Please mark your calendars. I would love to see you at one or more of these seminars. Discounts will be available for students and patients.
In conjunction with Five Branches University in San Jose, I will be offering a weekend CEU seminar for acupuncturists and acupuncture students:
The Eight Extraordinary Channels Jan 16-17 2010
16 hours/CEUs Cost: $192.00
What is the value of studying
the Eight Extraordinary channels?
This seminar teaches you how to influence the Eight Extraordinary channels from the foot, the hand, the face and from other zones of the body - This puts the Eight Extraordinary channel power into the acupuncture treatment.
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.
This seminar teaches clear and simple diagnostic tools to determine which of the Eight Extraordinary channels is affected. This 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. Notes will be provided.
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.
It is the purpose of this seminar to explore the uses of the Eight Extraordinary Channels and the Eight Powers they embody. The Eight Powers have a tendency towards physical manifestation - this is the direction they carry things towards. In China the power of Eight is used to generate prosperity.
It is interesting that in the world of acupuncture there has been a tremendous acceleration of interest in these Eight channels in the last fifty years compared to the previous 500 years - but mainly in Japan and the West, more materially focused nations.
Here are a few of the core concepts about the Eight Extraordinary Channels which we will be exploring:
The Eight Extraordinary Channels define the architecture of the interaction between the Causal / Ancestor body and the Shen Mental body. They are templates of movement, the first morphological forces within the Causal or ancestor body. They help to define the movement principles within the Shen and Qi bodies, and their influence can be discerned within the physical structures of the human physical body, especially at the earlier embryonic stages.
The Eight Extraordinary Channels can be easily accessed on the hands and feet for diagnosis and treatment. These points can be used for 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.
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 channles within the Qi body.
The Eight Extraordinary Channels correspond to the Eight trigrams of the Yi Ching, the ancient Chinese classic of divination. This means that they can be used effectively in Feng Shui and space clearing. The trigrams are clearly representations of the actual physical form and energetic tropism of the Eight channels.
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) as well as visualizations to access their power and blessing force. We can use these techniques to strengthen or heal these channels.
The Eight Extraordinary channels have some interesting correlations to a cycle of Eight Celtic Gods and Goddesses and to the beloved Eight Immortals of Chinese folklore. We will explore these associations and how to utilize this information clinically.
to sign up for this Seminar - contact Mimi Latno
at Five Branches University on 408 260 0208 ex.216
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