Curriculum Chinese medicine and internal alchemy
Module: basics
3 weekends each Saturday and Sunday
Sat 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. & Sun 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (51UE)
2 WE Chinese medicine: focus on the five phases of change (five elements)
- Philosophy, Dao, Wuji and Taiji
- Important works of Chinese medicine, Daoism and internal alchemy
- Yin and yang
- The three treasures of Chinese medicine: Jing, Qi, Shen
- Other vital substances in Chinese medicine
- The five phases / The five elements
- The organs (Zang Fu)
- The five mental-spiritual aspects (Wu Shen)
- Etiology and pathology
- Internal and external causes of disease
- Medical and spiritual meaning of the emotions
- syndrome teaching
1 WE energetic diagnostics
- Recognize the constitution types after the five phases / five elements
tongue diagnosis - Diagnostic criteria for the five mental and emotional aspects (Wu Shen)
- The eight diagnostic guiding criteria (Ba Gang)
- Feel the organ energies
Module: Energy and awareness work
1 weekends each Saturday and Sunday
Sat 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. & Sun 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Importance of energy (Qi) in medicine
- Health, illness and healing
- San Bao – Three Treasures
- The importance of the heart and mind (Shen) in therapy, teaching and accompaniment
- Connect with the yin of the earth and the yang of the sky
- Dealing with own and external energies
- Ben Shen: Root the mind
- Wu Wei: Non-intervention as a therapeutic / accompanying concept
- Classroom exercises and meditation
- Emotions as an expression of Qi, emergence of emotions, emotions as pathogenic factors
- Basic techniques of emotion and consciousness medicine
Module: Water-Fire Axis I
1 WE Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Fri 10.00am – 6.00pm, Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm & Sun 10.00am – 5.00pm (24UE)
- Death and birth in the water element
- Fear as the emotion of water
- Root (ben) of fear
- Fear and Mind (Shen)
- Willpower (Zhi), fear and potential
- Psycho-emotional disharmonies in water (meaning for kidney qi, kidney yin and kidney yang)
- Jing-Qi and the importance of ancestors
- Jingshen – essence spirit
- Ming Men: connection of spirituality and medicine
- Comprehensive knowledge of the psycho-energetic aspect Zhi (will)
- Water-fire axis: heart and kidney
- Practical applications
Module: Water-Fire Axis II
1 WE Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Fri 10.00am – 6.00pm, Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm & Sun 10.00am – 5.00pm (24UE)
- Heart and Shen in therapy and healing
- Desire as an emotion of fire
- Root (Ben) of desire
- Desire in the five phases / five elements
- Shen (Spirit) and Yuan Shen (primordial Spirit)
- psycho-emotional disharmonies in fire (meaning for heart qi, heart yin and heart yang)
- Heart and Dao: Beyond Yin and Yang
- Practical applications
- Shen Ming: Silence as the glow of the spirit
- Comprehensive knowledge of the psycho-energetic aspect of Shen
Module: Earth
1 WE Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Fri 10.00am – 6.00pm, Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm & Sun 10.00am – 5.00pm (24UE)
- The importance of the center for Shen, Qi and Jing
- Earth between water and fire
- Attention leads Qi (Yi dao, Qi dao)
- Internal and external influences on Yi
- Worry as emotion of the earth
- Emergence of thought patterns and the root (ben) of worries
psycho-emotional disharmonies in the earth (meaning for spleen qi and spleen yang) - Comprehensive knowledge of the psycho-energetic aspect Yi (ratio / focus)
- Practical applications
Module: metal
1 WE Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Fri 10.00am – 6.00pm, Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm & Sun 10.00am – 5.00pm (24UE)
- Different concepts of Po (body soul)
- Po (body soul) and Jing: pathologies and regulation
- Po (body soul), death and life
- Po (body soul) and autoimmune diseases
- Internal pathogenic factors and Po (body soul)
- Grief as an emotion of the metal
- Root (ben) of grief
- Breath, Qi and Po (body soul)
- psycho-emotional disharmonies in the metal (meaning for Lung-Qi, Lung-Yin and Lung-Yang)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the psycho-energetic aspect of Po (body soul)
- Practical applications
Module: wood
1 WE Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Fri 10.00am – 6.00pm, Sat 10.00am – 6.00pm & Sun 10.00am – 5.00pm (24UE)
- Different concepts from Hun (wandering soul)
- Anger as emotion of wood
- Root (Ben) of anger
- psycho-emotional disharmonies in wood (effects on liver and gall bladder qi, liver yin and liver yang)
- Courage, responsibility, decisions
- Hun (wandering soul): pathologies and regulation
- Po (body soul) and Hun (wandering soul): interactions and influences
- Hun (wandering soul) and perception
- Hun (Wandering Soul), Shen (Spirit) and Blood (Xue)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the psycho-energetic aspect Hun (wandering soul)
- Practical applications
Practice module (24 units)
- 12 documented sessions with a client / patient
- 12 documented self-treatments
Module: final colloquium
1 weekend Saturday and Sunday
Sat 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. & Sun 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. (17UE)
- Supervision and deepening
- Final exam oral / written
Overview
Duration: 229 units
10 modules
Certificate: Chinese medicine and internal alchemy
Regular: € 2154, early bird € 2027, payment in installments possible