Hamid D. Montakab

Goals and Outlines
Part 1: Treating Insomnia with UAT: Using Saam 4 Needles and I Ching Patterns to treat sleeping disorders

• Understand the meridian clock and the transition from daytime to night time
• Be able to apply 2 Saam patterns for sleep problems
• Be able to apply 2 I Ching Ba Gua patterns for sleep patterns
• Understand how to differentiate between the 4 patterns of the course

 
Part 2: Insomnia and the Modern World Diagnosis and Acupuncture strategies

• Understand the Western physiology of sleep
• Understand the Health consequences of insomnia
• Understand the Chinese energetics of sleep

• Learn the primary acupuncture points for insomnia

 
Part 3: The Yang of Sleep: Using the Yang Qiao to Treat Insomnia

• Participants will review good sleep hygiene to reduce external stimuli.
• Participants will learn the pathway points and functions of the Yang Qiao.
• Participants will explore treatment strategies for the Yang Qiao & insomnia.
• Participants will learn points that open the Pericardium loop to free emotional constraint and allows the Wei qi to internalize at night.

 
Part 4: Treatment of Insomnia with Classical Formulas

• To learn the basic single mechanism for insomnia
• To differentiate the single mechanism into Yang vs Yin insomnia
• To differentiate most common types of insomnia in both Yang and Yin categories
• To differentiate insomnia from other related issues

To grasp key principles and the herbal formulas that go with those principles
 
 
 
Part 5: A Five Spirits Approach to Treating Insomnia and Anxiety

• Understand of insomnia and anxiety through the lens of wushen
• Deepen their understanding of the role of the blood as the yin matrix of the soul and spirit and the treatment of deficient blood from a Five Spirits perspective
• Understand the Heart monarch’s role in regulating sleep and dreams as described in classical texts
• Learn specific points as well as adjunct treatments to treat these conditions
• Learn sleep meditation and breathing practices to support their patients in developing better sleep patterns

Goals and Outlines

Goals and Outlines

Goals and Outlines