Table of Contents:

1. Integrator Blog News & Reports
2. Upcoming Events for Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley, CA. Enroll early!
3. Letter to the Editor
4. NEW DATES! Robert Chu teaches Master Tung's Acupuncture

Greetings OM Members and Colleagues:

The American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM) announces that the New Orleans Conference brochure is available for download and that registration is now open for this conference.

Expo 2007 New Orleans
Attendees Brochure
Venue: Hampton Inn & Suites - 866-311-1200 (AAAOM Room Block)
Single to Quad Occupancy Rooms - $129
Single to Quad Occupancy King Beds - $179
Date: May 10 – 13, 2007

Expo 2007 New Orleans
Exhibitors Brochure
(Booths 3,4,11 are sold.)

Regina Walsh Rachael Toomim Conference 2007 Co-Chairs

Let the Good Times Roll! That’s how they say it in New Orleans. This issue of the Qi-Unity Report is proud to feature AAAOM’s New Orleans Conference 2007!

Despite the traumatic events stemming from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is a city that exemplifies enthusiasm and celebration of life. The city is brimming with the energy of renewal along side the celebration of its roots.

What better place to celebrate our Reunification Conference, as the newly united AAAOM honors our history and sets forth Rebuilding the Future, at the Hampton Inn Convention Center, located near the vibrant French Quarter of New Orleans, May 9—13, 2007. Built in the 1900's, this historic landmark, undamaged by the storm, has undergone a charming renovation.

What’s your pleasure? Crawfish Etouffe? Red Beans and Rice? The NADA Training? Working Class Acupuncture?

New Orleans is simmering with savory enticements, while the conference presenters provide “soul food” nourishment for your practice.

We’ve created a line-up of great speakers and in-depth courses that will inspire your work and support your patient’s quest for well-being. Network with practitioners from across the country and celebrate our profession and its impact on our community by becoming part of the unification celebration, the rebuilding of our future and the rebuilding of one of America’s great cities. From now until the the conference, AAAOM will be featuring articles and overviews from conference speakers. In this issue of the Qi-Unity Report, we are pleased to present:

The Initial Consultation - Getting to the Heart of the Matter
By Neil Gumenik, MAc(UK), LAc, DiplAc

The initial consultation is where it all begins. It provides us with an opportunity to learn who our patient is and what he or she truly needs in order to be whole and healthy in body, mind, and spirit. Every area we explore - even the most seemingly simple - such as "Where do you live?" or "What do you do for a living?" can provide us with a wealth of information if we are attentive to the clues we are given and know how to ask the right questions.

Join us in New Orleans. Let the Good Times Roll!

Integrator Blog News & Reports
As an on-going monthly feature, the Qi-Unity Report continues to feature articles of interest from the Integrator Blog, edited by John Weeks. This month includes: two articles that look at incomes of other natural health practitioners (NDs, coaches); new national data on CAM use in the general population and with seniors; an innovative “CAM-oriented primary care” model which is saving huge dollars compared to conventional primary care; and serious questions around the denial of Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s plans to build a new cancer hospital in which acupuncture is integrated.

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/07/03/01.html

Upcoming Events for Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley, CA. Enroll early!

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/07/03/02.html

Letter to the Editor from Dr. Marilyn M. Walkey, MD, MSOM candidate 2007, DAOM candidate 2009

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/07/03/03.html

NEW DATES! Robert Chu teaches Master Tung's Acupuncture, Saturday March 31-Sunday April 1, Sheraton La Guardia East, Flushing, NY. Read details and register early!

http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/07/03/04.html

Let us close this issue of the Qi-Unity Report with perspectives on unity.

“I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.”
-Senator John Kerry

“So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
Baha'u'llah (Iranian Theologian and Philosopher, b.1817. Whose name means "The Glory of God" in Arabic)

“Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”
-John Muir

“Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul.”

“What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.”
-Father Andre

As family and friends, as practitioners and healers, as leaders in our communities and as the purveyors of life for future generations, let us unite in spirit, act and deed as living peace in our world.

Sincerely,