Enhance Your Treatment Skills. Experience firsthand the benefits of a consistent qigong and meditation practice. Change not just what you do, but who you are in the world.
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Overview
Our 200-hour medical qigong therapy certification program is taught by Dr. Suzanne Friedman, a nationally renowned qigong master, doctor of medical qigong, and author of three books on qigong, including the recent Heal Yourself with Qigong. Our one-of-a-kind program takes a unique approach in which students become scholar-practitioners by studying the healing art along with the words of classic Daoist and medical texts. “It’s really about personal development,” says Friedman of the program, which emphasizes the importance of personal qigong practice. “Once you have developed your own qi, you can use your skills to help other people.”
The Medical Qigong Therapy Certificate Program is open to anyone with a strong interest in the healing arts, and is designed to accommodate students from outside the Bay Area. The program is made up of four 4-day modules offered in two formats: a Friday through Monday (4 day weekend) track, and a four Sundays in a row module format. Both formats offer a module approximately every other month.
Students without prior TCM training or education must take an intensive 2 day Chinese medicine theory seminar with Dr. Friedman before they begin their first module.
Students in the program are eligible to get their treatment hours by treating at the school’s weekly qigong clinic. Upon completion of the program, students will be able to recommend individualized medical qigong exercises, and treat patients using medical qigong therapy, the energy medicine branch of Chinese medicine. Most importantly, they will have cultivated and developed their own qi throughout the program.
For more information, email Brent Ackerman, the medical qigong program coordinator, at backerman@aimc.edu.
Features & Benefits
• It's the only one of its kind in the nation
• You will gain skills that distinguish you from other practitioners in bodywork and Chinese Medicine
• You will be able to teach qigong in gyms, yoga studios, parks, and any other healing space.
• California LAcs receive CEU credit.
• Study with a modern qigong master, Dr. Suzanne Friedman, author of Medical Qigong Exercise Prescriptions, The Yijing Medical Qigong System, and Heal Yourself With Qigong
• Your self-healing qigong & meditation practice will help balance your body and mind, and thus change your life on a profound level.
• Modules are sequential, but students are welcome to take as many or as few as they like. Not sure you want to complete the certification program? Give the first few modules a try, and decide from there!
Instructor Bio: Suzanne Friedman MSTCM LAc DMQ (China)
Suzanne is a medical qigong doctor and author of three books on Qigong. She was inducted into her qigong teacher’s lineage as a qigong and neidan (inner alchemy) master and teacher, and trained with Dr. Xu Hongtao at the Xiyuan Hospital's qigong wing in Beijing, China. Dr. Friedman received her doctorate from the Beijing Western District Medical Qigong and TCM Research Institute in Beijing, China. She is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, and the director of the Breath of the Dao Holistic Medicine Clinic in San Francisco, California.
What people say about AIMC Berkeley’s Medical Qigong Program
“The medical qigong program added a new dimension to my practice and deepened my understanding of classical Chinese medicine. Suzanne is an attentive and compassionate teacher. I am privileged to be her student.” —Bob McCallister LAc
“Suzanne has a combination of healthy skepticism, groundedness and skill rarely seen in the qigong field. Studying with her helped me develop as an acupuncturist and as a human being.” —Itay Neta LAc
“I have studied qigong with many different teachers, and the program that Dr. Friedman has put together is first rate. Her insight and vast experience takes students to levels that most instructors reserve for only one apprentice. I recommend this program to practitioners and laypersons alike.” —David Caruso-Radin LAc MQP Dipl ABT
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