Tai Chi: Movement, Alignment, Focus and Relaxation by Simon Murray Tai Chi Chuan (a.k.a. Taijiquan) is a series of interconnected movements and postures. Initially an effective martial art, it’s now more commonly practiced slowly and mindfully to maximise its health benefits. There are 5 main schools or styles of Tai Chi, as well as many [...]
The Trauma Recovery Day Retreat at Kundalini House Return to Self: A Held Space for Nervous System Restoration Sunday 17th of May - 10:30am to 2:30pm This half-day retreat is designed to support you to re-establish your connection to yourself and gently restore an exhausted or overwhelmed nervous system, while building a deeper understanding of [...]
Flow of the Five Elements with Joanna Nation Saturday 21st of March @ 4:00-5:30pm In this 90-minute journey we'll flow through all Five Elements according to Traditional Chinese Medicine, using gentle Qi Gong exercises to explore the energetic qualities of each element and associated organ/ emotion. From the clear releasing energy of Metal, to [...]
Six Healing Sounds Qi Gong Workshop with Rachel Hanrahan Sunday, January 11th | 11:30AM - 1:00PM Investment: $35 & Members $30 BOOK YOUR SPOT NOW The Six Healing sounds is an ancient practice from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that balances your energy and promotes well-being. Qigong is like a moving meditation all about gentle movements, [...]
The Five Animal Frolics: Wu Qin Xi Qigong By Simon Murray Our current focus in the Monday 7:45am Qigong class is the Wu Qin Xi (pronounced woo chin shee) form. The name translates roughly as Five Animal Frolics (or Exercises). This well-known set of Qigong was formulated by the legendary physician Hua Tuo during the [...]
Daylight savings has begun and spring is in the air! In Traditional Chinese Medicine, spring is the season of 🌿Liver & Gallbladder 🌿Wood element 🌿Growth & renewal 🌿Cleansing & detoxification Signs that your liver qi/ wood element may be out of balance include temporal headaches, irritability or anger, rib or hip pain, dry sore eyes, [...]
Why I got vaccinated By Dr Leela Klein (TCM) In the last few months many patients and friends have asked me if I got vaccinated, and why. I am not trying to convince anyone to get vaccinated; I am very much pro choice. This is just to tell you my little story. When the [...]
Winter – Time to rug up, eat walnuts & have acupuncture Chinese Medicine encourages us to live in harmony with the seasons, and according to Chinese medicine theory, there are five seasons – winter, spring, summer, late summer, and autumn. Winter is the season of hibernation, when energy moves inward. A time of retreat [...]
The Nature of Food by Pip Atherstone-Reid WARMING OR COOLING Different foods are considered warm or cooling to our systems in Traditional Medicines. Warming and hot foods; warm the body and cooling and cold foods; cool the body. Cool foods are generally harder to digest than warmer foods if not eaten in balance as [...]
Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine talk a lot about Digestive Fire and place a lot importance in eating foods and adopting habits that keep the stomach nice and warm. What this means is keeping the function of the digestion working well. Yang is function and what we eat, our lifestyle and unfortunately the aging process starts [...]