228 Navigating Uncertainty • Taran Rosenthal
Practitioner Cultivation & Development How we know, and how we know we know. Our capacity to sit with our patients that liminal space of not knowing. And the ability to navigate uncertainty the process of unfolding a treatment. All these are processes that can be learned, but can’t be taught. All these...
227 Repairing the World with Moxa • Hannah Swift
Default 針灸 Needles and Moxa, it is right there in the Chinese characters that are translated as “acupuncture.” Moxa is as fundamental to our practices as needles. The applications of burning mugwort run the gamut from cheap acrid Chinese pole moxa to ultra refined sweet...
226 Connections and Principles of Japanese Acupuncture, The Nan Jing, and the Saam Method • Thomas Sorensen
Acupuncture Leaves on a plant curl and turn yellow when the soil is not right. The health of a cat is reflected in the texture of its fur and clearity in the eyes. Likewise with people we can discern states of wellness or illness by attending to those parts of the body that are...
225 The Pernicious Influence of Depressive Heat • Rob Helmer
Methods The fundamentals root our practice. The basics that we learn in the beginning not only never go away, but deepen with experience. This is why regardless of lineage or method, Chinese medicine practitioners can communicate with each other as we share a common parlance....
224 Integrating Sensing and Thinking Through the Lens of Japanese Acupuncture • Paul Movsessian
Acupuncture Our job as clinicians is to help our patients. And to help them we must first understand them. Which is easier said than done, especially as we all have different ways of being in the world, our perception has a lot to do with which senses we like to rely upon and the...
223 Knowing Your Foundation and Leaning on Your Strengths • Mark Asquith
Business & Practice Management When you’re running a business, be it an acupuncture clinic, tech company, plumbing service or coaching practice there are core principles that can spell the differences between failure and success. In this conversation with Mark Asquith we noodle on the First...
222 To Be Like Water • Margot Rossi
Diagnosis Heartbreak is unavoidable. It’s not a flaw in character or make up humans, it’s a feature. It’s what allows us to grow beyond the bounds and limits of family, friend group, peers and whatever group identity we find that gives a sense of belonging and security. Heart...
221 The Channel Project, Using Instagram to Teach and Market • Andrea Dewhurst
Business & Practice Management Love it or hate it, social media has seeped its influence into many corners of our lives. Most people have at least one social media platform that acts as a kind of morning news, local gossip coffee shop, private printing press, or digital campfire where we gather to...
220 Nuts and Bolts of Building a Practice • Eric Grey
Business & Practice Management Money is the lifeblood of every business; it’s the Qi. And an acupuncture practice can not ignore the basics of business. The main focus of a Chinese Medicine practitioner is to deliver holistic care to patients – in essence creating a safe space to share the...
219 Historical Context, Breaking Down Dogma, and Learning from Crisis Moments • Allen Tsuar
Philosophy There are many schools of thought, methods both ancient and modern, practices based on lineage and those idiosyncratically synthetic. It is easy to think that what you understand is correct, and all too often medicine is practiced with a bit of an attachment to dogma....
218 Uncertainty and Investing in Our Practice • William Green
Business & Practice Management It’s easy to have beliefs about people we don’t know. Especially if they tick the boxes of our biases, prejudice, ignorance and the opinions of our friends. When you think about successful stock market investors you’re probably not thinking about people with...
Qiological Audio Journal, Fall 2021 • QAJ002
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216 Perspectives From a Family Lineage • Dr. Shoubin Yu & Anthony DiSalvo
Methods Traditions tell a story. They hold and transmit insights into cultural, religious, and sometimes medical practices. They can give us a glimpse into how family lineages consider and refine aspects of medicine learned in the institutional settings. In this...
215 Inquisitiveness, Engagement and Vitality • Velia Wortman
Acupuncture As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, it’s our responsibility to address all aspects of our patient’s experience: mind, body, and spirit. This demands that we listen carefully to the various streams of information at our disposal—whether from our learned experience or...
214 Eastern and Western Philosophy & the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood
Philosophy How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits the options we can offer our patients for treatment. While the Venn Diagrams of East Asian and Western medicine share some...
213 Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith
Diagnosis I’m reminded of the stillness of cats. How they can sit both still and yet completely and serenely attentive. So too with resonance, there is the yin aspect of stillness with the yang expression of vibrating with the influence of the environment. And in the middle,...
212 Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen
Diagnosis Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced and complex in others. Feeling and interpreting a patient’s pulse is only one facet of clinical interaction. A practitioner has...
211 Chinese Medicine in South America • Rodrigo Aranda
Acupuncture Life has a way of nudging us in different directions. Some find inspiration in life-changing events; others in the smallest of things. But whichever path we take, we all have stories of how we got to do what we do. In this discussion with Rodrigo Aranda, we not only...