1 PDA – Meeting to follow presentation.

This one hour presentation is an introduction to the basic elements of a community acupuncture practice uniquely crafted by its owner, Elise Rivers. Many community acupuncture practices are modeled after Working Class Acupuncture, the first business to offer this style of practice in Portland, OR. Elise built upon their basic model by modifying it to suit her vision for a health care business, as well as adapt it to the needs of the population she serves. The modifications and policies of practice she developed have led to steady growth as well as a sustainable, enjoyable environment for both her staff and patients.  In this presentation you will learn what Elise feels are the critical elements to building a successful community acupuncture practice. While every community practice has its own style that reflects the owner, they all share one thing in common: to provide acupuncture to those who cannot afford the current market rate of a private practice in an on-going way. Elise built upon this basic to create a total healing experience that keeps patients coming back for more!

About Elise Rivers:

Elise Rivers, Esq., M.Ac., Dipl.Ac. is the owner of Community Acupuncture of Mt. Airy (CAMA), a sliding scale acupuncture center located in northwest Philadelphia. Now 7 years old, CAMA has a staff of 7 acupuncturists and other healing arts practitioners, administering thousands of acupuncture treatments every year. Begun as a walk-in clinic at a doctor’s office in 2005, CAMA has had steady growth, and two years ago expanded to its current store-front home on the main street in the neighborhood of Mt. Airy.

Elise is a graduate of the New England Center for Oriental Bodywork (shiatsu), the New England School of Acupuncture, with a Masters in both TCM and Japanese styles of treatment, and is a certified National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) specialist. Her commitment to affordable community health care began in acupuncture school where she completed internships at both the Dimock Community Health Center and the Wellness Center in Boston, MA. This was followed by a year long internship after graduation with a community style walk-in clinic in Northampton, MA. She has both visited and trained with the founders of Working Class Acupuncture in Oregon, the nation’s first community acupuncture practice. A former lawyer, she uses her legal background to grow and manage both the community acupuncture practice as well as her private practice, Moon River Acupuncture. Elise has taught Point Location & Energetics at the Won Institute in Glenside since they began their acupuncture studies program 6 years ago.

Elise lives with her husband Max and her large cat, Lily, in Mt. Airy. Both Elise and Max are committed to healing work outside the field of acupuncture. Max is the world’s first “Marriage Mediator,” helping couples learn novel communication skills to resolve the conflicts in their marriage. Elise is on the board of the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District, and devotes much time to developing programs that improve the safety and beauty of the business corridor in the neighborhood in which she lives and works.

Won Institute of Graduate Studies

Sponsored by the Association for Professional Acupuncture in PA

About Rene Navarro:
An internationally known teacher, Rene J. Navarro, Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM) has been involved in the martial arts, healing, acupuncture, daoism and self-cultivation since the early 1960’s. Rene’s studies have taken him to Indonesia, where he met the Magus of Java, and Huangshan, China, where he encountered the incredible hermits of Lei Shan Dao. He has written articles and poetry about his travels and studies and has taught students with similar interests all over the globe. He graduated from and was a faculty member of the New England School of Acupuncture, and also was a certified instructor of the Healing Tao with Mantak Chia. He has traveled the world and studied with many masters; for more information about his remarkable life, go to www.renenavarro.org.

About the Workshop:

DragonWell QiGong includes the 3 Breaths, the Inner Smile and the 6 Healing Sounds, which are traditional practices in China. They are part of Taoist self-cultivation for healing and longevity.  DragonWell QiGong is a healing sequence that incorporates different postures and movements that come from the traditional repertoire.  This course will enable the practitioner to heal the organs, develop stillness and focus, grow qi, and strengthen the physical and energetic body.  It will also enable practitioners to share these practices with their clients.

Sign up for this 7 NCCAOM PDA point (pending) class now!

Fee:
$135 for APA members (NJAAOM, MAS, ASNY)

$150 for Non-members

Please bring your license # with you for PDA’s.

