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In this lecture & seminar, Association for Traditional Studies director Andrew Nugent-Head tackles making Qi a tangible and reliable part of one’s treatments and practice. Based on his years training with the late Dr. Xie Peiqi in Beijing,  this set features discussion, demonstration and question answering designed to clarify the important skill of affecting Qi in patients.

“The important task is not to just reliably achieve ‘De Qi’, but to decide what to do with it each time. Whether it is due to misunderstanding or misrepresentation, tangibly and reliably manipulating Qi with one’s hands or a needle seem to have taken an esoteric turn in the West. In actuality, it is a very grounded and simple process. What was once common knowledge is now being seen as high level skill. Sadly, this has greatly affected the efficacy, and thus reputation, of Chinese medicine.”

The Tangible Qi seminar was originally Part II of a three seminar series:

•Demystifying Qi: Developing a Tangible Qi Practice (not yet released)

•Demystifying Qi: Tangibly Using Qi in the Clinic (the seminar featured here)

•Demystifying Qi: Qi Focused Protocols of Yin Style Bagua Bodywork Tradition (not yet released)

This seminar is available as a 4 DVD set from our store here.

This seminar is NCCAOM PDA Pending for 7 PDA points, for information, click here.

This seminar is California Approved for 7 CEU hours, for information, click here.