REAL WOMEN’S LIVES – TODAY’S LIFE CONSEQUENCES OF YESTERDAY’S ACTIONS/BEHAVIOURS

Heather aims to expand and integrate your present knowledge and clinical tools, and to assist with this, she will include a practical component within this course. The very next day in clinic you will notice the difference in your usual approach.

DAY ONE: Mapping the body, and the pelvis

1 - A fresh look at the fields and flows that govern a woman’s life, covering all meridians and chakras and how common life experiences impact and distort the original blueprints, creating blockages that withhold a woman from fully developing into her potential.

• How do scars and the residue on all levels from accidents, and surgeries influence the woman’s energy flow?
• at what level do these blockages exist?
• and using our theoretical background - what kind of choices do we have in offering an effective acupuncture/TCM treatment?
• What sort of additional skills might be useful (abdominal massage, pelvic openings, and scar normalization, joint mobilization) to get back to the normal qi and blood flow?

2 - Normal cycle and life unfolding
Normal metabolism and hormonal disruption - how all, and especially women are influenced by modern toxicity; the demands of civilization and her own life practices/ background.

3 - What creates a deviation from the textbook blueprint?
Life script – which level and how to gracefully negotiate our own, to assist others?
Unresolved life/emotional issues – esp. as these pop up as new issues at transitional times (birthing especially), for clearance.
Cold entry – and how we do it incrementally in everyday life and miss it,
Mal-nutrition in the midst of plenty,

4 - Stuck Liver Qi
The overall condition of Stuck Liver Qi :
• How it pervades a woman’s life; and
• The need to recognize and release the inner rage and
• How to foster sexual and relationship tools to assist continual easy Liver qi flow.

5 - The role of lovers/our children’s fathers – at all stages of this process.
A lot of women have shut down at different levels - the incidents behind this can be long buried. How do we allow qi to flow when women may have a deeply held shame/ guilt and horror of being a woman? How do we help them when they in fact don’t want to feel, or even do not want to be here as the pain from a heart break, a betrayal or life in general is all too invasive?

Knowing what we can use to release the Stuck Liver Qi, we can normalize the menstrual flow, enhance the reproductive years and ease the aging process, allowing a better quality life and love of actually being a woman.

DAY TWO: Well pregnancy leading into happy, easy babies and mothers.

1 - Normal pregnancy – its path and management, through the eyes of the Dr. John Shen model. Dr John Shen has been known as a modern pulse diagnosis master. (See also Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis). His ways of thinking of the 4 phases of a woman’s life and the major changes in it and the impact of life experiences on a person’s life and how to maximize jing unfolding underpins all that Heather presents, and she will explain this as we go along.

2 - Deviations from the ordinary life script such as: not achieving or staying pregnant, threatened early labour and its avoidance, various pregnancy hiccups, recovering from birth related trauma.

What kind of markers can we distinguish in the case of not being able to get or stay pregnant (the state of jing/blood in front of you - hair condition, teeth, fingernails, complexion, vaginal lubrication, warm feet at night), what kind of acupuncture, tuina, shiatsu and additional tools can we use and how?

More on this obstetric component can be found in Heather’s DVD “Acupuncture and Pregnancy” (1994) available on DVD with extensive notes – mini text book) and MP3 “Eight Extra Meridians” (1993) – also very extensive notes on PDF)
Different content - similar subject – “The Role of the Eight Extras in Women’s Lives and Maternity” (2007)

ALSO TOUCHING ON - Pre conceptual care, Fertility enhancement, IVF support if required (as a preview of “Practical Fertility Solutions” (2007) DVD available on the day).

See www.easybabies.com.au practitioner’s tools

EXPECTATIONS

At the close of this workshop, it is envisaged that the participant:
- will have extended his/her knowledge about women’s issues as well as treatment tools and possibilities;
- will have extended “modern TCM knowledge” into depth of traditional energetic insights and practice
- and will have placed in context, their own life story; the effects of the passage of time through their own inner libraries.

Who can attend?

This workshop will be suitable for acupuncturists, shiatsu and tuina therapists, TCM students who are in their last years of their basic education and interested midwives/doulas. In order to have full benefit from the workshop, it is desirable to have a basic prior knowledge of the 8 extra meridians and their functions.

WHEN : Weekend August 18 & 19th
Time 9-12.30; 2-5pm both days
WHERE: Zheng Qi Acupuncture & Graeme Teague Ltd.
Premises upstairs at unit 5/ 21 Humphreys Drive, Ferrymead. Christchurch

WHO to Contact: Robin Kerr 027-24-117-48,
(03) 328-8295

COST : $280 (includes meals, snacks & extensive notes)
Student & early bird payment $250 by 3rd August