news & notes Taoist Healing Arts Day Retreat in West Hartford
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n Saturday August 20th, the Wu Healing Center and SunDo Mountain Taoism will host a one-day healing retreat featuring both Chinese and Korean Taoist healing practices. The retreat, which will be held 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, offers workshops that address the “physical, emotional and mental dimensions of healing, and foster our innate potential to heal ourselves and help others,” according to Dr. Ming Wu, a tai chi & qi gong master and the director of Wu Healing Center. “The workshops are for mental and physical well-being,” said Dr. Wu. “They present two different cultures and their approach to Taoist healing — the tai chi and qi gong practices of China and the SunDo-Taoist yoga and meditation practice of Korea. Through breath and move- ment, both arts develop internal Qi energy for body & mind unity.” This retreat is for anyone interested in how Qi energy cultivation not only improves health but opens the way toward a more enlightened
life. Workshops include: Taoist Yoga Foundational Exercises, Principles of Qi Gong, Taoist Five Element Healing, Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, Breath Meditation and an Introduction to Taoist Chanting & Healing Sounds. In the Sundo-Taoist practice, Qi energy is cultivated in the lower tan dien, or second navel chakra, through rythmic breath meditation.
The benefits of this breathing are numerous, including increased oxygen circulation to the cells, better internal organ functioning, regulation of the endocrine glands, improved emotional health and sharper mental clarity. SunDo-Taoist Master Hyunmoon Kim states, “These heal- ing arts are especially helpful to holistic health practioners because they provide a way to first heal ourselves so we can then help others to heal.” Taoist Healing Arts Day Retreat is being held at the 45 South Main Street Building in both the Wu Healing and SunDo Mountain Taoist
Center. The two Centers are sponsoring this program to give people the chance to experience these traditional Taoist practices in one loca- tion. The retreat also features a Korean-style lunch buffet made by SunDo instructors and a Cooking with Qi Class & Dinner with Dr. Wu.
Morning Program 8:30-9:15 9:30-10:50
Tea Ceremony Taoist Yoga Foundational Exercises
11:00-11:50 Principles of Qi Gong 12:00-1:00 Korean Lunch Buffet
Afternoon Program 1:15-2:00 2:00-2:50 3:00-3:50 4:00-4:30
Guided Breath Meditation Taoist Five Element Healing Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan
Taoist Chanting & Healing Sounds 4:30-6:30 Cooking with Qi & Dinner
Cost for the entire retreat is $60 for the day, or bring a friend for the whole day and pay just $45 each. Guests may also register for a half- day - the morning program is $25 and the afternoon program is $35 per person. To register, call the SunDo Center at 860.523.5260 or email
questions@sundo.org.
A Locally-Grown Health Care Movement Adds A New In-Depth Community Herbalist Course To Their Educational Offerings
Based on the success of the Farm to Pharmacy program from Goldthread Farm & Apothecary Western Massachusetts. W
Building upon the curriculum of their 7-month long Farm to Pharmacy program, now in its third year, Goldthread Herb Farm & Apoth- ecary is offering an 11-month long, in-depth educational opportunity for those interested in learning to use herbs as the foundation of a cost effective, sustainable health care system at the individual, family, and community level. The new Community Herbalist Program will begin in September, 2011 with classes taking place over the course of eight weekends throughout the year and culminating in a week-long intensive in August 2012. Classes will be held at Goldthread’s three-and-a-half acre medicinal herb farm in Conway, MA and at the Goldthread Herbal Apothecary in Florence, MA.
Appropriate for health care professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of complementary medicine as well as those without previ- ous experience who have a sincere interest in herbal medicine, participants in the Community Herbalist Program will study herbal theory and philosophy from a traditional Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic perspective, gaining in-depth knowledge of materia medica, formulation, traditional diagnosis, pathophysiology, herbal therapeutics, and traditional and modern dietetics. The experiential approach to learning that sets Farm to Pharmacy apart from other herbal programs will continue in the expanded Com- munity Herbalist curriculum. Students will have the opportunity to dig in the dirt, plant, harvest, and get to know medicinal herbs firsthand; learn about the distillation of essential oils with Goldthread’s on-site 85-gallon wood-fired distiller; and participate in the process of making a wide variety of commonly used preparations such as tinctures, salves, infused oils, creams, teas, decoctions, syrups, elixirs, cordials, com- presses, poultices, tablets, powders, medicinal ghees, honeys, and more.
Tuition for the program is $2,750 before August 1 and $3,500 after, with limited work study available. Details and the full curriculum are at Goldthead’s website:
www.goldthreadapothecary.com.
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ith increasing numbers of Americans turning to complementary and alternative medicine and at least a third of the population using herbs as natural remedies for various symptoms, the seeds of a grassroots health care revolution are being planted in the fertile hills of
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