The 8 Healing Sounds of Yin Style Bagua

April 27, 28, 29 in New York City. This course is only being offered to students and faculty of the Tri-State College of Acupuncture.

The Eight Healing Sounds of Yin Style Bagua practice is the most important of the Healing Without Medicines practices within the Yin Style Bagua tradition. Using body posture and sounds to guide and lead Qi to the organs within the body, the Eight Healing Sounds are excellent for treating illness and attaining a dynamic state of health. Following the belief that one should first learn to treat oneself of illness before beginning to treat others, students were traditionally first taught the Eight Sounds to learn to affect their own organs and treat their own imbalances to better understand how to prescribe them to their future patients. This was the very first practice ever taught to Andrew Nugent-Head by the late Yin Style Bagua practitioner Dr. Xie Peiqi in Beijing.

In this seminar, after learning all 8 Healing Sound practices and their medical uses within the Chinese medicine paradigm, participants will learn how to prescribe individual sounds and sound combinations to their patients just as one would prescribe single or a simple combination of herbs to treat a wide variety of conditions of Excess and Deficiency in the Lungs, Heart, Kidneys, Stomach, Spleen, Liver, and channels.

As the seminar progresses, participants will learn deeper layers of theory and practice the Standing, Moving, Sitting and Lying Down variations of the 8 Sounds to see the wide variety of possibilities these sounds have in self and patient healing.

Course Content

This seminar begins with a discussion on the importance of Healing Without Medicines as one of Chinese medicine's treatment modalities. Andrew then outlines Healing Without Medicines within the Yin Style Bagua tradition in general and the Eight Healing Sounds practices specifically. This finishes with a demonstration and brief walk-through of the practices.

The second section of the seminar layers the theory and cultivation aspects of the Eight Sounds with a group practice in the Standing and Moving variations of the Eight Healing Sounds. Their application in a clinic situation is then discussed, outlining their use for patients.

The third section of the seminar covers goes into deeper theory while also introducing the Sitting and Lying Down variations as group practices. Again, the Sounds and their posture variations' clinical applications are discussed, along with creating case situations to make their usage better understood in the clinic.

The final section of the seminar is dedicated to answering questions presented by the audience.

NOTE:

Participants are expected to be in the field of Oriental Medicine or Oriental Bodywork with a firm understanding of Chinese Medical theory and clinical practice. Vocabulary and references used during the seminar assume this, making it inappropriate for lay people.

A nationally certified and state licensed practitioner, Andrew Nugent-Head MSOM has lived in China for 25 years, dedicating his life to the study of Chinese Medicine, internal cultivation and the martial art of Yin Style Bagua in traditional teacher–disciple relationships. He began studying Chinese medicine in 1989 and entered into the Yin Style Bagua tradition in 1993 under the late Dr. Xie Peiqi. An internationally recognized educator and translator, Andrew is the founder of the 501c3 not for profit, the Association for Traditional Studies. His work and life in China has been featured on the NBC Today Show, Bill Moyers’ Healing & the Mind series on PBS, Germany’s ZDF special The Treasures of China as well as many other news programs and articles in Europe and the United States. Many of his lectures and seminars are available online for free.