Tangible Acupuncture for external injuries – 6 Module Course with Andrew Nugent-Head
This program focuses on the fast and successful treatment of physical injuries through acupuncture and bodywork. Whether it be from sports, trauma or the process of aging, shoulder, back, neck and joint problems are usually the most common problems an acupuncturist sees today. Drawing extensively from his years working with Dr. Xie Peiqi to treat trauma in the old and young, Andrew Nugent-Head lays out the theories, needling techniques, bodywork and protocols to create dramatic results in just a few treatments. As with all ATS intensive training programs, the focus of this program is to remove any ambiguity of the efficacy of treatment, allowing patient and practitioner to judge improvement session to session.
Prerequisite seminar: Tangible Qi in the clinic
January 13-14, 2018
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.
– 12 Contact Hours
– 11 Video Lecture Hours
Module 01: Introduction to Qi Based Needling & Bodywork
10-11 March, 2018
This module focuses on understanding, seeing and then practicing the core skills necessary to treat physical injuries successfully with the hand or needle: warmth, channel traveling, Ashi point, and gentle bodywork techniques to create space for the body or limbs to regain good flow and heal quickly. It also stresses the similarities and differences between treating External Injuries and Internal Diseases with acupuncture, clarifying treatment theory and overall strategies which will shape the rest of the course.
• 12 Contact Hours
• 03 Video Lecture Hours
Module 02: Treating Qi vs. Blood Injuries
14-15 April, 2018
What is the difference between a Qi injury and a Blood injury? Are we looking at the True Injury or the Perceived Injury? Do we know what kind of technique to use in which situation? Module 02 focuses on answering these questions so that practitioners have a clear understanding of what they are seeing in the clinic and thus the best treatment strategies to use. A great deal of emphasis is also placed on refining the practical treatment skills introduced in Module 01.
• 12 Contact Hours
• 04 Video Lecture Hours
Module 03: Advanced Qi Based Needling & Bodywork
23-24 June, 2018
Working through different parts of the body, this module focuses on correct diagnosis and treatment technique for the area and condition being treated. This module is heavily weighted to demonstration and partnered practice to ensure each participant is physically confident in working on injuries and has a variety of skills to address the complexity of real life situations.
• 12 Contact Hours
• 06 Video Lecture Hours
Module 04: Protocols & External Medicines for Injuries I
25-26 August, 2018
In Module 04, we begin the first of our two part protocol training. Part I focuses on understanding the patient is the defining factor in our treatments regardless of the injury they have, and thus a twenty year old, forty year old or seventy year old must have very different treatment strategies to create immediate results which do not damage their Qi or scare them from further treatment. Being successful in the clinic means treating the patient who has the problem, not treating the problem a patient may have. Module 04 also introduces the correct use of external medicines, salves, and trauma powders to speed healing.
• 12 Contact Hours
• 06.25 Video Lecture Hours
Module 05: Protocols & External Medicines for Injuries II
22-23 September, 2018
Module 05 examines the nature of different injuries, from patients facing joint replacements to treating Ankylosing Spondylitis. While treating the patient is the key to success, practitioners also have to understand the personality of the injuries themselves, knowing what common patterns they create and what treatment methods usually create the most reliable results. This module also continues training in external medicine applications as well as includes observation of treatments on actual external injury patients.
• 12 Contact Hours
• 10.25 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
112 hours
More information about Andrew
www.traditionalstudies.org
www.youtube.com/user/traditionalstudies
Information about seminar
Date/Time
Saturday 12.30 – 19.00
Sunday 10.30 – 17.00
| Prerequisite seminar
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5 |
January 13.+14. 2018
March 10.+11. 2018 April 14.+15. 2018 June 23.+24. 2018 August 25.+26. 2018 September 22.+23. 2018 |
- 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 12. October 2017)
Category A – Pay up front – CHF 2880.-
Category B – Installment – 2x CHF 1485 (total 2970.-)
(price including one year online-membership on ATS, CHF 120.-)
Standard registration : After 12. October 2017
Category C – Pay up front – CHF 3120.-
Category D – Installment – 2x CHF 1560.- (Total 3120.-)
(Price including one year online-membership on ATS, CHF 120.-)
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complete program, 5 Modules
(for those who already did the prerequisite seminar)
Early bird (till 12. October 2017)
Category E– Pay up front – CHF 2300.-
(Price without Membership)
Category F – Installment – 2x CHF 1200 (Total 2400.-)
(Price without Membership)
Standard registration : After 12. October 2017
Category G – Pay up front – CHF 2500. – (Price without Membership)
Category H – Installment – 2x CHF 1250.- (Total 2500.- )
(Price without Membership)
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Online lectures
http://www.traditionalstudies.org/join/
ATS MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS COURSE
ATS membership:
At $10 a month, an ATS yearly($120) membership gives you access to the general video library featuring Chinese Medicine, Yin Style Bagua martial arts, Dao De Jing and many other videos as well as access to the seminar footage of any courses you have taken with ATS. Membership is also a requirement to access the videos for any of ATS’ training programs you wish to attend.
Registration
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