Description
With this new moxibustion technique based on Doctor Manaka’s theory of Meridian Frequencies, heated bamboo is applied on the skin rhythmically at specific frequencies of beats per minute, according to the meridian affected.
This meridian frequency treatment brings about rapid changes in body condition and relieves pain fast. It will greatly enhance your clinical effectiveness and, very importantly, patients love it. The application of Ontake will deepen your palpation skills, literally bringing you closer in touch with the channel system and broadening your understanding of its dynamic interrelationships.
On this two-day course you will learn to use Ontake to treat at root and branch levels, to treat pain and alleviate symptoms. Ontake can be integrated into any kind of acupuncture or bodywork practice that uses the meridian system.
Day One of the workshop covers everything you need to know about loading, lighting and applying bamboo treatment. As well as a space for more practice.
Day Two explores symptom relief with bamboo in much greater detail. This includes guidelines for treating specific conditions such as diarrhoea, constipation, sinus problems anxiety (and anything else you ask for). Most importantly, you will learn Ontake 1 2 3: holographic mappings for pain relief developed by Dr Tan and adapted for use with bamboo.
Course Content
Day 1
- Ontake Origins
- Introduction to Dr Manaka and his ideas
- Root and Branch treatment in Japanese Acupuncture
- Dr Manaka’s Meridian Frequencies, wooden Needle and hammer, tapping zones
- Loading, lighting and applying Ontake
- Palpation, deficiency and excess
- Bamboo Max and Mini – Whole body root treatments with Ontake.
Day 2
- Holographic Thinking
- Dr Tan’s concepts of body mirrors and images
- Meridian pairings and a simple Ontake matrix
- Chasing the pain
- Dazhui DU 14 and other meeting points
- Clinical applications: Branch Treatments
- The Goldilocks Zone: Dosage and overtreatment.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Systematically palpate the channels and note significant reactions
- Load bamboo with moxa and light it safely
- Perform tapping, touching and closing, rolling, standing, rocking, pressing, leaning, vibrating and knocking techniques with heated bamboo
- List and apply the frequencies for each meridian
- Apply a whole-body warm bamboo treatment to strengthen the root
- Describe Japanese acupuncture concepts of dosage and learn to identify sensitive patients.
- List three signs of overtreatment and how to address it.
- Treat pain: select treatment channels according to the Ontake matrix and different holographic images of the body on the arms and legs
- Apply warm bamboo to treat a broad range of conditions including headache, neck pain, back pain, knee pain, constipation, diarrhoea, stress, depression and anxiety.
Dates
29 and 30 March 2025
Venue
International College of Oriental Medicine (ICOM), Van Buren House, Green Hedges Avenue, East Grinstead RH19 1DZ, UK.
Cost
£180 for two days.
Entry Requirements
Participants should be acupuncturists, Shiatsu, moxibusition or Tui Na practitioners with a good grasp of TCM terms and knowledge of the meridian pathways. Please email us at [email protected] with details of qualifications prior to booking.
About the Teacher
Oran Kivity, BAc MBAcC (overseas) graduated from the International College of Oriental Medicine (ICOM) in the UK in 1987. He ran a successful acupuncture practice in London until 2004, completing several postgraduate studies in Europe, China and Japan, including Manaka-System Acupuncture in 1997 and Toyohari in 2000. He taught acupuncture at Westminster University and the Northern College of Acupuncture for 10 years and was the founding editor of Keiraku Chiryo – International Toyohari News.
Over the last 15 years he has pioneered the use of Ontake Warm Bamboo as a supplemental moxibustion tool, teaching in Europe, Asia and North and South America. He is the author of Moxa in Motion with the Ontake Method and Hirata Zone Therapy with the Ontake Method.
He moved from UK to Malaysia in 2005 and to Taiwan in 2020. He now practises in the southern port town of Kaohsiung, where he lives happily by a river, near a lake and close to the sea.