The Engaging Vitality (EV) training offers an opportunity for acupuncturists to bridge the gap between what can very often feel like abstract and often inoperative theory in our East Asian medical tradition and the primacy and immediacy of our clinical reality as it unfolds in our own everyday, ordinary workaday life in the clinic. What can help to bridge this divide is the diligent and dare I say very joyful practice and cultivation of our palpation skills.
Read more5 Essential Reasons to Take the Upcoming Fundamental Course Series in 2020
The Engaging Vitality (EV) training helps practitioners of East Asian medicine learn how to enhance their ability to directly perceive and make clinically effective use of qi in their practice. Now that registration has opened for the upcoming Fundamental Course Series, here are five essential reasons to take this upcoming training opportunity in 2020.
Read moreBob Quinn on EV
In EV as I understand it and practice it, we are in the business of elevating our perceptual abilities, so that these perceptions might lead us to a generally quite minimalistic treatment that will help our patients. Using the techniques of EV assessment I find myself quite often treating at points and on channels that normal discursive thought never would have led me to. I love this about EV, that it surprises me. I see it as a method of getting the patient's body to speak to me with specificity. And it is surprisingly effective—and fun and exciting and challenging.
Read moreBlue Poppy newsletter: QUINNSESSENTIALS
The first Japanese style of treatment I learned is called Manaka’s Yin-Yang Channel Balancing. If you have heard of ion-pumping cords, it is the style that incorporates the use of these tools in a multi-step process. Dr. Yoshio Manaka, MD was a giant figure in modern Japanese AOM until his passing in 1989. He published many books, articles, and research papers, always demonstrating his probing mind and innovative thinking…
Read moreApplications 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.
Read moreTransmitting Engaging Vitality
One of the things we like best about the Engaging Vitality approach is that it is an excellent milieu for examining our own process, our assumptions about what we are doing at every stage of our practice. We are not only cultivating our capacity to listen to our patient’s qi…
Read more3 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….
Read moreAmanda 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.
Read moreThanks 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.
Chip's Obituary: Journal of Chinese Medicine • Number 119 •February 2019
The East Asian medical world lost one of its most extraordinary teachers and practitioners when Charles ‘Chip’ Chace passed away on 3rd November
2018 due to pancreatic cancer. Chip lived a well-considered and coherent life. Regardless of whether he was rope soloing a rock climbing route, sharing his knowledge and love for the traditions of East Asian medicine, or just sitting quietly, he always fully expressed his being. His strong centre allowed him to be a generous and caring soul, someone who could be both self-effacing and yet memorable. His presence and thoughtful interactions have left a profound impression on everyone who had the good fortune to come into his sphere. His motto, ‘Grace and Power’, was an apt descriptions of who he was.
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