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