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 moreApplications of Shape of Qi Listening: Part 1
Shape of Qi (SOQ) Listening is one of the core theoretical concepts and palpation techniques taught in Engaging Vitality. It was first outlined by Charles “Chip” Chace, one of the main developers of EV. SOQ Listening is Chip’s rendering of the osteopathic concept of neutral which was developed by William Garner Sutherland, an important figure in the development of osteopathic medicine and cranial osteopathy in the west.
Read moreTransmitting Engaging Vitality
One of the things we like best about the Engaging Vitality approach is that it is an excellent milieu for examining our own process, our assumptions about what we are doing at every stage of our practice. We are not only cultivating our capacity to listen to our patient’s qi…
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….
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