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 Sacred Acupuncture
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 News from Sacred Acupuncture
Dear patients students colleagues and friends, here is some information about upcoming seminars. Each seminar description is linked to a more in-depth talk about each of these seminar subjects. You can download these as mp3 files or listen to them from your computer.
In addition to seminars I have regular Qigong classes, the elective program at Five Branches, the Sacred Acupuncture Grand Rounds at Five Branches and clinics in the San Jose area and in Santa Cruz. For more information check out
www.sacredacupuncture.com and www.adamatman.com
Coming soon - A book about the Eight Extraordinary Channels.
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The Eigh t Extraordinary Channels
Dear patients, students, colleagues and friends, the last time I taught
this seminar here in Santa Cruz it was very successful. Here is what
some of the seminar attendees said about it:
" ....Very inspiring"
" I loved the balance of lecture, Qigong, meditation and clinical practice"
"the material was enough for another 1 or 2 seminars"
"would enjoy an advanced course so we can go more in-
depth"
"an abundance of knowledge - Adam is always very interesting"
"when is the next class?"
"I was blown away by how much he knew and conveyed"
"this was an awakening into the Eight Extraordinary Channels, their realms, profundity, areas of influence, evolution..."
I
have a new 'Eight Extraordinary Channels Seminar' scheduled in Santa Cruz
in September and regular seminars scheduled in Los Angeles. For the schedule and to sign up see below:
What is the value of studying
the Eight Extraordinary channels?
To be able to quickly assess and treat your patients' Extraordinary channel status can be useful for the following reasons:
1/ controlling the Eight Extraordinary channels from the foot, the
hand, the wrist, the sacrum, the skull or other zones of the body - puts the Eight Extraordinary
channel power into the acupuncture treatment.
2/ Each of the
Eight Extraordinary Channels represents a quality of empowerment.
Knowing which one of these channels to address in a patient can open up
movement and enable specific types of healing. Thus each one of these
channels has a unique healing 'gift' that it can bring. This gift can
affect the body physical, the Qi and the psyche.
3/ Knowing which of the Eight Extraordinary channels
is affected can help us to understand the Qi movement dynamic of any
particular imbalance or illness - which can then lead to improved
choice of regular acupuncture channel points, lifestyle recommendations
and herbal / nutritional treatment strategies
4/ Knowing which of the Eight Extraordinary channels
is affected enables us to use specific affirmations, visualizations,
hand positions, Qigong exercises, and home treatment strategies to
correct the underlying imbalance.
Here are a few of the core concepts about the Eight Extraordinary Channels which we will be exploring:
The
Eight Extraordinary Channels can be accessed very effectively
from points on the hands and feet, the wrists, the Sacrum the neck and
skull. These points can be
used for diagnosis and treatment with acupuncture, intradermal needles,
massage, hand
magnets and crystals.
The
Eight Extraordinary Channels each express a particular way of moving
and holding the body, and a particular core emotional propensity. As
such the Eight Extraordinary channels can represent constitutional
patterns within individuals of both posture and emotional propensity.
The
Eight Extraordinary Channels correspond to the Eight
trigrams of the Yi Ching, the ancient Chinese classic of divination.
This means that you can use Yi Ching style divination to understand a
patient's Eight Extraordinary Channel imbalance. There is also a
relationship to Feng Shui and
space clearing through the correspondences of the Eight Extraordinary
Channels. The trigrams are clearly representations of the
actual physical form and energetic tropism of the Eight channels.
There
are specific Qigong exercises and specific breathing exercises to open
up each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels. These are easy to practice
and enhance a more kinesthetic understanding of these channels within
the Qi body.
The
Eight Extraordinary Channels correspond well to the Eight Auspicious
Objects
- an ancient tradition in Chinese and Tibetan religious practices.
There are thus specific symbols and mudras (hand positions) we can use
to correct a channel. There are also affirmations and visualizations to
access
the power and blessing force of the Channels. We can use these
techniques to strengthen or heal these channels.
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Dates: Sept 20 & 21
CEU's:
pending approval for 15 hours of CEU's
Cost:
$228.88 cost for students
$128.88
Sign up: call Adam on 408 476 9799 to sign up
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates:
12 & 13
July, 04 &05 Oct,
06 & 07
Dec, 03 & 04 Jan '08
CEU's:
approved for 15 hours of CEU's
Cost: contact Mandana at Emperor's College
Sign up: contact Mandana at Emperor's College
Mandana
Housseindoust DAOM, LAc.
Director of CEU Program Emperor's college
310 453 8300 ex. 116
Listen to a talk about the Eight Extraordinary Channels
Here
is a link to a 1 hour presentation on The Eight Extraordinary Channels.
