Over-treatment is not a widely recognized concept in the field of traditional East Asian medicine, but it is useful to consider as it may provide an explanation for what may be occurring when patients fair poorly after a session of acupuncture, or rather than improving during a course of treatment start to experience a deterioration in their wellbeing.
Read moreIn the Weeds: Suggestions on How to Proceed When You Get Stuck
Competency in the Engaging Vitality (EV) palpation techniques takes time to develop. If you are at a place where you are overwhelmingly in the weeds when it comes to practicing this material, and fantasizing about dancing around a bonfire and lobbing your EV notes into it, take heart. We have all been there.
Read moreApplications of Shape of Qi Listening: Part 2
The Engaging Vitality (EV) training offers an opportunity for acupuncturists to bridge the gap between what can very often feel like abstract and often inoperative theory in our East Asian medical tradition and the primacy and immediacy of our clinical reality as it unfolds in our own everyday, ordinary workaday life in the clinic. What can help to bridge this divide is the diligent and dare I say very joyful practice and cultivation of our palpation skills.
Read more5 Essential Reasons to Take the Upcoming Fundamental Course Series in 2020
The Engaging Vitality (EV) training helps practitioners of East Asian medicine learn how to enhance their ability to directly perceive and make clinically effective use of qi in their practice. Now that registration has opened for the upcoming Fundamental Course Series, here are five essential reasons to take this upcoming training opportunity in 2020.
Read more3 Unexpected Ways EV Can Enhance Your Practice
With steady engagement with the EV material and consistent practice and utilization of the palpation techniques, in time anybody can come to discover how the EV material can enhance their practice of acupuncture and herbal medicine, expand their capacity to flexibly approach patient’s problems from a multitude of viewpoints, and deepen their appreciation for the practice of East Asian medicine….
Read moreThanks for the EV Module 3 Course in Portland, OR
Hi EV team,
I wanted to send a thank you to all of you - Rayén, Kailey, Marguerite and Dan for this weekend, as well as the whole course.
The class and toolbox is exactly what I had been looking for! As much as I love Chinese Medicine, I was frustrated by the gap between the theory and the practice, and the absence of a shared palpatory experience and relationship to qi. I've been using what I've learned in the course on all my patients in clinic, and it has been taking some of the "guess work" out of whether or not a treatment is working.
Barcelona 2018 October: Kailey Brennan
This year’s YUFB directly followed a 3-day Visceral Course with Dan Bensky. Dan lead the first day of review and practice while the EV European teachers crew oversaw the second day. For just coming off of a very full few days of training, everyone (and their very juicy livers) were remarkably focused and present.
Read moreKailey Brennan on why study EV Part 2
In school to study acupuncture and East Asian medicine, we start with the fundamentals. We study East Asian medicine’s understanding of the body. We learn about the pathways of the meridians, the concept of the Qi dynamic, the theory of Yin and Yang, the Daoist understanding of humans and their relationship to nature, as well as some of the cultural, historical, political, philosophical and spiritual ideas that influence and undergird this medicine.
Read moreWhy study EV? by Kailey Brennan
Engaging Vitality is a acupuncture and palpation workshop developed and taught by Dan Bensky, Chip Chace, and Marguerite Dinkins. In addition to being longstanding practitioners of Traditional East Asian Medicine, the instructors have extensive training and expertise in osteopathic palpation methods, including visceral manipulation and craniosacral therapy. Engaging Vitality is the product of their many years of deep engagement, study, and practice of these various traditions.
Read moreWhy study EV by Kailey Brennan
I landed in my first Engaging Vitality Module I seminar a month after getting licensed as an acupuncturist. My primary reason for signing up was that I saw it as a chance to develop my palpation skills. I did not come to this profession with a background in any kind of bodywork. Beyond point location and surface anatomy, palpation was not heavily emphasized in my TCM schooling.
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