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✨ “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:

  • With curiosity or agenda?

  • With presence or performance?

  • 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.

  • Where is it located in your life?

  • What story lives there?

  • What grief or joy do you feel in its field?

  • Who would this point be if it were a person?

  • What does it want to tell you about your path?

🩸“When healing meets healing”

Trauma is not just a clinical category. It is a relational rupture. A wound in the field of connection. And the medicine we offer here is not only technique—it is presence, touch, and reweaving the web.

In trauma, the nervous system contracts to protect life.
In healing, the body slowly, gently, remembers that life is safe to feel again.

Even something as simple as taking the pulse—or holding someone’s hand—can become a ceremony of repair.
When we listen with our whole being, the Heart Protector softens.
The palace of weariness Per. 8, opens.
And two nervous systems meet in a place beyond defense.

This is not abstract. It’s tangible, embodied, sacred.

In this training, we will explore how acupuncture, somatic presence, and the five elements can become vessels of collective healing—when trauma is not just understood, but honored.


🌿 What You Will Receive:

✔️ 8 live or recorded lessons (60–90 min each)
✔️ Transcripts & downloadable study materials
✔️ Practice prompts & clinical guidance
✔️ Bonus: Private session option with Katerina
✔️ Access to a private circle for integration & sharing


🔹 Curriculum Overview

Module 1: Trauma as Frozen Intelligence

How trauma lives in the nervous system—and how the animal body wants to process, complete, and return to flow.
We explore survival states, dissociation, and the somatic rhythm of safety.
Key Practice: Supporting completion through presence & pacing.


Module 2: Touch as Medicine – Co-Regulation and Holding

Before needles, before words, there is contact.
We explore the polyvagal system, regulation through relationship, and how trauma healing begins with coherence.
Key Points: PC8 (Laogong), HT7 (Shenmen), CV17 (Shanzhong)
Bonus Practice: The art of pulse-taking as trauma listening.


Module 3: The Illusion of Separateness

Why we can’t heal trauma from a separate self.
Exploring the interwoven boundaries between personal, ancestral, and collective trauma—and how systems of oppression entangle the body.
Key Practice: Constellation-informed acupuncture approaches.
Discussion: When the trauma isn’t “yours”—but lives in the field.


Module 4: Fire Element – Restoring Trust & Expression

Collective trauma has severed the fire of connection, joy, and spontaneity.
We explore how to reopen trust in relationship.
Key Points: HT7, SI3, PC8, SJ5
Theme: Betrayal, heartbreak, dissociation from joy.


Module 5: Earth Element – Healing Nourishment & Belonging

Trauma often imprints through unmet need.
We reconnect with the body’s right to receive, digest, and feel at home in the world.
Key Points: ST36, SP6, CV12
Theme: Motherline, overcare, food-body trauma.


Module 6: Metal Element – Grief, Boundaries, and Return

Collective grief is unspoken, unprocessed.
We open space for loss, reverence, and ancestral dignity.
Key Points: LU3, LU7, LI4
Theme: Frozen grief, migration, separation from lineage.


Module 7: Water Element – Restoring Safety and Stillness

Fear contracts. Deep trauma often hides in the kidneys.
We learn to create containers for deep stillness and restoration.
Key Points: KD1, KD3, UB23
Theme: Developmental trauma, fear states, dissociation.


Module 8: Wood Element – Movement, Anger, and Boundaries

When trauma is expressed, it becomes power.
We explore trauma recovery through assertiveness, direction, and creative emergence.
Key Points: LR3, GB34, LV14
Theme: Healthy anger, rupture repair, future vision.


✨ Format & Flow:

  • Each module includes live or recorded teaching, guided practices, and suggested point protocols

  • Opportunities for personal integration, peer dialogue, and optional 1:1 sessions

  • Somatic pacing: we will go slow, with respect for the field


🌱 Suggested Contribution (Sliding Scale)

  • €100 – supported

  • €200 – sustainable

  • €300 – supporting others
    No one turned away for lack of funds.

🌿 Trauma-Informed Acupuncture

A live 8-week journey into the relational intelligence of healing

🕊️ Facilitated by Katerina Panagiotopoulou
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🩸 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:

  • 🔥 Fire: Trust, joy, heartbreak

  • 🌍 Earth: Nourishment, caregiving, belonging

  • 🍂 Metal: Grief, loss, dignity

  • 💧 Water: Fear, stillness, dissociation

  • 🌱 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:

  • Acupuncturists, TCM and 5-element practitioners

  • Somatic therapists and bodyworkers

  • Healers working with trauma, grief, or collective fields

  • 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:

  • 🌱 €300 – supported (limited spots)

  • 🌿 €450 – sustainable

  • 🌳 €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]

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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

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