Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis

The Complete Basics

Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis : The Complete Basics

Dates: January 18-19, 2025 and February 8-9, 2025

(with a February 1, 2025 Zoom Check In)

Location: Riverwest Acupuncture, Portland Oregon

Time: 9:00 AM -5:30 PM PST

Cost: $1000 US Dollars (Pay in 4 available through PayPal)

DEEPEN DIRECT PERCEPTION

The Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis System is the most sophisticated, comprehensive system taught in the West, and among the most profound taught anywhere in the world. In this hands-on class intensive course, we will explore the foundations of this system. Take the first steps towards pulse mastery.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Understand the history and historical context of Shen-Hammer Pulse System.

  • Recognize the importance of Rate, Rhythm, and stability in the pulse.

  • Learn to identify patterns of instability and vulnerability knows as Qi Wild.

  • Learn and practice all 28 positions of the Shen-Hammer system.

  • Learn all major qualities according to sensation and intepretaiton

  • Begin to synthesize treatment plans and case management from the pulse data.

WHO IS THIS FOR: The focus of this course is for beginning students. Students with prior experience or who have studied with other teachers will benefit from the material as it is presented as well.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:

  • 28 NCCAOM CEUs

  • This course has been approved by the California Acupuncture Board, Provider Number 1846, for 28 hours of continuing education.

QUESTIONS: Please feel free to contact me at brandt@brandstickley.com

The format allows for a stronger assimilation of the material, and concludes with the ability to feel all of the large and smaller segments of the pulse. Additionally, and uniquely, I explore SHL formulas and their gestural dynamics as a lens to understand pulse qualities. This leads to a two-fold learning process that brings greater clarity to both the findings of the pulse and their treatment.

Brandt Stickley is a direct lineage holder and senior certified instructor of the Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis System.  He worked closely with Dr. Leon Hammer for over 25 years, and is considered an authority on the model of Chinese medical psychiatry developed by Dr. Hammer.  Brandt has been teaching at the request of Dr. Hammer since 2003. He has authored chapters on Methodology, Volume, Size, and Qualities as Signs of Psychology Disharmony in the Handbook of Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis edited by Dr. Hammer and Karen Bilton. Brandt has created a unique synthesis of Shang Han Lun herbalism, Nei Jing and Nan Jing, Master Tung, and Saam acupuncture with the pulse system. He has taught this material to multiple generations of students and welcomes the opportunity to share the power of this system with you.

Brandt is a graduate of Cornell University and the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is a Professor in the College of Classical Chinese Medicine, National University of Natural Medicine and teaches widely in doctoral programs nationally and internationally.

Dr. Leon Hammer

(1925 - 2023)

Not a day goes by that I fail to recognize the gift this man bequeathed us in his life and work. He took his teacher’s admonition that “Chinese medicine is in the life” and truly plumbed its mysterious and ineffable depths. Far from psychologizing Chinese medicine, he rather discovered the tripartite intersections of body-mind-spirit. He once said that I was trying to convince him that everything he had ever said was embedded in the Shang Han Za Bing Lun somehow. He wasn’t entirely wrong. But what I was trying to do was reflect back to him the glorious leonine nobility of the mind and spirit stalking meaning in the vast savannahs of human expression and discovering the principles revealed when tracking the light of the Sun as it rises above the horizon of consciousness at the dawn of everything. May we all abide in such fire and may his memory travel through the transmission of his legacy.