Hidden White: Practitioner Training 2012

Vermont 2012: Hidden White

Advanced Study Group in 5 Element Taoist Medicine

with Laura Barnard Stelmok

The origin of the inexhaustible Source, an "imperceptible thread indefinitely spun" (Laozi Chapter 6), is the miraculous effectiveness of the Spirits. The place to look for the source of the living is in "the birth of Heaven and Earth." The Spirits come from Heaven and consent to remain within a man only if his heart is as serene and empty as Heaven itself...

The 13 Appearances

Ling Shu Chapter 8: Ben Shen (Rooting in the Spirits)

Heaven gives and Earth receives. Heaven animates and Earth gives birth. Heaven sustains Earth with love and blesses her with light. The creative movement is called Virtue. The Virtue of Heaven falls upon Earth, penetrating and filling her. Sun and moon are witness to the heavenly Virtue.

Water is the manifestation of Heaven. This power also falls within us, "in an equally silent thunder." We call it "Virtue." This Virtue brings to life, develops and maintains the movement of each being. Its gift and receipt can be an observable, visible phenomenon. In its invisible aspect, it is the mystery to be contemplated, as if we were standing before a latticed doorway. (In order to see through it, we must know how to position ourselves, and how to receive the image that comes to our eyes.) The expanding power that stops right here, to make me into a being, can be compared to the cascading of the waters from Heaven. Here and there this gushing can be seen. The continuity of the impetus (of the yang movement) can be perceived in the changes, appearing as transformations. We think of a rocky basin where the fallen splashing water collects and then escapes through a channel. The twisting of its particular course may push the water on in torrents, or stop it in ponds. The earth may drink and absorb the water, or move it on in clever irrigation of gardens and fields, until it joins the sea and the air before its return to Heaven. Throughout all these transformations, water remains the Virtue that gives life. The proud Virtue of Heaven consents to become the humble virtue of a man. There are thirteen stages, thirteen ideograms, to indicate the changes and transformations. Where they meet-the theatre of exchange, the rendez-vous of the Spirits that hasten forth from Heaven-is the place where my life is rooted. This place is "I" wo, "my heart" wo xin.

Rooted in Spirit: The Heart of Chinese Medicine Claude Larre & Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee pp. xiv-xvi

Dates and Times: 3 Weekends!!!

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*Winter/Spring: February 22-26, 2012

2 Clinical Consult Days, 1 Workshop Day, 2 Long Tx Days

*Spring/Summer: April 18-22, 2012

2 Clinical Consult Days, 1 Workshop Day, 2 Long Tx Days

*Autumn/Winter: December 5-9, 2012

2 Clinical Consult Days, 1 Workshop Day, 2 Long Tx Days

Details

Registration and Inquiries * Contact Taylore Grymonnt

email: tay2tay99@yahoo.com

phone: 802.223.0303-work

802.917.4224-cell

Please contact Taylore if you are planning to attend.

If you have local housing available for traveling practitioners

please let us know.

This is greatly appreciated!

Location (for the entire workshop) Wednesday-Sunday

3 Spring St. #2 Montpelier VT

802.223.0303

Wednesday & Thursday:

Clinical Consultation Days

9AM-9PM *** CEU's Available

Diagnosis of CF, CSOE training, treatment, point location, spirits of the points, recommendations for future treatments

and support for strengthening the practitioner/patient relationship.

Shadowing fee: $100.00

Consultation/Treatment (1 1/2 hour): $200.00

Checking for blocks (1/2 hour): $75.00

We encourage practitioners to schedule consults for their clients and/or for themselves.

If you are bringing 1-4 people for consults:

All scheduling must be done one week prior to the event

If you are scheduling more than 4 people:

Please contact Taylore for different arrangements by Feb 1st (Apr 1st, November 15th)

*Practitioners are responsible for gathering all fees (as well as missed appointments) for their patientsand giving them to Taylore at the end of each clinical day.*

Friday Workshop:

The 13 Appearances/ Ling Shu (Chap 8)

A 3 Part Workshop

The Taoist Creation Tale...how "the proud Virtue of Heaven consents to become the humble virtue of a man." To become a human being. This study will be applied directly to the Art of the Heart and the development of the practitioner to diagnose and treat at the level of the Spirits.

We will also pay attention, as the clincals unfold, to the ways in which we are being called to treat in our time. Working with The 13 Appearances is to work at the root of Taoist Alchemical Medicine.

This Didactic Day will continue in each of the

3 weekends for more advanced practitioner training.

9AM-5PM *** CEU'S Available

(There will be an evening treatment following the workshop to which all are invited to shadow.)

