Dr Jan Kirschner Page 1 & Page 2

06/01/2025

Most of the amazing group of chiropractors who played full out this weekend at the Pages program in Paris! The FINAL presentation of Pages will be in two weeks, also in Paris. Three spots have opened up at the last minute from what was a sold-out program. BE THERE!!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-finale-the-final-pages-weekend-paris-france-january-18-19-2025-tickets-1033594568177?aff=oddtdtcreator

06/01/2025

Most of the group of amazing chiropractors who played full out this past weekend at Pages in Paris!! The FINAL Pages program will be in two weeks, also in Paris. Three spots have opened up at the last minute in what was a sold-out program. BE THERE!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-finale-the-final-pages-weekend-paris-france-january-18-19-2025-tickets-1033594568177?aff=oddtdtcreator

05/12/2024

Only one month until the first of the FINAL TWO Pages weekends, and just 10 days left to save money on the programs. Start your New Year by spending time fully immersed in the present moment and deepening your skills!

A deep dive into the skills and mindset necessary for chiropractic and life excellence. Come spend a weekend fully in the present moment!!

04/11/2024

Just ten more days for super early bird price!!!

A deep dive into the skills and mindset necessary for chiropractic and life excellence. Come spend a weekend fully in the present moment!!

01/10/2024

The very LAST Pages weekend will be in Paris, France on January 18-19, 2025. Space is limited, and super early bird pricing is available NOW!!

A deep dive into the skills and mindset necessary for chiropractic and life excellence. Come spend a weekend fully in the present moment!

28/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 35

Gratitude (Farewell)

One of the many prayers in the Jewish tradition is one that is spoken as soon as your eyes open in the morning. It is a prayer of gratitude to the Divine Source for restoring the soul to the body after a night’s sleep. It is a wonderful way to wake up, and starts the day with a powerful tone.

There are many who deserve my thanks for this joyride (and occasional heartbreak) of 35 years.

First and foremost, Donny Epstein, who through both insanely hard work and brilliant inspiration, brought forth the remarkable work that has allowed me to experience and share so much over the years. He also trusted me to create what later became Page One to help train beginning chiropractic students (and later on, doctors) within the Network programs before throwing them into the deep end of the phasing system. And thanks must also go to Jackie Knowles Epstein, who made sure that Donny didn’t quit before getting this work out to the world.

Pasquale Cerasoli- Dr. Pat taught me how to adjust a spine before I even started school. He also helped me access and analyze words in a whole new way, and introduced me to a more esoteric view of chiropractic.

The teaching staff members with whom I had the honor of helping bring the work to the world. My first Network teacher (Donna Mutter), the dc who helped access phase 9 in my spine for the first time (Larry Zaleski), the guy the universe worked extra hard to get me to finally meet (Scott Simerman), the BGI queen ( the late Sue Brown), the master of flowtrition (Lance Wright), my seat mate for Barry Bonds’ 71st (Peter Fisk), my classmates through chiropractic school and beyond (Gabriel Russo and Robyn Graber), Bob Edelhauser, Judy Scher, Michael Stern, and so many more. And thanks to Richelle Knowles for keeping my nervous system functioning beautifully for these most recent years, and for helping me get much more organized when she externed in my office many years ago.

Nicola Steward and Christophe Dal Molin- Who insisted that I come teach Pages in Australia and Europe, and made it possible for it to happen. And Fred Swann, John Hare, Pauline Lang, Priscilla Stevens, Krishan Ramyead, Margi Bishop-Funnell and Jennifer Beck for allowing me to use their office spaces to present the programs in those faraway lands.

All the patients I was fortunate to serve, who taught me so much about getting out of my own way. And all the students and doctors I’ve been honored to teach. I’ve never taught anything I didn’t need to remind myself of in the moment.

Cindi Corn- My first business and life partner. An overlooked legend as a chiropractor who passed much too soon.

And finally, Tracy McConville- who birthed Naomi, Aaron and Ezra, the lights of my life. No woman ever labored more gracefully or breast-fed more enthusiastically. Despite all our mistakes, I think the kids are all right.

27/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 34

Transition

Dr. Laura Underhill and I have been working to create a very smooth transition for our patients. Yes, tomorrow is my very last day in the office, and we have spent this last month introducing her to everyone in a way that we expect will have close to 100% of my patient population continuing on in care.

At the beginning of the month, we sat down with each patient’s file and discussed histories, care, and various aspects of how they have responded to the work. During that week as well as the second week, Laura was introduced to each patient, and she observed me adjusting everyone. We also alerted everyone to the plan to have her begin to work on people for the remainder of the month.

