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HEALTH & WELLNESS: Tai Chi & Qigong; They have no equals.....

Submitted by matohanska on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 4:41pm

Illness and injury prevention is core to Tai Chi and QiGong. The most basic aspects of the practice are an invitation to understanding what influences daily, seasonal and yearly changes. Our habits, patterns and tendencies can be observed over short, medium and long term periods of time, and will reflect a deeper way to cultivate wellness. Learning to study ourselves, and question our reactions or responses, helps us consider the small changes needed for daily health momentum.

Mind, Spirit and Energy; The Evolving States of Health & Wellness

Submitted by matohanska on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 6:28pm

It is sometimes difficult to track the circumstances that lead to illness or imbalances in the body. One would need to pay as much attention to themselves, situational changes and the many changing environments we move through, and then relate to build-ups and feelings of depletion as a basis for tracking how, when and why an imbalance occurred.

5 Element TCM Resources - just links

Submitted by zkrebs on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 6:01pm

These articles offer simple explanations of a few common deficiencies and how you might look at them in relationship to your life and diet:

Spleen Qi Deficiency – A Nutritional Perspective

By Anasuya Basil Batliner, NC, Dipl. ABT, CST
Published in Nutrition Professionals Quarterly, 2004
http://mybodywisdom.net/pdf/Spleen_Qi_Nutrition.pdf

TCM and Nutrition: Kidney Yin Deficiency

By Anasuya Basil Batliner, NC, Dipl. ABT, CST
Published in Nutrition Professionals Quarterly, 2004
http://mybodywisdom.net/pdf/Nutrition_for_Kidney_Yin.pdf

Liver Qi Stagnation and Diet

Mission

Transformation Arts is a formal Internal Arts passing lineage tradition that shoulders socially responsive action in the return, creation and education of self-health care practices and oral/written instruction of lineage Tai Chi/QiGong and Yoga. Actively engaged in Health Care Reform, Transformation Arts reflects, adapts and considers time-tested and global best practice standards. The Lineage uses the commonalities of Human-Shared Qualities, practical application of time-tested training and transformed individual results and science-based research as the measure.

Four Years of Impressions, Each Topic a Lifetime

Submitted by zkrebs on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 6:22pm

For the last couple of years I have had a big whiteboard hanging in my room. At various points I put it up and took it down. Embarassment is a reason to take it down. Pride is a reason to put it up. Its difficult to share what is inexplicably "between the lines" to other people. Have never really been good at it. This is an attempt to share what has helped me along the way. Feel free to take what is useful, and leave what is not.
Perception Checklist:

revalations of source water essence

Submitted by zkrebs on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 8:52am

no one cries for the river that provides the water for all life to rely on - it naturally emanates from its source and gives and gives and gives without any expectation but being delivered back to its source, the mother - a society who understands the essence of water and flow then must realize that they ride on the energy of those who know the Tao and are not themselves source creation wizards (yet) - give back to the models which you rely upon for all of your functions and smart and wonderful traits and give back more than you take and even question taking as an idea because the energies

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Michael Vasquez, lineage instructor, has been a practitioner of the Internal Healing Arts since the age of 16.

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