This is an mp3 sound file which you can download or listen to on your
computer
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The Personality of the 12 Zang Fu organs
and the 12 Channels
a four day Seminar in Santa Cruz, California
October 16-19
50 Hours CEU's pending
As
an acupuncturist I have come to understand that any given dis-ease or
disorder can manifest in any of the four bodies. It can manifest in the
physical, Qi, Shen and Ancestor 'bodies'. Helping a patient to get over
a given illness or dis-ease involves getting leverage. In a treatment
setting the question is 'where do you apply the intervention?' do you
work the physical layer with acupressure, etc?
 Or do you listen to the
pulses,
palpate the belly and the channels,
tune in to the Qi, and
adjust the Qi
body? Or do you attune to the
imbalance at the level of
the Shen
body. Each of the 12 organs and the
12 channels is associated
with
specific mental and emotional,
afflictive and redemptive themes.
We
recognize these themes as we listen
to our patients' stories.
Do we
intervene at the level of the Shen body? We can do this by creating
dialogue or internal enquiry, or by using techniques so that the
patient and/or practitioner actively work with the Shen component of
the illness.
Each level of possible intervention -
physical body, Qi body, Shen body, Ancestor Realm - represents a place
where the practitioner can potentially get leverage to shift the whole
human system such that it moves back into harmony, back towards
balance.
 Because of the high degree of
harmonic concordance within
12-fold systems, using the distinctions of the 12 channels can bring
harmony back to the human system. The Nei Jing says that all diseases
can be cured from the acupuncture channels. If this is true, then maybe
it works best if you know what level of the channel distinction you
are working with.
Are you working with the channel at the muscle level,
the energy - Qi level, the Shen level or the ancestor level? In order
to work at the level of the Shen we must recognise the Shen
manifestations of the 12 organs and their corresponding channels.
Acupuncture masters often assert that one
of the keys to effective acupuncture treatment is to determine which
organ or channel is carrying the difficulty. This is also true at the level of the
Shen. In this seminar we will examine these thematic elements by
exploring the mental and emotional components of the organs and
channels expressed in the following systems:
- The 12 Earth Branches
- The 12 animals
- The 12 hour clock cycle
- The geometry and mathematics of 12
- The anatomy and physiology of the organ and the Shen equivalents
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The energetic processes of the channel and organ according to Sacred Acupuncture
- The insights of TCM
- Insights from the time of the Nei Jing
- Ideas and insights derived from my teachers
- The medieval mystical teachings of the stations of the cross
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St.
Bonaventure's 12 branches of the Cross
The Picture above is a link to a talk. This
is an mp3 file. Depending on your connection speed it may take a few
minutes to download. This talk is an explanation of each of these viewpoints, or lenses, with which we
can understand the Shen components of the 12 organs and the 12 channels.
About the Seminar
This seminar is designed to take us deep into the energetics and Shen
components of each of the 12 Zang Fu organs. It is organized
so that we have a three hour block for each of the 12 Zang-Fu organs. Each three hour block will involve three sections:
A lecture: wherein we will 'tell the story' of each of the 'Officials'
as the Zang Fu organs are sometimes known through the lenses of the
different wisdom traditions outlined above. Charts and notes will be
provided.
Experiential work: involving 'tuning in' to the organ using
Qigong,chanting, mudras (special hand positions designed to access each
organ), visualization, internal dialogue and 'the Theater of the
Officials' - an
experiential enacting of the organ's specific Shen qualities that is
fun, releasing and therapeutic.
On-line Course Review:a
self-paced, online
review course with built in home exercises to deepen the intellectual
and practical clinical grasp of the material. This section should
be completed after the seminar.
Location: Santa Cruz, California
Dates: Thursday October 16
Friday October 17
Saturday October 18
Sunday October 19
CEU's:
CEU's: approval
pending for 50 hours of CEU's for California acupuncturists.This
is 36 hours of Seminar over four days, and a 14 hour self-paced online
CEU course.
Cost:
if paid before Oct
01:
$555
if paid after Oct 01: $595
students:
$395
Refund policy: $120 non-refundable deposit ensures your place.
Hours: Each Zang-Fu Organ
will be studied in a three hour section: 9 AM-12 noon, 2PM - 5
PM and 7PM - 10 PM. each day.
Contact me on:
408 476 9799
to register for this Seminar.
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Healing the Shen with the Breath
A weekend seminar at Emperor's College
in Los Angeles
02-03 August 2008
15
Hours CEU available
In
this seminar we will explore through lecture, partner exercises, group
exercises and inner meditation, how the breath can give us access to
contact the Shen and to heal afflictive aspects of the Shen. we will explore a variety of breathing techniques to
access and heal the Shen and the Qi. After completing this course,
participants will be able to use these techniques both for their own
healing and in the clinical setting to help their patients to heal.
Topics covered:
- Pre-birth Qi and post-birth
Qi -the Breath of birth.
