In this week’s episode, we talk with Caleb Mortensen about under-utilised moxa moments. We discuss the intrinsic nature of moxa, and less commonly used ways of using moxa for patterns of presentation: using moxa for treating yin deficiency, or for expelling heat.

Caleb practices Japanese acupuncture, and has been an apprentice of Katsuhiko Okuma Sensei since 2002. Caleb is holding a moxa workshop in May – along with Catherine Kato and Andrew Broomfield:

The Art of Traditional Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion: The Basic Skills.
Sunday 15th May
Kotan Acupuncture Clinic
Carlton, Melbourne.

See http://www.kotan.com.au/2016-workshop.html for more details.

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In this week’s episode, Phiona interviews Clare on introducing new patients to treatment plans, and how to manage expectation of results. They discuss verbal versus written plans, timeframes, rebooking and assessing progress.

There are so many different ways we as practitioners tackle this aspect of clinical practice. We would love to hear from you about what has worked for you, and perhaps what hasn’t worked for you. Head over to our facebook page to join the conversation.

What is it to feel the pulse without assumption?  What are the qualities that we dread seeing in a patient’s tongue? How quickly do we see changes in pulse qualities and tongue features? This week we invited Chamundi Pheonix to discuss with us some of the nuances and quirks we have discovered in our 15 years of pulse and tongue diagnosis.

Our guest this episode: Chamundi Pheonix

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How do you respond when a patient asks you “How does acupuncture work?”, “What do the needles do?”. How do you describe stagnation? Qi, yin, yang, damp, wind, dryness? Phiona and Clare explore this topic in this week’s episode of Heavenly Qi podcast.

We would love to hear your comments, what are the explanations or metaphors you use with your patients? Let us know your thoughts on our Facebook page.

“Lived experience is palpable”. This statement plays itself out for us within the clinical setting every day and we discuss this in depth in this episode with our guest Dr Peter Ferrigno. We explore the patient-practitioner interaction, and how that occurs through palpation as well as through feeling without touching.

Dr Peter Ferrigno
Three Lanterns Clinic

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What does it mean to have a clean agenda? Why do we consider it to be an important foundation for clinical interaction? In this first episode you will meet podcast hosts Dr Clare Pyers and Dr Phiona Gitsham, and learn more about them through their discussion on energetic interactions in the clinic.

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