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With Gratitude

I would like to acknowledge and thank Masakazu Ikeda sensei for demonstrating the extraordinary clinical possibilities of Traditional Acupuncture. To my patients, students, teachers, colleagues, friends and my beautiful daughters, thanks heaps for your tolerance. After 25 years as a parent and practitioner it has become increasingly apparent to me that the 'learning never stops'.

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Stephen Brown’s Inspirational Japanese Acupuncture workshop

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Stephen Brown’s inspirational Japanese Acupuncture workshop is still fresh in my mind.
The Walkabout Creek function center deep in the hills in pristine eucalyptus forest country northwest of Brisbane, a magical location discovered by eminent traditional acupuncturist/herbalist, East Asian medicine educator and now successful workshop convener, Greg Bantick was a superb venue for this groundbreaking Japanese [...]

Japanese Acupuncture V Dry Needling

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

I write this post on this significantly wet winter morning, the ocean
continues to rage with wind torn waves and whitewater exploding randomly, relentlessly pounding the foreshore.
This week I presented two very different workshops, one for the
physiotherapists with whom I work in Brisbane, the other for a select
group of students.
The first  workshop, for the physiotherapists presented a [...]

The Art of Japanese Acupuncture

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

It is exactly 2 weeks since my return from Ikeda sensei’s clinic and I am only just beginning to get a sense of what I learned.
At sensei’s clinic in Imabari, Japan, conversation was at a premium, a direct result of my diabolical Japanese literacy levels.
Ikeda sensei’s teaching was almost exclusively in the doing and my [...]