- breath and emotion, breath and
trauma
- Deep slow breathing, the breath-wave through the three Jiao
- Deep fast breathing, hyperventilation, trance state, tremor and release
- Slow quiet breathing methods - the edge of sleep
- Breath release and movement, breath and Latihan release, chaotic breath and catharsis
- Breath release for each of the Zang Fu organs
- Breath centering into body parts or symptoms - Breath release and Awareness release technique.
- Breath release for the three Jiao - the chest, diaphragm and pelvis
- Color breathing and channel breathing with acupuncture
- working with the gentle-breath touch of the practitioner to facilitate emotional healing and gentle contact.
- The
Fierce-breath touch of the practitioner to break up blockages - an
exploration of exorcistic qigong treatment intervention.
- Breathing and the kinetics of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
 This
picture is a link to a talk on my website about healing the Shen
by working with the breath.
This picture speaks to me of the fractal
multiplication of bronchial branching in the lungs. It is known that
there are 9 or 10 generations of branching from the two bronchii down to
the 350-450 million alveoli. This is a demonstration of the delicate
canopy (hua Gai) quality of the lungs talked about in ancient texts.
 The character for lung - 'Fei' represents a lustrous growth like
the branching of plants into bunches of fruit on a canopy.
Location: Emperor's College Los Angeles
Date: Saturday August 02 2008
Sunday August 03 2008
CEU's:
Approved for
15 hours of CEU's
Cost: Contact Mandana at Emperor's college
Sign-up: Contact Mandana at Emperor's college
Mandana Hosseindoust DAOM, LAc
DIrector of CEU Program, Emperor's College
310.453.8300
x 116
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Working with the Back Shu-Point system
in Sacred Acupuncture
Exploring the Evolutionary Intelligence of the spine and
the back Shu-point zones
- A weekend seminar
Emperor's College
06 & 07 September
2008
15 Hours CEU available
In
this two day seminar we will explore the energetic
qualities and intelligence of the spine and the Shu-point zones of the
back. We will use lecture, partner massage
and treatment, group exercises and inner meditation. The back Shu-point system can be used both to diagnose and to
treat the whole body.
Relative to the Back Shu points we will explore:
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The ancestor realm influences which move from the G. B. channel zone to the outer U.B. line
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The Hun influences which move from the outer U.B. line to the inner U.B. line
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The P'o influences which move from the inner U.B. line to the Hua-To Jia-Ji line
QI and Jing consolidation moving from the Hua-To Jia-Ji line to the Du channel
This understanding presents a schema for connecting the intelligence of the organs back into the body.
We
will also examine the following 'laddering' of evolutionary influences which
starts
with embryological somite distinctions and is represented in the adult
thus:
- the cocccygeal segments representing the unicellular
stage of consciousness and the fundamental bliss-consciousness of the body
- the sacral
vertebrae representing the insectoid stage of consciousness and the
structural integrity of the physical body
- the lumbar
vertebrae representing the reptilian stages of consciousness and the five
forces within the Qi body
- the
thoraccic vertebrae representing the mammalian stage of consciousness and
the 12 personality distinctions of the human personality
- the cervical
vertebrae representing the seven developmental levels of the human Shen
- the cranial
plates of the skull representing the evolutionary encoding of the mind of
God or 'higher' human consciousness
The picture above is a link to a talk about the Back-Shu Point system
Topics covered in this seminar:- How to diagnose the health of the whole person based on imbalances in the
paraspinal muscles relative to the Shu points.
- Massage and palpation to identify the pattern of imbalance
- Qi diagnosis of the channels relative to the back shu points
- the energetic code of each of the individual cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral vertebrae
- Working with the sacrum, the sacroiliac joints and the pelvis
- Working with the shoulder blades and shoulders
- working with the neck
- Working with the skull
- Acupuncture techniques to work with the inner bladder line Shu points
- Acupuncture techniques to work with the outer bladder line
- Acupuncture techniques to work with the Hua-To Jia Ji line
- Acupuncture techniques to work with the Governor vessel and the vertebrae
- Acupuncture techniques to work with the G. B. channel zone
Location: Emperor's College Los Angeles
Date: Saturday September 06 2008
Sunday September 07 2008
CEU's:
Approved for
15 hours of CEU's
Cost: Contact Mandana at Emperor's college
Sign-up: Contact Mandana at Emperor's college
Mandana Hosseindoust DAOM, LAc
DIrector of CEU Program, Emperor's College
310.453.8300
x 116
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I look forward to connecting with you
Sincerely,
Adam Atman L.Ac. MMQ.
Sacred Acupuncture
For more information about Sacred Acupuncture please see my web-sites:
www.sacredacupuncture.com
& www.adamatman.com
Sacred Acupuncture treatment
always unfolds in the space of consciousness, and moves towards greater
consciousness.
If you have any questions feel free to call me on 408 476 9799
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