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May 7, 2012

9 HEALTH FAIRS!

Apr 19, 2012

The 9 Health Fairs are coming up April 20th-April 29th.  These fairs provide low to no cost health screenings and The Acupuncture Association of Colorado has been an Interactive Educational Centre for the past few years.

The Acupuncture Association of Colorado will be at several 9 Health Fair locations answering questions about Acupuncture and we would like to make sure the public is aware that we are available!

These are the fairs we will be present at:
4/20 Fort Collins: Christ Ctr Community Church. 2700 S Lemay Ave 7am-12pm
4/21 Fort Collins: Christ Ctr Community Church. 2700 S Lemay Ave 7am-12pm
4/22 Aurora: Community College of Aurora 16000 E CentreTech Pkwy CO 80011,7am-12pm,
4/23 Aurora: Mississippi Ave Baptist Church, 13231 E Mississippi Ave,7am-12pm
4/24 Westminster: Spirit of Christ Catholic Church, 80th and Wadsworth,7am-12pm
4/25 Westminster: Spirit of Christ Catholic Church, 80th and Wadsworth,7am-12pm
4/26 Longmont:  Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1000 15th Ave, 7am-12pm
4/27 Longmont:  Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1000 15th Ave, 7am-12pm
4/27 Castle Rock: Castle Rock Rec Ctr,  2301 Woodlands Blvd, 7am-12pm
4/28 Nederland:  Nederland Community Ctr, 750 Hwy 72 N, 7am-12pm
4/28 Niwot:  Rocky Mountain Christian Church, 9447 Niwot Rd , 7am-12pm
4/28 Westminster:  DeVry University, 1870 W 122nd Ave, 7am-12pm
4/29 Denver:  Schlessman Family YMCA, 2625 S Colorado Blvd, 7am-12pm

A Free Healing for the Community event comes to Boulder, Colorado

Apr 16, 2012

Healing Begins in the Imagination:
A Free Healing for the Community event comes to Boulder, Colorado

June 2, 2012, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Shine Gathering Place, Boulder, CO

Free

Donald and Cheryl Lynne Rubbo live mindfully as Mind-Body Medicine experts, authors and Martial-Internal-Meditation Arts teachers, with 40 years of experience each.  Steeped for decades in the mystical spiritual arts of Taoism and Buddhism, the Rubbos travel the world to fulfill their mission: uplifting humanity with their message of hope and healing with integrity, compassion, generosity and love.

Please join us for an inspiring evening of deep, joyful healing: Transformational breathwork, Meditation, Sound healing, Integrated movement. The Rubbos will share their powerful, effective methods to enhance your life and bring lasting benefit to yourself, your loved ones and the planet, through Mind-Body Medicine; emphasizing the connection between mind and body, and using the power of your positive thoughts and emotions to influence your physical, mental and emotional health.

NCCAOM PDA points: 0

Contact: Adam Shapiro, L.Ac. MSTCM
720.412.6200
Acu.adam@gmail.com
http://www.asustainablebalance.com/boulder-co-teachings.html

Qigong Tui Na I and II – Qi Cultivation, Basic and Advanced Hand Techniques

Apr 10, 2012

June 9 and 10, 2012

Bodywork Bistro, Boulder, CO

10% discount to AAC participants

Donald and Cheryl Lynne Rubbo live mindfully as Mind-Body Medicine experts, authors and Martial-Internal-Meditation Arts teachers, with 40 years of experience each.  Steeped for decades in the mystical spiritual arts of Taoism and Buddhism, the Rubbos travel the world to fulfill their mission: uplifting humanity with their message of hope and healing with integrity, compassion, generosity and love.

TCM practitioners:  Deepen your understanding of higher-level Tui Na techniques, enhance your skills, develop and focus your mind for the greater benefit of your patients, increase your client base and revenue stream by delivering superior results effortlessly and continuously. The advanced level of Tui Na practice involves all of the senses, and a focused and directed mind. This requires more of a connection between practitioner and patient, but the rewards are so much greater as well: the potential for the practitioner’s intuition, diagnostic abilities and positive treatment results to expand are limitless, the more one engages in this type of bio-energetic medicine, the more one’s skills and certainty, and number of happy patients, will grow.

NCCAOM pending PDA points: 11

Contact: Adam Shapiro, L.Ac. MSTCM
720.412.6200
Acu.adam@gmail.com
http://www.asustainablebalance.com/boulder-co-teachings.html

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OBSERVATIONAL SIGNS OF NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

Apr 5, 2012

Saturday, May 5th from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Southwest Acupuncture College

6620 Gunpark Drive, Boulder, CO 80301

Cost: Practitioners – $150

Students – $110

10% Discount offered to AAC participants

PDA’s: NCAAOM PDA Points Pending

Provider: DONNA WILD  has studied, practiced, and taught holistic health to doctors and laymen for the past 30 years. She has studied nutrition extensively at Drexel University, Colorado State University and the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research. She has written, published, broadcasted and lectured extensively on natural restorative methods for human and animal health.

