14-15 September 2024

Every year, since more than 10 years now, Engaging Vitality practitioners from around the world gather in Barcelona to refresh, reconnect and callibrate. This gathering is meant to both review and move forward; we explore and share experiences, and work on what we don't know, using what is already familiar. 

The yearly meeting always has a hub topic. This one is yet to be decided... 
If you're interested on coming, and you have a topic you want to work on, drop us an email!!!! 

Requirements: EV Basic training
Days of training: 2 
Instructors: European team 

This training comprises 3 sequential modules.
This current series will be taught in Spanish language. Esta formación se impartirá en castellano.

SEMINAR 1: 19-20 October 2024

Specific Topics of Seminar 1: 
Layer Palpation – Introduction to the structures of Thorax and Abdomen. 
Specific organs: Stomach – Gut – Large Intestine. Lungs 

Requirements: EV Basic training
Days of training: 2 
Instructors: Gemma Casasampera
Table Trainers: 2

 

SEMINAR 2: 16 - 17 November    

Attention: date changed!

Specific Topics of Seminar 2: 
Liver – Gall Blader – Pancreas – Duodenum – Revisiting Stomach. 

Requirements: Visceral 1 of this series
Days of training: 2 
Instructors: Gemma Casasampera
Table Trainers: 2 

SEMINAR 3: 18-19 January 2025

Specific Topics of Seminar 3: 
Review of all topics - SLA, Introduction to San Jiao - Kidney – Urinary Bladder. 

Requirements: Visceral 2 of this series
Days of training: 2 
Instructors: Gemma Casasampera
Table Trainers: 2 

09 -10 November 2024

This class is not sequential; as long as you have the FUNDAMENTAL Engaging Vitality training, you're welcome to come!
We know from the basic training that the Fluid Body and the Ba Mai share some characteristics. For instance, they organize themselves around a midline and they tend to layer themselves. These, and the palpatory training to be able to listen to the Fluid Body, are the starting points of the journey that takes us into engaging the Ba Mai in one of their most direct manifestations: The Morphology.
 
 We’ll be exploring yet another form of palpation for the Ba Mai in this seminar: Developed after the Fluid Body palpation and making use of the palpatory skills acquired with the Engaging Vitality training, The Inherent Movement palpation is a complementary approach to directly engage the vessels by listening to their movement. 
We can directly palpate or resonate with the inherent movements of the vessels; this offers another angle to approach them and another cross-referencing tool.
 
 In this gathering we will explore both of these novel ways to directly contact the Ba Mai and will be cross referencing these with abdominal palpation and simplified forms of Ba Mai pulse diagnosis coming from Li Shi-zhen.
 

Topics covered

• Revisiting the Fluid Body.
• Revisiting pulse and abdominal diagnosis for the Ba Mai.
• The Ba Mai as fields of influence. General indications. Trajectory and treatment holes. 
• The morphology, mapping the terrain. 
• Walking the path: practice session on the morphology. How it feels under our hands. How to work with it in clinic. 
• Inherent movement: generalities and conceptual frameworks.
• Palpation and recognition: practice sessions to learn how to tune into the inherent movement of the vessels. 
• Putting it all together: practice sessions to cross reference the multiple ways of listening at the Ba Mai and work with it in clinic. 

Requirements: EV Basic training
Days of training: 2
Instructor: Rayén Antón
Teaching Assistants: 2-4 depending on the size of the group. 

16 - 17 November 2024

Dan Bensky will be in Munich on Nov.16./17th 2024 to practice with us the visceral and cranial aspects in the context of Engaging Vitality. These two days are a perfect opportunity to review, practice and discuss any questions about specific techniques and integration. You'll highly profit from hands-on instruction and interaction with Dan personally. 

Prerequisites: You are entitled to attend each of the days  if you have taken the respective intermediate class before. That means: only if you have taken an EV visceral class before, you'll be allowed to attend the visceral training on Saturday. The same goes for the cranial on Sunday... 

