395 Business, Go Your Own Way • Sydney Malawer
Following a blueprint is fine for building structures, but when it comes to life choices, someone else’s recipe for success probably will be only marginally helpful. Plans are helpful, and perspective even more so.
In this conversation with Sydney Malawer, we explore what it means to build a practice that actually works for you. From rejecting conventional business advice to embracing a model based on sufficiency instead of relentless growth, Sydney shares the mindset shifts and strategic choices that have allowed her to create a thriving, sustainable practice in one of the most competitive markets in the country.
Listen into this discussion as we discuss redefining success in practice, why charging higher rates can lead to a more sustainable clinic, navigating the tension between capitalism and integrity, and how understanding your own archetype can shape the way you run your business.
This conversation is a reminder that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to building a practice. What matters most is knowing what works for you and having the courage to bet on yourself.
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058 A Research Scientist’s View of the Pulse & Beauty• Martha Lucas
It’s easy to think there is one way to take the pulse, and natural to fall back on the habits that formed early on in our learning to attend to this vital aspect of diagnosis and prognosis. Pulse is something our teachers help us to orient toward,...
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The Path of Journey • Daniel Schulman
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 willing sign up for. We do however have a good shot at being a fine journeyman or journeywoman
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057 Group discussion: Clinical Questions About Sa’am Acupuncture • Toby Daly and Guests
Sa’am has a good backstory. The meditative attainment of a Buddhist monk sparks a stream of acupuncture that can be taught to simple monks to help alleviate the suffering of the world.
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056 Focusing on the Basics: Treating Degenerative Eye Conditions With Chinese Medicine • Paul Nebauer
There are basics, principles, fundamentals, some building blocks of how the matter and energy of creation interact and transform. Over the centuries, through wildly different ideas of illness, health and workings of the human body, doctors have...
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055 A Historical Investigation of Constraint • Eric Karchmer
Liver qi constraint might be one of the most common diagnosis in the modern Chinese medicine clinic. But the role of the Liver has changed over time, and at one point it was even considered to be part of the neurological system. In this episode we...
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054 Nei Jing Perspective on Life, the Universe and Acupuncture • Ed Neal
We trace our medicine back to the Nei Jing, but most of our actual practices come from a more modern perspective. Going back to those roots is not easy. Even for native speakers of Chinese, reading the 文言文 wen yan wen, the classic Chinese is...
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053 Investigating Errors and Adverse Effects – Grist for the Mill of Practice
Like hitting black ice, suddenly all sense of traction and stability evaporate into a gut wrenching vertigo. Adverse reactions of our patients to acupuncture can trigger this kind of disorientation. And this is when we have an opportunity to learn...
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052 Herbs: history, identification, granules and manufacturing • Eric Brand
It’s easy for us to think that because we have a darned good English version of the material medica that the centuries of herbal knowledge is at our finger tips. But there is a lot of back story to the medicinals that we use everyday in our...
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Clinical Questions on Saam Acupuncture: Group Discussion
In this conversation we have a couple of practitioners who have listened to Toby’s podcasts on Sa’am acupuncture and read his article from the Journal of Chinese Medicine ask questions based on their experience of using this perspective in their clinical work.
This not a discussion of theory, but rather clinical applications from practitioners who are engaging the method.
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051 “Why doesn’t this work” is a good place to start – the unending cycle of learning and practice • Stuart Kutchins
These days we worry about getting through school, passing the boards and then getting a practice started. But there was a time when there were no schools, or national accreditation and practicing acupuncture was a felony. That world was not so long...
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050 Upper, Middle and Lower Class Herbs: An Investigation of Resonance • Andrew Nugent-Head
Even when speaking in our mother tongue we often misunderstand each other. Due to our biases, perspectives, and background it is easy to overlay our story on just about any situation. Add in that we are dealing with translation between language and...
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Old Medicine: A Conversation with Lorraine Wilcox
This is Qiological’s first episode with a guest interviewer. Njemile Carol Jones pulls out her old radio day skills and sits down with Lorraine Wilcox for a conversation on what has caught her attention over the years, and the various projects in which she is currently involved.
Njemile and Lorraine knew each other from back in the day when they both worked at NPR. Since then they’ve both traveled their own paths into Chinese medicine.
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049 Attending to the Flow: Attention and Needle Technique • Justin Phillips
Needle technique is more than knowing how to insert a needle and count the turns in a particular direction. It requires more than the memorization of some protocols, or the rote following of a recipe of steps. In this conversation we explore needle...
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048 Conversing with the body-mind: using words to get beyond words • Nick Pole
In acupuncture school we learn about the 10 questions. But really, the questions are endless. And we are given the image of the scholar/doctor who doesn't say much, just looks at the tongue, takes the pulse and then has everything she needs to...
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047 The Power of Chinese Medicine in Treating PCOS • Farrar Duro
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a complex of metabolic and hormonal imbalances. It not only causes menstrual irregularities, but also effects fertility, secondary sex characteristics, and can be related to elevated cholesterol and blood sugar...
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The Mirror of Marketing: Finding Your Authentic Voice • Marketing Mini Series 4
You know how sometimes patients have these weird symptoms that they think have nothing to do with who they are?
Well, us acupuncturists are not immune to running up against our own uninhabited edges, especially when it comes to marketing and business.
Considering Blood Stasis Part Two • Greg Livingston
In this episode we continue where we left off with our previous discussion and begin with how simply changing the amount of herbs in a formula can lead to some surprising outcomes.
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Building a Business: On The Path • Marketing Mini Series 3
The guest of this conversation was on Qiological at the beginning of 2018, she was just graduating from Chinese medicine school and thoroughly psyched about building a business.
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046 Investigation of Dreams in East Asian Medicine • Bob Quinn
We know that the language and perspective of Chinese and east Asian medicine gives us a whole different glimpse into physiology, health, illness and healing. And if you’ve learned a foreign tongue, then you’ve had experience how language shapes...
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045 Saam – The Acupuncture of Wandering Monks • Toby Daly
Learning the basics of promoting or controlling the flow of qi through the Five Phases is an elemental part of every acupuncturist’s training . We learn how the antique points can be used to nudge a response or invite a different kind of resonance into a patient’s life.
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