Fee $150.00

Refunds in full up to one week prior to the event minus a $15.00 processing fee

Saturday and Sunday Clinic:

Clinical Treatment Days:

(These longer and deeper treatments utilize ancient Taoist protocols and arise from the clinical work on Wednesday/Thursday)

More rigorous clinical application and exploration of the spirit of this Tradition. Treatments on these two days generally work with much longer segments of time and practitioner training is rigorous. The Art of Needling and Moxabustion, Treatment Planning and Execution, the Disciplines of to See, to Hear, to Ask and to Feel. The capacity to ethically and maturely follow the movement of the Wild Magic of this Ancient Tradition. To work with the Rooting of the Spirits, with major obstructions and the Restoration of True Qi.

The Rooting of the Spirits allows us to participate more consciously in the miracle of HeavenEarth. We work by virtue of the ancient alchemical classics of Taoist Medicine.

From the Very Beginning. These ancient protocols,

Songs left for us now,

have particular relevance to the deep transformational work of Our Time.

9AM - 9PM***CEU'S AVAILABLE

In keeping with the rigorous training inherent in these alchemical protocols, Practitioner training in these two days is highly individualized, hearkening more to the ancient apprentice-model of training.

Shadowing fee $100.00

Treatment cost $500.00

Please Note:

Treatment shadowing Sat/Sun requires further information. There are certain requirements for clothing and self-care. Please be sure to get that information from Taylore (tay2tay99@yahoo.com / 802.917.4224 ) one week prior to the time of the event.

Special Discount Rates for entire workshop

Fee $475 for Practitioners of all Healing Modalities

Fee $375 for enrolled students in Training Programs

(Please contact Taylore if special financial arrangements are necessary.

We remain present to the economic challenges of our lives.)

With the drawing of this Love

And the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, unremembered gate

When the last of earth left to discover

Is that which was the beginning;

At the source of the longest river

The voice of the hidden waterfall

And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half-heard, in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea.

Quick now, here, now, always-

A condition of complete simplicity

(Costing not less than everything)

And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well

When the tongues of flame are in-folded

Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one.

t.s. eliot "Little Gidding" The Four Quartets

Stillpoint: A Wild Hearth
Advanced Treatment and Training Groups
in 5 Element Taoist Medicine
New York, NY * Montpelier, VT * Whitefield, ME
Laura Barnard Stelmok BA, M.Ac, Dipl.Ac (NCCA), Meg Dellenbaugh BA, LMT; Noah Stelmok LMT

NYC Altar

-Entrusted to The Source of our Medicine. Heaven.

-Rooted in the discipline of Generosity. Earth.

-Practiced with respect for Our failings and Our truest potential. Human & the 10,000.

-An offering of Love: to keep an open door, no matter what.

Laura Barnard Stelmok

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Received her Bachelor's Degree from Bowdoin College '83 in Religion and German. She studied Acupuncture with JR and JB Worsley at the Worsley Institute of Classical Acupuncture in Florida and the College of Traditional Acupuncture in the UK, receiving a Licensure, Advanced Licenciate and Masters Degree in Acupuncture in 1992. Laura continued her post-graduate clinical training with the Worsleys until 2001. She spent 5 intensive years studying Five Element Acupuncture and Rooting Shen with Niki Bilton, Master Practitioner and Teacher and more recently has studied with Jeffery Yuen, a Taoist priest, herbalist and acupuncturist.

Laura has been in private clinical practice since 1991. Her practice, Stillpoint, has been in Rockland, Maine since 1996. She teaches post-graduate 5 Element Theory and Clinical Supervision groups in Maine, Vermont and New York City. These advanced study groups began in 2006. The Teachings are alive, highly interractive, and the learning vibrant and rigorous. The teaching reaches toward practitioners still in training as well as senior practitioners who have been in practice for decades.

In addition to the practice of 5 Element Taoist Medicine, Laura collaborates with working artists bringing the disciplines of ancient medicine together

with the urgent call to the Muses of our Time.

She currently lives in Rockland with her husband and son.

Dearest One and All.

Our deep gratitude to you who sit with us at this Portal of Learning.

Those who were here before, those who are here now and those yet to come. Blessed Be.

We gather as physician's, as patients, as artists,

as teachers and students, as wayfarer's

Our sense returned. Our Heart utilized. Our minds disciplined.

To remember the Ancient Songs of this Tradition.

(They are so very needed here and now.)

To become Teachable to this Living Tradition of Medicine,

that we may become Servants to and for It.

As our disciplines strengthen we are able to extend our Hand to individuals in need with far greater depth and precision. As individuals and as a group of devoted humans.

The clinical training remains at the center of our attention for both practitioners and patients.

For this collaboration there is no end to the happiness bestowed.

We encourage you to pass this invitation on to any colleagues, friends, fellow students/travelers in this Classical Tradition that you believe might wish to join us. Please contact either Laura (stillpointacu@gmail.com), Noah (nstelmok@gmail.com) or Meg (chiya@gwi.net) with any questions, comments, requests.

The study group is alive with and for each practitioner who is present.

With deep regard to each of you. Laura and Noah and Meg