Metal Workshop
WATER WOOD FIRE EARTH METAL
Essential Five Element Acupressure
A cycle of workshops with John Kirkwood 2011-12
These five workshops will profoundly support your ongoing development, both personally and professionally, from a Five Element perspective.
Each workshop will focus on the Element of the season in which it is held. This will allow us to draw on the ambient energy of the season, which evokes the spirit and flavour of the Element in ways that are not available at other times of the year.
On a personal level, you will be fully immersed in an experiential learning environment with a wide range of exercises and discussions, and will learn how to contact, recognise, examine and experience each of the Five Elements within yourself. This immersion will allow the arising and development of the gifts of the Elements within you
On a professional level, you will learn fundamental principles of Five Element Acupressure which can then be incorporated and integrated into your bodywork practice. Most important, you will learn how to identify a client’s Constitutional Element through colour, sound, odour and emotion. This knowledge will enable you to treat clients with great effectiveness as you address the very core of their imbalance. When the Constitutional Element is restored to health, all the other Elements tend to find balance, creating lasting change and ongoing health.
In addition to the Constitutional Element, each workshop will address one or more primary principles of treatment, including point categories and working with emotions. Each workshop will also include a review of the meridians of the respective Element including focus on locations and uses of significant acu-points in treatment.
Your learning will be amply supported by instructor demonstrations, supervised practice and extensive notes
For each workshop, you are invited to experiment with the flavours of the Element you’ll be studying. You can do this by wearing the colour of the Element, or perhaps by playing with its sound, posture, emotion, or attitude. As you take in the flavour of the Element, you will gain an inner sense of its effects on the body and soul. This understanding will greatly help you identify your own Constitutional Element, and that of others.
Attending these workshops is often akin to getting treatment, and can create many positive changes in your own health. As a practitioner, the greater the health and balance of the Elements within you, the greater the capacity you will have to bring balance to your clients.
Although it’s recommended to do all five workshops, and to facilitate this, a 50% discount is given for the fifth one attended, these workshops also stand alone and may be taken singly or in any combination.
Autumn Workshop – Embodying the Spirit of Metal
The Metal Element is the essence of Autumn. It brings respect and acknowledgement, acceptance and forgiveness. It provides inspiration and reflection. In this workshop, the spirit of Metal will help to distil our study to its fundamental essence.
Topics distilled will include:
- Gifts & Resonances of the Metal Element
- Working with the Breath
- An exercise in Smelling
- Odour in diagnosis
- Recognising the Metal type
- Pathways, points and symptoms of imbalance in Lung & Large Intestine meridians
- The Spirit of points
- Windows of the Sky Points and their use in clinical practice