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Biography I have been studying and practicing Healing arts for 30 years. My own journey into Healing started as a teenager, when using diet modification I healed myself of chronic allergies and a sinus condition that had plagued me all my childhood. This began a journey of learning, self-Healing and discovery that has taken me through Europe to China , Japan , India and America over the course of the last thirty years. After my own experience of healing through a change in diet, I studied the European naturopathic healing traditions. At the age of eighteen I became a follower of the Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. For information about Rajneesh, later known as Osho see: www.osho.com I practiced his many breathing and meditation techniques and got enormous benefit. I studied with the Taoist healer San Gee Tam for seven years.      From him I learned many mental techniques of Healing and the Taoist arts of Tai Chi and Qigong (also known as Chi Kung, traditional Asian breathing and movement exercises to develop well-being and energy). With a few years of daily practice I developed a level of health and vitality that I had never known before. (I continue to practice Qigong every day). Over the years I went on to study various Qigong and Tai Chi systems and healing methods from China , Tibet and India , including Yang, Wu and Chen style Tai Chi Chuan, XIng Yi Chuan, Ba Gua Zhang and Yi Chuan standing Qi Gong. I also studied chakra and organ based healing systems. Information about San Gee Tam's teaching can be accessed at: www.goldenflower.org  During this very fertile time of exploration in my life I also did the 'est' training and then participated in quite a number of similar growth workshops with groups working with similar transformational technologies as Werner Erhard. For information about his transformational teaching methods see:   www.landmarkforum.com I became certified in polarity therapy, chua K’a massage (Mongolian Warrior massage), postural integration (an offshoot of Rolfing), Swedish massage, pranic Healing, craniosacral therapy, and Tibetan organ toning which is now known as Tibetan Pulse Yoga. My teacher Shantam Dhiraj ( see www.tibetan-pulsing.de) was the originator of this system and a friend of my teacher Sangeetam. I practiced bodywork professionally. At this time I began studying homeopathy and continued studying clinical nutrition. Over the years I continued to study homeopathy and nutritional supplementation.   In 1985 I moved to the Far East for three years and I lived in China where I began studying acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. I continued to study in Japan . During this time I met and was helped very much by my contact with Bruce Kumar Frantzis. For information about Bruce please see: www.energyarts.com After  having lived in the China and Japan for three years I entered the Graduate program in acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz. I now teach at Five Branches. www.fIvebranches.edu During this time I worked professionally as a massage therapist. I became a board certified acupuncturist and then apprenticed for two years with a senior practitioner, Holly Guzman. I completed a masters program in Medical Qigong with Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson. I then taught medical Qigong and supervised the medical Qigong clinic through the international institute of Medical Qigong. For information about Jerry please see: www.medicalqigong.org       Throughout this time I practiced periodic fasts, therapeutic diets and juice fasts. This has kept me healthy and deepened my knowledge of these healing modalities. I do not consider myself a master of these fasting and detoxification protocols, but I know enough to help myself and other people. At the beginning of my relationship with my wife Anetthea Atman (Ph.d candidate in depth psychology) she guided both of us to work with the Indian saint Mata Amritanandamayi Ma, commonly known as Amma. We still spend as much time as we can with her when she is in America. I consider her to be my spiritual Mother.  Her web-site is: www.amma.org About eight years ago I started to study Shamanism with Phil 'bright Eagle' and Daryl Lowery. They guided me to a number of Brazilian and cross-cultural healers and mentors. Specifically Padrinho Alex Polari de Alverga and Madrina Luzia and Madrina Clara, all of the Santo Daime tradition, who are a source of study and inspiration for me. I consider Padrinho Sebastiao Mela de Mota to be my spiritual Father, though he is no longer in his body, and I never met him physically, but he is very present in the Santo Daime church.  see: www.santo-daime.org I have also benefitted greatly from the meditation retreats and blessings of Mark Griffin. Information about his spiritual teaching work can be accessed at: www.hardlight.org Out of this Shamanic work emerged a period of intensive inspiration wherein I received a revelation of the fundamental energies which form a human being from conception onwards. For three and a half years I wrote down a description of how humans are formed from the moment of conception; how we are formed by the underlying forces of the five-fold nature of the universe, and how these forces give rise to the various layers of the energy system, generating the three Dan-Tian, the four bodies, the four primary modifications of consciousness,  the five Zang organs, the five primary emotions, the seven chakras, the eight extraordinary channels, and finally the 12 regular acupuncture channels. For more information about this process you can visit:           www.sacredacupuncture.com   CURRENT ACTIVITIES Sacred Acupuncture I describe my work currently as Sacred Acupuncture. Sacred acupuncture encompasses the normal functions of acupuncture, as we think of them today - balancing the body's Qi to alleviate symptoms and strengthening the Qi, but it also includes healing that encompasses balancing all of the bodies relevant to healing the disease. For information about Sacred acupuncture see the assessments and treatments pages of the web-site: http://www.adamatman.com/assessments.shtml http://www.adamatman.com/treatments.shtml To read the 'Patient Handbook of Sacred Acupuncture' please go to: http://www.adamatman.com/patient-handbook-of-sacred-acupuncture.PDF   Sacred Acupuncture Clinics I have now been in full-time clinical practice in America for fifteen years.I have clinics in Campbell, and Santa Cruz, California. for details see http://adamatman.com/campbell_clinic.shtml http://adamatman.com/santa_cruz_clinic.shtml To make an appointment call my receptionists toll free at:   866 863 5560. for information about Sacred Acupuncture call me first on my cell phone:    408 476 9799. After we have spoken you You can reach my receptionists 24 hours a day to schedule an appointment or to change a scheduled appointment time. Sacred Acupuncture Ceremony I sometimes conduct Sacred Acupuncture Ceremonies Here is a link to a description of the Ceremony http://www.adamatman.com/ceremony.html   Teaching I teach a Sacred Acupuncture Elective program at FIve Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, California. For information about this program you can visit their web-site at:     www.fivebranches.edu There is also information about the elective courses at    www.sacredacupuncture.com   Seminars and Workshops For information about seminars see the following link: http://www.sacredacupuncture.com/New%20Site/seminars.html There are recordings of talks which you can listen to on the various seminar topics.   Radio I host an alternative medicine radio program (KKUP 91.5 FM Thursdays 10-11 AM). Archives of previous radio shows are available at this lnk:      Radio Archives   Qigong Instruction I also teach Qigong classes for health and well-being at my clinic. Information about Qigong in general and my classes in particular is available at this link:      Qigong Juice Fasting and Detoxification Information about the practice and value of Juice Fasting and detoxification: Juice Fasting