Clinical Teaching:
Consultations, Observation & Treatment

The Bird Physician


GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Our TEACHING CLINICS simultaneously train physicians and treat patients. The disciplines of diagnosis and treatment in 5 Element Taoist Acupuncture are taught alongside the study and application of classical texts of Taoist Medicine. This training accelerates the development of each physician. Clinics are 2-6 days. Practitioners (with or without patients) come for some or all of the intensive. Teaching Clinics offer patient consultations for any practitioner who seeks assistance with a patient.  Some patients also arrive by personal referral. Students as well as licensed practitioners are welcome for Clinic Days and Workshop Days. There are students of many traditions who enthusiastically participate in these days.

DIDACTIC WORKSHOP DAYS are included in most of our Teaching Clinics. For more details about workshops this year: CLICK HERE

TO THE ROOT: TAOIST ALCHEMICAL MEDICINE: Training and Treatment in the 7 Dragons and 13 Ghost Points (Dragon Days) are also part of most of our Teaching Clinics. These days are advanced training for those acupuncturists who are already licensed. To see more details about this immersion in alchemical practice: CLICK HERE

MAINE PRACTICE-VISIT DAYS 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. 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.

Our focus is on practitioner training in traditional skills of diagnosis and treatment.  

  • Accurate diagnosis of the CF (causative factor of disease) and CSOE (The 4 primary means of diagnosis: Color, Odor, Sound and Emotion)

  • Treatment planning, point location, pulse reading, spirits of the points, working with the seasons and times of day

  • Intimacy between physician and patient, the only means by which the spirits can be reached and followed, to mature and restore the sanctity of the patient/practitioner relationship

  • Assistance with individual patients: to reach the depth of the imbalance and the potential inherent in each life

  • Restoring the true qi of both patient and practitioner

  • Accurate diagnosis and treatment of major obstructions: to restore the authentic movement of the spirits, the root of life

  • Skills: needling, moxibustion, to see, hear, feel and to ask

  • Breaking habits/establishing disciplines: the art of reflection

  • Practice management and the ethics of medicine

  • Rooting in the Spirits (Ben Shen): to participate more consciously in the miracle of Heaven/Earth

PRACTITIONER GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING CLINICS & DRAGON DAYS * Click Here

MAINE TEACHING CLINICS * Consultations/Workshop Days/Dragon Days * Whitefield * In Person

2024 DATES

4/12 * clinic day
5/9-12 * 2 clinic days + 2 Dragon Days
7/11-12 * 2 clinic days
8/2 * clinic day
10/11-13 * 1 Workshop day + 2 Dragon Days CANCELED
October 11 Workshop Day: “Curriculum of the Causative Factor: Treating the Physician”
Contact our office if you would like to be a patient for this workshop. There will be 6 patients treated in this day.

6 Practice-Visit Days * 4/12, 5/9-10, 7/11-12, 8/2

LOCATION: Whitefield - Some of these days will be offered on Zoom.
CONTACT: Our Office  EMAIL or  PHONE
For info about housing at the farm, please contact Jennifer.
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT: CLICK HERE

VERMONT TEACHING CLINICS * Consultations/Workshop Day/ Dragon Days * Montpelier & Putney * In Person

MONTPELIER VERMONT:  Clinical Teaching/Consultation Days/Workshop Days

INSTRUCTORS: Laura Stelmok & Taylore Grymonnt

2024 DATES:

LOCATION: Montpelier
CONTACT: Taylore Grymonnt  EMAIL  or  PHONE
For info about housing for the week, please contact Taylore. We have some inexpensive housing options with local practitioners.
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT: CLICK HERE

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PUTNEY VERMONT:  Clinical Teaching/Consultation Days/Dragon Days

2024 DATES:

LOCATION: Sword Hands Acupuncture & Qi Gong ~ 133 Main St. (located in the Gleanery building)
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT:  CLICK HERE
CONTACT:  Sarah Laplante  EMAIL or PHONE our office.

For info about housing for the week, please contact Sarah. There are some local relatively inexpensive housing options.

NEW YORK CITY TEACHING CLINIC:  Clinical Teaching/Consultation Days

2024 DATES: 

LOCATION:  West 30th St. New York, NY
CONTACT:  Our Office  EMAIL  or  PHONE   
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT:  CLICK HERE