Maine Practice-Visit Days

The Bird Physician

OVERVIEW
Maine practice-visit days are a new addition to the Maine Clinical Teaching Days. They are an accelerated way for an individual practitioner to increase diagnostic and treatment skills as well as deepen the treatment to many of your patients.  All teaching and clinical work for the day will be in the practice of one practitioner, with their patients, in the clinic in Whitefield Maine. To be able to diagnose and treat with assurance, as well as to be certain that any deep obstruction to treatment is clear, allows your learning with each patient over time to exponentially increase. 

The practice-visit days will be open to the observation of your colleagues, other students of the VHE. This is a new and experimental form offered especially for the acupuncturists who live in Maine. We will have 7 days in 2024.

You will be treating your patients under supervision, with feedback from Laura. There will be tutorials in the morning and in the middle of the day. The teaching for the day will focus on the needs and requests of the particular practitioner at the center of the day. There is a strong emphasis in developing your ability to accurately diagnose CF (Causative Factor) as well as to craft treatments to walk forward with your patients. You will be taught in point location, needling and moxa, the journey of the qi in each channel and intimacy in the 5 energetics. As a living tradition that is passed hand-to-hand, the teaching brings accuracy and depth to the treatment each patient receives. 

EACH DAY
Each day will run from 9am to 9pm and will include 3-4 1 ½ hour consultations (or the equivalent in a combination of checks and consults) and 1 long alchemical treatment ( 3-5 hours), either the 7 Dragons or the 13 Ghost Points. The schedule for the day will be organized between the practitioner and our office.

2024 DATES
7 Days: 4/12, 5/9-10, 7/10-13, 8/2

TUITION
$125/day for all participating practitioners and observers.
10 Maine CEU’s are available for each day.

TREATMENT FEES
$100/ ½ hour check (no treatment)
$225/ 1½ hour consultation and treatment
$600 long alchemical treatment (3-5 hours)

Please EMAIL our office to participate.