Songs of Creation

3 Alchemical Odes from Antiquity

To cultivate the Heart and

 Discipline of the Practitioner.

That we are led to the Depths of OurSelves, 

of Creation and Our Time. 

Medicine for The Heart of Humanity.

May we work without wake 

and hasten to our task. 

A physician is a man working as the arbiter of human destiny-

If we are not determined there is nothing we can do!

A needle follows the principle of depth through subtlety-

We must be taught by the very best of men.

First examine the source of disease,

Next apply yourself to the points.

At once you see results-in reply to the needle, immediate effect!

Thereupon understand the dark behind the dark-

And begin to reach into the mystery within mystery-

This work is not exhaustive,

Merely a summary outline of the essentials!

Ode to the 100 Symptoms

spring

*Song of the 12 Points Shining Bright as the Starry Sky 

and Able to Heal All the Many Diseases*

summer

*7 Internal/External Dragons*

autumn

*Ode to the 13 Ghost Points*

winter

 *A Dream. A Song. A Point. 

An advanced seminar in The Art of Diagnosis*

4 Residential Intensives

Classical Theory and Clinical Application

28 Nilsen Lane * Whitefield, Maine

Spring * Summer * Autumn * Winter

2012

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Spring * A 5 Day Intensive 

March 20-25, 2012

Begin: Tuesday 3/20/12 at 5:00pm

End: Sunday 3/25/12 at 4:00pm

28 Nilsen Lane  Whitefield, ME 04353  207.549.7733

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Song of 12 Points Shining Bright as the Starry Sky 

and Able to Heal All the Many Diseases 

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We have to get used to it, that a person and society are just one thing as far as the communication of life is given. As for the law and the organization of society with official duties and so on, that is different, it is organization by law. But above the law there is the law of nature which is about things as they are, and it is proper to the living being to be incorporated in this bigger group.

Autumn * A 5 Day Intensive 

9/26-30, 2012

Begin: Tuesday 9/26/12 at 5:00

End: Sunday 9/30/12 at 4:00

28 Nilsen Lane Whitefield, ME 04353 207.549.7733

 Ode to the 13 Ghost Points

The Rooting of the Spirits

The re-establishment of True Qi

Didactic and Clinical Training

Theory and 3-4 full 13 GP Treatments

4 Patients/5 Days.  Theory and Clinic every day.  Tutorials following all treatments. Some of the treatments will be done in traditional trinities.

Some of the treatments will be using the entire protocol.

There will be clinically varied uses of the protocol: directionality, gender, in conjunction with other points, time of day, and more.

Indications. Points. Point Location. Procedures. Vibrational Movements. Diagnostics and Assessment. Needling. Follow-up treatment. Treatment as Ritual. 

Training in the Ode to the 13 Ghost Points requires the Practitioner be willing to be changed.  The 13 Ghost Points work with the undo influences of Earth upon us.  Attachments.  Addictions.  Trauma.  Emotional Habits.  The programming of our culture and family.  Our refusals and the hauntings, personal and collective, that influence our capacity to live Heaven's Mandate.  The Ode to the 13 Ghost Points unravels these influences, transforms what is influenced by Earth back to its Source in Heaven.  The alchemical fire that is built within the movement of this Ode, at the hand of The Teachers who pass this forward, asks for the increased committment and endurance of the Practitioner to her/his own development and to the Living Tradition of this Medicine.

Details

Information about Treatments

The Treatments during these Intensives can require many hours.  It would not be surprising for a treatment to run 10 hours.  The average length of a truly alchemical treatment would be 5-6 hours. The aim of these treatments is to remove/transform any obstruction or vibrational pattern responsible for major struggles in the life of the patient, obscuring the mandate of heaven, and, most importantly, to re-establish their true qi.

"The Neijing tells us that the healing process is not just mechanical-it is not simply the placing of a needle. The most important thing for healing is the relationship between the practitioner, the spirits and the patient. It is the practitioner's spirits which enable him/her to make the diagnosis, choose the points and give a feeling of rightness to the patient at a high level-without interfering with the patient's freedom. The treatment always takes place inside of this practitioner-patient relationship."

Taken from a seminar given in 1990 by Father Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee, 

from the Ricci Institute in Paris and the European School of Acupuncture.

            * The treatments can take anywhere from 3-10 hours.

            * Each treatment is highly individualized, therefore it is impossible to say exactly how each will come to life for each person.

            * The treatments will utilize the protocol that is being taught.  Occasionally there will be other points included, e.g. seasonal horary points, window of the sky points and/or relevant points from the patients CF. Sometimes, as part of this process, the treatment will move beyond the realms of needles and moxa into Daoist Practices. It is quite likely that there will be some external expression of the treatment during its progression e.g. rearranging position of treatment couch and or shadowers' chairs according to 4 directions, lighting candles, use of sounds/colors, etc.

"The spirits move because all the surroundings of the treatment room encourage them to be moved in order to rectify the pattern of the vital animation of the patient. The spirits move also because the right signal is given by the point (which is chosen), by a needle technique or movement (which is also chosen) and because there is present in the practitioner a well-rooted and upright direction of her own life. All these operate together to try to give a pattern for the equilibrium and calming of the essences and spirits in the patient. The only way anyone can be cured is by the movement of the spirits.

Remember, though, that one cannot make the spirits move-one can only LET the spirits of the patient rectify themselves. If one creates the correct conditions, the spirits will come. One cannot force them to move-one can only make it an attractive alternative. (In other words, offer the spirits what they like!

The birds choose the trees, not the other way around.

Father Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee

Self Care

            It is our experience that these weekends stretch all participants physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Please know that we follow the Tao and this living Tradition of Medicine which is given and given, so freely. We are in the practice of the most ancient service given to humans. Our attention is on becoming responsive and teachable to this gift. Personal habits of comfort are less important during these intensive teachings. This is an opportunity to follow the current of the Whole, rather than the habits of personal hygiene (body-mind-spirit!).

            PLEASE tend yourselves carefully in preparation of this work. This means enough sleep, HYDRATION, and when possible a gentle focus in traveling here. Enough time to travel with minimal emotional disturbance, please. Maintain all current medicine regimes. Please do not make any sudden changes in pharmaceuticals/herbal remedies around the immediate timing of this weekend.

            If there are any concerns about your personal health, please make certain to let Laura and Noah know before the workshop begins. Every effort will be made to accomodate you. Please plan on a day (or two) of rest and integration following the weekend.  The vibrational demands of the Intensive require a conscious process for each student in the rooting back into daily life.  The importance of this transition cannot be overstated.

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

 

-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.