Articles in the Spirit of Chinese Medicine
These articles are available as free pdf downloads for your personal use and professional study.
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Point Project. These are transcripts of Thea's teachings on various acupuncture points, which are funded by purchase. Whenever you purchase one of these point transcripts, the funds go into a special account that pays for Thea to
take time off from practice and teaching to do more point writing!
Please do not duplicate, except for short excerpts for publication, credited to the author.
Of interest to anyone, regardless of training:
Workshop transcript part one.
Workshop transcript part two.
A transcript of the Perennial Medicine audio CD.
A transcript of a workshop on the spirit of Summer
A speech about Individuality and community and the skills of Belonging;
keynote address Building Bridges 2007.
OCOM graduation address
Of interest to practitioners
An explanation of 5 Element terminology, and how it combines with diagnosis and treatment.
A description of standard 5 E protocols, without JR's stamp of approval.
Transcript of Water lecture
Wood and Healing: To live is to grow
Catharsis and Safety
Excess patterns in Wood.
Treating the illusions and pathologies of romantic love.
Perspectives on sexuality in Chinese medicine
Client-practitioner boundaries
An exploration of client-practitioner "boundaries" in small community life.
Every illness has a transformation of virtue, and cancer is no exception.
Cancer is a water/wood illness that is characterized by growth that has gone awry and and refuses to die—even at the expense of the body’s own health and integrity. Its virtue is the capacity for healthy mutation—the ability to grow beyond our former selves, and the willingness to ‘die’ in order to survive, rather than sacrifice holism.
Part Two explores the energetic reasoning behind specific herbal strategies used to treat cancer, as well as both literal and metaphoric/energetic approaches that can be used with other modalities of treatment.
- Acupuncture point commentaries
The Whole Heart Acupuncture perspective on acupuncture points and needling.
An in-depth look at the functions of the Gall bladder points on the head.
A transcript of a highly interactive teaching of GB-9
(from Whole Heart Acupuncture '08)
Some reflections on the acupuncture point Stomach 15.
This piece is an exploration of owning our talents, marketing and showing off in the service of art and truth in daily life.
An exploration of the issue of non-compliance or "resistance" in clients
The spirit of si jun zi tang.
The Lung and zhe bei mu fritillaria
