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.

Pricing options

This 2-day intensive welcomes 30 participants in-person and will also be live streamed. NCCAOM CEUs (14 units; pending approval) available for both in-person and virtual participants. Choose how you'd like to join us:

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 distinguished sinologist, professor, and pioneering voice in the preservation and advancement of Classical Chinese Medicine. Trained in Chinese studies, philosophy, and medical traditions, he has dedicated his life’s work to safeguarding the wisdom of classical texts and making their insights accessible to a modern audience. His translations and commentaries are widely recognized for their depth and accuracy, bridging scholarship and clinical application.

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 of two masters

  • 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: 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: 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.
Learn the Story Behind the Tools