Jonathan Shubs

Goals and Outlines
Part 1: Treating Insomnia with UAT: Using Saam 4 Needles and I Ching Patterns to treat sleeping disorders

• Understand the meridian clock and the transition from daytime to night time
• Be able to apply 2 Saam patterns for sleep problems
• Be able to apply 2 I Ching Ba Gua patterns for sleep patterns
• Understand how to differentiate between the 4 patterns of the course

 
Part 2: Insomnia and the Modern World Diagnosis and Acupuncture strategies

• Understand the Western physiology of sleep
• Understand the Health consequences of insomnia
• Understand the Chinese energetics of sleep

• Learn the primary acupuncture points for insomnia

 
Part 3: The Yang of Sleep: Using the Yang Qiao to Treat Insomnia

• Participants will review good sleep hygiene to reduce external stimuli.
• Participants will learn the pathway points and functions of the Yang Qiao.
• Participants will explore treatment strategies for the Yang Qiao & insomnia.
• Participants will learn points that open the Pericardium loop to free emotional constraint and allows the Wei qi to internalize at night.

 
Part 4: Treatment of Insomnia with Classical Formulas

• To learn the basic single mechanism for insomnia
• To differentiate the single mechanism into Yang vs Yin insomnia
• To differentiate most common types of insomnia in both Yang and Yin categories
• To differentiate insomnia from other related issues

To grasp key principles and the herbal formulas that go with those principles
 
 
 
Part 5: A Five Spirits Approach to Treating Insomnia and Anxiety

• Understand of insomnia and anxiety through the lens of wushen
• Deepen their understanding of the role of the blood as the yin matrix of the soul and spirit and the treatment of deficient blood from a Five Spirits perspective
• Understand the Heart monarch’s role in regulating sleep and dreams as described in classical texts
• Learn specific points as well as adjunct treatments to treat these conditions
• Learn sleep meditation and breathing practices to support their patients in developing better sleep patterns

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the affected element and chose the correct points to treat the affected element;
• Use abdominal palpation to diagnose and get instant feedback;
• Understand the interactive nature of the 5 elements and how to use them;
• Be able to tonify, disperse, warm or cool a meridian using the 5 element system.

Goals

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to

• Identify and apply dynamic interactions.
• Identify and apply static interactions.
• Understand the principles behind the meridian code and how to apply the Guas to the individual meridians.
• Know the symptomology and indications for each of the 12 patterns.
• Understand the three main paradigms in which the 12 patterns are created.

1. The six levels of YIN and Yang.
2. The three levels of UAT model.

• The three relationships of the midday midnight coupled with the entry exit relationship.

• Know and be able to create the treatment of each of the 12 patterns using eight needles in total.
• Understand and be able to apply the six patterns used for vertical meridian diagnosis in pain or other affections of the meridians.
• Understand and be able to apply the six patterns used in insomnia, anxiety and depression.

Understand and be able to apply the four patterns for external attacks.

Course Outline

• General introduction + Introduction to UAT model
• Summary of dynamic interactions, static interactions and meridian code 
• Introduction to the 12 patterns
• The six levels of the meridians 
• Three levels of UAT model 
• Midday midnight with entry exit points 
• Yang Ming with midday midnight 
• Tai Yang with midday midnight 
• Shao Yang with midday midnight 
• Six patterns related to placement of illness on vertical lines
• Six patterns for depression, insomnia and anxiety
• Summary of theory 

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Assess pain, orthopaedic conditions and physical complaints using meridian theory and devise an appropriate treatment plan
• Understand classical empirical point indications in a logical non-empirical way.
• Gain a different understanding of point descriptions by placing the focus on channel theory and understanding meridians
• Enhance their practice by solidifying their prognostic skills based on meridian assessment

Outline

• Introduction and theory of meridian interactions
• I Ching and Ling Shu references
• Breakdown of the six systems
• Presented using the 24 hour clock model
• Presentation of the Unified Acupuncture Theory and how it is used
• Step by step logical construction of model
• Visual representation of the model in action and Reasoning behind the model
• Introduction to imaging and mirroring
• Basic image and mirror of the body
• Reversed basic image and mirror of the body
• Demonstration of model working in demonstration