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This was a wonderful learning experience! Great venue and the snacks and tea were such a lovely touch - thank you Amanda for all your hard work organizing this event. A memorable experience all around.

Eight Extraordinary Channels: Theory & Demonstration

Oh my goooooodness!
What a treat to see Ann speaking about her art to students of art!!!
I believe that she changed many minds and lives with her sharing that day!
It was so wonderful to hear her passion about art, pulses, acupuncture, music and humanity!
I am very glad I was able to attend!

Ann Cecil-Sterman Lecture - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Aloha!  SOOOOO grateful I attended Ann's class!
The information was useful, beautiful and full of the deepest level of compassion and humanity!
Amanda, the host, provided an extremely nourishing and welcoming environment.
I would attend class with either of them anytime!
Mahalo!!!!
Joy

Loved this seminar so much! Great teachings, great food, great location!
Thank you! 

Everything was wonderful!  From the instructor to the space to the host, all of it was incredible.  I cannot wait for the next opportunity.

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Golden Hour Acupuncture

In this weekend seminar, participants will learn the art of pulse diagnosis directly from Ann Cecil-Sterman, a renowned practitioner, teacher and student of Jeffrey Yuen. This class is suitable for anyone interested in pulse diagnosis, including students and non-practitioners. The transmission is accessible enough for the beginner and nuanced enough for the seasoned practitioner.&nbsp;This class has been approved for 13.5 NCCAOM CEU credits.&nbsp;

City Garden Waldorf School, 920 W 19th St, Chicago, IL 60608

Participants will be responsible for travel costs, accommodations and meals

Lodging and Meals

We will be providing light snacks and tea over morning and afternoon breaks

Light Snacks 

No two classes are the same! Use the following to give you a sense of the content and pacing, but don't get attached to its delineation.&nbsp;
 
9:00 - 10:00am&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: History of pulse diagnosis
10:00 - 10:15am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: orientation to the pulse arena
10:15am - 11:00am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: The importance of moving pulses; honing posture and positioning; directional exercise
11:00am - 11:15am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: the Guan to Cun tilt
11:15am - 11:30am BREAK
11:45am - 12:15pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: the definition of pulse terms: cun, guan and chi. The five parameters of pulse taking: depth, width, length, tempo and texture
12:15pm - 1:00pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: The second of the directional exercises: the release of the cun
1:00pm - 2:15pm BREAK FOR LUNCH
2:15pm - 2:45pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: the pulse qualities
2:45pm - 3:15pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: locating pulse qualities in every member of the class; class engages in supervised practice&nbsp;
3:15 - 3:45pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: pulse qualities
3:45pm - 4:00pm BREAK
4:00pm- 4:45pm&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: examples of the most commonly found pulse qualities
4:45pm - 5:30pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Questions and Answers&nbsp;

Pulse Diagnosis Day 1

Day 1

8:30am - 9:00am&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Check in and settle in
9:00am - 9:45am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: The three levels: Wei / Ying / Yuan
9:45am - 110:15am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: feeling the three levels
10:15am - 11:00am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: Right hand. Examining the qualities related to each organ; protocols for finding vectors in the pulses: Spleen ascends to Lung, Lung disperses, Stomach descends to the lower Jiao, Lungs descend tot he Kidneys, Kidney Yang escapes or consolidates, Triple Heater demonstrates distributions.
11:00am - 11:30am
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: right hand protocols are practiced
11:30am - 11:45am BREAK
11:45am - 12:15pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: Left hand. Examining the qualities related to each organ; protocols for finding vectors in the pulses: Liver ascends to Heart, Heart disperses, Liver ascends to the lower Jiao, Kidney Yin consolidates, Heart communicates to the Kidneys and vice versa
12:15pm - 1:00pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: left hand protocols are practiced
1:00pm - 2:15pm LUNCH BREAK
2:15pm - 2:45pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: frequently misunderstood notions in pulse taking
2:45pm - 3:45pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: left hand and right hand protocols are practiced together with detection of blockages in the diaphragm and Dai Mai
3:45pm - 4:00pm BREAK
4:00pm - 4:15pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lecture: Pulses of the Sinew, Divergent Channels and Eight Extra Channels
4:15pm - 5:15pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Practice: practice three depths, five parameters, 28 qualities, all the vectors, blockages and pules of Sinew, Divergent Channels and Eight Extra Channels
5:15pm - 5:30pm
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Question and Answer, closing and invitation to enter the arena with confidence.

Pulse Diagnosis Day 2

Day 2

This will be a hands on journey through the intricate art of pulse diagnosis. There is a focus on the rare skill of directionality. Modern practitioners often make diagnoses from "static pulse" findings: without moving fingers. However, at the peak of its sophistication in the Han Dynasty, fine and complex movements of the fingers elicited key information about communication or blockages between organs. This enhances diagnosis and prevents misdiagnosis, eg: in a case of chronic bronchitis, one might treat the Lungs since their pulse is weak, but if the Spleen is not first ascending Qi to the Lungs, that treatment will fail. Participants will learn to see these interactions and will walk away with the foundation to further develop their skill set. Ann has taught this class to hundreds of people on three continents, many of whom consider it a game changer.&nbsp;

More about the class ...

