Bay Area Homeopathy Association

Pacific Academy Lectures

Pacific Academy of Homeopathy is continuing to support the Bay area homeopathic community with great classes. 
We invite you to join us!

WHAT'S NEW? 1) Introducing....CLASS-PASS! We are offering our alumni association members the opportunity to attend any/every class session, both advanced lectures and foundation program lectures (which are not listed below), for a one time fee of $750 for the academic year! This will save you money and help you to learn new material as well as review or fill in the gaps on classes that perhaps you missed or were not being taught when you were in school!  Purchase a CLASS-PASS by calling the school office.  A detailed schedule of lectures will be sent to Class Pass alumni, and we will look forward to seeing you in class! (Alum Assoc membership is $75/academic year.)  2) And...having CLASSES STREAMED TO YOU! Several of our classes from last year (in case you missed some of them) and this year are being set up for purchase to be streamed to your computer in the comfort of your home. View videos and review handouts for great classes; purchase them by individual class session using your Paypal account.  Announcements will be sent out as each set of classes becomes available.

NOTHING ON YOUR CALENDAR THIS WEEKEND? COME JOIN US!

Mark your calendar for... EXCITING WEEKEND SEMINARS Pacific Academy is bringing 3 full weekend seminars to you during this academic year! December 5 - 6  Pediatric Behavior Disorders Join us for a full weekend by Tim Shannon, ND. Tim practices homeopathy in Portland, with much experience in mental and behavioral issues. This weekend will combine case work and materia medica in a way that will prepare you to work successfully with these kinds of cases!  Tim has a profound understanding of health, disease and materia medica - this will be a great opportunity to study with a wonderful teacher who has not been in the Bay area before.   February 18-21  Homeopathy and Midwifery MJ Hanafin is a homeopath and midwife with a gift for teaching practical material.  This four day seminar will be split into two sections. Feb 18-19 will be for midwives and doulas, covering labor, delivery and the immediate post-partum period.  Non-midwives will be allowed to audit, but not ask questions, as it will be assumed that all attendees will have obstetric training.  Feb 20-21 will be for homeopaths, covering problems of pregnancy, lactation issues, working with the nursing couple, and post-partum depression. Midwives and doulas will be allowed to audit, but not ask questions, as it will be assumed that all attendees have a foundational understanding of homeopathy.  MJ is a great teacher with a wealth of knowledge coming from England to teach for us, and this is a rare opportunity so put it on your calendar.   March 13 - 14  Issues of Individuation Tim Shannon, ND returns for another full weekend of case-based training. The successful individuation as a person is key to all further development of the self. When this process of individuation does not take place, or is impaired by circumstances or family, the person is limited. Tim will blend case work, materia medica and basic developmental psychology in this class.  These are such common issues that this is an area where all of us can learn more!

And look forward to... CONTINUING EDUCATION LECTURES (dates TBA soon!)   Cell Salts: Adjunct in Everyday Case Work This full day class will focus on the practical side of using cell salts in every day case work, by Karen Allen.  A brief review of cell salt basics will be followed by patterns in face, body and pathology that suggest specific cell salts.  Lots of cases will provide ample opportunity to learn and practice applying the guidelines for their use in acute and chronic situations.  In India, there are traveling practitioners who go from village to village, using only cell salts to help the sick! These are powerful adjuncts, and our clients will have improved outcomes if we learn to use them.   Pediatric Asthma The nagging cough of a child that does not go away can be the early indicator of asthma. Ifeoma Ikenze, MD will be teaching a full day of information about children and asthma, giving you a clear understanding about what is common and uncommon with this complaint, remedies and posology strategies that are most often used, and excellent information about lac-felinum as a leading remedy in pediatric asthma.  For those of you who missed the excellent shorter presentation Ifeoma gave on this topic at the NCH conference last March, you have a second chance. She has agreed to expand the material to a full day, and we are fortunate to have her. Plan to attend!   Organ Affinities: Indications of Organ Weakness, and Methods of Remediation The famous British homeopath, James Compton Burnett, taught us that a person could only become as healthy as the weakest organ or body system that limited the health overall. Sometimes a good constitutional remedy is limited by a weakness in an organ that just can't "make the jump to light speed" with the rest of the body.  Join Karen Allen in this class to learn how to recognize weakness or disturbance of the liver, spleen, pancreas, stomach, lungs and heart in your clients, and find out how to nurture and strengthen these organs in ways that will allow constitutional remedies to act more deeply and profoundly!   Nonverbal Communication: All that Clients DON'T Say Out Loud Spend a day learning how to read body language and nonverbal cues from your clients. The morning half of the day will cover soma and physiology, and the afternoon will cover NLP.  It is estimated that up to 80% of our communication is nonverbal. Sign up for this class in order to be able to perceive so much of what is being said by the body!

