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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 28 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.
COLD - HOW IT PREVENTS HEALING . . .
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Inside you will find notes, videos and slides from these workshops:
AACMAC 2007 Brisbane: Looking at the Obvious: Jing (Fertility) & Microclimates (Cold)
AACMAC 2008 SYDNEY: Periods/Fertility, Pregnancy and Loving - the Missing Link
Abstract of this presentation:
Periods/Fertility, Pregnancy and Loving - the Missing Link
It is often that we can be so caught up in therapeutic possibilities that we can miss the obvious. With our medico and pseudo Chinese hats on, academic lenses inserted and evidence based boxed-in thoughts, we can be blind to simple causation and hence rectification.
In all aspects of health and women's lives, sometimes the Stuck Liver Qi that festers and eventually ends up in named medical conditions may be as simple to resolve as having a few orgasms. With or without Mr Right.
She may well be having sex - BUT does she want it, is she actually feeling it, and releasing during? If not - why not? What is this doing to the state of her Liver Qi, the meridians that course through the areas, and what is 'excess' sex anyway?
To investigate what we have been too polite to ask about may give the answers to her particular puzzle. It may well be why breast lumps and cancers are still remaking themselves, why periods are still problematic and why babies are just not happening and why she still gets all the symptoms that those herbs she took really SHOULD have cleared up.
We will wander through the pelvic structure and the meridians that flow through the erogenous zones - what can block flow through them - on all levels - what may be underneath and what we can do about it.
AACMAC 2010
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.
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 . . . |
