Yang Sheng - Nourish Life With Sabine Wilms and Yaron Seidman
In this talk, we will consider the larger implications of medical practice in the framework of yangsheng (“nurturing life”), as it was promoted by Sun Simiao, the 7th century hermit, Daoist sage, and specialist in the arts of longevity. We will introduce the various aspects of nurturing life as Sun Simiao described them in his writings (dietetics, living environment, mind cultivation, sexual cultivation, breathing and other qi exercises,...) and then explore their potential as practical options for both practitioners and patients in our modern world.
II. Outline
1. Introductions:
a. Sabine Wilms
b. Yaron Seidman
c. Sun Simiao and the Qianjinfang
2. Nurturing life in early China
- harmony with the macrocosm, correlative thinking
- dietetics
- sexual cultivation
- lifestyle and mind cultivation
- exercise
- alchemy and immortality
- fertility
3. Nurturing life in the 21st century
- yang sheng in Yaron’s life: clinical application, esp. in fertility treatment
- yang sheng in Sabine’s life: sustainable agriculture
- yang sheng in your life
Upcoming CEU approved webinar
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3 hour CEU approved webinar with Sabine Wilms and Yaron Seidman on May 2, 2010 - The Foundations of Classical Chinese Gynecology
http://www.prodseminars.net/store/foundations-classical-chinese-gynecology
Bio: Sabine Wilms
Dr. Sabine Wilms has been studying the medieval Chinese medical author Sun Simiao and his treatment of the female body in early Chinese medicine intimately for a good decade and a half, since her days as a doctoral student at the University of Arizona. She currently divides her time between producing books on Chinese medicine, researching and lecturing about early Chinese culture and medical history, and living the good life in pursuit of the perfect goat cheese on her small farm in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.
Following a childhood in Tübingen and Würzburg, Germany, Dr. Wilms left Europe in 1988 for Taiwan to study modern and classical Chinese language and immerse herself in Asian culture. Two years later, after completing the "Zwischenprüfung" (a sort of German bachelor's degree) in Chinese and Japanese studies at the Julius-Maximilian-Universität in Würzburg, Germany, she received a scholarship to attend the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She spent the next 12 years there, studying and teaching in the department of East Asian Studies under the direction of Prof. Donald Harper, with occasional research stints in Asia. Facilitated by a 6-month stay at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, she received her Ph.D. in 2002, based on her doctoral dissertation titled “The Female Body in Medieval Chinese Medicine: A Translation and Interpretation of the ‘Women’s Recipes’ in Sun Simiao’s Beiji qianjin yaofang.” In 2004, Sabine moved to Taos, New Mexico, for a position as lead editor, author, and translator of books on Chinese medicine for Paradigm Publications.
During this period, her fruitful cooperation with Nigel Wiseman resulted in the production of a number of books, such as Jin gui yao lue: Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer (forthcoming in 2009), Concise Introduction to Chinese Medicine (forthcoming in 2009), and Pathomechanisms of the Five Viscera by Yan Shilin (separate books on the Heart, Liver, Lung, Spleen, and Kidney, 2005-2007), all published by Paradigm Publications.
Since then, Dr. Wilms has worked as an independent researcher, translator, and author. She has written a number of research articles in academic journals and books, such as “‘Ten Times More Difficult to Treat’: The Treatment and Interpretation of Female Bodies by Male Physicians in Medieval China” in Nan Nü 7/2 (2005); “The Transmission of Medical Knowledge on ‘Nurturing the Fetus’ in Early China” in Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 2 (2005); “The Art and Science of Menstrual Balancing in Medieval China” in Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie, eds., Menstruation: A Cultural History (Palgrave, 2005); and “Worth a Thousand in Gold: The Quest for Perfect Children in Early China” in Andreas Noll, ed., Fertilität und Kinderwunsch (Thieme, 2007).
More recently, it is with great pleasure that Dr. Wilms is able to offer her annotated translation of Sun Simiao’s volumes on gynecology to the Chinese medicine community under the title Bei ji qian jin yao fang: Essential Prescriptions worth a Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency: Volumes 2-4 on Gynecology (The Chinese Medicine Database, 2007). She is currently busy translating the remainder of Sun’s writings, as well as many other as yet un-translated marvels of early Chinese literature.
Given the quickly growing acceptance and popularity of CM practice in non-Asian countries, Dr. Wilms sees an urgent need to make the historical sources of Chinese medicine available to a wider audience of students, practitioners, patients, and academics. She has therefore dedicated the academic aspect of her life to this goal of clear and precise translations.
Bio: Yaron Seidman
Yaron Seidman, D.A.O.M., L.Ac., originated the Hunyuan Fertility Method in 2002. Using his knowledge of both Eastern and Western medicine, the accomplished acupuncture practitioner invented a treatment that is both forward-looking and grounded in the ancient past.
Dr. Seidman, a scholar of Chinese Medicine for the past 20 years, has also studied western health sciences in depth. In 2005, he authored The Hunyuan Method for Fertility-The Chinese Medicine Cure and in 2010 Curing Infertility: The Incredible Hunyuan Breakthrough.
A native of Israel, Seidman began his studies in modern Chinese medicine from 1989 until1993 in Israel and New Zealand. Recognizing the deficiencies in the contemporary approach he resolved to Chinese medicine’s classical approach. In 1994 he moved to Freiburg, Germany to study classical Chinese language and literature, and began taking frequent trips to China to explore the classics. In 1998, while spending six months at China’s Guangxi TCM University, he met professor Liu Lihong, the renowned scholar who became his mentor. With Liu’s help, Seidman set out to rediscover the incredible clinical power of classical Chinese medicine. This resolve gave birth to the Hunyuan Fertility Method and its remarkable success in treating infertility.
Seidman was awarded A Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine degree by Five Branches University in San Jose, CA, following a 2-year fellowship and a 300-hour IVF clinic internship.
