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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.
Posted on February 9, 2009 by Yael
You know how it is:
You study something you love, get all wrapped up about it and with it, and every now and then you meet people who inspire you in different ways.
Inspiration found it’s way to grace me in a various ways lately.
During my studies, which has been going on for almost 10 years now, I met people who made me think, create new things, learn more and ultimately made me richer.
I have one teacher who has been and still is a great source of inspiration.
But there are also others.
Posted on January 12, 2009 by Yael
I started studying the Stems and Branches this year.
I’ve been waiting to study S&B for 6 years now, and am very excited to finally dive into the world of deep energies, stems, branches and unlike Qi.
I even find the hexagrams to be quite interesting!
This course of course makes all that I heard from Prof. Heiner Fruehauf more sense.
It’s not that Heiner wasn’t clear enough. It’s all me- I didn’t know enough of the basics to fully understand him.
But I’m happy to say- I’m catching up.
Taking the pulse is like riding a bike
On class, last Tuesday, we were talking about the pulse.
It’s not boring, but the amount of information that pulse classes give you can really stagnate your brain.
I always felt some what “stuffed” after each pulse class during my 4 years in school, mainly because the teachers always use many words to convey a certain quality of the pulse.
I don’t blame them of course, it’s quite difficult to teach anything that has to do with the pulse.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by Yael
I’m bouncing back into action after being sick for a week or so.
As it is the end of 2008, it is only right to look back and see what on earth I’ve been upto here on CMNotes!
Turns out, I have some good stuff:
Dr. Leon Hammer is one name that keeps coming up here, as it did since my second year or so of school.
I was lucky enough to have a number of chats with Dr. Hammer over e-mails, and one of the posts I am most proud of is the interview I got to do with him.
One of his students, Ross Rosen, was kind enough to write our very first guest post here on CMNotes, about Chinese Pulse Diagnosis.
Tags: 2008, chinese medicine, chinese medicine books, chinese medicine in 2008
Filed Under: General notes, Heiner notes, Interviews, Julian's book notes, Personal notes, Practitioners notes, Students notes, The Library
Posted on December 3, 2008 by Yael
It’s been a while since I last gave a list of interesting links here on CMNotes.
I know, there’s this category called “weekly links“, and you know as well as me, that it hasn’t been updated for a long long time. The only reason is lack of time.
But here I am now, so let’s make the most of it:
Meet my competitors is a post by Burton Kent, over at Acupuncture Clinic Marketing.
Burton lists the blogs that have good advice on how to help us promote our clinic, and to be quite honest, I think we could all use all the help we can get. 2009 seems to be a nice new year, but could be difficult where finanace is concerned, so I would imagine that those of us who have a clinic would like to get more ideas on how to keep our patients close and how to get new ones.
Posted on August 7, 2008 by Yael
There are 3 things you need when you open your clinic:
1. You really need to know what you’re doing.
2. A place for your clinic.
3. Patients.
Assuming you have the first 2 things, you need to work hard on getting patients.
I already presented a way to market yourself- Never Market Again by Burton Kent provides you with good ideas and strategy to market yourself and get those patients into your clinic.
One of the things Burton talks about, and I feel is a very important thing to have, is a website.
Posted on July 15, 2008 by Yael
Heiner Fruehauf has to be one of the most interesting people in the field of Chinese Medicine today.
His knowledge of Chinese philosophy is like nothing I’ve ever seen before, and I only witnessed 3 lectures by him. But the amount of information that I have from my notes, and the information that keeps echoing even now, almost 4 months after the lectures, makes me realize that I indeed was in the presence of one of the great people in our beautiful field.
Ah, if I could only move Portland Oregon to Israel…
Classical Pearls is a new product line by Heiner Fruehauf, Chinese herbal formulas, based on Fruehauf’s experience and vast knowledge of classical texts. As stated on the Classical Pearls website: “It is the mission of Classical Pearls to launch a return to the classical and clinic-based roots of Chinese herbal medicine”.
Based on classical texts, but these formulas are well adjusted to treat conditions we face in our clinic on a regular basis.
Posted on June 6, 2008 by Yael
Before we dive into the links, I just want to remind you all that you are welcome to submit links to CMNotes’ Weekly Links post. You can do so by sending me the recommended link by e-mail: yael@chinesemedicinenotes.com
The echos of the earthquake in China are still heard, in the form of stories about survivers and the way that are being treated. One example is a treatment with nutrition.
Remember I told you about the 2 Israeli students that were missing after the earthquake? They were found and everything’s well, you can read more about it by clicking here.
Posted on May 30, 2008 by Yael
Don’t tell Eric, but one of the reasons I started blogging in English is the inspiration I got from Deepest Health. And I still am very inspired by Eric and his writing, mainly because I find so much information on his blog that I’ve been looking about CM.
Also, after meeting Heiner Fruehauf in 3 lectures, finding one of his students who provides more about his teachings is like striking gold. That’s a great added bonus.
Posted on April 27, 2008 by Yael
I have 2 reasons to get up in the morning- the first one is my perfect husband. The second reason is my beautiful boy.
My son is almost 16 months old. With every day that goes by he gains more and more space in my heart, and is introducing me to amounts of love I never knew possible. Everything changed for me when that boy came into my life, everything changed in so many levels that I can’t really describe it, it’s one of those things one should experience in order to know what I mean.
I studied CM and knew to describe my path in this very un-clear, multi-paths world that is CM:
I’ll finish school, open a clinic, be an assistant with one of the best known practitioners in the country, continue studying, be a teacher’s assistant…
And then life happened- I finished school (along the way my mother passed away), started my own practice and things were going well, I was looking for the best course to take as a post-graduate course, I was an assistant of a well-known practitioner for a year (not the practitioner I wanted but I managed to learn many things from him, mainly what I don’t want to be as a practitioner) and I was a teacher’s assistant in one of the leading schools in the country. 4 years ago my father passed away and this was the first time I felt my practice is not really something I want to have in my life.
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