Daniel graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture in 1999. He has been in private practice in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada since then. He founded and chairs the Association of Registered Acupuncturists of Prince Edward Island.
For twenty years, Daniel’s clinical work centered around Japanese palpatory approaches, primarily those in the Nagano/Matsumoto lineage (but also including Keiraku Chiryo), expanding into an integration he discovered with Ren Ying Cun Kou pulse diagnosis. This work involved what he calls a reverse engineered ‘palpate first, ask questions later’ approach. More recently, Daniel has found himself in a radical clinical transformation via the elegant Saam fusion of Zhou Yi trigrams, 5 Phases and Six Levels.
Daniel marvels at the fact that even after two decades in practice, every day is novel, new and fascinating.
Title:
Intelligence and Infrastructure: Saam and the Border
Summary:
We will explore the unique potency of Saam acupuncture to enliven the process of clinician development, from the didactic beginnings of technical repetition to the deep archetypal essence connection.
Most of us have access to two major streams of Saam lineage, the teachings of Sunim Doam via Toby Daly and those of Hong Gyeong Kim. We will use the synthesis of these two streams to explore the theme of borders, boundaries and space.
How does the patient experience and manage the inside / outside relationship? What gets in? What stays out? What is the influence of sense of space? And how can Saam be used to serve these issues? The Shao Yang / Jue Yin pairs (SJ/Liver and PC/GB) and the Tai Yang system (UB/SI) will be featured.
We will illuminate a key distinction between Infrastructure (walls and border crossings) and Intelligence (data-gathering). Cases from clinic will be used throughout the presentation.
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Andreas has been working as an acupuncturist in his own clinic near Munich, Germany, since 2008. Originally, he earned a PhD in psychology, conducted research, and published on behavior and communication in Asian cultures. In 2009, he graduated in Chinese Medicine from the European Institute of Oriental Medicine in Munich. Since 1996, he has made regular visits to South Korea to learn Qigong and traditional Korean medicine.
From 2004 to 2010, he completed training in Korean Hand Acupuncture at the Koryo Sujichim Institute in Seoul. He received additional education and clinical training in Korean medicine with various teachers and doctors, including at Kyung Hee University in Seoul and Busan National University. In recent years,
Andreas has studied Saam and Sambu acupuncture primarily with Dr. Yoo-Ong Jung, Vice President of the Korean Society of Saam Acupuncture Therapy. Andreas has been teaching Saam acupuncture since 2015. He is the (co-)author of “SaAm Acupuncture Textbook: Korean Four-Needle Technique,” published by Müller & Steinicke in Germany.
Title:
Advanced Saam Acupuncture: Combining Saam strategies “freestyle” & tailoring point combinations to constitution
Summary:
This presentation will have two parts. First, we consider the flexible use of the Saam four-needle technique, which is now performed by an increasing number of acupuncturists in Korea and has moved away from a relatively rigid application of the predetermined point combinations. Here, multiple four-point combinations can be selected simultaneously in one treatment, and only one, two, or three points from the prescribed four-points can be applied to build a hierarchy of treatment strategies. We will consider possible criteria for selecting strategies and points.
Second, we will discuss how to individualize the orthodox Saam point combinations by changing some of the points to better fit the strategy according to the patient’s constitution or pathology. For this, we will discuss the basics of Dr. Kim, Hong-Gyeong’s theory of triple Five-Element-characteristics of the Shu Transport points, his constitutional theory and how this can be applied to the Saam point prescriptions.
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