coldham
History Series In the early 80’s as acupuncture was emerging into the mainstream culture in the West, it developed differently in response to the established medical and educational systems already in place. In the USA there was no national health service, while in the UK, that was...
413 How Much Do You Want It? • Henry McCann
Acupuncture What does it take to truly learn something? To not just know it in theory, but to have it live in your hands? Discipline, repetition, and a touch of obsession might be part of it—but so is heart, motivation, and the magnetic force of curiosity that keeps pulling you...
412 Music and Medicine • Christoph Wiesendanger
Philosophy Sometimes it’s not what we hear, but what emerges in the space just before—where meaning hasn’t formed yet—but something is already calling your attention. It’s that quiet edge of awareness where both healing and mystery tend to show up. In this conversation with...
411 Improvising the Body: Maps, Meaning and Clinical Imagination • Lan Li
Diagnosis What if the body wasn’t a fixed map, but a living, improvisational landscape? In this conversation with Lan Li, a historian, filmmaker, and rhythm-savvy thinker at the crossroads of medicine and imagination, we explore how anatomy is more than skin and sinew—it’s a...
410 History Series, Crosscurrents of Tradition • Jacques MoraMarco
History Series The roots of tradition sometimes take hold in unexpected soil. What happens when traditions from France, Korea, and China converge in one practitioner’s hands? There’s a kind of alchemy in the way knowledge travels—through stories, teachers, and clinical results that...
409 The Invitation in Troubled Times • Ed Neal & Mel Hopper-Koppelman
Cosmology What do we do when the world feels like it’s unraveling? How to respond when our systems—political, economic, medical—feel brittle, even broken? It’s easy to fall into despair, or look away. But maybe what we’re being asked to do is look closer. To stay present. In...
408 Peripatetic Acupuncturist • Irina Cividino
Business & Practice Management Sometimes the best opportunities don’t look like opportunity—they look like risk. Like driving hours into the mountains. Like renting a stranger’s massage room and hoping someone shows up. But there’s a strange kind of capacity that comes from following a...
407 Empathy, Algorithms and the Alchemy of AI • Vanessa Menendez-Covelo
Artificial Intelligence Technology is evolving fast—and it’s starting to mirror us in ways that are both fascinating and a little unsettling. As AI becomes part of our daily lives, it raises an important question: how do we stay human while working with machines that mimic us? In this...
406 History Series, Evolution of a Thoroughly Modern Herb Shop • Thomas Leung
Business & Practice Management It’s a curious thing, sometimes you want to get away from something. Maybe it’s the town you grew up in, or a family business. You think you know it, and are not interested. But circumstances change and find your way back to it with new eyes. In this conversation with...
405 Mastering Your Mindset • Julie Bear Don’t Walk
Business & Practice Management Sometimes what holds us back isn’t a lack of skill or knowledge, but an old story unknowingly agreed to. One that says it’s unseemly to want success, that business is at odds with healing. But what if your clinic wasn’t just a way to help people—but also a practice of...