Postpartum Pampering in Traditional Chinese Medicine
A 4-Week On-Line Course by Leo Lok and Sabine Wilms
We invite you to expand your clinical practice by tapping into a topic with immense potential for CM practitioners in the West:
Assist your postpartum patients in their immediate and long-term recovery from pregnancy, labor, and delivery within the paradigm of Chinese medicine;
Analyze and restore their balance of blood and Qi;
Promote healthy lactation and thereby healthy babies with the tools of your profession;
Design patient-specific treatment plans, including dietetics and movement practices in addition to acupuncture and medicinal formulas, on the basis of an authentic Chinese medicine diagnosis;
Appraise traditional Chinese postpartum treatments and practices for the contemporary clinical context and learn to apply them safely and creatively!
What you receive…
Three sections: “Recovery from labor and delivery,” “Sitting out the month: Postpartum pampering,” and “Additional topics in postpartum care”
Four live meetings on Sundays (June 1, 8, 15, and 22, 2025, at 9-10:30 am Pacific Time, always recorded for students who cannot attend live),
Two prerecorded hour-long videos per section (six hours total)
Supplementary written posts and asynchronous discussions, hosted on our elegant, private course platform, all accessible until the course closes on August 1.
14 CEUs (NCCAOM approval pending, including 1 Safety and 2 Ethics)
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.
