This Course is currently offered through Five Branches University San Jose Campus - Spring 2008 Semester, Tuesday Evenings from 7:00- 10:00PM This course is available as both elective hours within the Masters program or as CEU units for licensed acupuncturists.

This information is also available in four weekend seminars available for either CEU's for acupuncturists or, at Five Branches University, as hours towards the fulfillment of the elective requirement for the master's program. For the times and dates of these seminars use the links at the bottom of this document:

COURSE OUTLINE:

 

• A summary of the core concepts of the Eight Extraordinary Channel theory in Sacred Acupuncture
• The specific kinetics and architecture of each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
• Pathology, signs and symptoms suggesting imbalance for each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
• Each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels in relation to psychological and spiritual qualities
  • Afflictive emotions specific to each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
  • Redemptive emotions specific to each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
• Historical overview and specific texts from the Nei Jing describing each channel
• The classical points specific to each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
• Body zones and other points used in Sacred Acupuncture to access each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
• How the Eight Extraordinary Channels are expressed, and can be accessed for diagnosis and treatment, within the hands and feet.
• Diagnostic techniques to understand the condition of each of the Eight Extraordinary Channels
  • Qigong diagnosis
  • Muscle testing diagnosis
  • Postural diagnosis
  • Symptom diagnosis
  • Shen diagnosis
• The relationship of the Eight Extraordinary Channels to the trigrams of the Yi Ching.
• Specific Qigong exercises to work with each of the EIght Extraordinary Channels
• The relationship of the Eight Extraordinary Channels to the Eight Auspicious Symbols.
• How to combine acupuncture treatments of the EIght Extraordinary Channels with specific:
  • breathing patterns
  • visualizations
  • affirmations
  • Healing Sounds
  • hand positions (mudras)
  • emotions
• The blessing force of each of the EIght Extraordinary Channels
• Accessing Segmental and zonal relationships (embryonic somite distinctions) in the Du and Ren

• Understanding the energetic code of the cranial, cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral and coccygeal segments of the Du Mai
• Understanding the cascading nature of the descent of the Ren Mai and its relationship to the three Dan-Tian, the chakras and the Yin energy of the body
• The relationship of the Yang Qiao to the anatomical spleen,  the ascending Shen, the ten Heavenly Rays (stems) and the Window of Heaven points
• Understanding the relationship of the Yin Wei to descending excess and detoxifying the internal organs and afflictive emotions
• The relationship of the Yin Qiao to the Kundalini and the spiraling energetics of the ascending Shen
• Understanding the relationship of the Yang Wei to the Luo-connecting fibers of the acupuncture channel system

 

 

Weekend Seminars

The Chong and the Dai Seminar

The Du and the Ren Seminar

The Yin Qiao and the Yang Wei Seminar

The Yang Qiao and the Yin Wei Seminar