393 Year of the Snake: Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form • Gregory Done
Cultivation It’s the subtler forces—those quietly felt but not perceived—that create the background that frames our days with a tone that is both transparent and influential. The shifting energies of a new year are a slack tide of opportunity to pause and reflect. To consider...
392 Igniting Wellness- The Power of Moxa • Merlin Young & Oran Kivity
Acupuncture Moxa is often seen as acupuncture's quieter sibling, and yet it has a rich history of igniting healing, longevity, and vitality. Its warmth goes beyond the physical—it has a profound effect on our physiology. In this conversation with Oran Kivity and Merlin Young, we...
391 Meditations on Saam • Evan Mahoney
Acupuncture Sometimes the most profound truths are found in watching what happens when we move between guidance and control. Between letting things unfold and imposing our will. Evan Mahoney brings a rich tapestry of experience to our discussion, from his own journey of healing...
390 Acupuncture at a Crossroads • Robert Hoffman
Acupuncture Change is usually a tangle of both challenges and opportunities. The landscape of acupuncture has been shifting, from the health of our schools to the growing acceptance of our medicine in larger healthcare systems. These transitions ask us to reflect, adapt, and...
389 History Series, Counterculture to Classics • Bob Felt
History For centuries books have been part of the transmission of knowledge from one generation to another. They have always been powerful tools for learning. Especially in the early days of Chinese medicine in the West, because of their rarity. In this conversation with...
388 Practicing in Small Town America • Katie Munger
Acupuncture Ever notice how certain places and connections shape us in unexpected ways? Sometimes, it’s the unique character of a small town, the rhythm of a rural life, that offers opportunities you won’t find in an urban environment. It’s here where time flows a bit differently...
387 Discovering the Essential • Philippe Vandenabeele
Bodywork There is something in the essence of a practice. At the core is something precious, true and fundamental. We all have it. But you probably don’t know what it is, and you won’t until many years down the road of pursuing the work. Curious that what is of essence, what...
386 Nei Jing Acupuncture, Encountering the Empty Spaces • David White
Acupuncture Ever think about how much of what we do as healers is more about what we don’t do? Sometimes, it’s in the subtle pauses, the empty spaces, where the real magic happens. What if the art of doing less is actually the key to unlocking profound change in the body? In this...
385 Rope Flow • David Weck
Bodywork Did you ever as a child grab a length of rope, run screaming around the yard and swing it around with abandon and joy? Sometimes, the most unassuming tools hold the greatest potential for transformation. Rope flow might look like play, but beneath the surface lies a...
384 History Series, The True Chinese Medicine is Practiced in Different Ways • Volker Scheid
History How did you learn the medicine you practice? Likely it through the influence of a school, a book or perhaps in this modern moment, an on-demand course of online study. There is another way that medicine gets transmitted, through the connections of friendship. I’d not...
383 Touching the Invisible • Chris McAlister
Acupuncture There’s something about the act of touch that goes beyond the physical, isn’t there? It’s like we’re not just meeting someone at their skin but somehow dipping into the unseen—into emotions, memories, and layers that words can’t quite reach. What happens when we...
382 Reconsidering Ren One • Orit Zilberman & Hila Yaffe
Acupuncture When thinking about our toolkit, most acupuncturists, and patients too for that matter, think about needles. Our job, it’s to use those whisper thin slivers of steel with skill and accuracy. But sometimes the best tool for the job might not be a needle. In this...
381 Daoist Medicine, Ritual and Talisman • Lindsey Wei
Cultivation Ever wonder about the unseen forces that shape health and illness? Sometimes it’s the things we can’t measure that hold the most sway. Healing isn’t always about what we see, but what we’re willing to explore. In this episode, we sit down with Lindsey Wei, a...
380 History Series, Building Bridges with Modern Healthcare • Bill Egloff
History Being in business is not just about tracking the financial health of your enterprise. It is about having a mission worth engaging, a kind of fire in the belly that fuels you through the difficult parts, and a sense for working at the edge of your capacity. Having a...
379 The Art of Inquiry • Vance Crowe
Cultivation In acupuncture school we learn the 10 questions, which will get you some information. But it’s more interrogative than rapport building, more about eliciting information than revealing meaning. Listening with a mindset of noticing the small anomalies. Listening to...
378 The Sixth Element • Slate Burris
Acupuncture We have the two of yin and yang, the three of the jing, qi, shen, the four levels of pathogenic invasion from the Wen Bing, the Five Phases of the Wu Xing and the Six Elements— wait a minute, Six Elements? Have you ever wondered why the Classics speak to the Five Zang...
377 Constitution and Condition • Peter Eckman
Acupuncture In our work as acupuncturists, we use differential diagnosis to understand the warp and woof of a patient’s problem, to see how various seemingly marginally connected aspects of their problem give us the pattern that allows for skillful intervention. We also look at...
376 Ba Zi- Revealing the Influences of Character • Howard Chen
Acupuncture We are encoded beings. There is a song that plays out through the patterning of our DNA. We are influenced by the tides of culture, family and peers. And there is a great turning of Stems and Branches that leaves an imprint on our mind/body as we enter the world. The...
