April 26 – 27, 2024 Saturday & Sunday. Course times: 10:00 to 17:00 daily
Long before X-rays and MRIs, traditional healers used noninvasive methods to assess personal health, lifestyle, and character. Oriental diagnosis is a topic and discipline that spans thousands of years and many levels of intellectual inquiry. But there are four fundamental approaches that are key to assessing a person’s health and character.
- Bo Shin: Seeing and observing your subject;
- Setsu Shin: Touching your subject, feeling his or her life;
- Mon Shin: Asking questions to obtain information on his or her condition;
- Bun Shin: Listening and smelling
These four approaches are anything but simple; there are layers of inquiry within each method. In a limited amount of time, Ohashi will discuss and show you how you as a holistic practitioner can use these methods to better know your clients and their needs. He will also discuss the differences between Oriental and Western diagnosis.
His discussion covers general face diagnosis, back diagnosis with bilateral distortion, supine-position diagnosis, and movement diagnosis. Ohashi compares Eastern and Western approaches to health with humor and sensitivity, and draws out the precepts and seeming paradoxes of Oriental medicine in a language we can all understand.
He ends the course with his famous “shoe diagnosis” — reading participants’ shoes to analyze the lifestyle, psychology, health, and even financial condition of the wearer.
This course will help you to view the human and natural worlds with new eyes and to discover physical, mental, and spiritual conditions in yourself and others, while reaching a deeper understanding of their unity.
PREREQUISITE: If possible, read Ohashi’s book on oriental diagnosis: “Reading the Body”. It’s available in English and German (but may be hard to find in German). Also recommended is to stream Ohashi’s course on the subject, available at OHASHI-Method.biz.
