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Dan Bensky and Chip Chace:
The Learning Hand - A Training in the Intersection of Touch and
Text in East Asian Medicine
Overview
This course will focus on two related aspects of training in Chinese medicine that relate to two fundamental questions:
1) How do we know what we are doing?
2) How do we fit ourselves into the tradition?
We will focus this course on answering these questions primarily through the cultivation of palpatory skills, derived from those of osteopathy, and not only tying in the resultant findings to our own practices, but also using them to aid us in understanding some of core texts of Chinese medicine, which in turn will deepen our understanding of the medicine.
This training is based on our experience that many palpation techniques used in osteopathy can be understood and utilized in the context of a Chinese medicine. Part one will focus on the basics of this approach, as Dan Bensky will teach a primarily hands-on course to introduce students to a palpatory awareness of such osteopathic concepts as primary respiration, manual thermal diagnosis, and listening. We will apply these palpatory techniques in the context of the practice of acupuncture and include some discussion of how these experiences can help us grapple with some of the seemingly obscure passages of the Inner Classic, using chapter 1 of the Divine Pivot as an example.
In part two Chip Chace will build on this foundation to show how a direct palpatory appreciation of different aspects of primary respiration can be used delve deeper into the mechanisms of health and disease and aid us in understanding and helping our patients. He will share some of his experiences in this regard, such as the palpatory experience of the shape of qi and how that relates to both acupuncture and herbal medicine. This class will specifically relate the palpatory findings to the eight extraordinary vessels and an understanding of Li Shi-Zhen’s Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, which Chip has recently helped translate into English. After taking this class, students will be able to go beyond the relatively simplistic approaches most commonly applied to using the eight extraordinary vessels.
Those with no experience in palpation-based forms of acupuncture practice will be given a thorough introduction to this approach. The training will help those with previous experience in osteopathic palpation to both broaden and deepen their understanding, and to better integrate it into their acupuncture practice.
This class should help improve your practices on a number of levels. On the most concrete level it will increase precision in point location and refinement in needle technique using both contact needling and insertion techniques. It will give you some useful and tactile approaches to understanding some of the basic concepts of Chinese medicine. You should also learn some ways to make the classic texts of Chinese medicine become increasingly alive in clinic.
Instructors
Dan Bensky
has been involved in the practice, transmission, and teaching of Oriental medicine for over 35 years and has been combining it with osteopathy for over 25 years. He is a graduate of the Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine (1975), the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (1982), and the University of Washington (M.A. in Chinese Literature, 1996). He is currently a medical editor for Eastland Press and in private practice in Seattle, Washington.
Chip Chace
As a student of Chinese medicine and palpation based forms of acupuncture for more than twenty years, Chip is uniquely positioned to teach this class. He has maintained a longstanding interest in the medical literature of China and is the translator of a wide variety of books and articles on premodern acupuncture and Chinese medicine including a translation of the first textbook of acupuncture from 100 C.E., The Yellow Emperor’s Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) and Li Shi-Zhen’s 16th century work Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, the seminal text on the extraordinary vessels,. He has completed both basic and advanced Toyohari training. Chip has practiced acupuncture for over twenty-five years and is on the faculty of the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine where he teaches palpatory approaches to acupuncture. He maintains a clinical practice in Boulder, Colorado.
Teaching Assistants
Marguerite Dinkins, L.Ac.
received her Master’s degree from the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine in 2000, where she currently teaches palpation, acupuncture, and tuina, as well as providing clinical supervision. In her Seattle-based private practice, Marguerite uses a combination of acupuncture, palpation, and Chinese herbal medicine to work with a wide variety of patients. She is also currently studying Osteopathic theory, palpation methodologies, and therapies at the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Vancouver in order to expand and improve her ability to treat patients effectively.
Dr. med. Andrea Claussen
has studied acupuncture and herbal medicine since 89. Practice of Qigong with Master Guo Bingsen since 2001. Has taken advanced Toyohari training since 2001, has worked with Chip extensively on his approach to palpation techniques. Since 98 private clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kelkheim, near Frankfurt.
This course will focus on two related aspects of training in Chinese medicine that relate to two fundamental questions:
1) How do we know what we are doing?
2) How do we fit ourselves into the tradition?
We will focus this course on answering these questions primarily through the cultivation of palpatory skills, derived from those of osteopathy, and not only tying in the resultant findings to our own practices, but also using them to aid us in understanding some of core texts of Chinese medicine, which in turn will deepen our understanding of the medicine.
This training is based on our experience that many palpation techniques used in osteopathy can be understood and utilized in the context of a Chinese medicine. Part one will focus on the basics of this approach, as Dan Bensky will teach a primarily hands-on course to introduce students to a palpatory awareness of such osteopathic concepts as primary respiration, manual thermal diagnosis, and listening. We will apply these palpatory techniques in the context of the practice of acupuncture and include some discussion of how these experiences can help us grapple with some of the seemingly obscure passages of the Inner Classic, using chapter 1 of the Divine Pivot as an example.
In part two Chip Chace will build on this foundation to show how a direct palpatory appreciation of different aspects of primary respiration can be used delve deeper into the mechanisms of health and disease and aid us in understanding and helping our patients. He will share some of his experiences in this regard, such as the palpatory experience of the shape of qi and how that relates to both acupuncture and herbal medicine. This class will specifically relate the palpatory findings to the eight extraordinary vessels and an understanding of Li Shi-Zhen’s Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, which Chip has recently helped translate into English. After taking this class, students will be able to go beyond the relatively simplistic approaches most commonly applied to using the eight extraordinary vessels.
Those with no experience in palpation-based forms of acupuncture practice will be given a thorough introduction to this approach. The training will help those with previous experience in osteopathic palpation to both broaden and deepen their understanding, and to better integrate it into their acupuncture practice.
This class should help improve your practices on a number of levels. On the most concrete level it will increase precision in point location and refinement in needle technique using both contact needling and insertion techniques. It will give you some useful and tactile approaches to understanding some of the basic concepts of Chinese medicine. You should also learn some ways to make the classic texts of Chinese medicine become increasingly alive in clinic.
Instructors
Dan Bensky
has been involved in the practice, transmission, and teaching of Oriental medicine for over 35 years and has been combining it with osteopathy for over 25 years. He is a graduate of the Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine (1975), the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (1982), and the University of Washington (M.A. in Chinese Literature, 1996). He is currently a medical editor for Eastland Press and in private practice in Seattle, Washington.
Chip Chace
As a student of Chinese medicine and palpation based forms of acupuncture for more than twenty years, Chip is uniquely positioned to teach this class. He has maintained a longstanding interest in the medical literature of China and is the translator of a wide variety of books and articles on premodern acupuncture and Chinese medicine including a translation of the first textbook of acupuncture from 100 C.E., The Yellow Emperor’s Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) and Li Shi-Zhen’s 16th century work Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels, the seminal text on the extraordinary vessels,. He has completed both basic and advanced Toyohari training. Chip has practiced acupuncture for over twenty-five years and is on the faculty of the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine where he teaches palpatory approaches to acupuncture. He maintains a clinical practice in Boulder, Colorado.
Teaching Assistants
Marguerite Dinkins, L.Ac.
received her Master’s degree from the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine in 2000, where she currently teaches palpation, acupuncture, and tuina, as well as providing clinical supervision. In her Seattle-based private practice, Marguerite uses a combination of acupuncture, palpation, and Chinese herbal medicine to work with a wide variety of patients. She is also currently studying Osteopathic theory, palpation methodologies, and therapies at the Canadian College of Osteopathy in Vancouver in order to expand and improve her ability to treat patients effectively.
Dr. med. Andrea Claussen
has studied acupuncture and herbal medicine since 89. Practice of Qigong with Master Guo Bingsen since 2001. Has taken advanced Toyohari training since 2001, has worked with Chip extensively on his approach to palpation techniques. Since 98 private clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kelkheim, near Frankfurt.
| Instructors: |  |
Dan Bensky, Seattle (USA) and Chip Chace, Boulder (USA)
Assisted by Marguerite Dinkins, Seattle (USA) and Dr. med. Andrea Clausen, Kelkheim (Germany) |
| Teaching language: | |
English |
| Location: | |
EIOM, Leonrodstr. 58, 80636 Munich, Germany |
| Dates & Times: | |
Part 1: January 11-13 (Tue – Thu), 2011
/ 10 am – 6 pm Part 2: February 25-27 (Fri – Sun), 2011 / Fri & Sat 10 am – 6 pm, Sun 9 am – 2.30 pm |
| Lecture hours: | |
50 (= Credits) |
| Fee: | |
Registration before November 19, 2010: € 900,- Registration after November 19, 2010: € 960,- |
| Limitations: | |
Seats are limited to 24 |
