Welcome to A Top Down View of the Five-Elements

Learn Five-Element constitutional diagnosis with Lonny Jarrett, one of the traditions most engaged and experienced practitioners, teachers, and scholars. 

The intention of my teaching is to give the student a core grounding in the “inner tradition,” a depth approach to Chinese medicine. Five-Element constitutional diagnosis will be examined as an organizing framework that yields deep insights into each patient’s destiny and path of healing. We will discuss 5E diagnosis based on color, sound, odor, and emotion and the insights it gives us into health, pathology, and the patient’s motivation.  I will elaborate how knowing a patient’s constitutional type (CF) influences the suggestive process in treatment. The imagery contained in acupuncture point names associate with the officials (organ systems) will be discussed as it relates to the points inner functions. We will come to understand Chinese medicine as a fully holistic/integral science as well as appreciate the key role that the practitioner’s own level of development plays in achieving this goal. Participation in this class is suitable for students and practitioners from any tradition and level of training who wish to deepen their perspective on their art. 

 

Nourishing Destiny lays out the philosophical and functional basis of each elemental constitution in terms of the transformation of a disordered relationship to thought and feeling into the cultivation of virtue.

Clinical Practice elaborates the constitutions through the function of each channel’s points.

Deepening Perspectives looks at the elements from a developmental and cultivational perspective that places each individual’s evolution in their own hands. It considers each element from a constitutional and cultural perspective.