Qiological Podcast

359 Wu Yun Liu Qi and The Shape of Reality • Rory Hiltbrand

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is our universe made of? How does it work, and more importantly– what are we doing here and how do we make sense of it? Eternal questions, unan...

358 History Series, Remember, Acupuncture is Fantastic Julian Scott

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While many are keen on looking to “science up” acupuncture and squeeze it into the thinking and theories of conventional medicine, others are quit...

357 Eastern and Western Perspectives on Acupuncture • John Rybak

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As anyone who has started an acupuncture practice and tried explaining it to potential patients knows, it’s not easy taking the terminology and thin...

356 Considering Yi- Meaning, Significance and Conception • S. Boyanton, L. de Vries, V. Scheid

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brenda Hood often reminds me “Chinese concepts, especially classical Chinese concepts, are big and multidimensional. They are extremely dependent on...

355 The Circuitry of Saam Acupuncture • Joshua Park

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Saam acupuncture with its unique channel pairings, perspective on psycho-emotional dynamics, and capacity to interweave the Five Phase with the Six Qi...

354 History Series, In The Footsteps of a Compleat Acupuncturist • Peter Eckman

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 60’s and early 70’s of the last century East Asian medicine began to emerge into mainstream culture. The Reston NY Times article is of...

353 Points for Peace • Keren Assouline & Guy Sedan

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Middle East has a long history of war and unrest. Whatever phase of history you’d like to zoom the timeframe, you’ll likely see conflict. In E...

352 Quiet Presence, The Gentle Power of Teishin • G Klepper, T Sørensen, E Truitt

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a question that I find difficult to answer. How does acupuncture work? Beyond the East Asian medicine phrasing that makes zero sense to ...

351 The Trouble with Men • Damo Mitchell

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Women develop through the cycles of seven. Men through the rhythms of eight. Women, more resonate with Blood. Men, with qi. Being human, there is a lo...

350 Sa Sang, Bazi and Food as Medicine • Jaguang Sunim

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

East Asian medicine recognizes the central role that food can play in our health and wellbeing. We have various models for understanding the fluctuati...

349 History Series, There's No End to The Study • Stuart Watts

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 1960’s and 70’s saw an explosion of alternative health and lifestyle practices appear at the edges of culture. It was a time ripe with possibi...

348 The Strange Flows • Daniel Atchison-Nevel

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Change happens through time, it unfolds within the rhythmic inhale and exhale, it expresses through lunar and solar cycles, it follows the arc of deve...

347 The First Four Palaces of Alchemy • Leta Herman

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alchemy sounds like magic. It sounds like magic because it involves the transmuting of something coarse and without value to something refined and of ...

346 Weaving Together East and West • Joseph and Sam Audette

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve probably heard about family lineage types of acupuncture from Asia. Here in the West, acupuncture is still a bit of a newcomer to the medical...

345 History Series - Things That Don’t Make Sense Will be Helpful to You Later • Ted Kaptchuk

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was challenging enough for me in the 1990’s to set myself on the path of learning acupuncture. and by then, we had established schools and clear ...

344 Jing, Authenticity and Mushrooms • Mason Taylor

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Medicinal mushrooms have made their way into the everyday lives of the “old one-hundred names,” us common folk. Formerly rare and precious substan...

343 Chinese Medicine Dermatology • Mazin Al-Khafaji

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Clinical experience and results are paramount in developing skill as a Chinese medicine practitioner. Theory should serve practice, not the other way ...

342 Laughter of the Universe, Qi of The Wood Dragon Year - Gregory Done

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are here in the midst of winter cold going into the Spring Festival— the new Chinese Lunar year. It might seem strange to consider Spring as begi...

341 History Series, A Journey into Health, Wellbeing and Longevity • Peter Deadman

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the mid 70’s there were four English language books on acupuncture. Which wasn’t much to go on. But for the people that started learning acupun...

340 Alchemy, Magic and Channel Personalities • Zachary Lui

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There are aspects of East Asian medicine that touch on the frameworks of Buddhism, Daoism, Shamanism, and Alchemy. What’s more the lenses of philoso...

