A light hand, aimed at the whole body.
The hands-on energy work is the one she is known for, and the one the four-ounces principle describes. What matters most is where the hand is aimed.
The attention is on the whole: the movement of qi and blood, and the main organ systems (the zangfu) the classical texts organise the body around. Where you feel it tells her where to start looking. It is usually not the only place she works.
The image she uses for it is Zhuangzi's cook, who after nineteen years had never blunted his blade: he found the spaces that were already there and let the edge pass through them, entering the gap with something that has no thickness.
The hand moves the way cloud drifts, layer by layer through the whole body.
Her practice · China
Three principles, as her teacher taught them.
The whole, not the part
The starting point is the body as one connected system. Rather than taking a symptom at face value, she looks at what set it off, and at how the cause and the symptom move with each other. The symptom on its own is never the whole story.
Modelled on nature
In this tradition illness is silt in a river and health is the flow. Wherever the channel blocks is where symptoms surface, so the work is on the channel rather than on the symptom.
Light, like wind through a willow
The hands work to set the whole body's qi moving. It looks gentle, though soft and firm are at work together, still water running deep. As the classical line has it: the greatest sound is silence, the greatest form has no shape.
