Archive for June, 2009
Posted on June 29, 2009 by Yael
The concept of Community Acupuncture (CA) has been introduced to me by Roy Green Pach at the beginning of the year.
Roy wrote a wonderful article for my website in Hebrew, and the reaction to it was overwhelming. It’s amazing to me that little ol’ Israel can be a part of a great movement in real time and not in a delay of a number of years! And it’s true- we have a growing number of practitioners that practice CA, and more and more people are interested in the model, and the proof is that that particulare article was probably one of the most popular in my website.
Roy approached me and together we set up a blog for CA, all in Hebrew, and people are interested- asking questions, enjoying his thoughts- and yeah, it helps that he’s a great writer. Recently Roy interviewed Lisa Rohleder, the practitioner from Portland who started it all, for his blog. Lisa felt she needed a change, as you will soon read, and she made that change: She started out with 12 patients back in 2002, and experimented a lot with the model she created.
Years later, Lisa is now seeing about 400 patients a week, charging about $15-$40 per treatment, and along with her husband Skip, she has one of the biggest clinics in the USA. I thought that it would be wonderful if that interview would be posted on CMNotes as well, as I know that CA is gaining more and more popularity around the world. I also think it’s important to let practitioners know that they have an option. Things can be different for them. Things are changing in our world, including marketing strategies and our clinics and how we run them are no exception. So I’m really happy to be part of this spirit of change, and I hope that it will strike a chord with you too! Enjoy.
Posted on June 21, 2009 by Yael
I am very happy to post this review by Yael Saslove.
Yael is a known practitioner in Israel for various reasons- she’s one of the pioneers in our community who specialized in Chinese Medicine Gynecology, one of the first teachers of Chinese Medicine Gynecology in Israel, she also taught Chinese herbs and she’s a very busy practitioner.
She’s been this busy for years, and manages to juggle it all with family life, smiles, kindness and modesty.
I knew that if I will get her seal of approval of Jane Lyttelton’s courses I can be 150% sure that these courses offer real practical information for practitioners, and that it’s all good- really good.
I feel proud that one of my more important teachers of Chinese Medicine obliged to write on my humble blog, and that I can give you an expert’s opinion on an online course which is only a few mouse clicks away.
I hope this review helps you on your professional path.
Posted on June 15, 2009 by Yael
Three months ago I wrote about Acupuncture and Twitter.
It’s interesting to see how we can promote our websites and blogs through Twitter and Facebook. I mean, what does Chinese Medicine have to do with the Internet??
The more I’m working with my websites in Hebrew, and the more I write on CMNotes and promoting them with the tools mentioned above, I understand that the Internet is a great way for us to spread the good word of Chinese Medicine.
Another wonderful thing that’s happening is meeting collegues from around the world.
Before the Internet, this was a thing that could only happen if you could afford a trip to a conference, but not anymore. Thanks to the Internet, we can now sit at home and meet people on the other side of the globe, people who are interested in Chinese Medicine, people who are going through the same things we are, career-wise, and that is, to me, a very valuable thing.
We can also share information, this way we can find out about an interesting research that is being done in a different country, or about a book that is being written and might be really interesting. I love it- don’t you?
Posted on June 9, 2009 by Yael
We’ve been thinking about it for a while, that it’s time to refresh our look.
Call us Madonna, that’s just fine by me, but it was time for a change. We’re still not done with all the changes we want to make, but you can now see what we have in mind.
We’re still working on more stuff, and they will be joining the new look slowly but surely. I want to point you to the direction of a number of new and renewed features:
1. Status bar: on the top right side of the website, you will find a new status bar (you can call it my own personal Twitter bar). This will give you an idea of what goes on in my life between posts.
Posted on June 4, 2009 by Yael
One of two courses I’m taking this year talks about the Five Elements and the Shen.
I feel it’s one of the most important courses/seminars/classes I have attended. Both subjects are deeply interesting, and at least here in Israel, there aren’t many practitioners who can tell us a lot about it. Portland’s got Heiner. The UK had Dr. Van Buren.
We have Yair Maimon.
I know Yair for 10 years now. He started out as my practitioner and quickly turned to my biggest inspiration in Chinese Medicine and my greatest teacher of the field.
After 8 years of continuing nagging and begging, he finally started a course last December, which is quickly approaching it’s end, and I feel truly blessed and a bit sad that’s it’s about to become a memory.
Still, I learn so much each lesson. And though Yair emphasizes the practical clinical part of things, I find true happiness in the theoretical part of it.