The last two weeks, we’ve switched roles. I’ve become the observer, and she has been working the tables. When appropriate, we’ve spoken to individual patients about what we’ve been finding in their nervous systems, and spoken to them about the direction their care is taking. In doing that, they’ve been able to get a sense of how similar her work is to mine, while at the same time acknowledging the individual differences that exist between any two chiropractors’ artistry.

From what I’ve seen, this gradual, but fairly rapid transition has worked extremely well. I made sure that everyone’s care plans with me will expire on my last day, so that Laura can hit the ground running next Monday. People are ready and eager to continue, and I am excited that we’ve created a true win-win-win situation for everyone.

What I am happiest with is that the people in my practice are focused on the care, and not the personality. They trust that the new chiropractor will deliver as high a quality of care as they have become used to. I may have mentioned in an earlier post that when I graduated chiropractic college, the faculty voted me “most likely to become a chiropractic evangelist”. I’ve tried to communicate that message for my entire career, and I’m very proud that my patients have heard it, and are following through on it in their lives.

25/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 33

Surgeries

Sometimes, surgeries are necessary. When I was first in practice, it was hard to come to grips with that. On the rare occasions that practice members/patients still needed to go under the knife, for whatever reason, it was challenging to avoid taking it as a deep personal failure.

Then, one day, a patient came to me who I knew was about to have surgery for a cancer she was dealing with, and she said the following: “I know that this operation is not going to heal me. But what it is going to do is to give me the time to do the healing afterwards that needs to be done.” At that moment, I realized that the communications in our office had been successful. She had taken to heart our messages about the difference between healing and curing, and knew that the work she had been doing to heal was going to continue after the surgery had come and gone.

One thing that has been consistent throughout these 35 years is that, when patients have wound up taking the surgical route, they have, pretty much 100% of the time, recovered from the surgery faster than their doctors expected, had fewer complications, and have gotten right back in care when the operations were done.

For those of you who have been in practice for awhile, I’m guessing you have seen these same trends in your offices, and these words come as no surprise to you. For those who are newer, I urge you to judge neither yourselves nor your patients when these situations arise. Instead, remind them about the importance of having the nervous system in peak condition to be able to handle the trauma more effectively. It is another way we provide an invaluable service to humankind.

21/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 32

The medical belief vs. my belief (what I hope is the chiropractic belief)

In the Western medical model, health is basically a one-way street, heading ever downward. As life goes on, it is expected that you will begin to deteriorate, needing medications to add something that is missing, or surgeries to take away something that isn’t working. It is a constant fight against the ravages of time, hence one of the latest trends has been “anti-aging medicine”, where people pay enormous amounts of money to somehow hold on to the appearance of youth, as if that has anything whatsoever to do with health. A personal example: At one point in the last couple of years, I was filling out some surveys to feed my book-buying habits (you were able to get gift cards to buy books). I did a health survey for people of my age group (I’m 71 now), and for the question “How many medications do you use?”, there was nowhere to enter the answer “none”.

My experience of health, as well as that of my patients, has been quite different than this model. When I was a teenager, my face was ravaged with acne, which was treated with drugs and cryotherapy, but was mostly related to the garbage I ate. I was scrawny and weak, and had a lot of trouble with my lungs, which I later determined was probably due to having the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck three times when I was born. As I moved into my years as a chiropractor (I didn’t start school until I was 33), my health started to improve. In chiropractic school, I ran the New York Marathon (Judy Scher gave me a two-hour massage the day after the race which brought me back to life, lol). Although I still had some lung issues during my first few years of practice, those disappeared when I moved to Colorado. In 35 years of practice, I have never missed a day in the office because of illness, other than having to close during the global incident. I am healthier at 71 than I was at 17, and although of course it hasn’t been a completely consistent increase (healing never is), I’ve managed to avoid genetic issues that have been consistent in my family for generations. I see no reason why our lives can’t get richer and healthier the longer we live.

In the early 90’s, I participated in a workshop run by Omega Institute in St. John in the Virgin Islands. The medical doctor running this particular session asked people in the circle at what age they expected to die. People gave a wide variety of answers, ranging from their mid-30s until their low-80s. I answered “128”. When asked to explain their responses, almost everyone pegged their years of death to a similar age that other relatives had passed away. When it came my turn I said “I’m guessing that by that age I’ll have learned what it was that I came here to know, and I’ll be ready to drop the body”.

Keep inspiring others to let go of the belief systems which enslave them to self-fulfilling prophecies that limit their abilities to express themselves and live life to the fullest. It is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves, and give others.

20/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 31

Disease of the Year

Quite a few years ago, I began to notice a medical pattern that was highly consistent from year to year, which was that there would be a single “condition” that would suddenly be diagnosed throughout the US population. It would come to the forefront for approximately one year, only to be replaced by the next medical darling.

