Neijing Dream Diagnosis: Deeper Insight Into Your Patients
Credit Type: AOM-BIO | Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – Biomedicine | Credits: 2.00
In this 2 CEU presentation, Bob Quinn explores the usage of dreams to guide the practice of Chinese medicine. Bob discusses the ancient tradition of using dreams diagnostically in Chinese medicine, including direct passages from the Neijing, before moving into a more expansive approach to interpreting dreams through a Chinese medicine perspective.
Real-world examples are presented of patients’ dreams and the information that can be extracted from them, helping develop participants’ skills to utilize dreams in their treatment of patients.
Yin Sotai: Gentle Within Gentle
Credit Type: AOM-BIO | Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine – Biomedicine | Credits: 3.00
In this fully video-based presentation, Bob Quinn explores the theory and practice guiding his version of Sotai, which he calls ‘Yin Sotai’. Learn about doing more with less, and how gentle bodywork techniques can still yield very effective results in treating pain and dysfunction. Practitioners will learn how standard Sotai and the gentler Yin Sotai can be easily incorporated alongside acupuncture, moxibustion, and other clinical practices to maximize the effectiveness of patient treatments.
Bob begins with the origins of Sotai, discussing the intentions of Sotai founder Keizo Hashimoto. The basic and extended principles of Sotai are detailed, including how to utilize targeted movements to help reeducate the neuromuscular system away from pain and dysfunction. From there Bob explains how extending Sotai’s core principles, along with other influences, has led him to the practice of ever-gentler, yet still quite effective techniques. Bob investigates and questions the general assumption of ‘no pain, no gain’, and details the developments he’s incorporated from figures such as Moshe Feldenkrais, Anat Baniel, Milton Trager, FM Alexander, and Buckminster Fuller.
After an hour-long lecture, Bob spends an additional hour and a half with a live model to provide detailed demonstrations of Sotai and Yin Sotai techniques. Bob shows how a practitioner should work with patients to maximize the effectiveness of Sotai techniques, including the use of novelty in movements, linkage between moves, having both sides of the body working in synergy, and the best guidance to give patients towards the desired goal of neuromuscular reeducation.