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Holographic Moxibustion: Applying Ontake Warm Bamboo to the Hirata Zones

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These last few weeks, I’ve been teaching Hirata Zone Therapy in Europe. It crossed my mind, several times, that HZT is not particularly easy to say. And it also occurred to me that the name, Hirata Zone Therapy doesn’t allude to Ontake. So how about Hirata Ontake Therapy instead? It’s accurate and it makes a wonderful acronym: HOT!

Anyway, whatever we call the therapy, here is an article I recently wrote for EJOM which summarises Hirata’s approach and how we can adapt it for use with Ontake.

This article was first published in the European Journal of Oriental Medicine (EJOM) Volume 10, No 1, 2022. www.ejom.co.uk.

INDIVIDUALISING TREATMENTS IN A GROUP SETTING

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When I was a London acupuncturist, I got a job working with a drug agency in Haringey, which led to more work in the field of addiction. At that time, John Tindall had pioneered the NADA protocol for ear acupuncture and for some years, this is what I did: needling five points on each ear on clients in a group setting. This was very much a ‘one size fits all’ approach, and as my experience grew, and in particular, as I learned Manaka-Style Acupuncture, I started to find ways to personalise these treatments. Here’s an article I wrote about that:

 

App-Based Chat Coaching

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One-on-one coaching via chat is a weekly subscription to personal coaching on Coach.me, the US-based pioneers of habit tracking and online coaching.  When you sign up for one-on-one coaching, you’ll get a message from your coach (that’s me!) within 24 hours.  I’ll begin working with you on your goal right away via a text chat window in the Coach.me application.

How does One-on-one Chat Coaching work?

It’s like having a coach in your pocket! You get to type messages, questions and updates whenever you want via an app in your phone. In response, you get personalised chat and content from your coach.  This is not endless phone phone chat, but focused, helpful and affirmative, at regular times, almost every day of the week.

What Do You Get with One-on-one Chat Coaching?

  • Mentorship and accountability.
  • Advice.
  • Frequent contact

How come it’s free?

it usually isn’t! A basic coaching subscription usually costs $20-25 a week, between $80 -100 a month.  But I’m offering free chat coaching to the first five people who apply, through May. After that,  with your agreement, I will terminate the coaching and there is nothing else to pay. All I’m asking for in exchange is a positive testimonial.

FREE COACHING IN MAY: What Do You Need to Do?

To know more, book a free thirty-minute Get-to-Know-You call.We will chat directly via Zoom to clarify your goals for the free coaching throughout the month of May.  I will then email you a voucher so that you can book the coaching on coach.me for free.

 

Coaching chat is available on all platforms: iOS, Android, and desktop computer.

Book a free Get-to-know-you call

Change of Direction

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It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? In the light of the pandemic, I made the life-changing decision to move to Taiwan with my partner.That’s taken up a lot of time and space, from quarantine in July to looking for a place to live, a place to work and finally, this week, shipping over our elderly cat from Malaysia. In the meantime, I got to finish my second book.

In the light of all these changes, I also came to a decision about Sayoshi.com.  I think it was 2018 that I launched Sayoshi.com, an online directory for practitioners of Japanese acupuncture but I didn’t put in enough time to really make it grow and few of the community that did register made much of their listings. As it was pretty much a solo project, I’ve decided to close this part of it for now and concentrate on other areas concerning Japanese acupuncture (and exploring
Taiwan!).

One of these projects is Sayoshi Books, a self-publishing imprint devoted to producing books about Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion. 2020
started very well for me with my first book about Ontake Warm Bamboo (and then…pandemic!).Next year, Sayoshi Books will launch my second, the first detailed exploration of Hirata Zone Therapy in English.

In the spring, we have scheduled The String Method, by Felip Caudet, with a foreword by Lorraine Wilcox. Felip’s book explores how to locate
effective points for moxibustion by using proportional measuring with string. Much of this is based on the teachings of Isaburo Fukaya.

Sayoshi Books is not a conventional publishing house—it’s more a guiding process to help JAM-focused authors self-publish. If you’re
interested in self-publishing your next book, do contact me. I hope to share the hard-learned lessons of self-publishing with other like-minded authors.

From next week, visitors to Sayoshi.com will be  redirected to the new Sayoshi page here. In the meantime, The Sayoshi brand will continue with interviews on Japanese acupuncture on YouTube and new books on the imprint. On a personal note, I do feel sadness at closing the directory down. It was a dream of mine for many years but it’s simply not a job for one person. If there are members out there who would contemplate investing in and running the directory, then let me know, and maybe we can get the thing started again. In the meantime, I’d like to thank all our 200 members for your support along the way. I’d like to finish with a Merry Christmas to all – well, at least as merry as it can be given such a dire year. Here’s wishing you all hope and renewal for 2021.