Workshop: This hands-on workshop details physical signs & in-office testing that enable practioners to quickly assess & remedy nutritional imbalances in their patients.

Topics include:

• Signature signs & symptoms of nutrient deficiencies
• Tongue & fingernail signs of internal imbalances
• Rashes & skin conditions manifested from malnutrition
• In-office testing for assessing nutritional deficiencies
• Whole food sources of synergistic nutrients
• Diets to alleviate specific conditions
• Nutritional /herbal supplementation

Contact information: Jennika Wildau, Director of Aloha Seminar Series
1. phone (720) 352-3722
2. e-mail jennika@email.com
3. website: www.donnawild.net

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Five Element Acupuncture: Level 1

Mar 22, 2012

Weekend 1- June 2-3 2012

Weekend 2- July 7-8, 2012

Weekend 3- Sept. 15-16, 2012

Weekend 4- Nov. 10-11

Location:
Southwest Acupuncture College
6620 Gunpark Drive
Boulder, CO 80301

COST
Each weekend: $225

DISCOUNT FOR AAC MEMBERS
Each weekend $200, 4 weekends $800

PDA’s: Each weekend 12 PDA’s, total for 4 weekends 48 PDA’s

Course: Abbye Silverstein, L.Ac will be teaching a four weekend intensive seminar on the fundamentals of Five Element Acupuncture theory and practice designed specifically for students and practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This seminar offers the student and practitioner of TCM an opportunity to expand their knowledge of acupuncture and learn how to integrate the Five Element system in their current practice.

This seminar teaches the fundamentals of Five Element Acupuncture theory and practice. This includes: Constitutional Factor (CF), CSOE (color, sound, odor and emotion) as a diagnostic tools to determine the CF, pulse reading as a map to diagnosis, interviewing skills to establish patient rapport and identify the patients’ CF and treatment planning and strategy to heal the body-mind-spirit.

Provider:  Abbye Silverstein is a Colorado licensed Acupuncturist. She holds a Masters of Acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Laurel, Maryland and has been in private practice since 1999.  Since 2005, Abbye has been an associate professor and clinic supervisor as well as clinic director at Southwest Acupuncture College in Boulder, CO.  From 2007 -2011, she administered the acupuncture recovery program for Larimer County Probation and Community Corrections Center.

Also, her background includes training at a master’s level in humanistic/transpersonal psychology counseling with 3 years in addictions counseling as well as 16 years in corporate human resources specializing in recruiting and training and development.

Contact information:

phone: 970-672-4762

e-mail: abbyesilverstein@gmail.com

website: www.abbyesilverstein.wordpress.com

Healing Community Trauma

Mar 6, 2012

How to Do Acupuncture in the
Field For Traumatic Events

AAC MEMBERS RECEIVE $30 DISCOUNT!

AWB’s mission is to provide immediate relief and recovery acupuncture services to global communities that are in crisis from disaster or human conflict. AWB also seeks to provide training and services to global communities that promote and sustain local self-directed, self-sufficient, proactive and long-term recovery, rebuilding and trauma (including PTSD) resolution.

15 PDA/CEUs including four hours of ethics

(NCCAOM, CA, FL, TX)

This two-day training will give trainees the skills and knowledge to coordinate and work in the field providing effective acupuncture treatment for acute stress and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in disaster and post traumatic event settings.

www.ACWB.info

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE INFORMATION!

Chanda Plan Foundation Fundraiser – Aron Ralston

Feb 27, 2012

SOLD OUT!!

APRIL 19, 2012
5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

EXDO EVENT CENTER
1399 35th Street,
Denver, CO 80205

Dear Colleagues and AAC Members

The Chanda Plan Foundation provides grants to people with spinal injuries to access acupuncture, and other alternative healing modalities.

Chanda had a severe spinal injury and feels that alternative therapies changed her life.

She is also a powerful advocate for change – getting a grant to do a cost effectiveness study aimed at getting Medicare to cover alternative therapies.

This Fundraiser features Aron Ralston as the speaker – the man who had to saw his right arm off to survive when he was hiking in Utah and it became pinned.  I am really excited to hear what he has to say.

You know, we often think we have it tough, and we do.  But people face challenges all the time.  It is not the challenge, but what we do with it that makes us who we are.

I hope you will consider buying a ticket to support The Chanda Plan Foundation.  Tell her you are with the AAC and let’s see how many tables we can fill with AAC members.  Share this info. with your patients and let’s really give back to a woman who supports Acupuncture wholeheartedly and with action!!

Go to https://www.blacktie-colorado.com/profiles/profile_details.cfm?id=1617 to buy tickets and go to http://www.thechandaplanfoundation.org/event-14_people-to-know-2012.html for more information.    I’ll see you there!

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Warmly -
Tina Laue, L.Ac.
303-881-1971
www.goodneedles.com
PR Committee Chair for the Acupuncture Association of Colorado

Exciting New Developments with the 9 News Health Fairs!

