Randine Lewis

Objectives

• Become familiar with the themes of the eight extraordinary meridians
• Become familiar with using the five trajectories of the Chong mai for reproductive issues.
• Learning to assess an “8 extras” pulse disharmony, and how issues of the Ren, Du, Chong, Dai, Wei, and Qiao reveal themselves in the pulse.
• Practical use of the vibrating technique to liberate the jing.

Outline

• Introduction to the Themes of the Miraculous Meridians
• The five trajectories of the chong mai
• Advanced Pulse Diagnosis to assess issues of the Miraculous Meridians
• Qi Gong Practice of transmitting Shen to Jing via the Vibrating Needling Technique

Objectives

• To become familiar with emotional pitfalls during IVF procedures and reproductive medicine
• Understanding long term impacts of infertility
• How to support the emotionally fragile infertility patient

Outline

• Why ethics are a part of treating infertility
• What happens to the psyche - short and long term from infertility treatments
• How to support a patient emotionally - short and long term

The TCM Energetic Look at the Reproductive System; Differences between a younger woman’s fertility cycle and a woman in her later reproductive years; A Classical Approach to the Jing-Shen Axis through the Chong Mai Bell Curve of Aging – according to the Su Wen

Western Medicine Assessment of Reproductive Function; the process of folliculogenesis, fertilization, implantation, and early embryology; an Energetic Look at each of the parameters of ovarian aging; changes in the HPO Axis from menarche through menopause; Interfacing with Western reproductive medicine

Differences between the energetics of the endocrine system (forward sheng cycle), and the gynecological system (reverse sheng cycle); dealing with Western diagnoses through a TCM approach

Psychospiritual issues associated with the reproductive system and how shen takes form as jing; A Shen based approach to reproductive aging – how to maximize the jing-shen relationship with particular focus on the shen

Esoterics of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians; Utilizing Issues of the Du, Ren, Chong, Dai, Qiao and Wei Mai to overcome impediments to reproductive healing TCM Theory and Acupuncture