Two acupuncture cohorts celebrated their completion of didactic and clinical requirements for their Master level program with a bell ringing ceremony. This unofficial ceremony has been performed for generations. The participants in the cohorts who choose to participate craft their their ceremony for their group. The individuals in the cohort in the upper right hand corner spoke from their personal perspectives. The cohort in the lower image recited the “On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians,” a physician’s oath by Sun Simiao.
The two ceremonies were facilitated by Dr. Hunter Thompson, Instructor and Lead Teaching Clinic Supervisor; Linda Simons, Assistant Professor; and Janet Padgett, Director, Acupuncture Programs.
“Together we recited the physician’s oath by Sun Simiao, then we each rang the bell 3 times: once for the ancestors who paved our path to get here, once for ourselves and the present moment, and once for future generations and those we will touch with our work.
What a powerful SOUND that flowed through me and reverberated to that bell when I rang it! It was confirmed yet again, that I am answering the higher calling on my life and that “I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand.”
~ Madea Allen
From left to right: Leila Malavite, Zoey Dietz, Marissa Chapman, Kari Quinn, Elizabeth Barth
From left to right: Farahnaz Behroozi, Madea Allen, Michelle Hahn, Bridgette Diedrich, Ashley Drapeau, Cory Glasgow, Sally Novak