www.Homeopathy-Academy.org

Location: This class will be held at the CPMC California Campus, in the hospital at the intersection of California and Maple in the Bothin Conference Room. Follow signs to cafeteria (there are also signs for Bothin Conference Room) and go down to the lower level where the conference room is located.

Cost: This class will cost $95. Alum assoc members get a 20% discount. Register with Kathy at the school office for either/both classes: 415-695-2710 or health@homeopathy-academy.org Additional directions available here: http://www.cpmc.org/visiting/directions/default.html

Featured newsletter: Melissa Assilem

Check out Melissa Assilem's newsletter!  We are lucky to have Melissa here in the Bay Area, as she is a great authority on provings, and has written several books on interesting remedies such as “The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” featuring Thea, Coffea, Saccharum Offininarum and Lac Humanum, "Women Ripening Through the Menopause", and "Matridonal Remedies of the Humanum Family."

For more  info. on Melissa, including updated newsletters and a link to subscribe to the newsletter, visit Melissa's website.

	Melissa celebrating May Day in Greece Photos by Alessandra Panini, Eressos, Lesbos Greece
From Melissa Assliem	September 2009

 

Homeopathic Soul and Spirit

 

There is something I would like to say about what I think happens when a remedy is being made.  As we raise the potency of the remedy, we are tapping into information that is held by the substance. This is information that we can gather if we pay attention and move our focus beyond the ordinary.  I have seen this over many years of making remedies

I have been very fortunate to have experienced the making of many remedies. In the early 80’s I was part of the team that handmade remedies in preparation for the opening of Helios Pharmacy, UK. Because I had learned how to do this, I made by hand all the remedies on which I did proofings. Eventually I encouraged the proofers themselves to do the dilutions and succussions before the proofing took place.  This of course can only be done if you are doing group or an enhanced proofings. (for more about enhanced proofings see Chapter 6 of Gifts of The Mother).  The creation of a remedy and being in touch with the increasing potency as the soul and spirit are released, gave me a much deeper understanding of the potential of homeopathic remedies.

This experience has led me to see how both soul and spirit are raised in the remedy. As the one drop falls from the previous potency into the next it carries information from its past experience.  This information for me is Soul.  As we succuss the remedy we are enlivening it with energy which I think of as Spirit.  It has taken me years of making remedies to understand this difference between Soul, and Spirit. Now I have come to understand them as Information and Energy. The Soul holds the memory, or the past history, and the Spirit animates it as it becomes dynamic.
 

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Two Harmony Blends

As promised in the last newsletter I am going to tell you about two Harmony Blends made from Greek trees and flowers. 

Dream Catcher

Essences of Red Poppy, Almond Amber, Dragon Lily, Blue Pimpernel Oak’s Mushroom and Valonia Oak.

This is a remedy that has helped some of my clients get in touch with what was behind their entrenched patterns. This of course helped me find more appropriate remedies. In dreams our guardian spirits reveal things to us that they would like us to know.  In our complex and busy lives we cannot retain the messages, we become puzzled by them and do not recognize their meaning.  We wake to our daily chaos and quickly forget what we might have learned from them.

The Valonia Oak and her Mushroom are joined here by the Blue Pimpernel, Red Poppy and the amber sap of the Almond Tree. Together they help your right brain communicate your dreams to your left brain so you can remember and learn from them.  The Dragon Lily frees the magic within your dreams, firing awareness of their messages. The mushroom is very powerful in giving us clear insight so the interpretation does not get all “logiced up”.
 
Take 6-8 drops as you go to sleep.  Continue for at least two weeks to get the best results.  Keep a tape recorder next to your bed to record your dreams as you wake or write them in a dream diary.

Fuss Not

Essences of Yellow Horned Poppy, Hollyhock, Pulsatilla, Squirting Cucumber, Sun Rose, Olive, Broom.

