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Chronic Digestive Disorders: The Gut-Brain Axis (online)

Date(s): 19 September 2026

Time: 3pm - 7pm BST (due to timezone of speaker)

Eligibility: Qualified acupuncturists & 3rd year students

Venue: This is an online course

 

Please note, this online course will NOT be recorded. You must attend live. There will be no replay or opportunity to catch up.

 

Join Yvonne Farrell to explore the basic theories of the Pi Wei Lun (Spleen/Stomach School), Yin Fire and their relationship to the modern theories around the gut-brain axis.

 

This 4-hour online course will provide the framework for understanding the relationship between the Gut-Brain axis and the classical theories of Li Dong Yuan (founder of the Earth School).

 

The course will provide a clear context for modern, chronic, difficult to treat digestive disorders.

 

Participants will learn:

 

  • The foundational theories of the Spleen-Stomach school.
  • The relationship between habit, survival, digestion & illness.
  • How Poly-vagal theory is understood in CCM.
  • How Yin Fire and Gu Syndrome are at the root of most chronic, intractable digestive disorders.
  • The importance of the gall bladder as the link between the brain and the gut.
  • The Triune Brain and the 3 levels of qi
  • The mental-emotional disruption associated with digestive disorders

 

Some protocols will be provided, but there will be more focus on treatment approaches for these difficult conditions seen in clinic.

 

Due to Yvonne being in America and trying to align timezones, please be aware that the timings for this course are a little different to our normal CPD courses - 3pm - 7pm BST.

 

Please note - this online course will NOT be recorded, there are no replays, and MUST be attended live.


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Dr. Yvonne Farrell has been practicing and teaching since 1997. As a long-time student of Jeffrey Yuen (1995) her approach to treatment is based on Channel Theory with a Taoist influence. She believes that acupuncture is an incredible tool for growth and development and cultivation of the practitioner is an essential part of the process. She teaches continuing education in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Yvonne is the author of two books: Psycho-Emotional Pain and the Eight Extraordinary Vessels and her latest, Acupuncture for Surviving Adversity published by Singing Dragon. 


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