"One touch of Nature makes the whole world, kin.  --William Shakespeare   
 

Inner Traditions of Chinese Medicine:
A Two Year Course in Clinical Integration

Taught by Lonny S. Jarrett, M.S., M.Ac., FNAAOM

Pursuing an integrated approach to treatment, the advanced practitioner must hold a diagnostic view that extends from a patient’s spiritual depth to the most superficial aspects of his or her physical being. The practitioner is faced with two tasks. The first is to assess the nature of the patient’s constitutional endowment. This is the deepest view of the inborn influences that will most effectively support functional balance and the manifestation of life’s potential. The quality of this endowment may be likened to a diamond buried in the patient’s depth. The second task is to determine the ways that suppression of one’s inner self has been embodied as functional pathology and illness. Here, one is concerned with the nature of the trash that lies on top of and obscures the influence of one’s innate treasure.

Clinical integration of the five-element and eight-principle system affords one the opportunity to deal effectively with both innate and acquired influences. The focus of this course will be to provide 20 practitioners with a firm grounding in the principles of five-element constitutional diagnosis as they are integrated with a pre-TCM tradition of eight-principle pulse diagnosis. The class will consist of 12 weekends over a two year period beginning in the Fall of 2003. Clinical experience will be emphasized with roughly half the weekends spent assessing patients. Each member of the class will have the opportunity to spend time in my clinical practice as well.

Topics include:

• Embracing an Enlightened Perspective on Life and Clinical Practice.

• Chinese Medicine as a Science of Conscious Awareness.

• Destiny and Constitutional Type.

• The Relationship between Chinese Cosmology & Physiology.

• Inner Functions of Acupuncture Points, Herbal formulas, and Point Combinations.

• The Suggestive Process in Therapy and Testing Emotions.

• Diagnosis by Color, Sound, Odor & Emotion.

• Practical Exercises in Recognizing Constitution.

• Learn to Prescribe Herbs Reliably Based upon Pulse Diagnosis.

• Learn to Discern Psychospiritual Issues from the Pulse Including: Divorce, Shock to the Heart, Resignation, Unexpressed Communication, and Much More.

• Use the Pulse to Enhance the Suggestive Process in Treatment.

• Learn to integrate Five-Element Constitutional Diagnosis with a Deep Understanding of Physiological Process as Assessed with the Eight-Principle System.

• The Pulse as a Guide to a Truly Preventive Form of Medicine.

(All theory elaborated in clinic with patients.)

Clinical Integration: Registration Form & Dates

The class will meet in Stockbridge, MA, on 12 Saturdays and Sundays beginning in the Fall of 2003. Class meets from 9 am-5pm with one hour for lunch.

There are three payment options for registrants. Students must send a nonrefundable $500 deposit prior to 11/1/02 to hold their place. Currently This class is approved for CEU's by Massachusetts, Nevada, California, and the NCCA.

• 1) Pay in Full for 18% Discount: a) Nonrefundable deposit of $500 is received by November 1, 2002. b) Balance of $2250 due by March 1, 2003. Total Cost = $2750;
  
  

• 2) Pay First Year in Advance: a) Nonrefundable  deposit of $500 is received by November 1, 2002. b) Balance of $1100 due by March 1, 2003. c) Second year tuition ($1500) due March 1, 2004.  Total Cost = $3100;
  
  

• 3) Register after November 1, 2002: a) Pay Nonrefundable  deposit of $500; b) Pay balance ($2500) for entire class by March 1, 2003. Total Cost = $3000.  OR c) Pay first year in advance ($1650) with second year ($1650) due by March 1, 2004.  Total Cost= $3300.
  
  
  The class is limited to a total of 20 participants. 
  
  Note: This class is suitable for practitioners of Chinese medicine. Students are not encouraged to participate while still enrolled in school prior to graduation and clinical practice.
  
  Class Dates:  Clinical Integration
  

Send completed registration to:

Inner Traditions of Chinese Medicine: Clinical Integration.  P.O. Box 1093.  Stockbridge, MA  01262.  USA, with a version of the form below:

Can't attend the class?  Order Lonny Jarrett's book:

Nourishing Destiny: The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine  

For further information, please contact Lonny Jarrett directly.