This essence is wonderful when you have a project or a scheme or maybe even a dream but you cannot accomplish it because you have become bogged down in the details, or you are making mountains out of molehills.  Perhaps you are not always a perfectionist or a ‘nit picker’ but lately you cannot stand anything out of order.  Somehow you have come to the stage where you cannot move ahead unless all things are in order.  Perhaps Virgo is making herself known in your chart? This is the same essence I use in my Astrology/StarShine set for Virgo.

In this one I thought it might be fun to give you a background on each flower to let you see why it was choosen.

Yellow Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavium)

These plants are defiantly untidy.  They spread their stems higgledy-piggledy in all directions and they grow in messy patterns mainly in poor sandy soil. 

“Our message is that you can learn to relax and become creative in chaos. We help you see beyond the details into the bigger more divers picture.  We shake loose your rigid parts. In this way you can let go of a perfection you may never achieve.”

Wild Mountain Hollyhock

This is a knowledge nourisher. Recognising the physical self as a place of wisdom. It is the belly button remedy.. Navel connection, maternal wisdom and knowledge passed through the umbilical to the bellybutton, from each generation of mothers.  Nourishment, nourishing knowledge, not from souls but from bodies, physical, bone wisdom, body wisdom in skin, organs, eyes, heart, fingers, the wisdom and knowledge of generations passed from an ancestor crone who lived before the before time.  The one who knew all the things we need to know.

 

Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla nigricans)

Made on the winter solstice 2002, night after full moon, with minus 6 degrees centigrade (21 F), during the night before.  Collected at sunrise as they stood up tall in the early morning light in the meadow in front of my house.  It was astonishing as they opened through that frosty crystal morning. As they floated in the water of the glass bowl their colour was almost neon like, or translucent in the winter sunlight, which made 18 degrees (64 F) of warmth at midday. They were left in the sun until the last rays set behind the sea.

“I am for those moments when you think you will fall over, those moments when you become small. I will help you to stand up tall, where so you can see beyond the obstacles in front of you.”

Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)

The seed pods and the flowers tend to be on the plant at the same time. This nervous little plants seed pods  shoot off with surprising explosiveness when you get near to them. I have always thought of them as having a temper tantrum whenever I got too near.  But learning about the essence taught me to look deeper. It told me that it is OK to share your potential and not always keep it hidden in case someone might think you unworthy or stupid. Of course this is a much more positive way of looking at their doctrine of signatures.  They explode as a way of spreading their seed.

 

This essence therefore helps in letting others share in your potential.

 

Sun Rose  - Helianthemum (Also called rock rose)

It is astonishing to see these delicate ruffled flowers blooming on harsh barren rocky outcrops. Sun Rose is for people who are anxious about time running out.
  
“We grow in rocks because we don’t need the earth to feed us, we get our energy from the sun.  The sun is a clock, a rhythm so strong in us.  We are about the beginning of the day, dawns early light, dawns yawning awakening and sun’s vibrant setting.  Our rose colours can be seen in the sky as the sun rises and sets. We bring a trust in the daily rhythms and the knowledge that there will be a tomorrow. We bring  trust in the cycles of things.  Sun rose is sun rise.  Sun in my heart.  Allows your body and soul to flow with its natural rhythms.  We can help you into a state of self-synchronicity flowing with the passing of time."

Olive

As you read in the June newsletter about this tree you can see how helpful it would be in this harmony blend. Setting new patterns or pathways in the brain, can lead to a new kind of flexibility.
                                  

Broom (Spartium junceum)

This flower is a stress reducer of great magnitude.  Her essence is a soother for pressured blood, and dissolves adrenal angst.  This bright yellow shrub is like a beacon across the landscape, saying “sega, sega”, or slowly, slowly in Greek.

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Interview with Melissa

This past July I was interviewed by Alan Schmukler for the online magazine, HPathy Ezine.  You'll learn a bit about how I discovered homeopathy, and even read my poem to Sepia.  Click Here to read the online interview.

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Coming Events

Greek Tree Essence Seminar and Bazaar

When: December 5, 2009

Where: Berkeley, CA (venue TBA)

 

TREATING WOMEN WELL A Series of Webinars on  Women’s Health & Homeopathy ~

For Practitioners and Experienced Students

These webinars will be broken down into modules

When: Coming soon.... please stay tuned!

