Chinese medicine question of the month : intro to a new method of engagement

5 January 2010 Blogging

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As a first-year student, I was so blown away by everything I was learning in school for Chinese [...]

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5 Things to Look forward to after graduation : Chinese medicine post-graduate education

10 June 2009 Cultivation

Since the arrival of my friend Brandt Stickley, I have been unfortunately unable to devote the amount of time I would like to living out our wild Portland-area Awareness Project dreams.  We had so many late night chat and Skype conversations, whipping one another into a sleepless frenzy about the power and possibility in symbolism. [...]

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Mining for gold : Best of Deepest Health

10 April 2009 Blogging

Hey folks,
As I’m winding down on this crazy educational journey, I find myself nostalgic for those days of olde.  Back when I wrote posts with abandon.  Anyway, some pretty good discussions went on during some of those posts, and they can be hard to find in the archives.  I thought I would highlight some of [...]

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What is a watershed?

3 March 2009 Cultivation

So, you may remember all this talk about the Awareness project.  The idea was (and is, though evolved now) that we wanted to bring all of our senses to bear IN THE WORLD as people nourished by particular types of practices to really live what the Classics tell us about.  This in turn would be [...]

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Chinese medicine, the Earth and the Center

25 August 2008 Learning

When talking about the five elements, particularly as applied to the organ systems of Chinese medicine, it’s easy to find an angle from which to proclaim the supremacy of any of the elements.  Fire gets four organs, for instance, one of those being the Emperor – surely it’s the most important.  Water, on the other [...]

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