166 The Spirit of Medicine • Elisabeth Rochat
Cultivation There is a kind of poetry to Chinese characters. They gives hints and clues about the names we give to the world. They tell a story. In this conversation with Elisabeth Rochat we explore, like you’d explore bottles of fine wine, some of the meaning and nuance in the...
164 The Resonant Hum of Yin and Yang • Sabine Wilms
Acupuncture Chinese is not that easy, and the 文言文 (wen yan wen) the classical Chinese, that stuff is a whole other order of magnitude in challenge to the modern Western mind. And yet if we are going to practice this medicine with deep roots into a long gone time and culture, we...
163 The Path of Journey • Daniel Schulman
Acupuncture We venerate the masters, hold them up as shining examples of what we would like to be one some day, but let’s be honest here— most of us will never be masters. Those rarified characters are few and far between. And the process it takes is not one most of us would...
162 Spirals, Stems and Branches: The Structure of Unfoldment in Time and Space • Deborah Woolf
Acupuncture Stems and Branches are old Chinese science. Our medicine touches on it, but most of us rely on the more modern perspectives for our clincal work. The Stems and Branches speak to a perspective of the universe and our place in it that is foreign to our minds not because...