The  Vision: Looking at the cycling of women’s lives from conception to old age, embracing both physical and spiritual wellbeing. This series of classes will be addressing the unique needs of women. I am offering this multi-dimensional course as a way of giving food for your own soul, as well as a deeper understanding of remedies and practical advice to aid you in your day-to-day practice. From first aid to soul aid, you will learn more about how to help your clients understand what’s behind their physical and emotional pathology.

 

 

Homeopathic Proving Opportunity

Homeopathic Proving Opportunity

Coordinated by Melanie Grimes

Dear friends,
I am about to begin another proving this week. Some of you have expressed interest in participating, in the past. I hope you will join me in this exciting adventure. Being part of a proving is a great way to learn homeopathy, and to get continuing education credits as well.
We are paying provers and supervisors $50.
My provings are included in Encylcopedia Homeopathica and Referenceworks, and Repertorium Universalis, Synthesis and ISIS repertories. If you would like to participate, either as a prover or supervisor, please write back as soon as possible. I have created very easy to follow instructions and forms for use.
If you are a homeopath, perhaps you have a patient who may be interested in learning more about homeopathy in this manner. If you are a student of homeopathy, maybe your homeopath would like to act as supervisor. Or maybe you and a colleague would like to undertake this exciting project together. I provide provers and guidelines and supervisor guidelines, and check in with the pair weekly, or as needed.

 

Here is what is involved. 
·      Provers will be paired up with supervisors.
·      You will be sent complete instructions on keeping the prover and supervisor notebooks.
·      Provers will fill out a brief intake form.
·      Prover and supervisor will meet or phone daily for the first week or two, then weekly, until symptoms stop appearing.
·      The prover will record daily notes in the journal concerning any physical or emotional changes that come up.
·      Because of the timeframe, we are asking that you fax or email your proving notebook notes weekly, and not wait until the end of the proving. You will be paid for your participation after 30 days.
·      Notebooks will be sent after 30 days. If new symptoms appear after this time, they will be recorded and forwarded to me also.

 

It is hard to say how long a proving will last, since it depends on the person and the remedy. Most people find that they take notes and talk to their supervisor daily for one weeks, then twice a week for a while.

 

"The best opportunity for exercising our sense of observation and to perfect it is by proving medicines ourselves."    Hahnemann

 

A proving is a great way to learn materia medica and to better understand the formative influences of our medicine and our science. I hope you will join us.

-Melanie Grimes

 

 

My proving bio:
Melanie Grimes has published numerous provings: Tiger shark liver (Galeocerdo cuvier hepar), Allende Meteorite (Fax caliestes allende) and Tule Bluet Dragonfly (Enallagma carunculatum), Blue green algae (Microcystic aeruginosa), Wollemi Pine (Wolle), Melatonin

 

She worked with Jeremy Sherr, editing his provings for three years. She collated and edited the provings in Dynamic Provings vol.1, and is the editor of the second edition of Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic Provings. Also, under her own imprint, Alethea Book Company, she published Anne Schadde's Ozone Proving, and Tiger Shark: A Homeopathic Proving.
 
Her provings have been published in American Homeopath, Simillimum, Homeopathy Today (USA),Links (Holland) and The Homeopath (UK). She has presented her provings at homeopathic conferences internationally. The provings are included in Radar, Synthesis, Macrepertory, the Complete Repertory, Encyclopedia Homeopathica, Referenceworks, and ISIS.

Post Graduate Workshops by Sheilagh Creasy BRCP

Post Graduate Workshops by Sheilagh Creasy BRCP

presented in the Bay Area by Barbara Osawa CCH

Contact Barbara: (707)257-6752/yogahome@sbcglobal.net

 

Sunday October 16, 10am- 4pm  - in Berkeley-
Central Disturbance Part 1

Sunday November 15,10am- 4pm - in San Anselmo -
Problems in Long Term Prescribing

Sunday January 10, 10am-4pm -in San Anselmo -
Suppression and Correcting the Disordered Symptom Complex

 

 

Barbara Osawa CCH
Classical Homeopathy/Certified Yoga Instructor.
2073 Monticello Rd, Napa. (707) 257-6752
http://www.barbaraosawa.com