279 Not What I Thought, An Investigation of Adverse Reactions • Karina Smith
Acupuncture The principles behind our medicine are relatively simple. The idea is to restore balance to a body that is in disharmony. To detect the patterns and ripples in the system. To facilitate the unimpeded flow of qi as a river does. Yet applying these theories in the...
278 Digging the Earthly Branches • Deborah Woolf
Acupuncture Heaven and Earth, the creative and the created, micro and macrocosm. All ways of saying there is a reality we inhabit, and beyond that a lot of mystery. And mystery is something us humans have, at best, an ambivalent relationship with. We seek to find some sense of...
277 The Heart in the Clinic • Josephine Spilka
Acupuncture Classical Chinese medicine recognizes the Heart (心 Xin) as a central organ to our being. It’s seen as holding the sovereign position as the emperor of the kingdom (i.e., the body). The Heart is where the Shen (神), the spirit, resides. It’s what gives us discernment...
276 Interoceptive Awareness • Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Nick Lowe & Elizabeth Osgood-Campbell
Acupuncture Tuning in is a cultivated skill that’s in many East Asian Medicine practitioner’s toolbox. We learn early on to bring our intention, attention, and awareness to the clinic encounter. To pick up subtle movement and cues on the diagnostic table. But our...
275 If You’re Falling, Dive— Trauma, Heartbreak and Possiblities • Randal Lyons
Acupuncture No one gets through life without difficulties. We all carry wounds and the consequences of the meanings we’ve made in the moments of heartbreak, fear and confusion. In this second conversation with Randle Lyons we discuss the dark forest of transformation. How our...274 Panel on Wei Qi, Ann Cecil-Sterman, Laurie Ayres & Zhongxian Wu
Acupuncture I recently got to thinking about Wei qi, especially as we are moving into the dark of the year in the northern hemisphere, and I realized that I hear discussions about wei qi, and how we should attend to it, or nourish it. Often enough, perhaps too often, we equate...
273 Intention, Awareness and The Power of Restraint • Zoe Brenner
Acupuncture Our job as Chinese Medicine practitioners is not so much to impress our ideas on patients but to cultivate a capacity and restraint to allow them to come back to themselves. Our assessment is meant to determine the patient’s understanding of their disharmony, and...
272 Ishizaka Acupuncture, Attending to the Stillness in the Center of Motion • Kubota Sensei
Acupuncture Many acupuncture traditions share the idea that our troubles stem from a root cause , and treating the root is an essential part of the therapeutic process. Then there is the branch where symptomatic issues present themselves, this is the focus for the patient, and...
271 Cycles, Nodes and the Spaces in the Seasons • Sheri Lee
Acupuncture Life is built on rhythms, the natural world is constantly in a state of transformation. A cyclical flow of growth and decline—manifested in the turning of the seasons, waxing and waning of the moon, and the oscillation of day and night. The intertwined correspondences...
270 Authentic Movement and the Wisdom of the Body • Margot Rossi
Bodywork Movement is life. Movement is part of how our body communicates with itself and senses itself in the outside world. Proper and ease filled movement, be it with our emotions, the circulation of our blood, the way our joints through their range movement, and how we can...
269 A World of No Excuses • Jenny Nieters
Acupuncture To most, acupuncture is a curious riddle. An ancient medical art whose theories are poetic, and healing outcomes seem lopsided considering the gentle stimulation of a thin needle. And regardless of context or complaint, the goal remains the same as it was millennia...
268 Men’s Health • Lisa Lapwing
Acupuncture Chinese medicine is a godsend for women’s health. There are plenty of resources for us to tap into, and our medicine is great at addressing the challenges women face through their reproductive years and beyond. But what about the other half of the population?...
Five Years of Qiological, Thoughts, Observations and Appreciation • Michael Max
Acupuncture The first episode of Qiological aired at the end of August in 2017. I’d gotten more than a few emails from practitioners telling me how much they liked my previous podcast experiment…. Everyday Acupuncture, and that was surprising to me because I did not make that...
267 Language and Language-less Practices of Touch and Healing • Nick Pole
Bodywork Listen with the whole bodyAccept that comes When I think about connecting with others, two of the most powerful ways are with non-verbal touch, and the other with the use of attentive language. It would not be a stretch to suggest that this is the yin and yang...
266 Following the Flow, Ortho-Bionomy® and Art of Non-Judgement • Karen Elisa
Bodywork Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift! ...
265 Attending to the Landscape of Body and Being • Stephen Schleipfer
Acupuncture Patients come to us expecting a change in their situation—whether that is to gain or get rid of something. And as the ‘expert’ in the room, there’s a proclivity to go in with the intention to find what’s wrong and remediate it. Consider that as...
264 Field Dynamics and Touch • Beth Hazzard
Bodywork Like quantum physics, our medicine is built on a sense of connection and potential. It inhabits the reality of a unified field where the boundaries of mind and matter, time and space, rest and motion, or sickness and health blur. Humans are part of a universal...
263 Moving Into Ease, Yin Sotai and the Gentle Journey • Bob Quinn
Acupuncture Touch is our first sensation. It’s a universal language. And it’s a capacity we all have that can be used to restore health and nurture life. Hands may not be represented in the Ancient Chinese symbol for listen 聽, ting. But as practitioners of East Asian...