Saturday Morning Qi Gong
Qigong is a series of movements designed to cultivate and regulate Qi to support healing and resilience. Drawing from classical Chinese practices, participants will join together in community with veteran Pacific Symposium instructors by the ocean in qigong exercises that can lead to reduced stress, emotional balance, and increased energy.
Herbal Alternatives to Drugs: An Overview
Although Chinese medicine practitioners are primary healthcare providers in some states, Chinese medicine is still classified as CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) by the Western healthcare establishment. We sometimes see patients only after Western medicine has failed to deliver satisfactory results, such as when, for instance, drug treatment results in too many side effects, adverse reactions, […]
Women’s Health Acupressure and Patient Self-Care: From Menarche to Menopause
In this 3-hour hands-on workshop, Dr. Citkovitz presents a practical handbook of self-acupressure, simple qigong movements, and other elements of East Asian lifestyle medicine to help practitioners better support patients across the full spectrum of women’s health. The workshop will explore concerns ranging from menstrual cycles marked by blood stasis or deficiency to subfertility, postpartum […]
The Healing Promise of Qi: The Ten Phases of Qi Cultivation
Numerous forms of Qigong consciously focus on internal alchemy, the cultivation of the Three Treasures: Jing, Qi, and Shen. Drawing on 40 years of clinical practice in Chinese Medicine and ten research and study trips to China, Dr. Jahnke has distilled diverse Qigong traditions, Shamanic, Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and contemporary, into an integrated system: the […]
Anxiety and Depression: Key Clinical Pearls
Holly Guzman takes attendees through anxiety and digestion cases, with demonstrations from intake to diagnosis to treatment planning and techniques, sharing key clinical insights from her breadth of experience. Too often, the process of our education is theoretical, lacking real, live context; or hands-on, but without enough understanding for optimal education. This workshop allows students […]
Decoding the 12 Tidal Hexagrams and 12 Organ Networks: Clinical Insights for Diagnosis and Treatment
In clinical practice, illness reveals itself through patterns: the season when symptoms first arise, the patient’s narrative, and the visible signs of imbalance in the body. Classical Chinese medicine understands physiology through relationships in time and space, where the movement of yin and yang between heaven, earth, and humanity unfolds through the seasons and phases; […]
Herbal Alternatives to Drugs: Analgesics and Antibiotics
This class explores evidence-informed herbal alternatives to commonly prescribed analgesics and antibiotics. Although Chinese medicine practitioners are primary healthcare providers in some states, Chinese medicine is still generally classified as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) within the Western healthcare system. As a result, practitioners often see patients after conventional treatments have failed to produce satisfactory […]
Friday Afternoon Qi Gong
Qigong is a series of movements designed to cultivate and regulate Qi to support healing and resilience. Drawing from classical Chinese practices, participants will join together in community with veteran Pacific Symposium instructors by the ocean in qigong exercises that can lead to reduced stress, emotional balance, and increased energy.
Acupressure is the New Acupuncture!
Let’s admit it, we don’t really think acupressure is as effective as acupuncture, do we? Dr. Claudia Citkovitz, a longtime clinician whose groundbreaking clinical research includes individualized care using both, will discuss a large and growing body of research on the topic. Both research and clinical experience underscore the profound impact that can result from […]
From Dao to Data: The Origins, Traditions, and Internal Alchemy of Taiji and Qigon
Across cultures and long before written history, traditions of healing, personal transformation, and even the pursuit of immortality have taken shape. Within early Chinese traditions, these ideas evolved into the paradigm of the Three Treasures: Jing, Qi, and Shen, and the ideal of integrating body, breath, and mindful awareness to cultivate profound inner “elixirs.” This […]