I have placed the information on this site to help those who are sometimes wondering if they have lost their way.
Often when with a patient we can forget the obvious, so caught up in their story, or our story, what we think we are supposed to be doing, what we were told to do, what the books say is important – and sometimes the answer is there looking back at us.
There is a focus in this work – clearing blockages.
On all levels.
Firstly – calm the Shen – and at the same time - why is the body not healing itself?
All else will be worked through by the body – something has stymied its own healing efforts.
Why am I doing this?
Partly to give back to the profession. I have learned much from following a couple of now dead masters about and incorporating their information and ways of working in my own practice. Their work was not published. They had filled their lives with actual observation. Studying patients and learning through personal observation – developing their models to fit and really being masters of their own very different styles of pulse taking. No statistics – all anecdotal and based upon building their own pulse and body diagnostics patterns. All explainable not through systems models now studied, but through their own –(gleaned from over 60 years in both cases), lives of being people students and healers. (See more)
After 30 years of listening to all manner of seminars, workshops and other people’ experiences, I am ready to add my own hat into the ring. I ‘retired’ several years ago – and could not stay silent, so I am back again.
I personally have taken acupuncture in to our context – touching and listening and being there as a person is central to what I do with needles. Often vibrational essences or the Aura Soma range make people through and beyond where they are stick. I have tried to stay on target with ‘just’ acupuncture unless the shifts were too important - as we do find – emotion and being stuck there account for most of why healing is awaiting something. Often it may be just the listener to acknowledge their pain and their journey. Often it may be as magic as ‘this point does that’.
The consequences of many modern issues have meant that it can sometimes be seen that the Emperor has no clothes on. The scrabble for validation through academic means; publication - especially rather than solid and inspired clinical work has meant that those wishing to be acupuncturists often get taught by those who actually do not like patients /cannot actually do the job – hence to utilise their training – they teach.
This is not helped by the lack of financial compensation and the personal aggravation that trying to turn a large educational business devoted to keeping itself going, rather than being there to improve the state of gradates and post graduate education – and hence the profession. To this end, this former undergraduate course designer, lecturer, mentor and senior clinician has decided to assist those who are struggling, at any stage of their professional interface with acupuncture, by sharing how she sees through what may be obscuring, to the clarity decades of practice can afford.
Upcoming Seminar
Heather is presenting a group of practical and inspiring works this year – starting with
HEALING AFTER BIRTHING in Lyttleton, Christchurch area, NZ
Sunday July 25th Click here for the Information Brochure
For a full outline of what subjects we will cover on the day, see the Healing After Birthing page.
This will be expanded into a weekend workshop “Transformation, initiation and Birthing” presented two weeks later in the Maleny, Qld area, second weekend in August.
From there, Heather will be writing and presenting Moving Blockages 1, ‘Matters of the Heart’ – a review of being woman in today’s world
and ‘The Role of Metabolism in Women’s Lives and Maternity’ – to complete the obstetric/fertility set she already has. (The obstetric/fertility practitioner materials are available here)
Major issues I seek to address prior to any ‘diagnosis’:
1 - Calm the Shen
2 - Move the Blockages.
Often they go together – and often all that we need to do is listen /be there.
Often there is nothing left to do – as what was blocking healing is now out of the way.
We may not need to go through the mental exercises of deciding what box they fit into. This is hard to teach in the industrial educational model. It is much simpler to teach as people do not appear in real life – and that is what is happening. People are not discreet symptom pictures – they are dynamic, random and move with the tides of life. Segments of information delivered in units are not conducive to where we need to head when trying to problem solve in clinic.
You may have tried to work it through – you may have lots of different apparently important texts in front of you. I am suggesting closing them all – how do you know that person is any use in practice anyway – being published infers nothing other than having connections.
The person who is employing you needs your full attention. Training yourself to think and to gather and garner what is real is your life’s task. I am suggesting possibly watching how I dealt with these issues so long ago, through observing masters far advanced from me may be a help to you.
Hence, regardless of you experience with acupuncture and its practice, I am suggesting that these simple rules can be used immediately in your own practice and the results are there immediately also.
Some of the work here will be as before. There is a great amount I have nearly finished so if you have fond this site recently, I suggest you keep tabs on it as there are a large number of photographic essays to be downloaded, and these will happen over the next few weeks. My real project is to get a text (eBook style probably) up for pregnancy and this also needs the publication of the Eight Extras and the Moving Blockages work that precedes it – hence the diverse nature of the cases presented. They are all real, they are all written from the wholistic (human) perspective. If this style is offensive – possibly the actual clinical side of practice may also be. People live in a mess – of expectations, behaviours, memories and pain. We are all there together. What is different about this work is that I recognise this, and that we are all patients and all teachers – and the insights gained from watching others does actually give us as clinicians a huge help in our own personal undoing our own lives.
Article - Scars and What We May Do in the Papers and Videos download section presents several real world case studies illustrating why it is important to get flow moving first, before focussing on diagnosis.
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