393 Year of the Snake: Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form • Gregory Done
It’s the subtler forces—those quietly felt but not perceived—that create the background that frames our days with a tone that is both transparent and influential. The shifting energies of a new year are a slack tide of opportunity to pause and reflect. To consider directions for where to invest our life energy in the coming year.
Listen into this discussion as we explore the symbolism of the wood snake, the balance between action and stillness, the transformative power of introspection, and how understanding the year’s energy can inform personal and collective growth.
Gregory’s reflections remind us of the profound lessons embedded in the natural cycles of life. It’s a timely conversation about embracing quietude, finding clarity, and aligning with the unique, and perhaps unsettling capacity to see in the emptiness of mind and social agreements in the coming year.
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028 Heavenly Qi : Storytelling, Technology and The Original Magic of Acupuncture
One of the great things about podcasts is that it’s not difficult to find one that lines up with your particular interest. Chinese medicine practitioners are fortunate to have podcasts like Heavenly Qi that allow us to listen in to conversations...
read more027 Research Methods for East Asian Medicine Practitioners • Lisa Taylor-Swanson
Research can be a problematic area for practitioners of East Asian medicine. While many acupuncturists are keen to share research with patients that paints acupuncture in a positive light, especially for marketing purposes, there are not many of us...
read more026 Raising a Rash: The Magic of Gua Sha • Sandy Camper & Kathryn Nemirovsky
Many of us were exposed to gua sha in our schooling, but it was more like a footnote than anything else. Over in Asia gua sha is a well-used aspect of the folk medicine. Hardly a grandma or auntie that doesn’t know how to raise a rash with a soup...
read more025 Vitality, Attention, & Sensing: Learning to Listen in Stillness • Chip Chace
There are many ways to attend to our patients in clinic. We can work through mental models that we’ve acquired from our schooling, study, and clinical experience. We can also use our innate human ability to touch, palpate and sense. In this episode...
read more024 Weighty Matters: talking to our patients about addiction • Xander Kahn
Plenty of people seek out acupuncture in particular as they have heard a few needles in the ear will break their cigarette habit, or cause their appetite and cravings to completely transform. We’ve all heard stories of someone’s cousin who got...
read more023 A Gap and An Opportunity: Using acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the military • Jennifer Williams
Using acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are helpful modalities in the treatment of veterans who have served our country and suffer from injuries and the aftermath of trauma. But, treating veterans is not as simple as treating what we see in...
read more022 Taming the Dragon: Healing Emotional Trauma • CT Holman
We learn in acupuncture school that the body, mind and spirit are woven together into the tapestry of one’s life. We learn that each of the yin organs has a spirit aspect, and that we can’t touch the body without touching the mind and vise versa....
read more021 Applied Channel Theory: The Clinical Brilliance of Dr. Wang Ju-Yi • Jason Robertson
Dr. Wang Ju-Yi was ever curious about why some treatments worked and others did not. He deeply studied the classical literature along with his own clinical experience, and somewhere along the way started putting his hands on patients to simply see...
read more020 Right There In Plain Sight: Chinese Facial Reading • Lillian Bridges
Listen in and learn how paying attention to certain aspects of the face not only will help you better diagnose and treat your patient’s, but give you clues in better understanding and communicating with them based on how they see the world and process information.
read more019 CBD From The Perspective of Chinese Medicine • Chad Conner
CBD, cannabidiol, has been making the rounds lately in the natural medicine world. Almost overnight it seems this botanical has popped onto the scene and there are lot of claims as to it health benefits. As Chinese medicine practitioners we are...
read more018 Can You Acupuncture My Cat? Considerations on Treating Animals From a Veterinarian Acupuncturist • Neal Sivula
Practice acupuncture long enough and one of your patients is bound to mention some issues their pet is having. They might ask for some herbal advice, or see if you'd be up for treating their furry friend. Perhaps you've tried your hand at treating...
read more017 Thoughts on Business from a New Practitioner • Stacey Whitcomb
In this episode we take a look at marketing and practice building from the perspective of new practitioner who is excited and looking forward to building a business. No, you don’t need to go back and reread that last paragraph; you got it right the...
read more016 Medicinal Mushrooms: History and Science of Modern Cultivation • Jeff Chilton
Precious and rare medicinal mushrooms like reishi (ling zhi) and cordyceps (dong chong xia cao) used to be available only to royalty, or those who knew how to spot them in the wild. These medicinals have a long history of use in East Asia and are...
read more015 Clarifying Vision: Using acupuncture to treat degenerative eye disease • Mats Sexton
According to conventional medicine, macular degeneration is a progressive, incurable, degenerative disease. As good as modern medicine can be for some opthamological problems, it does not have much to offer those with macular degeneration other...
read more014 The power of resonance, exploring Tung style acupuncture • Henry McCann
Tung style acupuncture is known for its curious collection of points that can be a challenge to the mind for those of us that learned to think about acupuncture strictly from a channel or function perspective. The methods handed down from Master...
read more013 A man out standing in the field of Chinese herbs: a conversation with Andy Ellis
Our guest did not start out with the intention of building a medicinal herb import company. It started out as a way to solve his own problems with sourcing herbs. And as is often the case, one thing lead to another. In this episode we take a look...
read more012 I never planned to host a podcast show: one of many curiosities on the road of practicing Chinese medicine • Michael Max
A friend who I wanted to interview for the show said, “Actually, I’d like to interview you. I’ve got some questions about the background of your podcast show, and what motivates and fuels you through the various projects I’ve seen you undertake over the years.”
read more011 Formula Families and Constitution: The Clinical Insights of Dr. Huang Huang • Mark Gearing
Doctor Huang Huang is a clinician, teacher, author and well studied expert on the Jing Fang, the classical formulas of the Shang Han Lun. He has a unique perspective on constitution and how that relates to a patient's illness, their strengths, and...
read more010 Investigating Causes and Conditions in Clinical Practice • Greg Bantick
In this episode we reflect on the burden and privilege of a clinical practice. How we grow into it by using a blend of our objectivity and subjectivity. And how mindfulness and a curiosity about our own internal landscape all help to inform our...
read more009 Voices of Our Medical Ancestors- Using the classic texts in modern practice • Leo Lok
We give a great amount of respect to the Classics in Chinese medicine, but understanding these foundational texts of our medicine can be challenge, even if you do understand the old form of Chinese. Just as many of struggle to get through the...
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