Health-promoting Qigong (pronounced Cheegung), also known as Qigong for Health and Wellbeing, is part of the ancient system of Chinese therapeutic exercises.
We are happy to announce that we are running another Introductory Qigong Weekend this Spring, on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March at our College in Dublin 3.
The weekend introduces you to a number of different simple but effective Qigong “Exercises” that you can practice at home, on your own, on a daily basis to enhance your own health. They include simple static postures or simple movements, breathing exercises and relaxation/meditation techniques. Some theoretical introduction to Qigong and Medical Qigong is also provided.
The workshop is open to all adult members of the public. No previous experience of Qigong, TCM, meditation, Chinese exercises or Martial Arts is required.
Adults of all ages, and levels of health and fitness, can benefit from and enjoy this weekend of gentle exercise and relaxation.
It is essential to Book in advance.
Please go to our website to obtain a course leaflet, Booking Form and Fee information for the Spring Qigong Workshop.
This weekend is an essential introductory pre-requisite for anyone wishing to take part in one of our Health-promoting or Medical Qigong Certificate courses.
The hidden treasures of Qigong are said to include not only improvement in health, vitality and recuperative power but also in happiness, longevity, beauty, refinement and spiritual development.
As Qigong Master Professor Xia noted, “Your experience will tell you if this is true”.
The Qigong teacher for the March weekend trained in Guangzhou, China with Professor Xia and is a Council Member of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong (WASMQ), and will be contributing a paper at the next WASMQ Conference in Beijing in June 2016. The photo below is from the 2014 WASMQ Conference.
Visit our website to get more information about Qigong and the courses we offer.
Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Monkey
新年快乐
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is very happy to wish all our friends, colleagues, staff and students in Ireland, China and throughout the world a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous year of the Fire Monkey which commences on Monday 8th February.
We hope to welcome many more students to enrol on our courses during this coming year, thus helping us to fulfil our mission to establish an enduring base of well-educated and well-qualified professional practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Ireland and
beyond.
To view Application Packs for our main Acupuncture Training programme, the Master and Doctoral Degrees in Chinese Medicine and other Post-graduate options please go to our recently up-dated website www.ictcm.ie.
The next Qigong workshop will be running on 19th and 20th March.
We are also accepting applications now for our next intake of Acupuncture students – October start.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine wishes a successful, happy and prosperous New Year to all our
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Students
Staff
Friends and
Colleagues
across the world.
News of our current recruitment and events will follow soon.
Chinese Medicine, What is it.
Chinese Medicine – What is it?
If you are thinking of Chinese Medicine as a career, why not go to a free talk, to be given by Professor Tom Shanahan, at the RDS as part of Which Course Expo.
Tom’s talk will introduce all the various components of Chinese Medicine Treatment with an explanation of what each entails and he will show examples of what is in a typical Acupuncture and TCM practitioner’s Clinical Treatment Case.
The talk will take place at 12.00 noon on Sunday 6th September.
You can pick up a Prospectus from the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine stand, which is STAND 6, at any time during the Which Course Expo, for the following courses:
Acupuncture TCM – Professional Training Programme
Chinese Herbal Medicine Diploma Course
Qigong and Medical Qigong programmes
Post-graduate Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine
Post-graduate Doctoral Degree in Chinese Medicine
The Which Course Expo is taking place at the RDS on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2015.
Location: Serpentine Hall, RDS, Dublin 4
Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday: 11am until 4pm
Entrance Fee: FREE
Qigong and Medical Qigong Weekend 25 and 26 July
There are only a few places left on the Qigong and Medical Qigong (MQG) Introductory weekend running at our college in Dublin on 25 and 26 July.
This weekend offers an introduction to the system of Qigong that we were taught by our Qigong Masters in China and is open to any adults whether they have previous experience of Qigong practice or not.
For those with no previous experience of Qigong the weekend introduces you to a set of simple but effective Qigong exercises that you can practice on your own on a daily basis to enhance your own health.
The Certificate courses in Qigong and Medical Qigong provide a rare opportunity to learn not only Qigong exercises for your own health and well-being but also provide a detailed theoretical understanding of Qigong as set out and presented by the late Professor Xia Shuangquan of Guangzhou University of TCM.
Acupuncture TCM or Chinese Herbal Medicine specialists can train to become Medical Qigong Practitioners – i.e. use Medical Qigong as a treatment modality.
Attendance on this weekend is necessary for anyone wishing to take part in the next Certificate course – either the Cert.Qigong or Cert.MQG.
Visit our website to obtain more information and a booking form.
M.ICTCM.IE New Mobile Site
We are happy to announce that the Website for the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine has a new mobile site which makes it easier to view the information that you want from a mobile phone, iPad or other tablet computer.
If you cannot find the answer to any of your questions please Contact Us and we will be pleased to help.
New Qigong Prospectus
We are happy to announce that we will, once again, be running two Qigong courses this year, starting in early September 2015:
- The Certificate in Qigong
- The Certificate in Medical Qigong
These part time, weekend-only, courses are ideal for those wishing to slowly build up skills and knowledge of Qigong or Medical Qigong.
You do not have to be an Acupuncturist or TCM Practitioner to join the Certificate in Qigong Course.
Full details of each course is provided in the new Prospectus which is available here.
Attendance at one of the Introductory Workshop weekends run at our College in Dublin 3 is a pre-requisite for joining either of the Certificate courses.
We intend to offer another Workshop Weekend in late July.
Happy New Year of the Ram
新年快乐
To all our students, teachers, professional colleagues, and friends.
May you have a prosperous,
joyful and healthy new year.
Tom Shanahan &
Mary Plunkett
Dublin, Ireland
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine Articles
The Director of the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ICTCM), Professor Tom Shanahan, has been writing interesting and informative articles on many different aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for more than 40 years.
Many of these have been written with the student or practitioner in mind, providing his experiential advice and guidance on
Other articles look at the underpinning theoretical foundations of Chinese Medicine and explore, in particular, those insights and revelations gleaned personally from his own teachers in the 1970s and 1980s.
In the past Tom’s articles have been mainly printed in TCM journals. A recent review of the archive of the in-house journal Shenmen has uncovered dozens of articles which have not previously been available to a wider audience.
Tom has now agreed to us offering some of the articles on the College website and we will shortly be providing a link to the first of these on www.ictcm.ie
A news item will be posted each time a new article is made available.
Tom’s hope is that these articles will help, in their own small way, to keep alive some of the treasures of TRADITIONAL Chinese Medicine.
Medical and Health promoting Qigong
The next Medical Qigong workshop will be held on the weekend of Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1st March at the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ICTCM House, Merchants Road, Dublin 3.
Taught by staff who have trained in Medical Qigong in Guangzhou with two Chinese Masters since 1999, this Introductory Weekend is suitable for:
- Members of the public, with no prior experience, who wish to learn a number of simple but effective ancient Chinese techniques to rid stress, promote relaxation and improve their own health and well-being through the practice of these gentle Qigong exercises.
- People who are already practising a form of Qigong and wish to learn more of the under-pinning theory of Medical Qigong as taught by a professor in a Traditional Chinese Medicine University.
- Students or practitioners of Acupuncture and TCM hoping in the future to embark on Certificate or Diploma level Medical Qigong training.
Early-bird bookings paid for in full before 31 January 2015 will receive a 10% discount.
Visit www.ictcm.ie/info/qg fees.htm to obtain more information and a booking form.