339 Confusion on the Path, The Dangers of Meditation • Leo Lok

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation is seen as an ancient panacea to modern problems. Mindfulness and equanimity will help with your productivity at work, relationships at hom...

338 Researching Chronic Pain in Children • Jonathan Riemer

09 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pain is a helpful signal when it works properly as a warning signal. But when that signal goes awry, it dramatically changes a person’s life and als...

337 Acupuncture is like Shop Class • Michael Max & Rick Gold

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The curious thing about having someone ask me a question and engage in a conversation of inquiry is that I hear myself saying things that are usually ...

336 Rock & Roll, Synchronicity and the Yi Jing, a history conversation • Z'ev Rosenberg

26 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all have some kind of call to follow medicine, otherwise we wouldn’t be in the trade. If you answer that call today, you’ve got a profession yo...

335 Academy of Source Based Medicine • M. Brown, W. Ceurvels, E. Even, I. Zavala

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The vast wealth, and it is a wealth, of writing on Chinese medicine is in Chinese. Granted, at this moment in time there is enough material that ...

334 Lean Into Your Gift • Clara Cohen

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some people dream of being influencers and social media stars. They are looking for a glamorous life in front of the camera.Not so for the guest of to...

333 Prescriptions for Virtuosity • Eric Karchmer

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We practice traditional medicine, or do we?Because Chinese medicine has roots and writings that go back into misty history, it’s easy to imagine we ...

332 History series- Connecting Heaven and Earth Efrem Korngold

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, our guest Efrem Korngold said, “the definition of a good paradigm is that you can apply it effectively to new problems.”You ...

331 A Stroll Through the Landscape of the Polyvagal • Karine Kedar

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“My Po made the decision”I’m usually skeptical about most explanations of the “Spirit” of the five Zang viscera. Not that I don’t indulge ...

330 Acupuncture and Non-Ordinary States of Reality • John Myerson

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You don’t need to practice acupuncture for very long to realize that people frequently  slip into a deep state of quietude and repose. Often en...

329 Alchemy and Transformation In Clinical Work • Leta Herman

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve often enough equated the word Alchemy with Magic. Hoping for something that would quickly and painlessly transform the troubles dogging me.Perh...

328 Learning Acupuncture When There Weren’t Any Schools • Jake Fratkin

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s surprising the unexpected paths we trod that lead us to our destiny. Especially when you’re headed into a profession or line of work that doe...

327 An Acupuncture Perspective on the Shang Han Lun • Maya Suzuki

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There are several foundational texts that lay the groundwork for Chinese herbal medicine. Usually when you think about the Shang Han Lun, you’d imme...

326 80/20 of Nutrition • Brenda Le

17 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Confused by all the diet advice out there? Me too! Seems like there's always a new fad telling us what to eat– or not. I'm a fan of the 80/20 princi...

325 Putting Your Heart In It • John Nieters

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have plans, but our destiny usually is not found in the maps we make of the world. It shows up in unexpected, random and often unguarded moments. T...

324 Ghost Points • Ivan Zavala

03 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ghost points.Read those words and let the sound echo into your head, your heart and body. Ghost points. Just the words carry an energy. An energy of s...

323 Founding the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine • Rick Gold

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you don’t know where you want to go, it’s fine not to know where you’re going.Not all journeys have a destination– at least, not in the beg...

322 Alchemy of the Organs • Peter Firebrace

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Li Shi Zhen and Sun Si Miao, they shared an interest in alchemy. Often enough in our clinical work, patients will describe what happened with them as ...

321 Continuity and Change Within the Tradition of Chinese medicine • Volker Scheid

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese medicine looks to the perspectives of the past to understand the unfolding present. And for sure, there are threads of connection and perspect...

320 What I Learned in the Last Year From Teaching • Deborah Woolf

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I still remember the moment when I realized that the character for Listen in traditional written Chinese was composed of the characters for Ears, Eyes...

