“An excellent online learning opportunity for those wishing to study Japanese moxibustion. For those starting at the basics, or those wanting to take their current skillsets to the next level, Felip Caudet is the moxibustion instructor who can take you there. With this short and clinically applicable program, you can start making moxibustion one of your most powerful tools, for amazing clinical results.”

Peter Scarselletti
Founder/Director
Qiology

2020 brought with it some interesting challenges for us all.

During 2020, Qiology took the initiative to provide a number of high quality, affordable, and clinically applicable online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events to meet the needs of the acupuncture/oriental medicine profession across the globe.

In May/June 2020 Qiology invited Felip Caudet, international moxibustion instructor in the line of transmission of the of the Fukaya Style of Moxibustion, to conduct a unique online training, which was recorded and is now available as an online learning program:

Japanese Moxibustion Foundations Online: A two-part recorded webinar series

This program is particularly exciting as it provides the acupuncture/oriental medicine profession with a high-quality online opportunity to learn Japanese moxibustion methods, and skills from an international moxibustion instructor. It is commonly understood that moxibustion is an extremely powerful clinical tool, however, education in moxibustion at an undergraduate level is severely lacking.

This 2-part online course will provide you with a balance of theory and demonstration, and will also feature unique practical exercise sections where you will follow the guidance of the instructor with methods of technique development from your home or clinic while you watch. Each recorded webinar includes downloadable webinar notes, and includes Q+A segments with the instructor, which answered some of the important questions from participants. At the end of each part of the 2-part series, you will be provided with a CPD quiz, and upon quiz completion, you will be provided with a formal CPD certificate.

Part 1 and Part 2 of the recorded webinar series cover the 2 major pillars of Japanese moxibustion practice to give you the skillsets to craft effective moxibustion treatments.

1 year online access is included with your registration for the 2-part series. For more information on this online series, please see below, and in the “Course Curriculum” tab.

“Moxibustion is a sophisticated method of treating the body from an Oriental Medicine perspective, which can have extremely powerful clinical results if practiced correctly. However, it involves a lot of hand dexterity, coordination, and skill to perform correctly, and these skills must be taught, then developed, and then refined further under the guidance of a qualified teacher who embodies this level of skill. Furthermore, to correctly perform moxibustion, the practitioner must understand how to correctly palpate the various areas of the body to find ‘Live Moxa Points’ and also know the different palpation styles required to do so, which informs the specific technique to be applied, and for what purpose. The practitioner then must correctly form moxa cones/grains or utilise other moxa methods to stimulate the live point/zone/area, and apply the correct technique and number of cones/grains or the correct amount of heat stimulation to create a change in the treatment zone to effect a treatment.”

We consider this an essential recorded webinar series for those wishing to create solid moxibustion foundations – students, and those new to Japanese moxibustion (okyu) who wish to be taught the archetype of correct moxibustion techniques and methods, to start them off on the right track for all future practice.

What about those who have been practicing moxibustion for years? What about those who have been practicing with moxa recently, and have attended some basic training?

In this case, we consider these recorded webinars as essential training to refine your moxibustion technique, remove any incorrect methods and practices or errors, and set you on a path of self-development and refinement of your moxibustion technique over your practicing lifetime to rapidly improve your effectiveness in treatment.

In summary, these recorded webinars are important to solidify the foundations for practitioners and students at all levels of moxibustion practice to ensure a certain level of practice.

But most importantly, these recorded webinars teach you when and why you should be using moxibustion instead of acupuncture in your treatments, and which specific moxibustion technique to use. This leads to a rapid improvement in clinical results.

The techniques of moxibustion can be graded from very soft (subtle techniques) to very strong (physical and structural techniques). The heat of the moxibustion is understood through an energetic concept (Qi supplementation or dispersion) and not through thermal concepts.

Tonetsukyu (Rice Grain Moxibustion) and Chinetsukyu (Heat Perception Cone Moxibustion) – the primary techniques covered in these trainings are the most popular and effective moxibustion techniques that exist in the Japanese moxa universe.

Chinetsukyu techniques are for the surface levels, and Tonetsukyu techniques are for deeper levels of the body.
The various techniques consist of the application of moxa cones/grains of various size/density (some large, some tiny, and in between; some densely packed, some loosely packed) with differing grades of moxa on specific points. These techniques allow one to regulate the energetic, blood and lymphatic movement in the tissues, working on the so-called ‘living/live’ points.

Unfamiliar to many, the palpation methods for Tonetsukyu and Chinetsukyu are completely different, and learning of both palpation methods is required to apply these foundation techniques correctly and effectively.

Prioritising the development of manual sensitivity in the correct search for “living points,” and applying the cones/grains of high-quality moxa correctly, a level of clinical efficacy without equal is achieved.

The strength of the correct moxibustion technique is that it is aimed at treating the situation that the patient suffers in real-time. There are no assumptions or speculations, but clear evidence of what the situation is through palpation diagnostics, and what changes are achieved through the correct application of treatment. Through this type of moxibustion, we get a stimulus for the immune system and a rebalancing throughout the meridian system, which in turn will regulate any organic or functional disorder. The remission of pain and the recovery of functionality in complicated cases are rapid and effective.

I have not been content with the level of moxibustion education in Australia throughout my time in the profession.
Whether it is at an undergraduate level, or for continuing professional development, our training in Australia has been lacking when it comes to moxibustion. Very few high calibre moxibustion teachers have come to Australia in the last 20+ years, with only basics being taught within Australia by those who have spent limited or very limited time with masters in the moxibustion traditions. The modern conception that moxibustion is an occasional adjunctive tool to acupuncture needs to be reconsidered by modern practitioners, so that moxibustion plays an equally important role in treatment, in alignment with the traditional name of our art of Acupuncture- zhēn jiǔ (針灸 or 针灸 or 鍼灸 in Chinese) or shin kyu (しんきゅう in Japanese), which signifies Acupuncture-Moxa/Acupuncture-Moxibustion as a total therapeutic system-not just Acupuncture alone. There is a very good reason that in the Han Dynasty medical classics (including Mawangdui and Hantanpo excavated texts), and other Chinese, Japanese, and Korean medicine classics throughout the history of Oriental medicine, that Moxa (specific varieties of Artemisia) was used, and that moxibustion was performed, and that is due to its powerful clinical effects. Although moxibustion originated in ancient times in China with some very powerful methods and traditions carried forward into the modern era, it flourished in Japan after it’s introduction to the country. It became an extremely refined method, with many clinically effective styles and lineages, and a modern-day moxibustionist in Japan requires specific training and a specific moxibustionist license, which is separate to other Oriental Medicine licensing.
Qiology has made the Japanese Moxibustion Foundations Online: A two-part recorded webinar series available to the profession, so that we can learn moxibustion direct from the source ((a teacher in the line of transmission of the Fukaya Style), to start using it more effectively in our practices for excellent clinical results. We look forward to you joining us for this program.

Peter Scarselletti
Founder/Director
Qiology