Something new in acupuncture education!

Heather Bruce now offers a window into the past. Chock full of practical and contextual content.

Heather has been active in writing course curriculum, content and delivery – educating all levels of acupuncturists for over 30 years. She now is passing on her clinical secrets through this new venture.

A chance to touch some of the masters, who have now gone, but whose wisdom, humanity and sharpness of observation skills and practical decades of experience have sparked another on her quest for excellence.

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For those who have visited this site before, you will notice a new look.
The original content will soon be available here plus a lot more new articles.

Thank you for your patience whilst this is being done.

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 AACMAC 2010

• SUPPORTING PERFECT PREGNANCY
• GENERAL GOOD PLACENTAL FLOW
• HEALING A DAMAGED FINGER /NERVE

Eventually this site will also hold:

• articles – some previously published and others written just for this venture,
• transcripts of past post graduate workshops and 
• the opportunity to be online with a senior acupuncturist who specializes in difficult cases.

Why am I doing this?

Over the few decades I have wanted to give back to the profession, and especially to those coming through who have had no exposure to the masters who inspired me.

Their work is mostly lost as they were considered outside what was being published at the time.

Thus the teachers of Giovanni Maciocia and Dr Leon Hammer, to name a few, are dead and their own voices are silent.

• What they had to offer was not of this evidence based world.
• They worked on the level of spirit and of human – now considered to be that almost ‘bad word’ – anecdotal.
• They were holistic practitioners in a way that we relying on print and data seem to have misplaced.
• They listened. Respectfully – not to the words so much – but the body. 
• Both were stunning pulse masters. 
• Both had their own ways of knowing.

Both were the product of their own quest for answers – that had taken both throughout Asia to gather bits here and there.

• Dr John Shen had a family lineage to start him off.
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Dr van Buren, a questing mind – and an anchoring in osteopathy.

I started an adult teaching degree in order to offer an alternative to the by then medicalised and increasingly spiritless teaching establishments nearly 20 years ago.

It had been my intention to write the text Moving Blockages for graduates back then, but my seemingly constant forays into personal maternity and single motherhood meant that my life tended to get in the way.

Coming back now into more mainstream mentoring by way of the acupuncture forum, I found that what I took to be obvious and to be assumed did not exist.

What was in common sense’s place was, and is, dogma.

Thinking within a framework is not where the strength of our roots in this medicine lie.

How to disengage from the formulaic approach?
How to really see what is in front of you?

‘Hopeless’ / Very Difficult

Often people come to us as the last resort – after everything – especially doing nothing and hoping for the best first – has been trialled.

Possibly what also spurs me on is that one of my children became my full time live-in patient – a massively brain injured and highly autistic baby (now 21 years old). Nothing like seeing it all from the other side.

There is nothing academic, politically correct or ‘evidence based’ about watching all professions duck for cover and hide behind platitudes to get a mother going.

I was shocked by the mediocrity in all forms of medical delivery.

As the issue of maternity and heartfelt living is dear to us all – we were after all all born and loved . . . – I have a fertility/obstetric bent – but not as a medical look alike.

I initially started in infertility (esp male) over 25 years years ago – as I liked having something ‘impossible’ to play with.

Other ‘hopeless’ cases that took a lot of my interest were HIV/AIDS (until the medications took away a lot of the self responsibility required in living with AIDS), and all complications of pregnancy, and of living in emotional upheavals.

I intend to do this by leading the seeker through a course that may appear unusual – but is what we may well have been exposed to had we not followed the academic logic of the western ways of impacting information.

Suggestions

Look to what is in front of you – cut back all the ‘info/data’ and start where you live – as a human with your own feelings – how would whatever coming in be for you?

If you don’t think you ‘know’ the answer – work it through – we all are our own masters if we chose to open to this – not through ego, but through effort on all levels (not primarily logical) – and some of them our own journeying will show us.

We bring far more into a treatment than what they told us in college. We start hopefully with a caring concern.
Forget what which . . . book says and what which . . . style says . . . be present also as a being with an open heart . . .