Chinese Bodywork for Clinical Practice

 

 

5 Modules-Seminar with Andrew Nugent-Head
Zürich 2019

Registration closed, Seminar fully booked!

The greatest force in healing is touch. The ancient Chinese realized this, using medical theory and clinical experience to develop touch into the highest healing art within the field of Chinese medicine. The usefulness of a sword depends on the warrior’s handskill; the efficacy of a needle depends on the practitioner’s skill of touch. To treat internal diseases or external injuries without deeply training the hands is to be overly optimistic of ones clinical results. This five module training program provides the same bodywork foundation that Andrew Nugent-Head learned in China, set sequentially in the way he learned over his years training there. It is, in his opinion, the most important piece of practicing tangible, effective and reliable medicine.

Prerequisite seminar: Tangible Qi in the clinic
March 22, 2019

This critical seminar first focuses on what ATS calls Demystifying Qi, creating a grounding of what Qi really is and isn’t as well as a common language for participants to use for all modules to follow. This is followed by what ATS calls Developing Tangible Qi, which is seeing and training in how to tangibly and reliably affect Qi in patients by applying hand techniques to the skin, connective/muscular tissue, and skeletal system. Throughout, participants train in the Eight Storing Qi & Developing Sensitivity Practices, as well as learn how to adapt their own personal cultivation exercises to the clinical application of tangible Qi manipulation for reliable, repeatable treatment results.

6 Contact Hours
11 Video Lecture Hours

Modul 1: Daoist Zangfu Acupressure
March 23-24, 2019

Focused on regulating the Qi flow in the organs of the body cavity, Daoist Zangfu Acupressure is a powerful bodywork treatment method to return fundamental health to very sick patients. Originally passed on by a wandering Daoist, it was nearly lost in the Cultural Revolution. Today, there are only a handful of people focused on using this incredible bodywork system in the clinic. It was the first clinical treatment method learned by Andrew Nugent-Head, taught to him by the late Professor Wang Jin-Huai.

12 Contact Hours
4 Video Lecture Hours

Module 02: Yin Style Bagua Bodywork Techniques 1
May 18-19, 2019

Modules 02 introduces the medical bodywork of Yin Style Bagua. Bodywork is the fundamental treatment method of Yin Style Bagua medical practitioners, the core of their Qi based skillset and the source of their acupuncture skill. These two modules cover the 24 basic hand techniques, the differences between Qi focused vs. Blood focused techniques, skeletal alignment, protocols and treatment demonstrations.

12 Contact Hours
6.5 Video Lecture Hours

Module 03: Yin Style Bagua Bodywork Techniques 2
June 22-23, 2019

Modules 03 continues the medical bodywork of Yin Style Bagua. Bodywork is the fundamental treatment method of Yin Style Bagua medical practitioners, the core of their Qi based skillset and the source of their acupuncture skill. These two modules cover the 24 basic hand techniques, the differences between Qi focused vs. Blood focused techniques, skeletal alignment, protocols and treatment demonstrations.

12 Contact Hours
4.5 Video Lecture Hours

Module 04: Yin Style Bagua Bodywork Techniques 3
August 24-25
, 2019

Modules 04 completes the introduction to the medical bodywork of Yin Style Bagua. Bodywork is the fundamental treatment method of Yin Style Bagua medical practitioners, the core of their Qi based skillset and the source of their acupuncture skill. These three modules cover the 24 basic hand techniques, the differences between Qi focused vs. Blood focused techniques, skeletal alignment, protocols and treatment demonstrations.

12 Contact Hours
3.5 Video Lecture Hours

Modul 05: Deep Qi Protocol
September 21-22
, 2019

Using Deep Qi work only, the final module introduces the skills to address the intangible yet most fundamental Qi of sickness and health, which is the Yuan Qi. It focuses on understanding what we must tangibly do to get to and awaken the Yuan Qi when working with the chronically, systemically or terminally ill. Candid discussions on the possibilities of spontaneous healing, giving quality of life through the dying process, the successes and failures of both Chinese and allopathic medicine, and practitioner maturity are balanced by learning and practicing a protocol sequence for awakening the Yuan Qi as well as adapting it to redressing physical and emotional imbalances.

