Summer is a lovely time to be in the garden, play in the sun and put your toes in the lake but it is also a great time to take some continuing education courses that interest you or upgrade your Chinese Medicine knowledge.
The Academy of Classical Oriental Sciences is offering a ’summer of learning’ with different short workshops each month. If you are interested in enrolling in any of these courses call us at 250-352-5887 or email acos@acos.org
Here is a list of the courses being offered this summer at the Academy.
Understanding the Pulse June 8th and 9th
Saturday and Sunday 9am-4pm each day
Finally! A visual way to understand the pulse and use it productively in a clinical setting.
Join Greg Cicciu, L.Ac and author of the book ‘Pulse Atlas’ to explore teachings on Pulse Diagnosis from the I-Ching and Nan Jing as well as many years of clinical hands on validation of the Pulse.
This course will include lecture, visual aids and hands on learning.
12Continuing Education Credits Cost: $360 Instructor: Greg Cicciu, L.Ac
Orthopedic Tuina July 13th and 14th
Saturday and Sunday 10am-2pm
Shhhh…don’t tell anyone but this course will illuminate the ancient methods of bone setting and clarify our undertading of what bone and tissue really are and how to mend them when injured. While practical information for students of Chinese Medicine this information would also be interesting to students of martial arts. This course will include lecture, visual aids and hands on learning.
8 Continuing Education Credits Cost: $240 Instructor: Kevin Wallbridge
Treating Addictions with TCM July 27th
Saturday 10am-2pm
This one-day continuing education workshop will focus on holistic addictions treatment.
Randy Lyons is a doctor of oriental medicine and creator of the Holistic Addiction Program (HAP) that integrates TCM zang fu theory, 5 phase theory, shamanism, acupuncture, and group treatment. Randy implements the “HAP” in various treatment centers and also teaches it in practitioner trainings in the states. He is also just really charismatic. This workshop will be fun, experiential and a little avant guard (and definitely NOT dry, mundane or lecture-based).
4 Continuing Education Credits Cost: $75 Instructor: Dr. Randy Lyons
The Two Q’s- Qi gong and Qing Zhi Bing August 10th and 11th
Saturday and Sunday 9am-5pm
Looking for more tools to aid your clients in releasing their stuck emotions? Long time ACOS instructor Kevin Wallbridge, will teach this course based on years of academic study and Qi gong practice, helping us understand human emotions through movement.
16 Continuing Education Credits Cost: $480 Instructor: Kevin Wallbridge
