New to Teishin Needling?

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This workshop is ideal practitioners looking to work in a more gentle manner, with a focus on non-insertive techniques. No experience in Traditional Japanese Medicine is necessary. Although the techniques are gentle in nature, the effects are profound and immediate. This seminar will focus on the foundational aspects of Teishin use and the Sanshin (contact needling) technique. 

 

You will learn new skills that can be immediately applied into your clinical practice.

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Read an overview of Dr. Bear's seminars by Daniel Silver, LAc here... 

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Studied with Dr. Bear Before?

This is a wonderful way to DEEPEN your knowledge; Join us!

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Brief Overview of Seminar...

In this seminar we have asked Dr. Bear discuss the use of Teishin for physical complaints. He will cover:

• What the right and left hands should be doing

• How to find points to treat

• How to know if they points need to be tonified or reduced (his famous point checking method)

• How to perform Sanshin (contact) needling

• How to treat common muscluloskeletal complaints, e.g. knee, neck, shoulder and low back pain

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We allow time for hands-on practice with one another, and everyone will get the opportunity to briefly work with Dr. Bear one-on-one. We will practice, practice, practice until our hands really get it! Dr. Bear will share his core concept of “fundamental treatment,” a set of points that he checks on every patient because they are so broadly regulating. A focus of this seminar is on Sanshin (contact needling) for use on large areas of the body, not acupoints. 

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With the Teishin techniques, the concept of fundamental treatment, and his Sanshin techniques you will have exciting new tools to bring into your practice; regardless of what style you currently use. We will watch Dr. Bear give a few demonstration treatments; this way we can better appreciate what his style looks in actual practice.

 

More on Sanshin...

Contact needling in Japan is raised to a high art with many styles practiced. As in TCM style acupuncture, where one needle is placed in a single acupuncture point and left for 30 minutes, Sanshin techniques allow a practitioner to treat a whole region, e.g., the entire upper back.

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Some styles of contact needling are performed at such a high speed with such manual dexterity that it looks as much like a 'Vegas magic act' as it does acupuncture. Dr. Bear’s style of Sanshin is as effective as any, but it has the advantage of being easily accessible to the learner. When used on the neck, abdomen, or back it is quite astonishing how much positive change occurs in such a short time without ever piercing the skin.