June 28 – 29, 2025
With Dr. Jason D. Robertson
15 NCCAOM PDAs pending

Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine
Sugar Grove, North Carolina

This hands-on weekend seminar will provide students with practical skills for using channel palpation to evaluate the interplay of structure and function in East Asian medicine. Major distal and local points will be presented and practiced for evaluating structure and function of the feet, legs, pelvis, body trunk, thoracic/lumbar regions, ribcage, neck and head. Students will learn how palpation and assessment of body alignment can allow for diagnostic refinement using a six-channel qi transformation (六經氣化 liù jīng qì huà) model.

This two-day course will be limited to those who have taken a previous course in Applied Channel Theory taught either by Dr. Robertson or another apprentice of Dr. Wang Juyi. Practitioners who have not had prior training in Applied Channel Theory will have the opportunity to complete a pre-recorded 1-day lecture (7.5 PDAs with separate registration by contacting CE@jungtao.edu*) to gain that exposure. It will be assumed that core concepts have been studied so that in this seminar students can further develop palpation skills for improved clinical results in both internal medicine and musculoskeletal complaints. In fact, the course will demonstrate that very often these complaints are intimately related and, in many cases, actually one and the same.

Dr. Robertson will draw from his decades of experience using these assessments and will share clinical applications of Dr. Wang Ju Yi’s six-channel qi transformation system. Dr. Robertson will also discuss and demonstrate needle technique drawn from Dr. Wang Juyi’s teaching. Using palpation techniques developed in distal channel palpation, students will expand to palpate structures and muscles affecting the hips/pelvis, ribcage, vertebral column (including the front alarm and back transport points) and cervical region. Most importantly, palpation will continue to be used to shape pattern-based diagnosis so that students can move beyond protocols and ‘magic points’ to a more embodied and dynamic practice style.

Registration

• $450 registration
• $425 faculty/alumni discount
• $375 student discount

*Students with no prior Applied Channel Theory experience must also take a self-paced recorded 1-day introduction to ACT fundamentals. Register separately for this 7.5 PDA module by clicking the link below:

Applied Channel Theory Module 1 – online lecture recorded August 29, 2020

About the instructor
Dr. Jason D. Robertson is the co-author of Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine (Eastland Press, 2008) with Professor Wang Ju-yi (王居易). Dr. Robertson has studied Chinese language for 30 years and studied Chinese medicine in San Francisco (USA), Chengdu and Beijing (China). He currently maintains a private practice in Seattle, WA (USA) and has been a faculty member at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (www.sieam.edu) for 20 years. Dr. Robertson has taught courses on channel theory and diagnosis around the world and has been recognized by the Beijing Administration of Chinese Medicine as an official apprentice of Wang Juyi.

For more information about the work of Dr. Robertson and other apprentices of Professor Wang, please see www.channelpalpation.org.