* Understand the parameters of depth, width, length, tempo and texture of all pulses and their implications in all positions
 
* Gain the ability to diagnose issues with organ function
 
* Learn a thorough, step-by-step method of taking pulses
 
* Identify blockages in the diaphragm and in Dai Mai through the pulses
 
* Be able to make clear diagnoses without relying on signs and symptoms

Goals and Objectives

Ann Cecil-Sterman: Pulse Diagnosis

Trip Price

This two day class will be in the beautiful Shambhala Meditation Center. The Center is located at 37 N. Carpenter Street in West Loop Chicago, IL. The class offers 14 CEU credits. Class will begin Saturday with lecture covering all eight of the extraordinary channels. This will take most of Saturday and with the remaining time we'll have the opportunity to watch Ann demonstrate intake, diagnosis and treatment of these channels. Sunday there will be time for questions but the day will be dedicated to more live, in person treatments of patients. Ann will give insight into point selection and technique as well as fleshing out the use of particular channels for treatments. The aptly named Eight Extraordinary Channels are inherent in, and therefore understandable by, all human beings. They govern the unfolding of one’s blueprint—the divinely bestowed destiny of a lifetime, including the process of physical development both in utero and prior to in utero, bonding, separation, the stance, growth, maturity, major milestones, aging, decline, and death. As the inevitable challenges inherent in these stages of being human are encountered, the Eight Extra Channels can become stagnated, or burdened, causing the emergence of a wide range of responses from the body itself, including psychological and physiological manifestations. The practice of the Eight Extra Channels, which includes the cultivation of a particularly open mind, can result in the return to a sense a freedom of mind and body that the patient might not even remember, but that is at the core of their being. Join Ann Cecil-Sterman in a weekend of theory and application of these remarkable channels.

Chicago, IL, USA

Light snack and tea

Day 1 will start promptly at 9am.&nbsp; Doors will be open at 8:30am! <h1>Saturday, Sept 28th</h1>9am - 11:15am &nbsp;&nbsp;LECTURE &nbsp;11:15 - 11:30 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;BREAK<h2>Treatments:&nbsp;</h2>11:30am &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #112:45 - 2pm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LUNCH2:00pm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #23:30pm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #3

Eight Extraordinary Channels

Heads up: On the morning of Day 2 there will be meditation students quietly making their way through the center to their own classes.&nbsp; On Day 2 we will begin at 9am and end at 5pm.&nbsp;&nbsp;Day 2 will begin with a short lecture and be followed by live demonstrations with some time for questions after each demonstration.&nbsp; <h1>Sunday, Sept 29th</h1><h2>Treatments&nbsp;</h2>9am &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LECTURE9:30am &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #410:45am &nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #512:00pm &nbsp;&nbsp;Treatment #61:15pm - 2:30pm &nbsp;LUNCH2:30pm Treatment #74:00pm Treatment #8

Eight Extraordinary Channel: Theory & Demonstration

Ann has been invited as a visiting artist to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she will give a talk on her painting to the students, faculty and staff. The lecture will be Monday, Sept 30th from 3:15pm - 4:45pm. There are a limited number of seats available for guests outside of the SAIC. We are opening up the guest list to participants of Ann's Chicago class on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels first and if seats remain, we'll open the list up further. Please join us! The address is: The LeRoy Neiman Center (SAIC), 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

<h5>When I take pulses I see large, vivid and warm-colored, moving, complex three-dimensional images. Sometimes, I hear sound or even organized pitches; the pulse is the music of the body, perhaps the most profound music of all. For many years I kept this to myself, then a few years ago I began to paint them. They became useful teaching tools in discussions about medicine (my other love), as it’s almost impossible to convey the feeling and texture of pulses in words. More recently they’ve become healing tools around the world; looking at the paintings can produce a resonance in the body of the viewer that is profoundly calming.</h5><h5>I painted these works with natural mineral pigments from different locations in Australia. The dot painting techniques are borrowed from the Australian Aborigines (the oldest living art tradition in the world). These artists paint the absence of separation between the viewer and the viewer’s vision of the world. They celebrate that the number of ways of seeing is limitless. In my pulse paintings, these techniques enable the pulses to move, to occupy and release space, to be timeless, formless, substantial and palpable all at once. The pulse appears as a microcosm of the human landscape, timeless and boundless, imbued with rhythm, full of life.</h5><h5>The paintings represent the rhythm of humanity, the pulse and its messages, in time and space.&nbsp; Issues depicted in the pulse are shown to reach or approach a healing state.&nbsp; A pulse that is too rapid becomes stable, a pulse of great yearning reaches satiety, a pulse that is chaotic reaches a state of peace. In the paintings we see these healings evolve across the canvas.&nbsp; The Qi flows, blood flows, rhythm flows, life flows, Destiny is realized, and healing emerges.</h5><h5>&nbsp;– Ann&nbsp;</h5>

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