Feb 23, 2012

Hello AAC Members,

The Acupuncture Association of Colorado continues to be an Interactive Educational Provider at the 9 News Health Fairs, which provides low cost health screenings and health education in Colorado. This is a valuable opportunity for you to educate people in your communities on how Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine can help with common health conditions. Get out there and spread the word of AOM!

In the past we have only been able to respond to invitations we received from fair coordinators, but this year, we can solicit the coordinators to include us at new locations, as long as we have volunteers to staff them!!

Action: Please take a moment and look at your calendar to consider where you want to volunteer to educate the public about our medicine! The fairs are April 14th to April 29th this year (with one exception). Look at the list of fairs below and see if there is one you want to volunteer at. These are fairs whose coordinators have already invited us and are waiting for a reply if we can be there. Volunteer now!

If you don’t see a fair near you, but you would like to volunteer in your area, then please visit www.9healthfair.org and look at “Find a Fair”. Double check the dates and if you can commit to volunteer that date then please contact Erik Gasner our 9 Health Fairs Subcommittee chair at 720-556-5332 or e-mail him at acupuncturespecialistsofgolden@gmail.com. Erik will arrange the deal for you.

Please do your best to make a FIRM commitment if you contact us! Working the booths at the 9 Health Fairs is a lot of fun. I enjoy doing it every year and I love answering questions, directing people to an Acupuncturist near them, and explaining how we are different than a chiropractor or an MD or Dry Needling.

Planning Meeting 3/7: We will be having a planning meeting on March 7th at 6:15pm at 940 Speer Blvd to work on the kits for this year. If you would like to get involved in the 9 Health Fairs please let us know and if you can attend that committee and help us work on how to have a better presentation for the fairs we would love the help and support!

Please respond by February 29 to reserve your spot at a 9 News Health Fair. We are looking forward to having you all at these fairs this year!

Erik Gasner L.Ac.
720.556.5332
acupuncturespecialistsofgolden@gmail.com

FREE WEBINAR – PDAs AVAILABLE!

Jan 9, 2012

FREE EIGHT-PART WEBINAR SERIES
Clinical Pearls – Chinese Medicine for Today’s World
Iris Chen – AP, MD, PhD

Beginning January 11, 2012

(Each webinar will take place every second Wednesday, beginning 1/11/12, from
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

FREE PDA Points Available

• Essences of Chinese Medicine – January 11, 2012
• The Parallels between TCM and Homeopathy – January 25, 2012
• Incorporating Nutritionals into the TCM Practice – February 8, 2012
• Remedy Combining for the TCM Practitioner – February 22, 2012
• Common Clinical Conditions for the TCM Practitioner (3 Parts) – March 7, March 21, April 4, 2012
• Chinese Medicine: Putting it all Together – April 18

FIND OUT MORE – Click here!

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The ABC’s of Cosmetic Acupuncture

Dec 12, 2011

Training in Denver:

April 28-29, 2012

10% DISCOUNT FOR  AAC MEMBERS!

Cosmetic Acupuncture is becoming more widely known and popular for many reasons.  When based in theory, it can roll back the clock while creating healthy side effects. Learn a safer, more cost effective technique than cosmetic surgical and injection procedures.  These classes are structured for the practitioner to experience the protocols from start to finish with a limited number of participants.

You will learn:

• How to set realistic expectations in screening cosmetic acupuncture patients
• Tips to help your patients make an educated decision – learning the western medicine alternatives
• Indications and contraindications for the Face, Neck, Breast and Abdomen protocols
• Diagnosis and Differentiation associated with the protocols
• Needling techniques and prescriptions for the protocols
• Facial diagnosis – Reading the psychological and organ relationships
• Nutrition – Pairing the energetics of food with your facial diagnosis
• Skin health – Structure of the skin from Western and TCM perspectives.
• Effective methods of marketing your cosmetic practice – a picture is worth a 1000 words! …and more

Instructor:
Denise Ellinger, L.Ac. worked in the field of plastic surgery for twenty years both administratively and as a surgical scrub prior to studying Chinese Medicine.  She studied and took her training at the Colorado School of Chinese Medicine in Denver, Colorado.  Denise is the Co-Creator of the Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture System™,and she has passionately been teaching cosmetic acupuncture nationally and internationally since 2003.  Denise’s training and collective experience creates a unique background for understanding and teaching Cosmetic Acupuncture.  In creating the “ABC’s of Cosmetic Acupuncture”, Denise has put together a complete TCM based support system to give practitioners a solid foundation in understanding and practicing cosmetic acupuncture.

This course is offered in an intensive, hands-on format with a limited class size.  Tuition includes workbook, face, hand and intra-dermal needles for practice.

(This class is not sponsored by the AAC.  The sponsors of these classes offer a minimum 10% discount to AAC members.  We encourage you to support instructors who are AAC members.)

NCCAOM PDA’s = 15.5

REGISTRATION

Colorado School for Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Contact: Parago Jones at 303-329-6355 to register or e-mail: clinicdirector@cstcm.edu.

Questions?
rejuvenate@acubeauty.com
or Call: 303-377-3201