319 I had no idea what I was in for • Dan Bensky

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve studied Traditional East Asian Medicine in English, you no doubt have benefited from the work of today’s guest.Dan Bensky has translated...

318 A Peripatetic Education • Andy Ellis

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The book we used for studying acupuncture points at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine was Foundations of Chinese Acupuncture. That along wi...

317 Following a Hunch • Malvin Finkelstein

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Often enough at the beginning of a sea change, you don’t know what’s coming next. You’re already part of a current, a flow, and while you can st...

316 Growing Up with Herbs • Yvonne Lau

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What you grow up with, that’s what becomes normal. You could be smack dab in the middle of something extraordinary, but it’s simply everyday life ...

315 Importance of Structure, and the Freedom That Comes From It • John Myerson

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do if you’re interested in learning and practicing acupuncture, but there are no schools, standards or licensure?You built it yourself; ...

314 Channel Dynamics, Time Streams and Unlocking Latency • Sean Tuten

25 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The transport points are rich in story, function, connection and seem to have a capacity for engaging qi in profound ways as it flows from the tips of...

313 The Heart of Practice • Ross Rosen

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The heart of our work, often enough, leans on the connections and capacity of the heart.In this conversation with Ross Rosen we explore the importance...

312 Nature in Medicine • Ed Neal

11 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

East Asian medicine is a nature based medicine. And nature… nature is weird, and mysterious. And as much as we like to come up with “Laws of Natur...

311 理 法 道術 Principles, Methods, Knowing and Know-How • Jason Robertson & Stephan Brown

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the blind men exploring the elephant is alluded to often enough that it’s easily  dismissed as cliche. And yet, the profound truth...

310 Navigating Destiny, A Personal Journey Into Japanese Acupuncture •. Maya Suzuki

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mind and body are inextricably entangled together. The effect of emotions on the physiology leave a palpable trace. It’s something that we as practi...

309 AI for Acupuncturists • Heidi Lovie

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it the end of the world, or the beginning of a new one? That is the question of the day when cultures go through seatide changes. Ever since the tu...

308 Body Constellations, Qi Maps and Full Throttled Curiousity • Jason Brazil

13 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The acupuncture channels are a curiosity that practitioners have puzzled, and argued, over for centuries. Even as these structures and processes so fu...

307 Everything Reminds Me of a Story • John Scott

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It can be hard, impossible perhaps, at the beginning to know that you’re at the start of a tidal shift. It’s only in looking back and connecting t...

306 Suffering is Meant to Awaken Us: Qi Gong and the Alchemy of Transformation • Chris Shelton

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a saying that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. Maybe. I suspect that it has something to do with the capacity of your 意 Yi to ...

305 Thinking About Business Should Release Dopamine in Your Brain • Danielle Weil

23 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You probably have an image in your mind, and a feeling that goes with having had a bad marketing experience. But do you know what good marketing feels...

304 Considering Qi, or Not • Leah Fehres

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

East Asian medicine uses a completely different map of physiology and function from that of modern biomedicine to understand health and illness. It’...

303 Way of the Teishin • Bob Quinn

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What’s more powerful, a whisper or a shout? What has more impact, a punch to the gut or an intended and targeted slight? Strength and power, these a...

302 The Business and Opportunity of Practice • Jimmy Yen

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Business and medicine are interwoven together. Both deeply connect people together through relationships that have an impact.. Yet it’s easy to see ...

301 Fifty Years of Practice, The Perspectives of Dr Shudo Denmei • Stephen Brown

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the realm of East Asian medicine, uncertainty is a constant companion, a persistent reminder of the mystery of life. Like a meandering river, the h...

300 Clinician's Guide to the Shang Han Lun • Dr Shou-Chun Ma & Dan Bensky

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Medicine is always a discussion, Be it between practitioner and patient, between colleagues talking shop, or through the stream of history and comment...

299 Optimistically Integrative • Robyn Adcock

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Western and Eastern medicine have often stood at odds, separated by skepticism and worldview. But perhaps the best path is neither, but both. Perhaps ...

