Kevin_Wallbridge
19.04.2007, 05:56 PM
Thank you for the invitation to join this forum. I generally don't like to write about myself on these forums because it feels very self-indulgent. However, since introductions are the custom I will offer some background.
It took me some time to decide where to post because of where my qualifications are distributed. I began my interest in Oriental healing practices in 1985 through the study of martial arts. This has been the main activity in my life since then. I have a BA in Anthropology with an Asian Studies minor. As well, I did the better part of my MA before my advisor died and I left discipline. My focus was on Chinese medical delivery systems, focussing particularly on the way the PRC has integrated TCM into their mainstream medical system (Medical Anthropology).
At loose ends after leaving university I met several people interested in TCM and medical education here in a small town in the interior mountains of British Columbia Canada. I introduced each of them to the others and the result was an elite (if I do say so myself) TCM school that has just clebrated 10 years of success. (www.acos.org).
Since the founding I have been an instructor at the school. I have taught human evolution, history of scientific bio-medicine and history of Chinese medicine. I run the physical culture courses (Qigong and Taijiquan). I teach Chinese language. I have also taught medical ethics and mental-emotional disorders.
This April 28 I will also graduate from the 4 year TCM Practitioner program as I have been upgrading professionaly for the last several years. The multiple-personality energetic of being both an instructor and a student (sometimes back and forth in the same day) can be very taxing. I will remain more an educator than a practitioner, but I will probably have to have a small part-time practice. For some odd reason, even in a small town saturated by acupunturists, there is some demand for my services. I suspect it is the Qigong, it really helps the patients go deep.
My Qigong began in 1991 in Sichuan, PRC. I spent a year there and trained with Tang Xiaomeng and Xie Jianguo in Emei Qigong. At first it seemed that we didn't really do that much in that year, but over time I continually realize that they really set my feet on the ground and gave me some pure clarity.
My approach to Qigong is very pragmatic, too pragmatic for some, yet I do feel that there is a tendency for the mind to run freely with ideas at a speed that the body cannot match. Lots of people come to me looking for spiritual practice (in this Hippie town, LOTS of people), an area that I do have a lot of knowledge in, but then we just stand still for a long time. Few can stay the course. 16 years of standing still and I have yet to really manage a truly quiet moment. I mean by that an intentional one rather than an accidental one. I do wonder at some of the ideation some people get up too. I'm not saying its wrong, I just don't understand how they can tell the real from the illusion.
Please forgive me, once I start cannot stop. Don't ever ask me for the short answer, it seems to be against my nature. I say nothing or I get hypnotized by the sound of my own voice. Still working on balance.
(how do you make a bowing smiley?)
It took me some time to decide where to post because of where my qualifications are distributed. I began my interest in Oriental healing practices in 1985 through the study of martial arts. This has been the main activity in my life since then. I have a BA in Anthropology with an Asian Studies minor. As well, I did the better part of my MA before my advisor died and I left discipline. My focus was on Chinese medical delivery systems, focussing particularly on the way the PRC has integrated TCM into their mainstream medical system (Medical Anthropology).
At loose ends after leaving university I met several people interested in TCM and medical education here in a small town in the interior mountains of British Columbia Canada. I introduced each of them to the others and the result was an elite (if I do say so myself) TCM school that has just clebrated 10 years of success. (www.acos.org).
Since the founding I have been an instructor at the school. I have taught human evolution, history of scientific bio-medicine and history of Chinese medicine. I run the physical culture courses (Qigong and Taijiquan). I teach Chinese language. I have also taught medical ethics and mental-emotional disorders.
This April 28 I will also graduate from the 4 year TCM Practitioner program as I have been upgrading professionaly for the last several years. The multiple-personality energetic of being both an instructor and a student (sometimes back and forth in the same day) can be very taxing. I will remain more an educator than a practitioner, but I will probably have to have a small part-time practice. For some odd reason, even in a small town saturated by acupunturists, there is some demand for my services. I suspect it is the Qigong, it really helps the patients go deep.
My Qigong began in 1991 in Sichuan, PRC. I spent a year there and trained with Tang Xiaomeng and Xie Jianguo in Emei Qigong. At first it seemed that we didn't really do that much in that year, but over time I continually realize that they really set my feet on the ground and gave me some pure clarity.
My approach to Qigong is very pragmatic, too pragmatic for some, yet I do feel that there is a tendency for the mind to run freely with ideas at a speed that the body cannot match. Lots of people come to me looking for spiritual practice (in this Hippie town, LOTS of people), an area that I do have a lot of knowledge in, but then we just stand still for a long time. Few can stay the course. 16 years of standing still and I have yet to really manage a truly quiet moment. I mean by that an intentional one rather than an accidental one. I do wonder at some of the ideation some people get up too. I'm not saying its wrong, I just don't understand how they can tell the real from the illusion.
Please forgive me, once I start cannot stop. Don't ever ask me for the short answer, it seems to be against my nature. I say nothing or I get hypnotized by the sound of my own voice. Still working on balance.
(how do you make a bowing smiley?)