At our new clinic, Watershed Community Wellness, we will be hosting and teaching a number of classes and other gatherings. Brandt Stickley, renown pulse teacher and Gift Economy visionary is currently teaching classes in Contemporary Pulse Diagnosis, for example. We will be offering free classes for patients about herbal formula preparation, eating in alignment with the seasons, Qigong healing, self massage and much more. We also hope to become a hub for co-teaching and sharing experiences for Chinese medicine and massage practitioners and students concerning a wide variety of topics from cosmology to website creation to moving beyond the Community Acupuncture model.
Today, I’m happy to announce a new class offering of interest to anyone who would like to understand the basics of Classical formula prescribing. Michael Givens is a recent graduate of the National College of Natural Medicine and writer of an incredible feat of scholarship that won the NCNM 2009 Best Thesis Award. He has been studying Chinese philosophy and medicine for many years and also has a breadth of teaching experience ranging from high school literature to, recently, many topics in Chinese Medicine as a tutor at NCNM. He has also been teaching classes since graduation to help people dive deeper into Classical Chinese philosophy and herbalism. He is a great friend of mine and I have the utmost respect for both his knowledge and his skill in teaching. Below, find his description of a new class he will be offering at Watershed Community Wellness in Portland in early September. If you are interested in signing up for the class, or just getting more information, please contact Michael at shangguzhiren at gmail dot com or you can contact me using the contact form on my “about” page (click the tab along the top of this page).
Introduction to Classical Formulas
This course will prepare you for studying the classical formulas of the Shanghan Lun
We will be reading and analyzing the introductory lines of each of the conformations in the Shanghan lun, discussing the fundamental formulas in each chapter, and exploring how they are representative of the physiology and pathology of each of the conformations.
This course is will meet for 3 hours on two Saturdays.
Date and Location (subject to change, full notice will be given): Saturday 9/ 5 and Saturday 9/12, 9-noon at Watershed Community Wellness. Fee is $120 per student, payable by cash or check at the beginning of the first class.
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Givens is going to cover all that in 6 hours?!? It takes me SIXTEEN. Evidently I talk too much…
What a great class to offer! Next time I’m down in Portland I hope I can visit your clinic and check it out!
Reynolds,
Here in Portland we drink lots of coffee and talk fast! :)
Seriously though, the course will be a way to focus on the text of the Shanghan lun. We will be going through the line text in the Song order up to the beginning of the formulas in each conformation. Then we will be discussing the archetypal formulas for each conformation and how Zhangzhong Jing teaches us about the physiology of each conformation through the architecture of those formulas.
I will be holding future classes that expand upon this concept and in those we will take more time to dive into the major formulas. Those will be longer classes.
Bonnie, I look forward to your future visit to Portland!
Michael
Monsignor Givens,
I am seriously considering overhauling my curriculum to match the Song order. i don’t know if it makes more sense to people who have never cracked the SHL open before, but it certainly does to me.
I think it is so much clearer, actually, for everyone…