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Janice MacKenzie, L.OM., Seminar Coordinator – acujanny@verizon.net

March 18, 2012 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Shaku Ju, or Acupuncture Core therapy, focuses on the tonification of Jing Qi in order to restore health and clear symptoms. In this one-hour presentation, Shaune will explain basic Shaku Ju theory and treatment.  She will outline and demonstrate specific techniques of palpatory diagnosis, pulse balancing, use of reference points, contact needling, and stimulation of back shu points.

Attendees will receive a basic understanding of the theory and practice of Shaku Ju Therapy.

About Shaune Ralph:

Shaune Ralph has been practicing and teaching acupuncture for nearly fifteen years. She completed her Master’s degree the New England School of Acupuncture, with a specialization in Japanese acupuncture styles.  She began studying Shaku Ju Therapy in 2004 on Master Kobayashi first U.S. visit. In November 2010, Shaune received her Shaku Ju teaching certification in Tokyo, becoming one of only five U.S. practitioners to hold that honor.

Shaune taught at the New England School of Acupuncture for ten years, and served as the Dean of AOM at a New York college for one year before relocating to north central Pennsylvania. She currently has a thriving rural practice, which is also an assistantship site for the students of Ongiara College of Acupuncture and Moxibustion.

April 15, 2012, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Practitioners of Chinese medicine often characterize their healing arts as “ancient,” imagining an unbroken tradition stretching back over thousands of years. Historians of Chinese medicine, on the other hand, have emphasized the ever-changing nature of Chinese medicine and have shown that modern practices have little to do with ancient precedents. This presentation will introduce the audience to the latest historical research on the history of acupuncture from its standardization by the government in the 11-12^th centuries, to its modernization in the 19^th and 20^th century. At the heart of the presentation are the questions of why history matters to practitioners, and whether facts and myths can be reconciled.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn to separate facts from myths in the history of Chinese medicine.
• Participants will learn different interpretations of the foundations of Chinese medicine.
• Participants will learn the history of acupuncture from its origins to the present.

About Pierce Salguero:

Pierce Salguero is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Penn State University’s Abington College. Dr. Salguero has a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has published numerous books and articles on Asian medical history. He is a historian of medicine in China, specializing in religious healing in the medieval period.

Join Cara Frank and Jean Giblette for a tour of the gorgeous grounds of the Morris Arboretum. The Arboretum grows dozens of landscape plants that we use medicinally in our materia medica.  Come see how the plants grow! May is one of the best times to see the woodland plants and ornamental beds including Asarum, Asparagus, Rhubarb, Arisaemas, Peonies, Hawthorn, Eucommia, Cornus and more.

Wear comfortable shoes and an umbrella or rain gear, as we will walk rain or shine.

Cara Frank Herb Walk REGISTRATION FORM - Herb Walk Poster MORE INFORMATION ON THE WALK

Pricing

Professional $75.00 USD APA (etc.) Member $60.00 USD Acupuncture Student $35.00 USD Student Member $25.00 USD

State Lic# for PDA credit

About Cara Frank:

Cara Frank has been a practitioner and teacher of Acupuncture and Chinese herbology for more than 30 years. She is a popular lecturer, known especially for her clear and irreverent teaching style. Cara has demystified Chinese Herbology for acupuncturists, doctors, nurses, veterinarians, botanists and researchers. For eight years, Cara was the Director of the Department of Chinese Herbology at the Tai Sophia Institute for the Healing Arts.

Cara’s initial training was at the New England School of Acupuncture. Her herbal training was done with Ted Kaptchuk, OMD, Simon Mills and at the Xi Yuan Hospital in Beijing, China. It was there, in China, that her love affair with Chinese herbs took root, and still flourishes.

Currently she is the educational director of the department of Chinese herbology at the Won Institute of Graduate Studies.

Cara is writing commentary on a book on case histories of Ear, Eye, Nose and throat disorders for the Peoples Medical Publishing House in China.

She maintains a busy acupuncture practice in Center City Philadelphia where she also lives. She is an avid gardener, having won 3 place for 3 years in the Philadelphia City Garden Contest.

