Heavenly Qi

How do you get onto good terms with your cosmic receptionist? – and why do you even need a cosmic receptionist? Expect that you will have feelings of competency that will wax and wane with time. Expect to have years where you will feel like you are totally nailing it. Then …

Why did Zhang Zhong Jing give Chi Shao to pregnant women? What happens if you use the wrong type of Chai Hu? How do you know if your Gui Zhi is any good? Simon Feeney has been delving into the intricacies of Han Dynasty medicine according to the writings of …

How big is a Han Dynasty egg yolk? How does this help us to prescribe Li Zhong Wan properly – as the way Zhang Zhong Jing intended? Simon Feeney reveals all in this episode on classical Han dynasty herbal medicine. Simon Feeney has a very deep relationship with Zhang Zhong …

This week Clare and Phi talk with Dr Kerry Watson OMD about using Classical Chinese Medicine for the treatment of Shen Disorders. incorporating meditation into treatment plans for patients how disharmony within each of the 5 elements can manifest in the Shen in different ways the links between transpersonal psychology, Buddhist …

Are cooked foods always essential for someone with weak Spleen Qi? How much of Spleen Qi function falls under the anatomical pancreas? How did we end up talking about the way the large intestine functions as governed by the Spleen? Phi and Clare raise many questions, and answer some of …

This week Phi and Clare speak with Jeff Shearer from Ethical Practice about how to heal your sick clinic. The common struggles that practitioners face What to do if not enough patients are coming in the door What if not enough people are rebooking or coming for follow up appointments The …

In this week’s episode, Phi and Clare talk about ways in which they inspire their patients to want to experience themselves at optimum health. what is optimum health? what are some of the barriers to cultivating good health? what are some of the methods they use to inspire patients to have the …

In this week’s episode, Phi and Clare talk with Lonny Jarrett about talking – how we can use words as treatment tools in the clinic, and how the way we interact with and respond to our patients can cultivate a powerful healing space. Lonny is the author of Nourishing Destiny, …

In this week’s episode, Phi and Clare discuss what to do when you have an SOS situation in the clinic: where to start if a patient come into the clinic in a state of shock what they would do before needling in order to help the patient-practitioner interaction to settle and …

In this week’s episode, we talk with Caleb Mortensen about under-utilised moxa moments. We discuss the intrinsic nature of moxa, and less commonly used ways of using moxa for patterns of presentation: using moxa for treating yin deficiency, or for expelling heat. Caleb practices Japanese acupuncture, and has been an apprentice of Katsuhiko …

In this week’s episode, Phi interviews Clare on introducing new patients to treatment plans, and how to manage expectation of results. They discuss verbal versus written plans, timeframes, rebooking and assessing progress. There are so many different ways we as practitioners tackle this aspect of clinical practice. We would love …

What is it to feel the pulse without assumption?  What are the qualities that we dread seeing in a patient’s tongue? How quickly do we see changes in pulse qualities and tongue features? This week we invited Chamundi Pheonix to discuss with us some of the nuances and quirks we have discovered …

How do you respond when a patient asks you “How does acupuncture work?”, “What do the needles do?”. How do you describe stagnation? Qi, yin, yang, damp, wind, dryness? Phi and Clare explore this topic in this week’s episode of Heavenly Qi podcast. We would love to hear your comments, …

“Lived experience is palpable”. This statement plays itself out for us within the clinical setting every day and we discuss this in depth in this episode with our guest Dr Peter Ferrigno. We explore the patient-practitioner interaction, and how that occurs through palpation as well as through feeling without touching. …

What does it mean to have a clean agenda? Why do we consider it to be an important foundation for clinical interation? In this first episode you will meet podcast hosts Clare Pyers and Phi Gitsham, and learn more about them through their discussion on energetic interactions in the clinic. Subscribe …