Intermediate Seminars

Upcoming Seminar:

Hands-on Intermediate Intensive

March 29th, 2025

9am - 5pm at Dragon Rises Center for Wholeness in Portland, Oregon

Regular Tuition: $175

Early Bird Tuition: $150

BIPOC Equity Rate: $150

What’s an Intermediate?

Designed to offer deeper study for students who have completed an Intro seminar, Intermediate Seminars offer a “deep dive” into particular, more intermediate and advanced aspects of Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis. These day-long seminars are designed to be an intensive immersion for practitioner-folk who are wanting more practical ways to integrate what Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis has to offer their practices. As a participant, you’ll spend an entire day receiving guidance in the essential skills of Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis. If you’d prefer a more Comprehensive Introduction to the pulse, check out our 4-day Introductory Seminars.

Course objectives vary by seminar, but include the following:

  • Refining your palpation of pulse positions and qualities

  • Calibrating you to the nine pulse depths

  • Honing your identification of qualities, co-occurring qualities, and waveforms

  • Mentoring you in more comprehensive interpretation of patients’ pulse records

  • Walking you through short-term, mid-range, and long-term treatment planning

Curriculum and Materials Provided

Intromediate Seminars are primarily hands-on events. We start the day with a brief introduction to a particular aspect of the pulse, then we dive into applying that frame of reference to the palpation of fellow participants’ pulses. We follow this up with broader didactic information that you’ll then get to apply while palpating the pulses of patient volunteers. We end the day with succinct interpretations of patient cases and a question and answer session.

When you sign up for an Intromediate, we’ll send you a video introduction to the topics we’ll be covering. We’ll also send you relevant course materials such as intake forms, pulse records, reference materials, and/or articles that introduce you to the didactic material we’ll be covering in the seminar.

Course Prerequisites

This course is appropriate for practitioner-folk who have taken at least one 4-day Comprehensive seminar with any Certified Instructor of Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis. This course is for you if you want an intensive, hands-on immersion in deepening your pulse diagnosis skills. We Also teach Introductory Seminars and Weekly Classes.