Archive for the Interviews Category
Posted on July 27, 2009 by Yael
The first me I heard Richard Goodman’s name was through a comment on a previous post about books here on CMNotes.
AncinetDoc mentioned Richard’s book, and I started sniffing around.
Pretty soon I started following Richard on a regular basis through his blog and through Twitter, mainly because he talks about interesting things, and also because he’s really a nice guy.
Richard, 34, started law school and switched to his true calling, studying Chinese medicine.
His journey is an interesting one, one that took him from the USA to Taiwan and got him writing books to help people read and understand the classical Chinese texts, such as Classical Chinese Medical Texts Vol. I
.
Vol. II is in the making as I write this post.
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 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 September 24, 2008 by Yael
It was just a matter of time until I would interview Peter Deadman.
After all- it’s Peter Deadman- the big blue book, the JCM…. This is definitely one of those names you learn to say really fast as of the first year in studying Chinese Medicine. And the name continues to be with us as we grow with our career.
Peter Deadman is the founder of Infinity Foods in England.
He studied Chinese Medicine with Dr. Van Buren at the International College of Oriental Medicine and has a clinic in Brighton. Deadman founded the Journal of Chinese Medicine 29 years ago, which became the most important journal of Chinese Medicine in the west. The JCM is also a publication, the most famous book to come of this publication is A Manual of Acupuncture
, a must have textbook in most colleges throughout the world.
In addition, Peter Deadman was a member of The Matzos, a band in which he played the violin.
Posted on September 2, 2008 by Yael
It’s been quiet lately here on CMNotes.
Things have been really crazy around here this summer, and I must share with you- I am at a crossroads and not really sure of how things will continue on CMNotes.
I do know that I love the platform and continue to write, but what are my goals? What do I want to achieve with CMNotes?
Of course, I have obvious reasons to write- I enjoy it, I love Chinese Medicine, I love connecting with all of you and I love to spread the good word of Chinese Medicine around the world, even if I am from little ol’ Israel. Is there more? Do I need more? Can I do more?
These are the things I need to figure out.
One of the things that I hope will help me come to some conclusions (even 1 will be enough!) is looking through at what I have already uploaded here on the blog.
One way to do this is to see what went on here on August:
Posted on August 21, 2008 by Yael
The first ICCM in Israel brought Peter Mole to the promised land.
That was the first time I heard his name, but my mentor told me that if I’m interested in 5 Elements (which I am), I shouldn’t miss Peter’s lecture.
Peter Mole was an instant hit with all of us.
His wonderful humor and his obvious love for Chinese Medicine captured us all, and the fact that there’s someone who is a graduate of 5 Elements that mixes that with TCM was an amazing bonus.
Israel is very TCM, and very Stems and Branches. But 5 Elements sort of got lost- it is a must subject to cover during our 4 basic years of study, but it doesn’t stand alone like the other two I mentioned.
I don’t know why that is really…
Posted on June 3, 2008 by Yael
Phillippe Siounneau is not a well known name here in Israel.
If practitioners know him, it’s mainly for his books, but that’s about it.
A few years ago I thought that having an interview with him would be a good way to get to know him, and indeed we exchanged e-mails, in which he appeared very kind and generous in sharing his ideas about Chinese Medicine.
I don’t know how well known he is abroad, I hope you will find this interview with him interesting enough to read and also give his books a chance to impress you- if they still haven’t.
Phillippe Sionneau is a French practitioner.
He was born in 1967, in France.
He received his B.A in Economics in 1983 and on 1986 he received a diploma in naturopathy from the R. Masson Institute.
In 1994 Sionneau finished his studies at Hubei College of Chinese Medicine, in Wuhan in China and received his B.Sc degree. This year also marked the beginning of his clinical work in various clinics in Paris, Geneva and Barcelona.
Over time, Sionneau became a well known practitioner in Europe, teaching across Europe- mainly France, Spain and Switzerland. He also practices different methods of Qi Gong.
Over the years, Sionneau wrote about 20 books, some of them on his own and some along with Bob Flaws.
In the end of this post I will present a few of his books.
Posted on May 20, 2008 by Yael
Tong Ze Bu Tong, Bu Tong Ze Tong- so claims an old wise Chinese saying- free flow- no pain; no free flow- pain.
One of the first things on which Chinese Medicine is based upon is the free flow of Qi and Blood in the body.
Gua Sha is a 5,000 year old technique, and by applying it one can move stagnations of Qi and Blood in different areas of the body and encourage free flow to those areas.
Along with cupping, these techniques do not recieve the proper attention during the 4 CM school years in the west. I chose to talk about Gua Sha in this post, as it is a simple enough technique to use, but is very powerful and can help you help your patients a great deal.
Gua- rubbing; Sha- “reddish, elevated, millet-like skin rash, aka petechiae” (1).
Gua Sha is mostly used when we have pain in muscles, but from the name we can understand that we can use this technique when we want to improve the Blood flow in the entire body, in cases of chronic pain, tiredness, cough and more.
Posted on May 7, 2008 by Yael
During the second Israeli Congress of Chinese Medicine (ICCM), we had a lecture and seminar with Barbara Kirschbaum.
If there will ever be a need to describe the term “cool chick”, Barbara Kirschbaum would easily be the first candidate that comes to my mind.
As fate wanted it, I suddenly found myself on a lunch date with Barbara.
I already had my lunch and Barbara had a bit of salad, black coffee and a cigarette.
Very quickly I asked her the question that she probably heard a thousand times: how did you come to be an expert on tongue diagnosis? You wake up one morning and decide that this is the way to go?
Of course the answer to that second part is no, and she told me the short version of the story- becoming an expert on tongue diagnosis came from her practice, she checks the pulse too but relays on the veins under the tongue, she has ten of thousands pictures of tongues from her clinic, she thinks the tongue diagnosis is much more accurate than the pulse diagnosis, the way that tongue diagnosis is being taught around the world is wrong, the very little attention the tongue diagnosis receives throughout the world is very wrong, and she stumbled upon Chinese Medicine almost by accident- she was a television engineer, and on one journey near Tibet, a monk told her she should quite simply that she was meant to work in Chinese Medicine.
Posted on April 17, 2008 by Yael
Yes, it’s time for part 3 of the “magical mystery tour” aka The Heiner Experience.
It is almost a month since Heiner visited Israel and his lectures and the whole vibe still echos in my heart and brain. I came to the point of frustration (will bring you up-to-date about that in a later post), knowing that the person I want to study from is, well, a bit *too* far from where I am.
Nuts.
I asked Heiner to send me his answers to my questions again, and he graciously did so, so now I can share it with you.
Just so you’ll know, as this was an interview for the ICCM congress here in Israel, it is more about Heiner and CM in general, we did not go into specifics.
Maybe next time.
Still, I think it’s an interesting interview and I am happy to share it with you, as part of the whole Heiner Experience.
Enjoy!
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