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November 8-10, 2008 Sheraton Columbia
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Last Update
June 30, 2008
(New information is in bold)
MAS brought one of the masters of the acupuncture style known as Toyohari to Maryland on June 28-29, 2008. Approximately 32 Acupuncturists attended the intimate seminar, which was held at the Bon Secours Spiritual Center, Marriottsville, MD.
The seminar was conducted by Junko Ida, and assisted by several other experienced Toyohari practitioners. The seminar offered lots of hands on practice, alternating supervised practice with lecture. Toyohari offers non-inserted needling techniques, as well as pulse and palpation diagnosis, and the attendees were able to practice all of these under the watchful eye of the teacher and assistants. an agenda for the seminar may be found here.
Thanks to Zoë Brenner, Martin Feldman, Beth Creeger, Anne Garnett, and Carol Kari who assisted Junko Ida with the teaching. And thanks to Margie Siauw, the new continuing education chair, who made the arrangements for the speaker and the venue and made sure the seminar operated smoothly.
Once again, MAS is an affilate partner of the annual Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine Conference. MAS members will enjoy a discount of 20% off of registration fees. In addition, until July 15 members will get an additional 20% discount for early registration. Go to the website www.tcmconference.org for additional information. This year the conference is held October 30 to November 2, 2008 in Chantilly, VA.
The MAS annual meeting was held on Sunday, March 16, 2008 during the lunch break for the Alex Tiberi seminar. 51 MAS members were in attendance.
The MAS president, Steven Solomon, gave the report on State of Maryland llegislative activities as Alice Neely Mutch, the MAS contracted legislative consultant, was not able to attend. One event that occurred this past year was an attempt by the State Board of Acupuncture to put through a "clean-up" bill that would have made small changes to the acupuncture law. This attempt was not successful and MAS supported the withdrawal of the bill because some legislators expressed interest in making substantive statutory changes to the scope of practice and putting limits on what "acts" could be performed by acupuncturists.
A discussion was held on the practice of herbology within the scope of acupuncture. A motion was passed to establish a committee to educate legislators and lobbyists on herbology.
There were changes in the board Officers. Della Aubrey Miller, who has served as treasurer since 2001, has resigned, and Tricia Kramer (who has served as member-at-large) was appointed to her place. The president, Steven Solomon, and the Secretary, John Howard, were re-elected. Several new members have joined the board. Margie Siauw was elected as Vice President of Internal Affairs and Kathy Crosland was appointed as Member-at-large. The members voted to change the bylaws to make a new board position, the Vice President of Public Affairs, and Della Aubrey Miller was elected to this position.
The newest Student Liaison was introduced to the members. Belynda White is replacing Nancee Baysinger who has graduated from Tai Sophia Institute.
John and Angela Hicks will come to Maryland, November 8-10, 2008 to present a seminar for MAS. Two Days: Deepening diagnosis and treatment skills for constitutional treatment. This seminar is for both TCM and Five Element practitioners. It will give TCM practitioner’s tools to help them to diagnose a constitutional imbalance. Five Element practitioners will gain structure and insight in order to deepen their existing skills. Also, One Day: Getting Better at Getting the CF This seminar is aimed for people more familiar with the Worsley Five Element tradition who know about CF.
Registration will open at the beginning of July.
 Tee-Shirts with the MAS Logo are now available on line at the MAS store for your holiday shopping. These are high quality shirts made of 100% organic cotton and made in the United States. We are selling them at cost - $15 (plus shipping). Available colors are Sage, Black and Rose. These shirts are pre-shrunk and run small so please order a size larger than you normally would.
How large is MAS?
Maryland Acupuncture Society
371 Members, consisting of:
286 Maryland licensed acupuncturists, 42 Students, 29 Out-of-State acupuncturists, 1 Organizations, 12 Allied health care practitioners, and 1 Associates.
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