Rayén Antón
Rayén started her path into chinese medicine in 2002 and 4 years later she graduated as full TCM practitioner by the Fundación Europea de Medicina Tradicional China in Barcelona. Since 2004 she continued studying various types of Japanese acupuncture with Stephen Birch learning Manaka style, Meridian Therapy, Shonishin, and graduated as Toyohari practitioner with the European Branch of Toyohari Association.
In 2011 started her path with Engaging Vitality studying with Charles Chace and Dan Bensky, and she fully integrated the Engaging Vitality approach into her practice ever since, when she also started coordinating the Engaging Vitality spanish study groups. She's been teaching EV Basic Training Module 1 since 2015, and in 2018 Charles Chace passed her the torch for Module 3 and the intermediate level class on Ba Mai and Fluids.
She has been working with Prof. Manuel Rodríguez since 2003 as part of his clinical team, and since 2005 as TA for his TCM, Manaka, Meridian Therapy and Pediatric trainings in Barcelona.
Since 2010 she added running her private acupuncture practice.
She has been coordinator and practitioner, as well as trainer, in programs in refugee camps during 2015-2017 and has participated in other acupuncture projects as such in the past.
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Ferdinand Beck
Ferdinand is learning Chinese Medicine, acupuncture and other related topics since 1995. He has been introduced to the Engaging Vitality® approach by Charles Chace and Dan Bensky in 2011, where he now teaches basic classes, assists intermediate classes and supervises study groups. His clinical background ranges from TCM to Japanese Toyohari acupuncture, as well as visceral manipulation in the tradition of J.P. Barral. All now incorporated within the Engaging Vitality® framework. Ferdinand maintains a private practice near Munich, Germany.
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Manuel Rodriguez
Manuel has been in the East Asian medicine field since 1992, coming from a background of Aikido and other east asian martial arts.
He's now a practitioner and teacher of Acupuntura Biodinámica Clásica, Paediatric acupuncture and care, Dr. Manaka's yin-yang balancing method, Meridian Therapy, Engaging Vitality® and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Manuel received his graduate and postgraduate from Beijing Yiyao Daxue (University of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacopea), specializing in Manaka, Shonishin and Toyohari methods.
Invited teacher at Universidad Finis Terrae (Chile) and EIMCO (Chile), Director of Master on Pediatric Acupuncture (FEMTC).
President of Asociación de Acupuntura Clásica.
Author of "Pediatría en Medicina China" (2008). "Cuídalos" (2008), "Teoría básica de la MTC" (2011), "Estandar Internacional Chino-Español, Nomenclatura básica de Medicina China" (2011), "Restoring Order in Health and Chinese Medicine" (2104), Acupuntura Biodinámica Clásica (2016), Tratamiento de Síntomas (2017), and Preparación del acupuntor. (2017). Several papers and translations in specialized journals of TEAM.
Codirector of Social Clinic (Barcelona).
Currently living in Barcelona, Manuel has managed his own practice since 1999, and teaches in Spain as well as in Latin América.
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Felix de Haas
Felix has studied and practiced East Asian medicine for over 30 years . His own journey has been through different aspects of East Asian Medicine with a strong focus on the classics and the surrounding body of East Asian philosophical literature and history.
He has studied and practiced different approaches to acupuncture and herbal medicine including, Chinese and Japanese forms such as 5 element acupuncture, Manaka, and Toyohari. He has also studied the underlying Chinese philosophy, the history of Chinese Medicine, as well as forms of Inner Cultivation. The last decade he has specialized in the Engaging Vitality® approach.
Felix has studied with several outstanding masters including Francois Ramakers, Bob Flaws, Stephen Birch, Yanagista Sensei, Takai Sensei, Dan Bensky , Charles Chace and Volker Scheid.
He has two clinics in the Netherlands and teaches the basic module program of Engaging Vitality® as well as the intermediate modules on the Mid-space and Ignition. He also teaches postgraduate courses about the philosophical and historical aspects of Traditional East Asian Medicine. He is a co-author of the upcoming book on Engaging Vitality® with Dan Bensky, Charles Chace and Rayén Antón.
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Bart Wintjes
Bart is an acupuncturist with more than 25 years of clinical experience. He started 30 years ago as a physiotherapist and manual therapist. Originally Bart followed the Anglo Dutch Program given by Ted Kaptchuk for acupuncturists and herbalists. After that he further studied orthomolecular nutrition, and then continued deepening into different Japanese acupuncture styles as Toyohari and Manaka taught by Steven Birch, Junko Ida and Toyo Hari’s Advanced program.
He studied frequently with Japanese Masters such as Yanagista Sensei and Takai Sensei. He has integrated and applied all his learned matter into practice.
Along with Felix de Haas, in 2011 Bart started studying with Charles Chace and later with Dan Bensky. Since 2014 he has been a teaching assistant and instructor at the Engaging Vitality® core trainings.
Bart has a practice in Friesland, Netherlands.
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Jack Radner
Jack Radner has been studying and working with Engaging Vitality palpation practices since starting his studies at Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (then SIOM) in 2000. He has maintained a busy community acupuncture practice in Amherst Massachusetts and has practiced at the Student Health Services at UMass Amherst since 2006.
He has studied this material extensively with Dan Bensky, Chip Chace, Marguerite Dinkins and Rayen Anton, and he continues to study. He has taught and assisted in teaching Engaging Vitality since 2016.