Traditional Chinese medicine

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In the world of Tai Chi, there are many approaches towards instruction. One of our dreams is to have different levels of service and styles of classes to match your interest and personal development needs. Please read through our class options (frameworks) below, and then use the Class Finder to find a class near you. 

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

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

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

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

Tips for fall

Autumn is a time where the yang/warmth of the sun begins to lessen and give way to the yin/cooler seasons of fall and winter. In autumn one must begin to store vital energy in order to make it through the winter in a healthy state. One must slow down from the sometimes frenetic activity of the summer. The movement of autumn in Chinese medicine is downward, and this is evident in the root-based vegetables that are available during that time. These veggies reach down into the ground to acquire their energy which we consume to acquire that energy.

Huang Di Nei Jing says:

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