We have unlimited powers to be in perfect balance with Qi and be part of the perfect beauty of life, both experiencing and shaping it. But who can teach us how to reach these unlimited powers? Who can teach us how to use them? How many secrets of these powers have been revealed in the past? How many great minds have found the right words of wisdom to touch even the smallest glimpse of that beauty?
And still, when we look into the mirror, we only see us as we have imagined ourselves: a person with a name, date of birth and unknown date of death, living a life that we think is ours.
If only we could see how we are connected to all that has shaped us in time. If only we could see how we can connect to these powers. If only we could learn how to unwrap the deep understandings about the realities of our lives. If only we could dive into what is there to be learned.
Well, we can: we only have to borrow the eyes of teachers, the words of deep understanding, the minds that will get us connected with the root and art of the nature of life.
International Lectures is always looking for teachers and topics that will help you to make a connection with the unlimited powers inside and around you.
It’s up to you to look into the mirror and see how you have changed after connecting yourself to the wisdom, understanding, nature and beauty of life that these teachers can offer. It’s up to you to choose one or more topics from our September-December program 2014.
‘Teaching from the roots’ is a 14-day program (divided in 4 blocks: 3 days in September 2014, 5 days in November 2014, 3 days in March 2015, 3 days in September 2015) that will help you find an answer to the question: what is Qi doing in your life, in your body, in your neighbourhood, in the universe, every day, every season, every minute, every lifetime? It will teach you how you can share this wisdom and beauty and how you can use this knowledge to make each other feel healthy, pure, peaceful and caring fellow humans.
It will - therefore - surely make you a better practitioner, since ‘Teaching from the roots’ also teaches the medical classics and their clinical, pragmatic value, and will follow the classics in your own practice as well.
‘Teaching from the roots’ is developed by two renowned teachers, Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée and Ken Rose, that have the unique talent of revealing and sharing invaluable ancient secrets of life and transforming them to treasures in your personal daily live.
The program has been running in the United States for a couple of years now, and we are very proud that we have been given the opportunity to organize the Exclusive European English Course 2014-2015.
Please contact us if you have any questions. We are always willing to help out, and if you need a financial arrangement, we will get that sorted out. If you bring someone along, we can offer you both a 10% discount.
Suzanne Robidoux will be over from Beijing to teach an innovative moxa massage treatment for many musculoskeletal pains and disorders. She will review over 10 different acupuncture and moxibustion treatments for lower back pain and what treatment to use for the different types of headache and migraine.
Suzanne also is very experienced in using scalp acupuncture. She will teach a two-day course that will learn you which treatment protocol and needling techniques to use for effectively treating more than 20 physiological, neurological and psychosomatical diseases and disorders. The knowledge and experience of Suzanne Robidoux, who treats 200-400 patients a week with Scalp Acupuncture in a Chinese neurological clinic, will be truly invaluable.
Tuvia Scott uses abdominal acupuncture to treat patients with a painless needling technique that is able to adjust, harmonize and re-balance the body and mind. By concentrating acupuncture therapy in the abdominal and navel region, all parts of the body can be treated because the energetic flow of the whole body is focused in this area. The results of this treatment are phenomenal. We have spoken many practitioners that are very enthusiastic about it and we have received lots of requests to organize the course again. So here you are!
Yan Schroën’s teaching is invaluable in many areas. He has the unique talent to be able to combine his knowledge on culture, history, taoistic philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, biochemistry and systems thinking, so he not only puts knowledge into perspective, but also reaches further in developing a new understanding of the knowledge that is there. When you look into that mirror, you will discover the endless possibilities that understanding the power of dynamic systems will give you.
Surely, Yan teaches TCM, since TCM basically is systems thinking. But he is taking it a step further. For example, he has developed a 2-year Chinese herbal trainingthat reaches far beyond just memorizing single herbs and formulas. He is convinced, that to be able to prescribe herbs, you have to understand their dynamics in relation to the systems that both a patient as well as the herbs are part of. We have just finished the first year of this new training, and the students are very enthusiastic about this new approach. Students, for example, that already have been attending a regular training in Chinese herbs in the past elsewhere, say they are far more knowledgeable now and have a much better understanding of what they are doing when they are working with Chinese herbs.
Yan also teaches about so-called ‘modern diseases’, like autism, and is able to use the TCM diagnostic strategies to come to a useful subtyping within the autistic spectrum that makes treatments with TCM possible.
He is also looking into new ways of building a bridge between the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine and the knowledge of regular western medicine. This is one step further than just using TCM as a complementary therapy. It is about developing a new system that will put the known western and eastern medical treating methods into a new perspective. What are the strengths of each method? Where can they be combined to strengthen each other? This new way of looking at medicine is called: systems medicine. Yan will talk about this topic with Herman van Wietmarschen, with whom he has been working several years at the Sino Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine.
Peggy Bosch is psychologist, acupuncturist and Heilpraktikerin. That already gives a perfect indication on what she is about! Peggy is trying to find treatments (western, eastern or combinations of both methods) for patients that suffer from psychological diseases. She is working on a PhD research in the field of schizophrenia, depression and sleep disorders and has some very interesting ideas on how sleeping disorders can contribute to the development of schizophrenia and what acupuncture could mean for these patients. In short: she can teach you a new perspective in how to approach psychiatric patients and how acupuncture treatments can make a big difference for the mentally disordered.
Yair Maimon has a deep understanding of Chinese medicine and is internationally renowned for his insights into the Shen’s influences on suffering and healing. The last couple of years, International Lectures has been privileged to getting to know Yair better. This has resulted in an inspirational cooperation that has led to developing new ways to reach out to practitioners all over the world. Surely, we will do more webinars together, surely we will invite Yair for new courses to the Netherlands. And who knows what more we will come up with!
For starters: Yair will be over in November for two courses: ‘One minute diagnosis’ and ‘The wonderful 12 Jing-well points’. We will organize an introductory webinar on these topics very soon.
We close the year 2014 with Amos Ziv. He will teach about a highly effective directly applicable pain relief method, based on the classic TCM channel theory, that is called Meridian Wave acupuncture. This system has been taught to hundreds of practitioners that have reported its outstanding clinical relevance. It has also been clinically validated with great success in a randomized controlled trial inside the Emergency Room of a major hospital in Israel for acute back or neck pain. Results showed a decrease in total pain of more than 40% and an increase in spinal flexion-extension of more than 80% compared to placebo acupuncture.
Amos will also share his clinical expertise on how to make optimal use of the amount of information that a TCM practitioner gathers during intake, tongue and pulse diagnostics, and palpation. He has developed a clear and sequential working process on how to practice your clinic so the diagnostic information isn’t chaotically overwhelming and consequently leading to mistakes but can be well-structured and therefore highly effective.
The first half of next year have we invited Robin Saraswati Markus, Susan Johnson, Sybill Huessen, Alexandros Tilikidis, Yair Maimon, Amos Ziv and Yan Schroën. So visit our website www.internationallectures.com if you want to keep informed on our courses and future plans, or if you want to register for one of the courses (we have built in a ‘register’ button at the bottom of each course description page).
We hope that we may welcome you - in real life or digitally - at one of our courses.