Turn What You Know Into What You Can Feel

Build on your acupuncture knowledge with Sifu Justin’s Jing Wei Diagnostic Method. Rooted in the Ngui family lineage of classical Chinese medicine, this hands-on workshop connects meridians, palpation, and individualized point selection. Learn through demonstration, guided partner practice, and discussion. Explore the relationships between channels, muscles, tendons, and tissues, then use your findings to guide treatment priorities.
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Course Description

A One-Day Practical Workshop with Sifu Justin
Classical Chinese Medicine in the Ngui Family Lineage

You have learned the meridian pathways, acupuncture points, and their functions. How do you bring that knowledge together to decide which points to use for the person in front of you?

The Jing Wei Diagnostic Method is Sifu Justin’s approach to teaching and applying an ancient system of classical Chinese medicine passed down through the Ngui family lineage. Its foundations have developed through many generations of hands-on acupuncture practice, with knowledge cultivated through direct observation, treatment, and continued learning from patients.

This workshop brings that practice-based tradition into your clinical learning. Building on your existing acupuncture knowledge, you will connect channel pathways with muscles, tendons, tissues, and the individual patient’s presentation. The emphasis is on developing understanding through guided practice: feeling, observing, comparing, and connecting your findings to treatment decisions.

A defining feature of this approach is its attention to the relationship between the body’s interior and exterior. Within its classical framework, Jing informs the consideration of deeper constitutional resources, while Wei relates to the protective exterior, including the skin and the body’s responses to its surroundings. These perspectives guide an assessment that considers both deeper patterns and signs at the surface.

Through demonstration and guided partner practice, you will explore tissue quality, tension, tenderness, movement, and responsiveness. You will learn to integrate these findings with the patient’s reported physical experience, feelings, and mental state.

Throughout the day, the focus is on using these observations to establish treatment priorities, develop an individualized point prescription, and identify what to reassess.


What You'll Practice

  • Connect the Pathways

    Relate meridians to muscles, tendons, tissues and movement.

  • Refine You Touch

    Recognize tension, tenderness and tissue responsiveness.

  • Build a Diagnostic Picture

    Combine palpation, observation and the patient's experience.

  • Choose Your Points with Purpose

    Understand the combination of your point selection and how to reasses.

Who This Workshop Is For

Acupuncture students with foundational knowledge of meridian pathways, point locations, and point functions who want to develop their palpation skills and clinical reasoning.

What You Will Practice

  • Connecting meridian pathways with muscles, tendons, tissues, and movement.

  • Considering interior and exterior findings within the Jing Wei framework.

  • Recognizing and describing palpatory feedback.

  • Integrating physical findings with the patient’s reported experience.

  • Developing treatment priorities and choosing points with a clear purpose.

  • Identifying what to reassess following treatment.