‘Life is ceaselessly built on rhythms’

Tune your treatments to the interactions of the multiple cycles from nature and the interaction of the energies of heaven of earth. You will learn how to put all of this together to great effect in the clinic. Roisin will give you the benefit of her lifetime of clinical experience in applying these principles and help you navigate the complexity to find the clear, simple reality behind. You will learn from practical case studies and histories in how to apply the principles. These cycles include:

• the day/night cycle
• the annual cycles of the seasons and the 24 solar terms
• the lunar cycle
• the life cycle – birth, growth, reproduction, ageing
• the ten heavenly stems and their relationship to the five elements
• the twelve earthly branches and their relationship to the six divisions
• the interaction of guest and host division energies
• the interaction of heaven and earth energies
• the five great movements and the six qi
• the sexagesimal sequence of the heavenly stems and earthly branches

This knowledge is compatible with any acupuncture style or approach. It is not a style or a system, rather foundational knowledge, grounded in the classics, which can lead you to better understand the energies at work in the here and now within your patient. It will help you enhance the way you already practice acupuncture.

Huang-Lao Daoist acupuncture illuminates the cosmological framework of Heaven Earth and Humanity and brings into much greater clarity certain core Chinese medicine concepts e.g. the tai chi symbol; the five elements; the association between the organs and the elements; the four seas and their treatments; the eight extraordinary meridians; pulses in the three regions; creation; reproduction and fertility.

You will gain a much deeper appreciation of many familiar Chinese medicine concepts and be able to put the knowledge you already have into a context where each gains a greater resonance and meaning.

You will learn about the measurement of time and cycles and their application in the clinic but will go beyond simple ‘rules’ to explore time in a wider context and through this exploration come to a profound understanding of the basic principles of Chinese medicine.

Take your acupuncture and Chinese medicine knowledge to the next level, gain clarity and precision in treatment, improve your patient results and place your existing Chinese medicine knowledge within the context of the cycles of the universe and the Dao to step closer to truly perceiving the harmony of the spheres!

Over the course of 6 weekends, you will learn how to use these cycles and deepen your knowledge into classical acupuncture. The final weekend will be fully practical full of case studies and assisting you to put it all into practice.

ALL SESSIONS ARE IN PERSON, LIVE ONLINE AND RECORDED FOR VIEWING AFTERWARDS

Weekend 1 - Acupuncture, Time & the Five Elements - Yellow River Map; Effect of Solar and Lunar Cycles on Blood and Qi

Weekend 2 - Heaven, Earth, Human; the tai chi symbol, the four seas and treatments, eight extra meridians, fertility, pulses of the three regions, point selection.

Weekend 3 - Six Divisions: divisions in body space, time and in blood and qi; five element associations, climates, and disharmonies; host division sequence and symptoms; progression of fever; guest Heaven and guest Earth, Heaven/Earth balancing; left and right balancing; reproduction and fertility.

Weekend 4 - Ten Great Movements & Ten Heavenly Stems: Great movements and five elements, arrival times and changes; balanced and imbalanced energies; ten stem organs interaction with ten great movements; sheng and ke interactions; symptoms; stem treatments.

Weekend 5 - Twelve Earthly Branches & Putting it All Together: Timing of 12 branches; inner energy and organ element; branch sheng cycle; meridian body placement and calendrical considerations. Putting all the information together for diagnosis and treatment - stem organ, great movement, guest heaven and guest earth, side energies in relation to each element. Four pillars chart.

Weekend 6 - Special Combinations of Elements  & Case Study Day: Consolidation weekend with practical considerations, completing the energy calculator disc and going through your own case histories.

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Roisin is an experienced acupuncturist and teacher who has devoted her life to studying and mastering time and space in acupuncture practice from a Huang-Lao Daoist perspective. She is the author of 'The Complete Stems and Branches: Time and Space in Classical Acupuncture' as well as many other published articles in a number of journals.

Roisin originally trained at the International College of Oriental Medicine (ICOM) in the UK in 1983 and continued her studies with great teachers such as Giovanni Maciocia, Michael McIntyre and Mazin Al-Khafaji. However, she came to appreciate that the classics had much more within them than had been taught on standard courses. Driven by a desire to understand the place of time, astronomy and Han dynasty cosmology within acupuncture she embarked on a journey of discovery and research to attempt to restore these important elements back to clinical practice.

Roisin has previously taught acupuncture in Los Angeles at the Royal University of Acupuncture and has run several courses on Huang-Lao acupuncture in the UK. She has spoken at a wide variety of conferences including the 3rd Conference of 'Chinese Medicine in the West', in Yunnan, China, as well as at the British Conference of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture.

This course is a culmination of a lifetime of study and practice and a unique opportunity for Roisin to pass on her learning from both a theoretical and practical perspective.