Expand Your Practice. Deepen Your Medicine.

An offering unlike anything currently available. "Phoenix Rising" is the beginning of an ongoing effort to preserve, restore, and transmit important aspects of Classical Chinese Medicine that deserve a more prominent place in contemporary practice.

  • Restoring a Lost Dimension of Classical Chinese Medicine

    Throughout much of Chinese medical history, physicians worked with an entire family of instruments to regulate qi through touch, pressure, vibration, and subtle energetic engagement — never separate from acupuncture, but part of it. That knowledge quietly receded from modern training. Phoenix Rising was created to help restore that missing dimension.

  • Meeting More Patients Right Where They Are

    Every clinician encounters patients for whom traditional needling may not always be the ideal first choice, children, medically fragile individuals, highly sensitive patients, those with significant anxiety around needles, or simply patients who respond better to gentler therapeutic approaches. The classical non-insertive methods explored in this seminar expand your ability to meet those patients where they are.

  • Scholarship Meets Hands-on Clinical Mastery

    It has been Heiner Fruehauf's life mission to bring renewed life to ancient styles of herbal medicine, bodywork, moxibustion, and acupuncture. For Phoenix Rising, he has partnered with Bob Quinn, DAOM, a noted teacher of several Japanese styles, to reintroduce these Han Dynasty tools to the global Chinese medicine community — the first time the two have taught this material together.

Join the Inaugural Phoenix Rising Seminar

Whether your goal is to broaden treatment options, deepen understanding of classical medicine, or become a more confident and capable clinician, Phoenix Rising offers an opportunity to reconnect with a remarkable clinical tradition. 🔥 Find the full seminar schedule as a PDF below.

About the Teachers and the TA

"If you look at the history of thought and art, it is usually out of restless times of turbulence that great novelty and great light emerge." —John O’Donohue

Heiner Fruehauf

PhD, LAc

Heiner Fruehauf is a sinologist, professor, and pioneering voice in the preservation of Classical Chinese Medicine. Born into a German family of doctors specializing in natural healing — with roots tracing to a student of Sebastian Kneipp, a father of the European nature cure movement — he earned his PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 1990.

Beyond his academic training, he pursued the classical roots of Chinese medicine outside the standard TCM system, including two years of post-doctoral training under Deng Zhongjia, one of China's leading experts in classical medicine, and further study in Daoist medicine and Qigong. His translations and commentaries are widely recognized for bridging scholarship with clinical application, and he has published widely since 1992.

He taught at what is now the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, where he founded the School of Classical Chinese Medicine. In private practice, he treats difficult and recalcitrant diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and chronic digestive disorders. He is the founder of ClassicalChineseMedicine.org.

Bob Quinn

DAOM, LAc

Bob Quinn, DAOM, L.Ac. has studied with Japanese masters of the teishin and enshin for 20+ years and now teaches in Europe and North America. He is the author of A User’s Guide to Teishin and Enshin: A Quiet Revolution in Traditional East Asian Medicine. Bob has studied cosmology and herbal medicine with Heiner for over 25 years. They taught together for many years in NUNM’s School of Classical Chinese Medicine.

Emily Ryan

Teaching Assistant

Emily will be the TA for the Phoenix Rising seminar. She is a licensed and board certified naturopathic physician and acupuncturist in Eugene, Oregon. She focuses on gentle styles of acupuncture and bodywork including cranialsacral therapy. Using these modalities along with homeopathy, nutrition, herbal formulas, counseling and nature cure methods. She's studied directly with Heiner and Quinn for many years.

What you will learn in the seminar

Join this rare convergence

  • Understanding classical sources on the tools and how ganying (感應 resonance) and zhong (中 center) play key roles in the successful use of these tools

  • The importance of treating the neck and how these two tools do this brilliantly

  • Dizhen/Teishin: Learn how Daoist qigong tuina can be integrated with dizhen work; How to tonify points, how to tonify or sedate entire body regions with the dizhen

  • Yuanzhen/Enshin: How to use the enshin to open channel blockages; How to use a unique tapping technique with the enshin to treat the abdomen

  • How to treat two points at once using the principle of resonance

  • A novel PTSD treatment using both tools

Hear from the teachers

Phoenix Rising Handcrafted Tools

Two close-to-the-earth traditions working together

A limited run of twenty handcrafted silver sets has been commissioned specifically for the inaugural Phoenix Rising program. The Navajo silversmiths' way of working follows an old, labor-intensive, and sacred technique — beginning with the melting of the silver that will become the tool. It reflects how one can work with one's hands in a sacred way, and how our own clinical practice should look the same.
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FAQ

  • What makes Phoenix Rising different from other Teishin and Enshin trainings?

    Most practitioners first encounter these tools through the Japanese tradition — where they've been refined, preserved, and taught with great care for centuries. That tradition is rich, and Bob Quinn has been one of its most respected teachers for over 20 years. The teishin and enshin are two of the nine classical needles first described in the Lingshu — written during the Han dynasty, more than two thousand years ago. In the original texts, they carry different names: dizhen (鍉針) and yuanzhen (圓針). As Heiner Fruehauf will show us, the classical texts on these tools contain layers of meaning that open a different understanding of what they are and how to work with them. For the first time in the Teishin and Enshin space, Quinn's hands-on clinical mastery meets Heiner's decades of classical scholarship in direct conversation.

  • Do I need prior experience with the teishin (dizhen) or enshin (yuanzhe)?

    No prior experience is required. The seminar is designed for practitioners and acupuncture students who are curious about non-insertive tools and techniques — beginners and those with prior experience are both welcome.

  • Will I need a practice partner to come to the in-person event?

    No — you'll be paired with other participants during hands-on segments. We'll have tables set up for the group. Just come ready to learn. Wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing you can move in.

  • How does the virtual option work? Will there be recordings?

    Virtual participants join live via Zoom. The seminar will be streamed in real time with camera coverage of demonstrations. Recordings will be available to all participants (in-person, virtual live and on-demand) after the seminar for one full year. Everyone will be able to revisit the materials.

  • Where exactly is the seminar held and how do I get there?

    The seminar takes place in Corbett, Oregon — in the Columbia River Gorge, about 30 minutes east of Portland. Corbett is easy to reach from Portland via I-84 East. Take exit 22, then turn left at the top of the hill onto the Historic Columbia River Highway. The seminar will be held in a beautiful house over looking the river, very close to The Healing Order clinic. Parking is available on site.

  • What is the refund and cancellation policy?

    Every offering on this platform has been thoughtfully developed and is taught by teachers with decades of experience in their fields. Because of the significant preparation that goes into each course and seminar, we are generally not able to offer refunds once registration is complete. If something comes up, please reach out to us at [email protected] — we'll do our very best to work with you.