Applications of Shape of Qi Listening: Part 1

Shape of Qi (SOQ) Listening is one of the core theoretical concepts and palpation techniques taught in Engaging Vitality. It was first outlined by Charles “Chip” Chace, one of the main developers of EV. SOQ Listening is Chip’s rendering of the osteopathic concept of neutral which was developed by William Garner Sutherland, an important figure in the development of osteopathic medicine and cranial osteopathy in the west.

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3 Unexpected Ways EV Can Enhance Your Practice

With steady engagement with the EV material and consistent practice and utilization of the palpation techniques, in time anybody can come to discover how the EV material can enhance their practice of acupuncture and herbal medicine, expand their capacity to flexibly approach patient’s problems from a multitude of viewpoints, and deepen their appreciation for the practice of East Asian medicine….

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Amanda Anuraga on EV

This might be a familiar scenario: Your new patient comes in and you want to help them feel better. The patient's intake is complex, and there are many long and intertwining issues that have been in play for years. You wonder what technique from your acupuncture toolbox you'd like to use and you want to know that when the patient leaves, you've made some positive changes for the body to integrate until the next time they schedule.

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Thanks for the EV Module 3 Course in Portland, OR

Hi EV team,
I wanted to send a thank you to all of you - Rayén, Kailey, Marguerite and Dan for this weekend, as well as the whole course. 
The class and toolbox is exactly what I had been looking for! As much as I love Chinese Medicine, I was frustrated by the gap between the theory and the practice, and the absence of a shared palpatory experience and relationship to qi. I've been using what I've learned in the course on all my patients in clinic, and it has been taking some of the "guess work" out of whether or not a treatment is working. 

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