A Review of EV
By Bob Quinn, DAOM, L.Ac.

I have taken the basic EV three-module course twice and the EV Visceral course once. Additionally, I have had other opportunities to study with Chip Chace and Dan Bensky.

As a seminar-hosting company co-owner for the last 12 years I have had the opportunity to study with many great practitioners, and this has been a great blessing in my life. The EV training is somehow of an entirely different character that I struggle to adequately capture in words. It is subtle but grounded work.

My bachelor's degree was in German literature, and it was in this context that I first met the work of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe, beyond his notable literary accomplishments, was a scientist in his day with a unique perspective. I mention him here because one thing he wrote about his approach to science seems to me to apply to the EV style:

My thinking is a perception and my perception, a thinking.

In EV as I understand it and practice it, we are in the business of elevating our perceptual abilities, so that these perceptions might lead us to a generally quite minimalistic treatment that will help our patients. Using the techniques of EV assessment I find myself quite often treating at points and on channels that normal discursive thought never would have led me to. I love this about EV, that it surprises me. I see it as a method of getting the patient's body to speak to me with specificity. And it is surprisingly effective—and fun and exciting and challenging.

I encourage those who are ready to be challenged to give close consideration to taking the EV Basic Training.