Tangible Acupuncture for Internal Disharmonies 6 Module Course
Prerequisite seminare: Tangible Qi in the clinic / September 17-18, 2016
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.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 7 Video Lecture Hours
Module 1: Tonifying the Upright, Dispersing the Pernicious, Regulating the Channels / November 5-6, 2016
Participants build the tangible needling and hand skills to Tonify Upright Qi, Disperse Pernicious Qi, and Regulate the amount of Qi in the channels, as well as the theory to know when to do which and in what amount. This module focuses heavily on practical treatment skills which are the foundation of this medicine and the modules to follow, as well as grasping what are the major Qi influences affecting both ourselves and our patients.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 10 Video Lecture Hours
Module 2: The Eight Functions of Qi / January 21-22, 2017
Building on Module 01, Module 02 moves into defining how Qi moves and acts/reacts within the body. Drawing from the classics, we learn to see Qi from the perspective of the Nan Jing and Classical Chinese medicine, then learn to reinterpret the language within English texts from within the context of the Eight Functions of Qi to clearly see pathology and needling strategies instead of point function listing. A great deal of emphasis is also placed on refining the practical treatment skills introduced in Module 1.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 5 Video Lecture Hours
Module 3: Doors & Pathways of Qi / March 11-12, 2017
With a clear understanding of the influences and functions of Qi, along with concrete hand skills to obviously create and guide Qi sensations in patients, Module 03 focuses on the importance of point selection, channel manipulation, and the key differences of needling a point for its point functions or needling a point for its channel functions. Importance is also stressed on the order of treatment, and how to strategize Tonification and Dispersal at each point as well as in the treatment overall. Participants review previous practical treatment skills and are introduced to variations in order to develop a broader understanding of Tangible Acupuncture techniques.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 6 Video Lecture Hours
Module 4: Awakening the Source / June 24-25,2017
Module 04 introduces the skills to treat 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 treating 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 in the very ill.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 6 Video Lecture Hours
Module 5: Treatment Protocols for Internal Diseases / September 16-17, 2017
Guided by a clear understanding of theory and tangible treatment skills, participants focus on applying previous knowledge to the treatment of different internal diseases commonly seen in the clinic. Examining treatment strategies from both the perspective of the patient who has the disease and the personality of the disease itself, we learn different ways of treating the same disease name based on the actuality in front of us and not a fixed protocol listed in a book. A great deal of discussion of theoretical and actual case histories shed light on the importance of being rigid in skill yet flexible in application to achieve the fast and obvious results which were so common to this medicine prior to the 1950’s. Module 05 also stresses the removal of any belief in the passive role of the practitioner in the healing process, as we are responsible for and should be accountable to every patient who entrusts their health and recovery to us.
Lessons:
– 12 Contact Hours
– 11 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
117 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
Modul 1 Modul 2 Modul 3 Modul 4 Modul 5 |
September 17-18, 2016
November 5-6, 2016 January 21-22, 2017 March 11-12, 2017 June 24-25,2017 Sept 16-17, 2017 |
Location
Brunnenhof beim Spital Zollikerberg, Neuweg 12, 8125 Zollikerberg, Switzerland
Referent
Andrew Nugent-Head
Language
English
Cost of program (complete program)
Early bird (till 15.6.2016)
Category A – Pay up front – CHF 2760.00
Category B – Installment – 3x CHF 950.00 (Total 2850.00)
Standard registration
Category C – Pay up front – CHF 3000.00
Category D – Installment – 3x CHF 1000.00 (Total 3000.00)
Prerequiste seminar (can be booked separately)
Category E – early bird – CHF 460.00
Category F – standard registration – CHF 500.00
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ATS MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS COURSE