How self-evident has everything around us become through the names and words we have invented for them. A tree is a tree, a river river. Summer becomes autumn becomes winter becomes spring, day becomes night, life becomes death, de circle full. The ten thousand separate things eventually will become timelessly One and essentially never have been anything different.
It is a matter of giving meaning. It is a matter of getting meaning in time.
The world around us can be looked at and understood in thousands of ways. But how much we would like to put that into words, it would therefore be no more than a series of photographs that captures moments in time. The miracle, the beauty, the mystery, the timelessness remains hidden in the pictures and in our words if we don’t look or listen at it in that way.
Giving meaning therefore is possible in many ways: from the perspective of the timelessness and infinity of all, and from the perspective of everyday reality that can be caught in moments, photos, words.
Educational training is a matter of giving meaning (again). To what you know, to who you are. To mirror the self-evident to the miracle. To associate factual knowledge with timeless beauty. To experience and propagate the unity of science and art.
10 years International Lectures
On the yangest day of 2016 (June 21st) we will celebrate on the yangest moment (12.34 PM) that International Lectures exists 10 years. We will invite a number of speakers, seek an appropriate location, provide food and drinks, share our plans for the future with you and offer you the opportunity to come into contacts with each other. When the complete program is ready, we will present it on our website.
You can be assured we will come up with a program that will make perfectly clear that everything is connected with each other, and that we, as International Lectures, will continue to give a personal meaning to TCM education.
Overview of our courses
The Five elements theory (4-6 March) cannot be explained often enough. How important is it to be able to recognize the personal balance of the patient and to restore an imbalance? Tuvia Scott is a fantastic teacher who will teach you the Five elements theory in such an inspiring way during a three-day practical workshop, that you won’t be able to ever forget the Five element theory for the rest of your life.
Also the insight in the workings of the Ghost points (April 15) is invaluable for your daily practice. They play an important role in the different rhythms in our body, not least because they are also points where mind and body merge into one another. Yan Schroën will explain the energetics of the Ghost points in a way that goes beyond what the regular acupuncture education has learned you about them thus far.
The weekend before the internationally renowned master Jeffrey Yuen will share his knowledge about the Eight extraordinary vessels and their psycho-emotional aspects (18-19 March). Central to this course is the process of unfolding our lives from its origin to its utmost manifested form. This unfolding is guided by the unusual, “irregular” nature of the Extraordinary Vessels themselves, expressing in the “regular” rhythms of the meridian system, the normative pulsation of Qi in our bodies.
We are very honored that we have been able to organize this training in collaboration with the Studiecentrum PaKua and expect great interest in this course. We advise you to register in time.
Dr. Yair Maimon’s insight into the Shen is extraordinary. His nine-day Shen acupuncture course (weekend 2: 11-13 March; weekend 3: 23-25 September), offers students an unparalleled deep understanding of human life and suffering and the deep healing power that the human body possesses. Yair's courses and webinars are visited from all over Europe. The Shen acupuncture course 2015-2016 has reached the maximum number of participants.
In the coming year, there are also three Advanced Herbal Course weekends, taught by Yan Schroën. 15-16 January: Immune Disorders and cancer; 4-5 March, Gynecology; 27-28 May: External applications and home pharmacy. The weekends are designed in a way that from a deep understanding of the different topics a well-structured differential diagnosis can be made. This forms the basis of the treatment principle. The starting point of this course is learning how to prescribe the right herbal treatment, but of course the treatment principle will be about restoring the disturbed energy balance, so that other TCM practitioners will also be able to benefit from this course in their daily work.
That an ancient method of treatment like acupuncture does not stand still, is proven by Abdominal acupuncture. After Professor Zhiyun Bo in 1991 closed his investigation and published the guidelines for treatment according to the Abdominal acupuncture technique, the Abdominal acupuncture has gained enormous popularity both in China and in the West. His method is even called a “Wonder therapy”, especially for chronic conditions such as problems of the musculoskeletal system, neurological disorders, dizziness, insomnia, chronic fatigue and digestive disorders.
Tuvia Scott will explain in a three-day practical workshop how the Abdominal Meridian System works and how effective it is in practice to use. It is the fourth time since 2012 that Tuvia is giving this highly successful course for International Lectures.
Peggy Bosch graduated on a doctorate last November at the Radboud University of Nijmegen on the subject “Acupuncture in the treatment of depression, schizophrenia and sleep disorders.” On October 22 she will take you into the world of psychiatric disorders, from both Eastern and Western perspective. Effectiveness of acupuncture in psychiatry will make clear that the Eastern approach, and (additional) treatment literally can make a world of difference between night and day for many patients.
Giving meaning and therefore being meaningful
Giving the symptoms of a patient a meaning as TCM practitioners is more than an alternative way of working in health care. It is also being meaningful, both personally and professionally, in a way that bears witness to the insight that TCM has to offer: every man for himself is like a picture, a reflection of the miracle, the beauty, mystery, timelessness of life that has become so self-evident that we invented names and words for them in the course of time.
It is up to us not to forget in our daily life that we actually are the ten thousand separated things that will ultimately be timelessly One again and essentially never have been otherwise. And that it is us who are giving life its beauty, its wuji, its timelessness, its meaning.