✨ “What is a Point?”
A prelude to the art of listening
A point is not a technique.
A point is not a command.A point is a threshold—a place where the seen and unseen agree to meet.
In classical Chinese medicine, a point (穴, xué) means “cave,” “hollow,” or “gateway.”
But let us go further. Let us feel it from the inside.
💠 A Point Is a Being
Each point has a name because it has a personality.
It holds a memory, a frequency, a story.
It is not activated—it is invited.
To touch a point well is to ask permission.
To needle a point with reverence is to enter into a contract.
To listen to a point is to hear the field speak through the flesh.
🌀 A Point Is a Portal
Like a small temple in the skin.
Some are quiet, and others erupt in heat and wind.
Some whisper the voice of the ancestors.
Some carry a medicine that’s not even yours—it comes through you for someone else.
When you rest your fingers on PC-8 (Laogong), it’s not just “Heart Protector.”
It is the palace of weariness, yes. But also the altar of hands.
It is where the healer’s exhaustion meets the survivor’s shame.
And sometimes that point opens—
and what passes through is not a technique…
…it’s a trembling, a song, a release that cannot be tracked by logic.
🌿 A Point Is a Relationship
Just like land is not a resource—but a relative—
points are not units of intervention.
They are beings we befriend.
And like all relationships, they respond differently depending on how we show up:
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With curiosity or agenda?
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With presence or performance?
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With listening or prescription?
When we co-regulate through our presence,
when our own meridians are in resonance,
the point begins to respond—not to us, but to life itself.
🧶 An Invitation for Students
Let this be your orientation—not just to points, but to the practice itself:
✨ “Every point is a teacher.
Don’t be afraid to fall in love with them.”
Start by choosing one point to sit with each day.
Don’t needle. Don’t fix. Just feel.
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Where is it located in your life?
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What story lives there?
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What grief or joy do you feel in its field?
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Who would this point be if it were a person?
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What does it want to tell you about your path?
Trauma-Informed Acupuncture
A live 8-week journey into the relational intelligence of healing
Facilitated by Katerina Panagiotopoulou
Live on Zoom • Begins
You already carry the medicine. This course shows you how to listen for it.
Trauma lives in the nervous system, but it also lives in the field.
It shows up in the pulse, in the breath, in the places we go numb or collapse.
As acupuncturists and healers, we’re trained to diagnose symptoms.
to meet survival states?
To honor the body's brilliance in adaptation—and its longing to return?
This 8-week live course is for practitioners who want to deepen their capacity to hold trauma—not as a problem to fix, but as a call for reconnection.
A Different Kind of Healing Education
This is not a standard course.
This is an invitation to listen more deeply—with your hands, your body, your presence.
We explore trauma not only in the personal body, but in ancestral, intergenerational, and collective fields.
We listen through the five elements, through pulse, through belonging.
We study the points not as techniques, but as portals of relational repair.
What You'll Learn
Module 1: Trauma as Frozen Intelligence
How trauma lives in the nervous system—and how the animal body processes safety and survival.
Module 2: Co-Regulation & Relational Holding
How pulse taking, hand holding, and presence restore trust.
Key points: Laogong (PC8), Shenmen (HT7), CV17
Module 3: Healing Beyond the Self
Exploring ancestral and collective trauma—why we cannot heal separation from a separate place.
Modules 4–8: Elemental Trauma & Repair
Each week we enter a different element:
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Fire: Trust, joy, heartbreak
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Earth: Nourishment, caregiving, belonging
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Metal: Grief, loss, dignity
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Water: Fear, stillness, dissociation
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Wood: Anger, boundaries, emergence
Each element is explored through the lens of trauma, healing, acupuncture points, and embodied practice.
What’s Included
8 live 90-minute sessions on Zoom
Replay access for all sessions
Transcripts & downloadable materials
Protocols for trauma-sensitive point selection
Guided exercises & case study reflections
A private group space for integration & sharing
Bonus: Option to book private sessions with Katerina
Who Is This For?
This course is designed for:
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Acupuncturists, TCM and 5-element practitioners
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Somatic therapists and bodyworkers
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Healers working with trauma, grief, or collective fields
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Anyone longing to bring presence to the wound of separation
Sliding Scale Contribution
This work is offered as part of a post-capitalist healing movement.
We honor your financial reality and your presence in this field.
Choose your contribution:
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€300 – supported (limited spots)
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€450 – sustainable
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€600 – supporting others & the movement
No one turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out.
Add-On: Private Healing Sessions (Optional)
Deepen your journey with 1:1 trauma-informed sessions during the course.
Sliding scale: €50–90 per session.
[Register Now] or [Join the Waitlist]
(Course begins: [insert date])
Spots are limited to allow space for sharing and live interaction.
A Final Word
This course is an offering from 40 years of healing, listening, and witnessing.
You don’t need to fix trauma.
You need to meet it—with presence, with rhythm, with love.
Come home to the sacred relational field.
With love,
Katerina Panagiotopoulou