About Jean Giblette:

Jean Giblette has grown Asian medicinal botanicals at High Falls Gardens, her mid-Hudson Valley farm, since 1994.  She is also president of High Falls Foundation Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and conservation of medicinal plants.  The Foundation’s national Botanical Studies program supports the Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the USA and their efforts to broaden clinical herbal studies with live plant access and related topics.  Activities include distribution of seeds and plants, lectures, internships, field workshops, research, publications, and teacher training.  The farm cooperates with researchers, growers and Oriental Medicine professionals nationwide to develop domestic production of Asian herbs, and maintains a direct-marketing website, LocalHerbs.org.  Jean is a contributing author of Mending the Web of Life: Chinese Medicine and Species Conservation, has coauthored papers in the last two New Crops volumes published by Purdue University, is a member of the American Council for Medicinally Active Plants, and was appointed to the Crop Germplasm Committee for Medicinal and Essential Oil Crops of the USDA’s National Plant Germplasm System.  Since 1994 she has studied Chinese Herbal Medicine with Jeffrey C. Yuen in New York City.  Contact Jean through High Falls Gardens, Box 125, Philmont NY 12565 USA, 518-672-7365 or info@highfallsgardens.net.

The material presented in this seminar offers a personal journey of self discovery informed by The Five Spirits. An overview of the history and shamanic origins of this ideology as well as the Chinese creation story opens the seminar. A look into the Chinese characters of the Spirits gives us a deeper perspective as to their meaning. The seminar presents each one of the Five Spirits as a guide to observing human psychophysical occurrences that can bind psychic energy and stagnate physical energy. Learning how to keep these energies flowing allows us to transform our lives as we dream them to be. The information being offered directs you through the Taoist alchemical tradition as its correspondences to human psychology and physiology. Lifestyle, diet, herbs, spiritual practices, essential oils and flower essences are recommended for balancing mind, spirit and body. The Five Spirits system offers us a roadmap to transformational healing.

Pricing

Professional $150.00 USD APA (etc.) Member $135.00 USD Acupuncture Student $100.00 USD Student Member $85.00 USD

State Lic# for PDA credit

About Anastasia White:

Anastacia White has been a practitioner, teacher and consultant of Chinese herbal medicine, working in the herbal industry since 1984. Ms. White conducts seminars throughout the United States and lectures internationally on Chinese herbs and medical theory. She has specialized her educational offerings for those acupuncture practitioners wishing to incorporate herbal formulae into practice.

Ms. White has had the good fortune to have studied with Chinese herbalists and authors revered for bringing Oriental medical methodologies and philosophies to the west including: Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Ted Kaptchuk, OMD, and Giovanni Maciocia, Medical Acupuncturist.

Over the years, Anastacia has blended her background in Chinese Medicine with studies in meditation, yoga, astrology, movement and ritual to create workshops and private consultations that are rich, informative and immediately useful. Ms. White is known for her ability to present obscure Chinese medical paradigms in a concise and accessible manner. Her teaching style allows the information to become available in a practical manner that is easily comprehended by workshop attendees. Anastacia has for many years trained physicians of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture and comes highly recommended by Academy board members.

While Anastacia is adept at presenting complicated Oriental medical concepts, her down to earth approach makes these teachings accessible to interested nonprofessionals. Her seminars and workshops, in addition to being greatly informative, are also deeply inspiring and wonderfully relaxed.

August 4-5, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. both days

Stay tuned for more information about this seminar!

THE IMPORTANCE OF TREATING THE CERVICAL SPINE

REGISTRATION 8/4-5/2012 Information

About Kiiko Matsumoto:

Kiiko Matsumoto, Lic.Ac. is internationally known for her scholarly work on acupuncture and the interpretation of Chinese classic texts.  She has published three fundamental texts on acupuncture in English (Hara Diagnosis:  Reflections on the Sea; Five Elements and Ten Stems; Eight Extraordinary Vessels) and many articles as well as video productions in Japanese.