Module I: 23-24 November 2024

This class is sequential. 
Prerequisites: Acupuncture training.
Trainers: Ferdinand Beck & Rayén Antón

 

Module II: 25-26 January 2025 

This class is sequential.
Prerequisites: Module I 
Trainers: Ferdinand Beck & Rayén Antón

 

Module III: 21-22-23 March 2025

This class is sequential. 
Prerequisites: Module II
Trainers: Rayén Antón 

Module I: 08-09 February 2025

*Esta serie de clases se imparte en castellano

This class is sequential. 
Prerequisites: Acupuncture training.
Trainers: Gemma Casasampera & Rayén Antón

 

Module II: 05-06 April 2025 

This class is sequential.
Prerequisites: Module I 
Trainers: Gemma Casasampera & Rayén Antón

 

Module III: 30-31 May & 01 June 2025

This class is sequential. 
Prerequisites: Module II
Trainers: Rayén Antón 

28 February - 1 & 2 March 2025

 In these 2 1/2 days of training, we will revisit the basic concepts of cranial palpation, and go further in refining our contact and listening skills. 

Jack's practice-oriented approach aims to help us identify and overcome the obstacles -either practical or conceptual- preventing us from integrating the cranial listening into our clinic. 

Prior to the class you'll receive a questionnaire for you to have the chance to reflect and request about the topics you feel you need support with. 

Requirements to attend: Fundamentals & Cranial Class
Days of training: 2 1/2
Trainer: Jack Radner

10-11 May 2025

In this gathering we revisit the palpation tools we’ve acquired during the Basic Training and the Ba Mai listening class: Morphology, Inherent Movement, and cross referencing with Abdominal palpation and maybe pulse. 
This Review Class is meant to give us all a space to share, revisit and re-discover. 

To better accommodate to the needs of the group, we kindly ask the participants to fill in the form in THIS LINK. This information will help us craft the gathering to meet the needs of this particular group. 

General content of the weekend: 

Day 1: Morning 

Revisiting familiar ground: Theoretical background of Morphology and Inherent Movement. 

Practice sessions: revisiting the familiar ground. 

Day 1: Afternoon 

Palpatory references, Physiology and Pathology: putting together the pieces 

Practice sessions: paying attention to the movements in context 

Day 2: Morning 

Palpatory reference of the Vessels and palpatory references of the Qi in relation to them: the case of Chong and Dai 

Practice sessions: refining Qi listening and paying attention to the relation of different aspects of the system 

Day 2: Afternoon 

Clearing doubts and sharing insights. Closing thoughts about clinical application guided by palpation. 

Practice sessions: 

Complete treatments making use of the whole array of EV tools and palpatory references. Starting to think about different techniques and their affinities. 

Requirements to attend: Fundamentals + Ba Mai class 
Days of training: 2

17-18 May 2025

This class is not sequential; as long as you have the FUNDAMENTAL Engaging Vitality training, you're welcome to come!
  

The mid-space or midline is a concept which has always played an important role in East Asian Medicine as well as in Osteopathy. 

We can see the Mid-space as the core of our system, or as the central axis, on which our whole system organizes itself. In the clinical setting is the free flow in and openness of the Mid-space is essential. If we are able to palpate the mid-space and are able to open it up, we can greatly improve the whole self-reorganizing ability of the system

Ignition is a palpable process in which we perceive comprehensive transformations related to the influence of the Yuan Qi 元氣  (Primal Qi) on the body. These transformations express themselves as improved coherence, communication, connections and organization. 

Ignition could be viewed as a kind of super De Qi, a situation in which the whole system makes a major shift towards a therapeutic change 

In this seminar we will learn: 

* How the Mid-space is perceived from TEAM and Inner Cultivation traditions. 

* How we can palpate the Mid-space 

* How we can improve the free flow in and openness of the Mid-space 

* How the opening of the Mid-space can facilitate the self-reorganizing ability of the body. 

* How to facilitate the process of Ignition 

Requirements: EV Basic training
Days of training: 2
Instructor: Felix deHaas
Teaching Assistants: 2-4 depending on the size of the group.