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Steven Alpern, L.Ac., practices acupuncture and Chinese medicine as applied clinical philosophy. He is also a teacher, author and speaker. His efforts to discern the nature of individual health draw upon the classics of Chinese medicine and several historical traditions and specialties. Learn more...Subscribe by Email
Category Archives: Seminar Discussions
It’s Great Having Acupuncture Students in the Series
… because students are SO studious, and want to be clear on the info. I think it was Sesame who showed me an illustration of the L.I. sinew channel that connected all the way to the upper thoracic spine. My comment at the time was that I use it all the way to the medial [...]
San Diego Channel Series Begins
Wow! Thank you all for coming, and contributing to the start of what I hope will be a great series! Enjoy working with the ideas we discussed, and post questions and comments relative to the Sunday seminar — the first day on the primary channels — after this posting. I’ll respond to some of them [...]
Teaching the Soul of Classical Chinese Medicine
Give a man a fish to feed him for a day; teach him to fish to feed him for a lifetime! I’m committed to sharing the wealth of classical Chinese medicine, which I’ve been able to learn through the generous teachings of Jeffrey Yuen. Yet, Jeffrey doesn’t make it easy – The sage is not [...]
Some Treatments Are Plain as Day
Stagnant blood is the somatic version of unresolved emotional conflicts. Who doesn’t have any of those? No attachment to having your way? Don’t think your way is the right way? Well, I don’t believe contemporary people come close to that stringent standard of spiritual liberation. We have too much apparent (temporal) power, and generally fail [...]
Practicing Health Care
A few weeks ago, I taught a weekend continuing education seminar for acupuncturists on the channel divergences, which have central importance for both understanding and reversing progressive and degenerative disease. Early in that seminar, I posed the following question, which I believe lay deep in the soul of many health care practitioners: Do you want [...]
Also posted in Channel Divergences and Distinctions, Health Care Policy, Personal Tagged embodied spirit, healing process 2 Comments
Are they Divergent Channels or Channel Divergences?
I say potāto and you say potäto… Does any of it really matter? I talked with Andy Ellis a few days ago, who brought to me the question posed in the title of this posting. He mentioned that according to Chinese syntax and usage, the translated name should be “channel divergences,” rather than the commonly [...]
Also posted in Channel Divergences and Distinctions Tagged dormancy, normative standards, progressive/degenerative disease 2 Comments
Wonders Never Cease!