Further elaboration on the topic of palpating the fluids written by Rayén Antón, an Engaging Vitality teacher based in Barcelona, in response to participant questions she received during May 8th’s Online Study Group.
Read moreYing and Wei in Relation to the Qi Jing Ba Mai
Below you will find a generous follow-up written by Felix de Haas, an Engaging Vitality teacher based in The Hague, in response to a question he received from a participant about how the Ying and Wei are related to the Qi Jing Ba Mai.
Read moreSome Questions from Participants in April 3, 2020 Online Study Group
Dan Bensky, EV Core Developer, wrote out answers to a couple of pre-submitted questions for the April online study group.
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 moreObituario de Chip Chace
Este artículo es un obituario para el practicante de medicina del este asiático, autor y maestro Charles 'Chip' Chace.
Por: Dan Bensky y Craig Mitchell
Applications 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 moreBob Quinn on EV
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.
Read moreBlue Poppy newsletter: QUINNSESSENTIALS
The first Japanese style of treatment I learned is called Manaka’s Yin-Yang Channel Balancing. If you have heard of ion-pumping cords, it is the style that incorporates the use of these tools in a multi-step process. Dr. Yoshio Manaka, MD was a giant figure in modern Japanese AOM until his passing in 1989. He published many books, articles, and research papers, always demonstrating his probing mind and innovative thinking…
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.
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