280 Navigating the Passage, Healing as Voyage of Exploration • Heather Becker-Brungard
Bodywork Getting off track is not something uncommon for us. In fact, it’s an everyday part of our human experience. The question is, how do you notice when this happens and then how do you reorient? More importantly, how do you navigate when in unfamiliar territory? And...
279 Not What I Thought, An Investigation of Adverse Reactions • Karina Smith
Practitioner Cultivation & Development 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...
277 The Heart in the Clinic • Josephine Spilka
Practitioner Cultivation & Development 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...