298 Made in America- The Story Behind Quality Made Cups • Kevin Ferst

04 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tools in East Asian medicine are not just inanimate objects. They are a tangible extension of the healer's touch, a conduit for their energy and inten...

297 Covid Long Haul, Threat or Opportunity • Nigel Dawes

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where change is the only constant, East Asian medicine offers a way to track change even in the midst of change. Our medicine has a way of ...

296 Considering Long Covid, Research and Practice • Beau Anderson

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The principles of Chinese medicine, with its focus on balance and harmony, have long offered effective treatment methods for respiratory disorders, by...

295 Covid Lessons Learned • Sally Rappeport

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chinese medicine is a rich tapestry of knowledge and techniques, ancient wisdom honed and passed down through the ages. But the ‘superpower’ of ou...

294 Tempered by Fire, Responding to Covid with Chinese Medicine • Daniel Altschuler

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amidst the chaos of contagion and windstorm of viral woes, Chinese medicine offers ancient remedies, and beyond that, perspectives to guide us through...

293 Facereading as Part of the Clinical Conversation • Juli Kramer

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Like the patina and wear on something touched often, or the way shoes and fabric carries the memory of the wearer. Our life and spirit shows its prese...

292 Rethinking Acupuncture Education • Lisa Rohleder

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the winds of change sweep through the healthcare landscape, the acupuncture profession stands at a crossroads, and as is the nature of a crossroads...

291 Mind, Destiny and Intention • Ann Cecil Sterman

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Crafting the meaning in life, choosing our purpose and then having the courage and wherewithal to unfold that is not an easy task. Are we puppets in t...

290.2 Simplicity, Attention and Natural Flow • Damo Mitchell

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is a continuation of the discussion I had with Damo. I had a few lingering questions from our previous conversation. So we got together a few day...

290.1 Intention, Attention, and The Qi of Cultivation • Damo Mitchell

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that Chinese medicine is a path of balance. A journey of harmony and restoration. An art that seeks to align the channels and tend to the ...

289 Triple Burner, Pericardium, Mingmen- The Flow Of Fire • Thomas Sorensen

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mingmen (命門) is a lifeblood point in the flow of fire and qi in the body, yet remains shrouded in an enigma. For those who seek to understand thei...

288 Peach Spring Beyond This World, A Glimpse of the Water Rabbit Year • Gregory Done

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the earth awakens from its winter slumber, the gentle spring wind brings with it the promise of new beginnings. A new fate, a new story waiting to ...

287 Tradition and Innovation • Mark Petruzzi and Jeffrey Dann

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As practitioners of East Asian medicine, we are informed deeply by the ancient medicine, experience and wisdom passed down through generations. The ho...

286 Qi, Yi and Tensegrity • Stefan Grace

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our language tells the tale of our evolution and the movement of the mind. It captures the experiences, attitudes, and wisdom of our ancestors and all...

285 The Work and Perspectives of Dr Bear • David Toone

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Treating what you see sounds easy. And it is essential if you want to craft a targeted and effective treatment. It’s those well aimed treatments tha...

284 Case Studies and Storytelling a Lens into Medicine and Meaning • Sarah Rivkin

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So much of our medicine is conveyed in stories—the ones we live, the ones we tell, and the ones we hear. Storytelling is an innate human impulse. It...

283 The Spiral Process of Learning • Kristen Lambertin

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Making the leap from the classroom to the clinic is an opportunity to explore a new world—but without a travel guide in the form of teachers and col...

282 Five Gentleman of Flavor, Taste & Nature • L Stiteler, B Bernadsky, S Feeney, F Griffo, A Ellis

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To use herbs within the scope of traditional Chinese medicine, we must first understand the qualities, temperatures, and tastes that dictate how each ...

281 Fun with Marketing • Michelle Grasek

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Practitioners today navigate a dynamic and ever-evolving world of marketing and communications. There are so many ideas about practice building and ho...

280 Navigating the Passage, Healing as Voyage of Exploration • Heather Becker-Brungard

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Getting off track is not something uncommon for us. In fact, it’s an everyday part of our human experience. The question is, how do you notice when ...

