309 Artificial Intelligence for Acupuncturists • Heidi Lovie
Artificial Intelligence Is it the end of the world, or the beginning of a new one? That is the question of the day when cultures go through seatide changes. Ever since the turn into of this yin water rabbit year in February, we’ve been hearing about power, potential and perhaps peril of...
018 Business as Cultivation • Michael Max
Acupuncture In this episode of Shop Talk we’re exploring cultivation as it relates to the business of acupuncture. As practitioners, we often hear about the importance of cultivation as essential for our personal and professional growth. But too often we gloss over the...
308 Body Constellations, Qi Maps and Full Throttled Curiosity • Jason Brazil
Bodywork The acupuncture channels are a curiosity that practitioners have puzzled, and argued, over for centuries. Even as these structures and processes so fundamental to life have been used for treatment and well being since Chinese medicine first began to emerge far beyond...
017 Needling Joints for Stability and Mobilization • Anthony Von der Muhll
Acupuncture I’m Anthony Von der Muhll, and in this Shoptalk, I will be sharing with you one of my most useful go-to techniques for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain and disability: needling into joint and ligamentous tissues. This is an ancient technique with modern...
307 Everything Reminds Me of a Story • John Scott
History Series It can be hard, impossible perhaps, at the beginning to know that you’re at the start of a tidal shift. It’s only in looking back and connecting the pivotal moments that you can see a challenging moment didn’t happen to you, it happened for you. It’s only later that...
016 The Qi, Blood and Fluids of Kidney Three • Jeffrey Dann
Acupuncture In this Shop Talk presentation Jeffrey Dann discusses the importance of palpation as part of the assessment and treatment of patients. He emphasizes the importance of relying on our hands to improve our palpatory skills which in turn help to deepen our understanding...
306 Suffering is Meant to Awaken Us, Qi Gong and the Alchemy of Transformation • Chris Shelton
Practitioner Cultivation & Development There’s a saying that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. Maybe. I suspect that it has something to do with the capacity of your 意 Yi to make meaning, and the vitality of the 志 Zhi to take that meaning and marry it to the sense of what you’re here to do in this...
015 The Surprising Effectiveness of San Cha San • Renee Klorman
Acupuncture In this Shop Talk we hear about a surprisingly effective use of the Tung point San Cha San, which she discovered when she treated herself for a head cold. San Cha San is easily accessed as it’s located along the Triple Burner channel, and is reached by sliding a...
305 Thinking About Business Should Release Dopamine in Your Brain • Danielle Weil
Business & Practice Management You probably have an image in your mind, and a feeling that goes with having had a bad marketing experience. But do you know what good marketing feels like? It feels like someone cares and is trying to be helpful. Effective and ethical marketing is about connective...
014 Opportunity to Make a Differience • Chloe Weber
Acupuncture This Shop Talk is an invitation to acupuncturists to recognize the power and potential of our medicine. And committing ourselves to making a difference in the delivery of healthcare in our country, by choosing the communities we want to make a difference in, and using...
304 Considering Qi, or Not • Leah Fehres
Acupuncture East Asian medicine uses a completely different map of physiology and function from that of modern biomedicine to understand health and illness. It’s a set of tools and perspectives that gives us a unique look at the entanglements of function and form. And when using...
O13 Basic Questions About Saam Acupuncture • Toby Daly & Ji Ling Lin
Default In this short conversation Toby and Ji Ling Lin discuss some of the basics of Saam acupuncture. How it uses a combination of the yin and yang, the five phases, and the six confirmations. Additionally they touch on the way the system combines yin and yang organs in a...
303 Way of the Teishin • Bob Quinn
Acupuncture What’s more powerful, a whisper or a shout? What has more impact, a punch to the gut or an intended and targeted slight? Strength and power, these are two different things. In this conversation with Bob Quinn we explore the gentle practice of using the Teishin, and...
302 The Business and Opportunity of Practice • Jimmy Yen
Business & Practice Management Business and medicine are interwoven together. Both deeply connect people together through relationships that have an impact.. Yet it’s easy to see the business of medicine as something separate from the practice of medicine. Consider challenging the limiting...
012 New Perspectives on Marketing • Michelle Grasek
Acupuncture In today's Shop Talk segment, Michelle Grasek, acupuncturist and marketing strategist, shares three new perspectives on marketing to help you approach your marketing with enthusiasm and consistency so you can get more visible in your community and help more...
011 Pulse Balancing • Brenda Hood
Acupuncture introduction goes here Brenda Hood, L.Ac, Ph.D I was born and raised in Peace River, Canada. Then wound up going to China to study Chinese medicine after becoming disillusioned with a degree in psychology. I spent over twenty years there being completely...
301 Fifty Years of Practice, The Perspectives of Dr Shudo Denmei • Stephen Brown
Acupuncture In the realm of East Asian medicine, uncertainty is a constant companion, a persistent reminder of the mystery of life. Like a meandering river, the health status of our patients is in a state of constant flux. It can be a daunting task to navigate these changing...
010 Patient’s Guide to Chinese Medicine • Toby Daly
Acupuncture In this short conversation we discuss Toby's unique patient centered approach to helping patients and potential patients understand and use East Asian medicine. In his new book he helps the layperson to understand how our medicine can help, without attempting to give...