Everyone knows it. No one truly understands it.

The Yin-Yang symbol hangs on the walls of many TCM practices. You use the terminology daily. But when was the last time you stopped to consider what this symbol truly describes? Have you ever wondered what clinical consequences it would have if you were to fathom the depth of the Yin-Yang symbol?

Yan Schroën argues that it is precisely in this depth that lies a clinical sharpness that most practitioners never achieve. If you choose to delve into that depth, you will understand much more of TCM than you thought possible. You will see why the Yin-Yang concept is so essential, and also how. How that flat, black-and-white image tells a story that transcends a simple subdivision, unveiling a dynamic world that is magical. Magisterial.

Key points of the course

The Tai Chi symbol as a fractal Most dynamism, most creation, takes place at the midline where Yin and Yang meet. The further you move away from that line, the quieter it becomes — until you land in the small circles, which are once again full of movement. Zooming in on such a circle, you find a new Yin-Yang symbol. Exactly as a fractal behaves.

The time mechanism In Taoism, time is organized fundamentally differently than in Western linear thinking. This has direct consequences for how Chinese medicine makes diagnoses and understands the progression of diseases — and consequently for how you work with your patients. Time is not a background. It is a clinical instrument.

Yin-Yang as an entrance to Wuji Behind the dual world lies the field of Wuji. Yan connects Yin-Yang with that quantum field that constantly projects and creates our reality. Whoever understands Yin-Yang stands at the threshold of what lies beyond space and time. A quantum reality that is already described in classical texts. And that is no coincidence.

Benefits for you as a participant

After this weekend, you will see everything differently. You will see the movement behind everything. Behind symptoms, behind the progression, behind what presents itself in the treatment room. Understanding Yin-Yang at this level is not a diagnostic tool. It is insight into the deepest movement process described by Chinese medicine.

Once you see that, you can no longer unsee it. You gain an insight that no protocol can ever give you.