Lotus Healing Art

Lotus Healing Arts provides a range of services and specialises in integrating your acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine with your other healthcare strategies. Studying Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis since 1998 with Leon Hammer, MD (psychiatrist, Chinese medical doctor and pulse diagnosis master), Karen completed her Ph.

Bowen technique is a gentle healing system that provides the body with a stimulus for self correction. Each series of specific muscle and connective tissue "moves" send signals to the body for realignment. The client rests quietly between each set of moves so the body can integrate the new information.

Karen is registered with all private health insurance companies as an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and physiotherapist. If your healthcare plan covers these modalities, you are eligible for reimbursement for treatments provided by the practitioners at Lotus Healing Arts. This includes recommendations for referrals and lifestyle modifications provided at your first follow up visit.

Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis (CCPD) is a traditional method that is thought to evaluate the integrity of the organ systems via palpation of the radial arteries and is an important aspect of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine diagnosis. It is the modern interpretation of the Ding lineage pulse method from the Shanghai region of China and dated to the c.15th century.

Dragon Rises Seminars (DRS) was founded by Dr Hammer to further the teaching and understanding of Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis (CCPD). Classes taught by DRS are designed to be the practical accompaniment to Chinese Pulse Diagnosis, A Contemporary Approach. The classes are organized into Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced levels.