12 Contact Hours
6 Video Lecture Hours

General information

Andrew Nugent-Head, MSOM (1967-)
A nationally NCCAOM certified and state licensed practitioner of Oriental Medicine, Andrew Nugent-Head is the founder and director of the Association for Traditional Studies (ATS), a 501c3 organization dedicated to the preservation, documentation and dissemination of China’s traditional knowledge. At the age of 18, Andrew moved to China in 1986 to study Chinese medicine, martial arts, and internal cultivation. Living in China for over 25 years, he obtained the highest quality education possible in traditional, mentor-disciple relationships.

Andrew’s studies and work have been featured on French and German television, the NBC Sunday Today Show, and on ABC News Special. He also worked on and appeared in the Mystery of Qi episode of the Bill Moyers PBS documentary series, Healing and the Mind. He has been featured in newspapers across the United States and written prolifically on Chinese Medicine, culture and the importance of preserving traditional knowledge worldwide.

Working through his not for profit, Andrew has translated six books and produced over 400 educational videos featuring traditional practitioners on Chinese Medicine, Yin Style Bagua martial arts, Daoyin practices, and Calligraphy. He has also translated for and assisted these practitioners at over 140 seminars between 1993 and 2003, as well as taught workshops himself throughout the United States and China during that time. With the passing of his teachers, Andrew dedicated himself to bringing the arts as he learned it to the west, teaching intensive training programs in New York, London and Asheville, as well as introductory seminars around the world. Through his efforts, ATS has launched a Free Video Library program, posting hundreds of hours of video footage free on their site while still paying royalties to the practitioners the videos feature.

In China, Andrew is currently focused on the Dr. Li Hongxiang (1924–) Documentation Project, a 10 year, 3 phase project dedicated to documenting the last doctor still practicing traditionally in Beijing. Mr. Nugent-Head was recognized as Dr. Li’s final student in 2005 and has been working with him in the clinic and at home to document his incredible wealth of knowledge before he is too old to teach. In the United States, he is working with his wife and fellow practitioner, JulieAnn Nugent-Head, to establish a teaching clinic in Asheville, NC.

Total lecture hours:
101.5 Stunden


More information about Andrew
www.traditionalstudies.org
www.youtube.com/user/traditionalstudies


Information about seminar

Date/Time

Friday 12.30 – 19.00
Saturday 12.30 – 19.00

Sunday 10.30 – 17.00

Prerequisite seminar

Module 1

Module 2

Module 3

Module 4

Module 5

March 22. 2019

March 23.+24.  2019

May 18.+19. 2019

June 22.+23. 2019

August 24.+25. 2019

September 21.+22. 2019

  • Location
    Brunnenhof beim Spital Zollikerberg, Neuweg 12, 8125 Zollikerberg, Switzerland
  • Referent
    Andrew Nugent-Head
  • Language
    English

Cost of program:

Complete program, 6 Modules( including prerequisite seminar)

Early bird (till January 15th. 2019)

Category A – Pay up front – CHF 2530.-

Category B – Installment – 2x CHF 1315.- (total 2630.-)

Standard registration : After January 22th.  2019

Category C – Pay up front – CHF 2750.-

Category D – Installment – 2x CHF 1375.-

complete program, 5 Modules
(for those who already did the prerequisite seminar)

Early bird (till  January 22th. 2019)

Category E– Pay up front – CHF 2300.-

Category F – Installment – 2x CHF 1200 (Total 2400.-)
Standard registration : After January 22th. 2019

Category G – Pay up front – CHF 2500. –

Category H – Installment – 2x CHF 1250.-  (Total 2500.- )

 


Online lectures

ATS membership:
ATS is moving to a new teaching format. A membership is not required for the seminar anymore. The fee for the homestudy-videos is included in the price, but there will be no live- footage of the seminar. The seminar can only be booked as an entire course, individual modules cannot be purchased.

 


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