Heat Sensitive Moxibustion Level 1 Certification
Develop your skills with Lecture, Hands on Practice, and Public Clinic
Date: April 20-22, 2019
Location: Eight Branches Academy of Eastern Medicine, 112 Merton Street #3rd Floor Toronto, ON M4S 2Z8
Proudly Presented by: S.N.A.P.T.C.M.
What is Heat Sensitive Moxibustion and What makes it so Revolutionary?
Heat Sensitive Moxibustion System is a self-sustained treatment method within Traditional Chinese Medicine which has its own unique theories including: moxa-points, moxa-point detection methods, moxa Qi sensation, treatment techniques, structured treatment protocols and dynamic flexibility and integration with other aspects of TCM.
Did you know:
- Moxibustion can be performed with minimal odor and smoke?
- Moxibustion has its own unique points, that differ from acupuncture points?”
- Moxibustion has its own independent theories not taught in TCM Universities, yet?”
- Moxibustion has its own unique sensations, both local and distal?”
- Moxibustion can clear Heat?”
- Moxibustion is a complete treatment system, not an adjunct to acupuncture?
Course Overview
This three-day seminar is a comprehensive training course design to teach students the essential theories within Heat Sensitive Moxibustion. Students will learn a brief history of moxibustion and the formation of the Heat Sensitive Moxibustion system. Moxa-point detection and theory will be emphasized with hands on practice using patented smoke and odor eliminating technology. It is essential that students become familiar with moxa-Qi sensations and how to achieve them on actual people.
The course will then shift focus to the treatment of the following sixteen major conditions:
- Functional Constipation
- Bronchial Asthma
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Primary Dysmenorrhea
- Chronic PID
- Impotence
- Chronic Prostatitis
- Facial Paralysis
- Post- Herpetic Neuralgia
- Functional Indigestion
- Insomnia
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Cervical Spondylosis
- Lumbar Disc Herniation
- Periarthritis of the Shoulder
- Osteoarthritis of the Knee
In depth analysis of TCM syndromes, moxa-points, treatment strategies and treatment plans will be discussed for each disease. Students will have abundant opportunities to ask questions about the conditions and also share personal experiences and difficulties encountered with previous cases files.
Day three of the course will focus on moxibustion treatments where the students will become the intern doctors for volunteer patients under the careful guidance of moxibustion experts.
The Founder and Innovator of Heat Sensitive Moxibustion Dr. Chen Rixin
Dr. Chen Rixin is the executive director of the China Association of Acupuncture, a nationally renowned professor of Chinese medicine, and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine key research director for moxibustion and the founder of the Heat Sensations Moxibustion System. Dr. Chen has long been engaged in acupoint sensitization and moxibustion therapy research, and has published 106 papers in the last 5 years. In 2015 he was awarded a prize by State National Science and Technology Progress.
Presenter Dr. Dennis Lee
Dr. Dennis Lee is the Co-President of the Alberta College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACATCM) and the Director of the Moxacology Institute of North America (MINA) and is considered the leading North American expert in Heat Sensitive Moxibustion. He is a highly sought-after lecturer in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and has been inspiring students and professionals around the world for seven-teen years. Having a unique integrated background in both Western sciences and Chinese Medicine Dr. Lee has a very unique approach for lecturing and clinical practice.