Pacific Symposium 2006: Offers The Popular Restoration Track & Advanced Acupuncture Techniques Workshops

The 18th annual Pacific Symposium returns this year, November 2 -5, 2006 at the beautiful Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego for four days of learning and sharing. This year features new faces, and old favorites, all of who are recognized leaders in the Oriental medicine field.

A highlight of this year's Symposium is the popular Restoration Track.

The Restoration Track is a hands-on, relaxing series of workshops that provides an in-depth exploration of bodywork and massage. In addition to the restoration track, for the first time a new series of Advanced Acupuncture Techniques Workshops is being offered to provide the opportunity to learn advanced needling, palpatory diagnosis, pulse analysis, and pain management methods. This tract is invaluable to practitioners due to its diverse techniques taught by the most experienced professionals in the field. Both the Restoration Track and Advanced Acupuncture tracts provide two alternatives to the general session lectures.

The keynote speaker for this Symposium is Ted Kaptchuck, author of The Web That Has No Weaver, who will be discussing how man's view of illness and health have changed from the religious traditions of pre-Confucian times to the rational perspectives evident in the Nei Jing. Kaptchuck will also discuss the quality of Eastern medicine care versus the quantitative approach in biomedicine.

Ted Kaptchuk, was involved with the first Symposium in 1989, and each time he has been a speaker he has been in high demand. Currently, Kaptchuk is the associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at Boston 's Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Come join us for the 18th annual Pacific Symposium. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best speakers from around the world.

For more information on this event please call Pacific College at (212) 982-4600 ext 210 or visit www.PacificCollege.edu.

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