Sometimes, as in 2020, with the global incident, it would be very apparent what the disease of the year would be; in fact, I feel safe to say that that one lasted two years, with the second year being devoted to “long COVID”, as opposed to its shorter brother.

What’s interesting is that each condition has a very specific lifespan of “popularity”, so that even though COVID is still around, it’s not nearly as sexy in the medical community as it was back in 2020, and has been replaced by RSV as the latest threat, or perhaps the “COVID, flu, RSV triple crown”.

But most of the ones over the years have not been quite as dramatic as the global incident. We’ve had a year for fibromyalgia, a year for seasonal affected disorder, a year for chronic fatigue syndrome, and on and on.

Please remember that it is the job of Western medicine to scare the heck out of the population, and to bring up a victim mentality in people, so that they will agree to whatever the latest “cures” are. That is not our job. We are here to move people to a place of greater immunity to whatever comes down the pike. We are here to allow them to take more responsibility for their own lives. We are here to release that sweet spark of life that creates a richer, healthier existence.

Watch out for the disease of the year. If you keep an eye out, you’ll spot it. And you can have a good laugh about it with your practice members/patients.

18/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 30

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

My first career was as a theater professor, having gotten an MFA in directing and most of a pHd in theatrical history, literature and criticism at Carnegie-Mellon University (once I decided to leave academia, I realized it wouldn’t make any sense to spend the time finishing my dissertation, which my parents could never quite forgive, lol). Obviously, my studies required a deep dive into the works of Shakespeare, and one of my favorite plays of his is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I believe it is an essential work to be understood by Network practitioners.

Some of the most important characters in the play are fairies, and the most mischievous of them is Puck. Puck serves Oberon, the king of the fairies, and he has access to a certain dust that, when sprinkled in the eyes of someone sleeping, causes them to fall in love with the first person they see when they awaken. In the play, this causes mayhem among two sets of lovers who are escaping to the woods, as well as with Titania, the queen of the fairies, who winds up falling in love with a man who has been previously transformed into a donkey.

Over the years, I’ve come to see that the effects of Transformational Gates and other transformative programs often mimic those of Shakespeare’s magic dust. For me, my first deep experience of the Network wave (see episode 23) created a powerful opening of my heart where I was able to love myself and everything around me more fully. However, not fully realizing that this was what was occurring, I immediately attached that feeling of love to the first person I interacted with, the woman who would become my first wife, Cindi Corn. As she was having a similar experience, the connection between us was instantaneous, and profound. We quickly began to make plans for a future together.

As it turned out, we would be very good business partners, but very bad life partners. The level of being we were expressing at the heights of that experience was not a state we were able to maintain from a foundational perspective, and over time, the relationship came apart.

Please remember that while you are moving through periods of transformation, it is really yourself that you are falling in love with, and it is that expansion of who you are that allows you to see the world with new eyes. Take the time to integrate that experience for yourself before making any major life decisions. You will be glad that you did.

14/03/2024

35 for 35- Episode 29

Why I’ve never charged chiropractors or chiropractic students

When I was in chiropractic school, prices weren’t quite as high as they are now. Still, it required me to take out some serious loans, and I would eventually leave with a debt of around $50,000. During those years, I was able to get regular chiropractic care from three legends in the profession, Dr. Pasquale Cerasoli, Dr. Bob Hoffman and Dr. Donny Epstein. None of them charged me a penny. Instead, it was expected that I would pay it forward, by being equally as generous in taking care of my colleagues once I was in practice.

In my first practice, in Fairfield, Iowa, we were two hours from Palmer-Davenport, and most of the students studying Network would come down weekly to get adjusted. We were happy to accommodate them, even though it usually meant working past our normal office hours to coordinate with their school schedules. We also adjusted the other chiropractors in town regularly.

Nothing has changed during the many years I’ve been in Colorado. When students have come to visit and observe, they’ve been adjusted free of charge, and asked to do the same for others going forward. When chiropractors come to town for seminars, they are treated similarly.
I think it is a misconception that people don’t put value on something they don’t pay for immediately, or that my not charging colleagues somehow indicates that I think less of the work I do. Over the years that I’ve been in practice, I’ve given away many multiples of the amount of care to which I was treated as a student, and yet, not having my financial burden at the time increased beyond what it already was was absolutely priceless.

Doctors, things are much more challenging for current students, who are emerging from chiropractic school between $200,00 and 300,000 in debt on average. I believe it is part of our role to allow them to experience the power of chiropractic care without putting further strain on them. I encourage you to continue the tradition of paying it forward, or if this was not your experience when you were a student, start it yourself as a gift to the future of the profession.