Nurturing the Fetus
A 9-Week On-Line Course with Leo Lok and Sabine Wilms
Is it time to expand your clinical practice in an area with immense potential?
Do you want to…
Acquire and refine your tools for accurate diagnosis, specifically for assessing the balance between qi and blood;
Understand the physiology and pathology for each of the traditional ten months of pregnancy in the Chinese medical classics;
Access a thousand years of source literature, elegantly translated by Sabine, as well as historical and contemporary uses of this material in East Asia, expertly reviewed for a Western audience by Leo;
Apply this information safely, effectively, and ethically in the contemporary clinical context; and
Explore possible modifications and substitutions?
Course Outline
In this advanced training course, Sabine Wilms and Leo Lok show you in four units how to support your pregnant patients from conception to delivery, within the paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine:
Unit 1
After introducing you to our sources and the historical context, we discuss the physiology and pathology of pregnancy in general terms, as well as ethics and safety of treatment.
Unit 2
Here, we cover the first two months of pregnancy and then zoom in on the key turning point of the third month and the concept of “fetal education” 胎教.
Unit 3
This unit teaches you the physiology and pathology of the second and third trimesters of pregnancy from the traditional Chinese perspective.
Unit 4
We conclude the course by looking at miscellanecous conditions of pregnancy, like nausea and spotting. Two weeks later, we offer a final review.
What you receive…
Four units with two pre-recorded hour-long lessons per unit (eight hours total)
Six live Q&A discussions on Saturdays (March 21 and 28, April 11 and 18, and May 2 and 16, 2026), at 9-10:30 am Pacific Time, always recorded for those who cannot attend live),
Supplementary written posts, audio and visual resources, and an asynchronous discussion forum, hosted on our elegant, private course platform, all accessible until the course closes on June 1.
17 CEUs (by California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM, including 1 Safety and 1 Ethics, see here for the Course Participant Attestation)
Your Guides
In a truly unique constellation of backgrounds and skills, you get to watch the internationally famous podcasting and research team of Leo Lok and Sabine Wilms collaborate in real time, as we tackle one of our favorite topics.
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Writer, translator, professor, publisher, and goat herder.
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Leo is a practitioner and independent scholar of Chinese Medicine. A native speaker/reader of Chinese languages, Leo is one of the rare clinician-scholars in the world who excels in researching and translating ancient Chinese medical literature into the English language.
