Advanced Applied Nanjing
This course builds on Applied Nanjing. It brings more than one four-needle pattern together for mental health and complex functional problems, and looks at how past emotional experience shapes a patient's present state, seen through the five elements. Abdominal palpation is revisited with more hands-on practice, with a special emphasis on emotional trauma and psycho-emotional imbalance.
What you will learn
Applied Nanjing teaches you to strengthen and calm the twelve channels. This course goes further.
Yin and yang on all twelve channels
Strengthening both the yin and the yang of every main channel, building on the patterns of Level 1.
Reading the abdomen for complex patterns
More hands-on palpation, and more channel patterns than in the basic course.
Combining patterns
Bringing more than one four-needle pattern together for mental health and complex functional problems.
Emotions and the levels of Shen
The emotions in relation to the five elements, and the levels of Shen seen through Unified Acupuncture Theory.
Past trauma
The role of past trauma, seen through a psychological lens, and why it matters in treatment.
A receptive state
How to help a patient into a receptive state, through a guided meditation, and how to treat from there.
Why this course
Applied Nanjing teaches you to strengthen and calm the twelve channels. This course goes further: twenty-four more patterns for the yin and the yang of every channel, and a structured way of working with the emotional and traumatic layers that often sit beneath physical complaints. It comes from years of applying the five elements to mental health in my own clinic, and from my training in Compassionate Inquiry®.
Day by day
About 7 hours of teaching each day, with a morning break, lunch and an afternoon break.
Tonifying yin and yang
Review of the principles of the Sa’am approach and of abdominal palpation for diagnosis. All channel interactions in the Sa’am approach, and new yin channel interactions. Tonifying yin and yang, channel by channel. Combining Sa’am treatments. Case studies: mental health with combined treatments. Demonstrations, supervised practice and a summary of the day.
Shen and trauma
Review of day 1. The levels of Shen, through Unified Acupuncture Theory and the five elements. Trauma from a psychological perspective. Bringing a patient into a receptive state, with practice. Treating with the Sa’am approach once the patient is receptive. Demonstration, hands-on practice and summary.
What past participants say
I love every moment! Each time I am attending I get surprised by the high level of teaching, the practical application of it in the clinic.
The Nanjing path in Unified Acupuncture Theory
Advanced Applied Nanjing builds on Applied Nanjing.
Applied Nanjing · Level 1
The four-needle approach, guided by the abdomen. See the course
Advanced Applied Nanjing · Level 2
Dynamic five-element transformation for internal disorders. This course.
The course gives Jonathan’s attendance certificate for CPD (14 hours) and counts towards the UAT Advanced Practitioner certificate, which you can apply for after the two Level 2 courses (Advanced Applied Nanjing and Advanced Applied I Ching). Details: uat.training/certification.
Jonathan Shubs
Jonathan Shubs has practised acupuncture in Lausanne, Switzerland, since 2006, and developed Unified Acupuncture Theory. A graduate of the Shao Yang Institute, he holds the Swiss federal diploma in naturopathy in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Professional Master). He studied for many years with Daniel Deriaz and with Dr Richard Tan, and received Balance Method Gold level practitioner status in 2014.
Unified Acupuncture Theory grew out of a simple question: why does a treatment work? It brings channel interactions, holography, the logic of the I Ching and the five elements into one coherent map. When you understand that, you can choose what to do, rather than follow a recipe.
His article “The Foundations of Channel Theory” (Journal of Chinese Medicine, 2012) laid the foundation of Unified Acupuncture Theory. He is the author of Sun's Season of Channels (2021) and Sun's Dance of the Channels (2022), both published by Singing Dragon, and has been a certified Compassionate Inquiry® practitioner since 2023. He has taught in Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switzerland and Australia, and has been an honorary member of the Polish Association of Professional Acupuncturists (PSAZ) since 2020.
Students often say that things they had learned for years suddenly fall into place.
Questions
Do I need to have taken Applied Nanjing?
Yes. This course builds directly on the tools and treatments of Applied Nanjing (Level 1).
Is this course about trauma therapy?
It is an acupuncture course. It gives you a way to understand the role of past trauma through the five elements, and to support patients with acupuncture when they are ready. For deeper work with trauma, see Tracing Your Deep Song, the Compassionate Inquiry® course.
Will I get the course materials?
Yes. After the course we pass the e-mail address you registered with to Jonathan, and he gives you access to his training portal, with the course materials and additional resources.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes, Jonathan’s attendance certificate for your CPD, for 2 days (14 hours) of teaching. The course also counts towards the UAT Advanced Practitioner certificate.
Is the course recorded?
No. The course is taught in person only, and is not recorded or streamed.
When is the next date?
We will announce the next date in Poland on this page. For questions, write to kursy@akupunktura.edu.pl.
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