279 Not what I Thought, An Investigation of Adverse Reactions • Karina Smith

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The principles behind our medicine are relatively simple. The idea is to restore balance to a body that is in disharmony. To detect the patterns and r...

278 Digging the Earthly Branches • Deborah Woolf

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Heaven and Earth, the creative and the created, micro and macrocosm. All ways of saying there is a reality we inhabit, and beyond that a lot of myster...

277 The Heart in the Clinic • Josephine Spilka

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Classical Chinese medicine recognizes the Heart (心 Xin) as a central organ to our being. It’s seen as holding the sovereign position as the empero...

276 Interoceptive Awareness • Lisa Taylor-Swanson, Nick Lowe & Elizabeth Osgood-Campbell

01 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tuning in is a cultivated skill that’s in many East Asian Medicine practitioner's toolbox. We learn early on to bring our intention, attention, and ...

275 If You're Falling, Dive— Trauma, Heartbreak and Possiblities • Randal Lyons

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

No one gets through life without difficulties. We all carry wounds and the consequences of the meanings we’ve made in the moments of heartbreak, fea...

274 Panel on Wei Qi • Ann Cecil-Sterman, Laurie Ayres, & Zhongxian Wu

18 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I recently got to thinking about wei qi, especially as we are moving into the dark of the year in the northern hemisphere, and I realized that I hear ...

273 Intention, Awareness and The Power of Restraint • Zoe Brenner

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our job as Chinese Medicine practitioners is not so much to impress our ideas on patients but to cultivate a capacity and restraint to allow them to c...

272 Ishizaka Acupuncture, Attending to the Stillness in the Center of Motion • Kubota Sensei

04 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many acupuncture traditions share the idea that our troubles stem from a root cause , and treating the root is an essential part of the therapeutic pr...

271 Cycles, Nodes and the Spaces in the Seasons • Sheri Lee

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Life is built on rhythms, the natural world is constantly in a state of transformation. A cyclical flow of growth and decline—manifested in the turn...

270 Authentic Movement and the Wisdom of the Body • Margot Rossi

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Movement is life. Movement is part of how our body communicates with itself and senses itself in the outside world. Proper and ease filled movement, b...

269 A World of No Excuses • Jenny Nieters

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To most, acupuncture is a curious riddle. An ancient medical art whose theories are poetic, and healing outcomes seem lopsided considering the gentle ...

268 Men's Health • Lisa Lapwing

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

hinese medicine is a godsend for women's health. There are plenty of resources for us to tap into, and our medicine is great at addressing the challe...

Five Years of Qiological, Thoughts, Observations and Appreciation • Michael Max

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The first episode of Qiological aired at the end of August in 2017. I’d gotten more than a few emails from practitioners telling me how much they li...

267 Language and language-less practices of touch and healing • Nick Pole

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Listen with the whole bodyAccept that comesWhen I think about connecting with others, two of the most powerful ways are with non-verbal touch, and ...

266 Following the Flow, Ortho-Bionomy® and Art of Non-Judgement • Karen Elisa

23 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In our work, we often lean on the metaphors of nature. We speak of landscapes, flows, seasons and cycles. And yet often enough, our treatments ar...

265 Attending to the Landscape of Body and Being • Stephen Schleipfer

16 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Patients come to us expecting a change in their situation—whether that is to gain or get rid of something. And as the 'expert' in the room, there's ...

264 Field Dynamics and Touch • Beth Hazzard

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Like quantum physics, our medicine is built on a sense of connection and potential. It inhabits the reality of a unified field where the boundaries of...

263 More with Lessing, The Gentle Power of Yin Sotai • Bob Quinn

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Touch is our first sensation. It's a universal language. And it's a capacity we all have that can be used to restore health and nurture life. Han...

262 Causes and Conditions of Health and Illness • Greg Bantick

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Qiological is on vacation for the month of July, this discussion is one of a series of ‘summer re-runs’ of some of our favorite conversations from...