This is a year of Toyohari travel for me. In January I visited St Gallen in Switzerland to assist on a Toyohari Basic course. It was a great opportunity to meet up with colleagues and teachers from Europe. In March I will be visiting the home of Toyohari and …
Yi = intention (engaged awareness) Taijiquan = supreme ultimate fist Toyohari = East Asian needling technique Two seemingly contractory aspects are involved in practicing Taiji forms and needling in Toyohari Japanese Acupuncture, Sung or relaxation and Yi or engaged awareness. How to be aware and relaxed simultaneously? I started learning Taiji with James Drewe in 1994 and in the introductory class we did an exercise called ‘Unbendable …
Respect for the Heart According to the Chinese classics of internal medicine, Summer relates to: Phase: Fire (huo) Direction: South Colour: red Yin organ: Heart Spiritual faculty: spirit (shen) Tissue: vessels Positive emotion: respect Negative emotion: hysteria Sound: laughing Injurious activity: excessive talking Of the 5 emotions in Chinese medicine (anger, joy, worry, sadness, fear), …
Spring marks a time for coming out from our enforced hibernation, the change from Kidney-Water phase of winter to the more dynamic Liver-Wood phase of spring. If the Kidneys have not been sufficiently replenished then you may be finding it difficult to spring into the Liver phase and feel in need of some acupuncture and taiji or qigong to help you …
A lot of women come to see me for acupuncture to help with fertility support. This might be when they are trying to conceive naturally or alongside assisted reproductive techniques such as IUI and IVF.But what about the men? A recent study published this summer from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem looked at the historical …
When did you first hear about acupuncture?Often, it’s word of mouth when someone elsehas tried it and found that it really helpedtheir symptoms and they suggest you try it too.But how did acupuncture “get discovered” in the West? Back in 1971, when Nixon was on a state visit to China, he was accompanied by a …