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Course Overview: 

• Pending 6 hours NCCAOM PDA credit

• 10:00am-5:00pm (1 hour lunch)

Ancient Chinese Medicine practices have their roots in Taoism, where immortality was the central theme to their belief system. Taoism taught that in order to become immortal, disease must first be eliminated. And from this belief came the practice of China’s first healing system—Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

The earliest TCM practitioners were Taoist priests. And the goal of TCM practice was to transcend the powers of duality (yin/yang, sick/well) and become immortal. Because of this goal, priests lived a balanced lifestyle and utilized every tool available to them to maintain health. From these lifestyle habits and healing tools came what many call the Eight Branches of TCM.

Mary Dinneen, instructor for this class, Living the TCM Lifestyle, has discovered that a successful practitioner of TCM in the 21st century may find it essential to learn and integrate the tools and lifestyles (practices) of the earliest TCM practitioners. She has learned that the better we are at understanding and utilizing these ancient practices, the better practitioners we become for our self, our patients and our community.

Join Mary as she examines the lifestyle of early practitioners and the tools they used to heal themselves and others. For the purposes of this class, we will group the lifestyle and healing tools into Eight Branches. It is in this holistic approach to healing that the practitioner ultimately resolves complicated syndromes and finds the root cause of a condition.

During this lecture, discussion and experiential class we will examine each branch and discover how we can use the tools to enhance our TCM practices.

Objectives: 

• Deepen their understanding of the concept of healing
  

• Identify each of the eight branches of TCM
  

• Summarize each of the eight branches and how each branch is applicable to healing
  

• Reflect on how their personal healing journey using the eight branches promotes better healing for their patients
  

• Apply the branches of meditation, movement and dietary therapy to their personal life

• Recognize the value of applying the lesser known branches to patient healing
  

• Understand that illness, injury, disease and complicated syndromes require us to use every tool we have to find the root cause of a person’s challenge
  

• Recognize and utilize the foundational understanding of the Three Legged Stool analogy

Bio: 

Mary Dinneen is an Oriental Medicine Practitioner who is celebrating her 20th year as an Ohio licensed practitioner in the Columbus area. Mary is Co-Founder of the Ohio Acupuncture Association. She was an instructor to many of the first Ohio graduates from AIAM. She was the legislative chair when the 2014 law passed to include herbs into the Ohio Acupuncture practice. She has a M.S. from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine and a B.S.n education from The Ohio State University. Mary is a recent author of the book: Live Fully, Release the Fear, Embrace Inner Faith. In her book, at the request of her patients, she shares many of the insights of Traditional Chinese Medicine she has learned over the years.

Mary Dinneen, LAc, LMT