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Mondays – 4:30-6pm
Thursdays – 10:30-12pm
Location – Center for Health and Healing
Cost – $20-$50.
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Abi offers the ear protocol twice a week in a drop-in setting. If time allows, treatment may vary somewhat according to individualized needs such as high blood pressure or minor injuries.
Qigong, or Chi Kung, (pronounced "Chee Gung"), consists of a vast array of meditative techniques for enhancing health, strength, and spiritual development. My interest lies in promotion of health and it is those self-practiced techniques that I teach. T'ai Chi and Bagua are related martial training practices. There are hundreds of styles of Qigong, some very specific to particular health concerns, others more general. More active styles tend to be popular, as they clearly promote blood and lymph circulation. Yet the simpler standing and sitting qigong techniques are very powerful as well.
Although comparatively new in the U.S., acupuncture is one segment of an ancient system of medicine developed thousands of years ago in China.
The classical Chinese explanation of how acupuncture works is that pathways of energy flow in regular patterns throughout the body. These pathways, also called meridians, are like rivers that irrigate and nourish the system. In fact, Western physicists are beginning to measure the impulses felt along the meridians. Like rivers, obstructions can dam and impede the natural flow. Acupuncture aims to reestablish harmony and balance in this flow of energy in the meridian system.
I’m on the same page as most of this writing by Mike Shunney, T’ai Ji instructor extraordinaire. 16 points below:
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3. When the person’s immune system is strong many of the cancer cells will be destroyed and may be prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it may indicate the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies, which can compromise the immune system.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including herbs and supplements will strengthen the immune system…
This post is “Five Reasons to Consider Acupuncture” written by Chris Titus:
Reason 1: Efficacy
Reason 2: Economy
Reason 3: Environment
Reason 4: Energy
Reason 5: Experience
After this very snowy winter many are itching to move into the warmer months. Like the sugar maple sap, we feel our juices flowing as the days lengthen and the sunshine grows stronger. In the Chinese calendar, Spring actually begins at the time of our ground hog day. Although that change may be more noticeable outdoors in a southern latitude, our internal energy starts to shift then. By March, it can be surging, even though we’re still being plastered with snow. This can be a problem! Certainly wild cabin fever reliever parties can dispel a lot of pent up energy, but not always with the desired affect on our poor livers! Which brings me to the phase, or element, associated with springtime, which is wood and its organ the liver.
With the tendency to load up on rich foods during the winter months, many are anxious to cleanse their system come Spring time. Perhaps the aging New Year’s resolution is coming to the fore once again. In my view, there’s an overemphasis placed on clearing our system, whether it be the colon or liver. Spring comes slowly and teasingly to Maine and, as I have said before, raw foods are hard work for our digestion. Purging diets can tire our digestive system as well. A more gradual, tonifying, method better suits most of us, who tend to be a little worn down at the end of the winter. Something that is a tasty part of our diet will be more likely to be incorporated naturally and become a regular practice. Of course, regular movement practice, such as qigong, is a prime way to detoxify the year around.
By the time this comes out, we will likely be into serious winter weather, and if the Farmer’s Almanac is correct, plenty of accompanying storms. In my last article on Fall dietary support, I mentioned facilitating the shift of the season and letting go [of summer warmth and perhaps more]. With the unseasonable warmth of November, our bodies may have been easily lulled into complacency, rather than cranking our internal thermostats.