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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 ins and outs of discounting. Jeff also has written an article on discounting which you can download from here ....

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 desire to experience their own body & being at optimum? Please join the conversation on our  Fac...

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, and the Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine – both books can be found at  www.spiritpathpress.com Lonny’s website&nb...

In this week’s episode, Phiona 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 for the patient to be ok with needles ways in which you can clear the space energetically in the clinic This episode...

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 Okuma Sensei since 2002. Caleb is holding a...

In this week’s episode, Phiona 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 to hear from you about what has worked for you, and perhaps what h...

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 in our 15 years of pulse and tongue diagnosis. Our guest this episode: Chamundi Pheonix Let...

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? Phiona and Clare explore this topic in this week’s episode of Heavenly Qi podcast. We would love to hear your comments, what are the explanations or metaphors you use with your patients? Let us know your thoughts on  our Facebo...

“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. Dr Peter Ferrigno Three Lanterns Clinic Let us know your thoughts on the episode...

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