Course Overview

The diagnostic use of dreams is firmly established in the Huangdi Neijing as part of Han Dynasty medicine; Lingshu Chapter 43 gives keynote dream images for yin-yang and each organ-network. The research of Dr. Heiner Fruehauf reveals that Chinese medicine is at its core an ancient symbol science. This program will expand your base of Chinese medicine symbols and support your ability to gain clinically valuable insights from working your patients’ dreams using the methodology of noted dream therapist Dr. Jeremy Taylor. This work can focus your acupuncture and herbal treatments in a truly transformational direction while engaging a process that is deeply meaningful to the patient and nourishing to the practitioner-patient relationship.

Course Objectives

• Discuss the value and nature of dream symbolism, including its role in ancient Chinese medicine as expressed in Lingshu chapter 43 of the Huangdi neijing.
• Describe the projective dreamwork methodology of the late Dr. Jeremy Taylor, including his view of the role of dreams in human experience.
• Discuss Chinese medicine as an ancient symbol science, including the symbolism of the 12 organ networks as described in the Huangdi neijing and other classical texts, and brought into modern awareness via the research of Dr. Heiner Fruehauf.
• Discuss the 5-element symbolism as described in the Shan Ren Dao system of emotional healing, developed and practiced by the 20th century Confucian educator Wang Fengyi.
• Discuss the process, value and ethical framework for using images from patient dreams in Chinese medicine diagnosis. Reflect upon the way this work can inform your acupuncture and herbal treatments and nourish the practitioner-patient relationship.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minOrientation Videos 1 and 2: Quinn and Laurie discuss their background training for this offering, provide an orientation to the course, and explain their motivation for restoring dreamwork to its rightful place in the practice of Chinese medicine.

30 min - 45 minSegment 1: Introduction to Dreamwork in Chinese medicine by Bob Quinn. This includes a brief discussion of wholeness, projective dreamwork, the presence of dream indications in the Neijing, and Chinese cosmology.

45 min - 1.5 hrsSegments 2-3: Quinn covers Lingshu Chapter 43 dream images related to Kidney, Lung, Liver, Heart, Spleen, Bladder, Stomach, Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Gallbladder, + Yin/Yang. Concludes with a discussion on how to regard the limits of this chapter.

1.5 hrs - 2.25 hrsIn Segment 4, Quinn describes Dr. Jeremy Taylors system of Projective Dreamwork, including his thoughts on the nature and types of dreams. S5 includes other modern perspectives on the value of dreamwork, focusing mainly on the work of Carl Jung.

2.25 hrs - 2.75 hrsSegment 6: Bob Quinn gives three case examples of how to analyze and utilize patient dream images in a Chinese medicine practice.

2.75 hrs - 3.25 hrsIn Segment 7, Laurie introduces Dr. Fruehaufs research on the cosmology/symbolism of the organ networks, rooted in Lingshu Ch 12. Covered are the holomap of the 12-system associations, incl. the animal and tidal hexagram. Presents Lu and LI themes.

3.25 hrs - 5.25 hrsSegment 8 covers the symbolism of LI, ST, Sp; S9 the ST, SI; S10 the SI, BL, Ki, Pc; S11 the Pc, TW; S12 the GB, Liv. Also covered in Segment 12 are the stellar constellations, and examples of symbolism associated with specific acupuncture points.

5.25 hrs - 6.25 hrsIn Segments 13 and 14, Quinn gives more case examples of how to analyze and utilize patient dream images in a Chinese medicine practice.

6.25 hrs - 7.5 hrsIn Segment 15, Laurie introduces the Shan Ren Dao system of emotional healing. The 5-element associations are covered as follows: S15: Wood, Fire; S16: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water. Further associations (family roles, body parts) are covered in S16-17.

Teacher

Bob Quinn, DAOM, L.Ac. has been a full-time Associate Professor of Chinese Medicine at National University of Natural Medicine in Portland since 2009; before that, he taught and supervised at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. He first entered acupuncture practice in 1998 with a master’s degree from OCOM, and later returned to earn his doctoral degree in Chinese medicine in 2008.

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Dr. Regan’s journey in natural medicine started with a desire to find larger truths behind the quantitative science she pursued while earning a Doctorate in Neurobiology from Harvard University. She worked on the curriculum review committee at Harvard, but in the end said she “just felt that straight science wasn’t full enough, it didn’t give a complete picture of what was important.”

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Testimonials

I’ve been keeping dream journals for years, and making some Chinese medicine correlations with those, but this course opened it right up for me. I’m looking forward to going back over the last couple months of journalling to see what new information I can uncover. I found this course very engaging.

FIONA F.

Canada

A great enhancement to diagnostic skill sets. Finding themes in your patients dreams is not only validating to the dreams by being listened to, it can strongly solidify your treatment strategies. I highly recommend this course.

Tracy S.

United States of America

This is vital information for any Chinese Medicine practitioner because of exactly what the Classical texts tell us, "all methods of acupuncture must be rooted in spirit," and dreamwork most certainly is rooted in spirit.

Emily H.

United States of America

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