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Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijze Qing-Bai
Becoming an Empty Vessel
The Energetics of Emotion, Psyche & Spirit
An empty vessel is a person free beyond craving. If we consider pain as resistance, then pain and suffering, either emotional and/or physical- is managed through overcoming resistance. Qi is the movement of transformation, the ability to change from one state to another. Blood is the ability to be still, to expand our substance to include acceptance. This also changes the resistance and pain. Bringing balance to these yin and yang energies helps cultivate inner spaciousness where return to natural flow can be restored. This is the same process to prevent burn out as a clinician.
This seminar will include a brief history of psychiatry in Chinese medicine from the earliest ideas of gui/ghost, to the later concepts of qi qing/seven affects and wu shen/ five spirits. A more detailed examination of traditional psychiatric diseases such as: yu zhčng/depression, fan zao/ vexation and agitation, zang zao/ visceral agitation, and dian kuang/ withdrawal and mania with the modern biomedical correlates of depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, and schizophrenia as defined by the DSMIV.
The feeling tones of the various emotional and spiritual aspects of the Five Elements will be explored. Special attention will be paid to examining the Taoist Cross and Taoist alchemy models to achieve deeper harmony between individual and nature and between body, mind, and spirit. This course will investigate the relationship between emotion and virtue and methods of transformation and cultivation. Psycho-emotions correlate to physical symptom sand disease expression. This will be explored through the zangfu model.
Further understanding will be demonstrated using face and tongue photographs taken in a Western medical setting. The most common therapies will be discussed including herbal medicine with modifications, and acupuncture, moxibustion, and bleeding. Personal practices of meditation, self-massage, breathing and dietary modifications will be discussed.
Robin Saraswati Tiberi holds a Masters of Science degree of Traditional Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She is currently pursuing her Doctoral degree in Chinese medicine, specializing in both Gynecology and Mental health. Robin continued post-graduate studies with Dr. Yitian Ni, receiving a certificate in Gynecology. She has continued to pursue her studies of Gynecology extensively with both traditional and alternative/natural approaches. Her work has focused mainly in the area of fertility enhancement. Currently she is the primary investigator in a clinical trial researching the effect of a Chinese herbal formula on the vasomotor symptoms in climacteric women.
Robin acted as Clinical Director (2000-2003) of Pacific Center of Health in San Diego, California where in practice she specializes in Obstetrical and Gynecological issues including fertility, menstrual regulation, pain resolution, reproductive blockage, natural family planning, and hormonal balance. As Director, she initiated the Peace Clinic- a donation clinic that provides Chinese Medicine to all who need it, and began the Learning Natural Medicine Workshop Series. These are classes where patients and community members can learn and develop the tools to take care of themselves better.
As a female activist she encourages her patients to not only embrace the fluidity of gender, but to take accountability for their health imbalance, to take control over their health; mind, body, and spirit, and therefore change their world. In addition to acupuncture and herbal medicine, she uses a four-pronged approach to health: Diet, Exercise, Appropriate rest and relaxation, and Positive mental outlook, to accomplish health goals.
Robin teaches at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, in the departments of Herbology and Oriental Medical Theory. Her understanding of Chinese medical theory and her emphasis of Chinese Medicine as an art form, make her a popular teacher. Mrs. Tiberi is a visiting faculty member to Acupuncture colleges in both Holland and Israel and teaches intensive workshops on the subjects of Women's Health, Chinese Medical Psychiatry, and TCVM (Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine).