Pulse Project: A Dance Research Experience
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Rethink everything you know about pulse diagnosis and earn 6.5 CEU credits at this unique and engaging one-day workshop.
Sunday, August 4th, 2024
SCHEDULE:
8:15am - Arrival
8:30am to 12pm - Morning Session
12pm to 1pm - Lunch
1pm to 4pm - Afternoon Session
LOCATION:
Embrace Yoga Studio
1122 4th St in San Rafael
COST:
$150, which will all go to the choreographer and studio rental.
WHAT TO WEAR:
Wear comfortable clothing you can move in.
Footwear: Dance slippers, socks, or barefoot are fine. No street shoes, please.
LUNCH:
The lunch break will be one hour. Please pack a lunch to bring with you as well as any other snacks and beverages you may want during the day. We can eat lunch together and discuss things before the afternoon session.
PREPERATION
There is no explicit preparation except perhaps to be rested and be ready to move. There is only one brief handout that you want to look at prior to the weekend, which will be provided upon signup.
DURING THE WORKSHOP
During the workshop, you will experience each of the 30 individual pulses plus numerous double and triplet relevant clinical combinations, which are demonstrated and then practiced as a full-body kinesthetic movement that shows the brain clearly what the fingertips are feeling.
TO EARN 6 CEUs (CATEGORY 1)
In the final hour of the workshop, you will take the pulse of one of the other workshop participants and then videotape yourself dancing this pulse. This video will then be sent to Pine Street. This workshop is approved by the California Acupuncture Board and is Category 1.
MORE INFORMATION & WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce a completely new pedagogy to expedite the teaching and learning of traditional pulse taking. We have translated the 30 different classical pulses into individual full body choreographed dance movements.
What our research has shown is that if you can feel in your body the individual classically described and defined pulse movements, then this feeling significantly informs your fingertips to better feel the radial artery pulses as well.
There is very little modern evidence showing the reliability of TCM pulse diagnosis. Nonetheless, it is widely believed to offer important diagnostic information. The overall teaching and discussion regarding TCM pulse diagnosis is largely a commentary on what the various pulses mean clinically. The current study of traditional Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis appears to be largely a significant didactic memorization effort that involves more than 30 individual pulse descriptions and their attributes plus multiple hundreds of possible clinically relevant combinations of those pulses and their associated diseases and patterns.
Even though the student may memorize all the classical pulses and what they mean, the disconcerting observation remains that the majority of practitioners cannot actually reliably or successfully tactilely differentiate the pulses at all. What a patient’s pulses mean is not useful if the practitioner cannot consistently, reliably, and reproducibly “feel” the pulses to begin with.
It has been a long time concern of many TCM students and practitioners worldwide that as fundamental to traditional Chinese medicine diagnostics that pulse taking in the clinical setting is, it is nonetheless insufficiently taught, leaving students and practitioners feeling a lack of confidence in their ability to use it successfully in their clinical practice.
The problem is not so much in the didactics of what the different pulses mean clinically but rather a practitioner's ability to tactilely feel and differentiate the different pulses in the first place. This workshop will focus on directly addressing this problem.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
This is a dance class, but does not require any kind of dance background whatsoever. All that's required is that your current physical fitness level allows you to comfortably be physically moving with easy to moderate intensity throughout the day.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
The leader for this workshop will be Michael Broffman, LAc, the Founder and Clinical Director of the Pine Street Clinic.
The movement portion of the workshop will be led by Casey Lee Thorne. Click here for more information about her.
REFUND POLICY
A full refund is available if requested on or before July 28th, 2024.
REVIEWS
100% of past attendees say they would recommend this workshop to a friend or colleague.
QUESTIONS?
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