Learn from experienced practitioner Bryan McMahon how to employ the classic diagnostic tools of the five phases, six stages, and three burners to arrive at a concrete diagnosis based in direct perception. Additionally, students will learn how this diagnosis directly translates into formula strategy based on the qi (movement) and wei (flavor) of herbs, effectively removing them from the hit-or-miss process of pattern-based formula correspondence.

Learn from experienced practitioner Bryan McMahon how to employ the classic diagnostic tools of the five phases, six stages, and three burners to arrive at a concrete diagnosis based in direct perception. Additionally, students will learn how this diagnosis directly translates into formula strategy based on the qi (movement) and wei (flavor) of herbs, effectively removing them from the hit-or-miss process of pattern-based formula correspondence.

Part 2: Digestion Explained

Nutritionist Karen Davis walks you through the key factors affecting digestion and how what you are eating is contributing to your energy, focus, and overall sense of well-being. Karen’s approach to eating well is not to scold you about all the things you think you are doing wrong but instead to give you tools to help you make the best decisions you can given your personal strengths and limitations.

Part 1: Food Freedom Basics

In this first part of a 5 part series, Nutritionist Karen Davis, MS, CNS, NTP will lay out the basics of what it means to eat well for your body in the modern world. She will help you to make sense of and to understand the different types of macro nutrients that you might read about or hear on the news. Then she will help you to better understand what you are looking at when you read a nutrition label so that those names and their meanings are more clear. Additionally, Karen will talk about the breakdown of a balanced meal and this isn’t your old-school food pyramid either!