Ms. Matsumoto is know for her ability to integrate the work of very important Japanese Masters such as Master Nagano, Master Kawai and Dr. Manaka with the knowledge from the classic Chinese texts and her own findings into a coherent clinically effective style.  Her vast clinical experience and powerful teaching style are her trademark.

Ms. Matsumoto holds two very busy practices in Newton and Natick, Massachusetts, as well as teaching nationally and internationally.  She is also the co-director of the Clinical Acupuncture Course for physicians at Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Beth Israel Hospital, Department of Anesthesia.

President: Janice MacKenzie
Vice President: David Molony
Secretary: Heather Shultz
Treasurer: Linda Silva

Legislative Committee: David Molony, Heather Shultz, Ben Griffith
Membership Committee: Marlene Burk, Heather Malatesta, Cheryl Price, Linda Silva
Education Committee: B.J. Rau-Putnam, Janice MacKenzie, Cheryl Price, Linda Silva
Western Liaison: Melissa Murtha

If you are interested in being on one of these committees, or have questions or concerns related to one of them, please contact one of the committee members. Their contact information is in the practitioner directory on this website.

DAVID MOLONY, L.AC., D.OM.
Presenting on:

“HOMOTOXOLOGIC DETOXIFICATION IN AN ORIENTAL MEDICINE CONSTRUCT”

The December meeting of the APA will be on December 18th, from 3-5 p.m. at the Won Institute for Graduate Studies, 137 S. Easton Road, Glenside, PA. The presentation by David Molony, “Homotoxologic Detoxification in an Oriental Medicine Construct,” will begin at 3 p.m. followed  at 4 p.m. by a general business meeting. The presentation and meeting are free and open to all acupuncturists and other interested parties. All acupuncturists will receive 1 PDA  for attending the presentation. Attendees should bring their acupuncture license number and their NCCAOM certificate number with them for the purpose of documenting for NCCAOM PDA requirements.

Description of the Presentation:

This is an introduction to basic homotoxicology and homeopathy, and the use of the HEEL detox kit to enhance outcomes of Oriental Medicine treatments. The concept of Homotoxicology was developed by Hans Reckweg, the founder of HEEL Incorporated, and shows the degeneration patterns of human illness. The chart of homotoxicology parallels closely the six phases construct of Oriental Medicine, and is compared to it in the lecture. It is thought that Reckweg utilized the six phases to develop homotoxicology and expanded on it through its use and development.

This one hour lecture will provide some historical review of the six phases, followed by its incorporation into the understanding of the development and use of the homotoxicolgy construct. After the lecture, attendees should be able to understand basic use of the homotoxicology chart via its similarities to the six phases, which is included in Oriental Medicine training.

About David Molony:

David Molony Lic Ac, Dipl Ac & C.H., DOM, PhD (OM), is currently Vice President of the Association for Professional Acupuncturist’s in Pennsylvania, past Vice President of the American Association of Oriental Medicine, and Vice Chair from the inception of The World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, which is connected with the World Health Organization.

David is a graduate of the Wielopolska school for the Alexander work in Philadelphia, California School for Herbal studies, San Francisco College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Peoples Republic of China, Medicina Alternativa in Sri Lanka, North American Academy of Advanced Oriental Medicine, and the Atlantic Academy of Classical Homeopathy in New York.

David was Executive Director of the American Association of Oriental Medicine for over 10 years prior to becoming Vice President. He is a professional speaker for the Heel symposiums and has also testified numerous times before US Congress, the White House Commission on Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Policy, the Institute or Medicine, and at the National Institutes of Health, as well as being a participant on numerous Oriental Medicine commissions and Task Forces.

David and his wife, Ming ming Molony have over 25 years of experience with alternative medicine, specializing in integrating nutritional, homeopathic, and all other aspects of Oriental Medicine. Their practice is located in a 1800’s bank building in the town of Catasauqua, once called the “wealthiest town in the United States” and surrounded by old mansions and other historical buildings.

Directions to the Won Institute of Graduate Studies can be found on their website, www.woninstitute.edu.