Chinese Medicine for BodyTalkers

Would you like to learn enough about Chinese Medicine to be able use the insights of a system that is thousands of years old in your sessions? But you don’t have 4 years to go to college and then ten years to practice acupuncture before you get it? This new course, aimed specifically for BodyTalk practitioners can get you up to speed quickly.

BodyTalk is easier to learn now than it was a few years ago because the collective matrix of BodyTalk is stronger. Although BodyTalk draws heavily on Chinese Medicine in its design, there is wealth of insight available from this ancient system that could be explored more fully. Traditional Chinese Medicine represents a mature matrix of consciousness that can also be tuned into by a BodyTalk practitioner. But you do need to have a bit of vocabulary to ask the right questions and hear the answers. This course will provide the vocabulary – your sessions will make it come alive.

Developed and taught by Dr. Kaimi Pilipovich, DAc, LMT, Sr CBI, Par. BP, it represents a synthesis of his formal training and his years of experience teaching and practicing BodyTalk. He says this about his incorporation of his formal training and BodyTalk:

“I had been studying Chinese Medicine for eleven years when I first took BodyTalk. When I stopped diagnosing and started asking, I found that innate led me to sessions that were not only incredibly effective, but that made me really understand Chinese Medicine – and my clients. I feel that I got more of an understanding of Chinese Medicine in my first few months of doing BodyTalk than I had in my previous eleven years of study and practice.”

The course represents a brief primer on anatomy and physiology from an eastern perspective to learn a minimum of vocabulary. The goal of this information is not to diagnose, but to allow definitions and insights from well organized reference handouts to be included in BodyTalk formulas. These definitions will both help your clarity of observation of the formula and aid with client communication. Many clients present with multiple symptoms that appear unrelated, yet result from a single imbalance from a Chinese Medicine perspective. Clients feel calmer and more confident when a practitioner can help them see their issues in a simpler way. This course will help you provide that insight for clients.

The definitions that you learn in this course can be applied virtually anywhere in the protocol to improve the session, and will be very useful for client communication and rapport. Having this knowledge will help BodyTalk practitioners realize that a client with multiple problems/symptoms often has only one simple imbalance. That insight alone can be a treatment in and of itself.

Outline of topics

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  How to use manual and handouts

  Plentiful and detailed examples of how to incorporate the information into sessions will be provided, including suggested language choices for the client.

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  Introduction to Chinese medicine

  Overview of basic principles, including Yin, Yang, Qi, Blood, etc. Emphasize the convention of distinguishing between kidney and Kidney in all books on Chinese medicine, and use it throughout the manual. Will stress that we only need a little familiarity with the terms and theory in order to utilize the cheat sheets effectively.

Chinese Medicine is a mature approach to healthcare that has been developed by thousands of years of clinical refinement and written discussion. It represents a well developed matrix of consciousness that addresses the body from holistic perspective and provides an effective way to organize the 50 trillion cells in the body into just a few organ systems that are in many ways more accurate and insightful than the divisions in modern physiology. This course will provide the vocabulary to tune into this ancient matrix and use it in BodyTalk sessions. With this manual, you can let Innate teach you the principles of Chinese Medicine during your sessions.

Although BodyTalk draws heavily on this ancient wisdom in its design, and some concepts are explicitly included in Module 4, there is a vast reservoir of insight available to the BodyTalk practitioner from this ancient system. This course will give the necessary background to easily incorporate Chinese Medicine insights into BodyTalk sessions. The manual covers foundation principles of Chinese Medicine and then discusses the organs from a Chinese Medicine perspective. Each organ of Chinese Medicine is larger than its western counterpart in both anatomy and function. Hence the patterns of weakness or imbalance in a single organ in Chinese Medicine can include symptoms that seem unrelated when viewed from a western perspective.

These patterns of imbalance will be given along with their associated symptoms, and the key terms will be summarized on cheat sheets in order to facilitate being used as definitions in BodyTalk sessions.

Spleen Cheat-sheet:

Preview of spleen cheat sheet from Chinese Medicine for BodyTalkers manual

Prerequisites: IBA Membership and BodyTalk Modules 1 and 2