WHAT YOU’LL GET FROM THIS COURSE
Through physical cultivation, spiritual practice and real-world applications, we will:
- Explore the text of the world’s oldest medical treatise, the Huang Di Neijing
- Explore how the teachings in the Neijing provide unique and powerful tools for understanding the world, our place in it, and the challenges we face as individuals and as a global society
- Explore the ways these tools can be used to reduce suffering in ourselves and others
- Continue the exploration with other Huanglao texts that support and inform the Neijing
- Understand the history of the textual transmission
- Delve into the social context from which the Neijing and Huanglao science arose, and explore how societal governance and individual health go hand in hand
- Explore the application of Neijing models to non-acupuncture modalities of medicine, self-cultivation, massage, structural therapy and body work, moxibustion, physical culture, and dietetics
- Learn practical systems of self-cultivation developed by generations of specialists in Neijing theory and physical culture informing the texts with real-world experience
- Develop understandings of how the Huanglao models applied to the field of medicine in the Huang Di Neijing can be applied in diverse non-medical settings
- Join us as we walk the path, the Dao of Heaven and Earth as it was recorded in the school of Huangdi and Laozi
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Anyone simply seeking a beautiful and unique way of finding health and harmony in life, but also if you are a student, a practitioner or interested in:
- Chinese medicine (acupuncture, Tuina, Moxa, Herbs, etc.);
- Chinese martial arts;
- Qigong;
- Taiji;
- Manual therapy (Shiatsu, massage, osteopathy, etc.);
- Classical Chinese philosophy or history.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Ethan Murchie, A.C.
Ethan has been practicing taiji, xingyi and bagua for over 30 years, has practiced Chinese Medicine professionally for 26 years and has been a licensed acupuncturist for 25 years.
Ethan was inspired on the path that led him to practice of gongfu and Chinese medicine after suffering a life-threatening spontaneous pneumothorax at the age of 14. He underwent a surgical intervention that most likely saved his life, but left him debilitated. Searching for methods to regain full health led him first to Chinese gongfu, and then to his teacher, Vince Black, who taught him not only xingyi, bagua and taiji, but also Chinese osteopathy, acupuncture and herbal medicine.
“After decades of living Neijing principles through the practice of gongfu and Chinese medicine, a desire to engage directly with the Neijing blossomed in my heart. Looking back, it seems like the logical step, but at the time, it basically just swept me away.
So, eight years ago, in 2017, I convinced my wife Josianne to move to Taiwan with me to go to school. This proved to be the first of many extended visits to Taiwan studying Chinese language, both modern and classical, at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), at National Taiwan University in Taipei.
Today, eight years later, my enthusiasm remains, and every day, as I read, I am struck by how intricately beautiful, logically satisfying and practically applicable the Neijing text is, and it is this that I want to share with people through the Living Neijing Project.”
Ethan