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Dialogues with modern acupuncturists

Completed Interview - Lonny Jarrett

Lonny has been active in the field of Chinese medicine since 1980, teaching and publishing in leading professional journals. He holds masters degrees in both acupuncture and neurobiology. A founding board member of the Acupuncture Society of Massachusetts, in 1993 he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is a graduate of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute and studied pulse diagnosis intensively with Dr. Leon Hammer from 1987 through 1995.

Additionally, Lonny has acheived the rank of fourth degree black belt in the Korean martial art Tae Kwon Do. Currently, he teaches seminars on inner traditions of Chinese medicine as well as Chinese pulse diagnosis. His work in the field of neuro- and cellular-biology has been published in leading scientific journals and in 1993 one of his electron micrographs of DNA was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lonny maintains his full-time practice of acupuncture and herbal medicine in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

In this inspiring and candid interview, Lonny engages with the following subjects:

  • Background in neuroscience and formative studies with Leon Hammer
  • The importance of attention and intention
  • Chinese medicine as the most powerful medicine to affect consciousness
  • Going beyond the technical in Chinese medicine
  • What makes a good acupuncture practitioner
  • Moving a patient towards wholeness and integration
  • Integrating the western and eastern traditions in practise
  • The influence of Andrew Cohen and enlightenment teachings

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This interview is 27MB in mp3 format, so is probably not suitable for download via a dial-up connection.