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Email:john@acupressure.com.au Phone: 0410 779 159

SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS

Taught by John Kirkwood, Master Acupressure Practitioner

ADELAIDE
Seasons of Life
A Five Element Workshop for everyone Two new groups in Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills meeting one evening per month throughout 2012 Click here for details!
Integrative Acupressure 1 May 8, 9, 22, 23 2012 Integrative Acupressure 2 (prereq Acupressure 1) TBA
Five Element Acubalance Classes This series of five workshops will next be offered in 2013
For more information and how to register, email john@acupressure.com.au or call John on 0410 779 159
MELBOURNE
Essential Five Element Acupressure
Instructor John Kirkwood
Water Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th July 2011 $340 Wood Saturday 24th - Sunday 25th September 2011 $340 Fire Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th December 2011 $340		Earth Saturday 31st March - Sunday 1st April 2012 $340 Metal Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th May 2012 $340 ($170 if all 5 workshops taken)
LOCATION - All Melbourne classes held at East West College 475 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South VIC 3162 View more about the classes and how to register here ( You will need Acrobat Reader to be able to view this PDF. You can download it for free from the Adobe site.)

All acupressure classes are now AAMT Approved and earn 10 CPE points per day

CONTENT OF CLASSES

This one day seminar is designed to give bodyworkers a solid introduction to the range of possibilities available in using Five Element Acupressure in clinical practice. Topics covered include:
Basic principles of Chinese Medicine
Principles of point combining
Locations, indications and uses of yin Mu, Shu and Source points
Working with emotions in the treatment room.
Demonstration and supervised practice.

This foundation course is offered as part of the Diploma of Remedial Massage at NHAA and can also be taken as a stand alone course by undergraduates and practitioners alike. This is a rich and thorough grounding in Five Element Acupressure. The course content includes the following:-
History and philosophy of Chinese Medicine
Tao, Yin and Yang, Qi, Five Elements, Twelve Meridians, Central Channel
Basic and extended head, neck and shoulder release
50 acupressure points, locations and uses
Treatment patterns for specific conditions
First Aid, Symptomatic and Diagnostic Acupressure
Finding the predominant Element
Basic Five Element Diagnosis
This is a dynamic, exciting and practical introduction to Five Element Acupressure. The skills learned can immediately be applied both in clinical practice and with friends and family. The class offers plenty of opportunity for supervised, hands on practice.

This class deepens the student’s understanding of Five Element Acupressure, introduces more points and treatment patterns, introduces principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and trains the student in more complex diagnosis and treatment.
Content of this course includes the following:-
Review of the basic 50 points from Acupressure 1
Back Shu and Front Mu points, uses in diagnosis and treatment
Basic principles of TCM including pulse and tongue diagnosis
More complex treatment patterns
Deeper understanding of Five Element dynamics
More opportunity for supervised practice of skills learned.

This series of five classes provides for a deepening understanding of the sophisticated interplay of the Five Elements within ourselves and in all of life. The course not only offers new ideas and treatment protocols, but provides a unique opportunity for attendees to recognise the strength or otherwise of each of the Elements within themselves. The fundamental diagnostic tool of Five Element Acupressure, the Constitutional Element, provides the focus of each class. Students learn to diagnose others by looking at the Elements within themselves. One of the benefits of this approach, is that the classes themselves become treatment. The immersion in the Element of the season, and inquiry into the state of the health of that Element, provide support for that Element to move into balance. Time after time, students are amazed that just attending these classes improves their health. (cont above)

Water

Wood

Gifts and correspondences of the Wood Element
Flexibility and the health of one’s Wood
An exercise in Looking
Colour of the face in diagnosis
Recognising a Wood type
Pathways, points and symptoms of imbalance in Gall Bladder & Liver meridians
Horary points and their use in clinical practice
Recognising and treating entry-exit blocks

Fire

Earth

Metal

Gifts & Correspondences of the Metal Element
Working with the Breath
An exercise in Smelling
Odour in diagnosis
Recognising a Metal type
Pathways, points and symptoms of imbalance in Lung & Large Intestine meridians
Windows of the Sky Points and their use in clinical practic