Did you know that surgical facelifts and Botox can cut meridians and block the flow of healthy energy through the face? That they can be detrimental to your health? Cosmetic surgery can cause toxic scars; Botox can become addictive?

What can you do?

Try Natural Facial Rejuvenation!

Discover how to:

• Get Rid of Those unwanted wrinkles
• without using BOTOX
• REDUCE the appearance of wrinkles without needing expensive creams
• REJUVENATE and renew aging skin
• RESTORE skin's youthful radiance and expression

Did you know that you can do this with:

• No Needles that can cause bruising
• No Painful Injections
• No Microcurrents

Results can be visible in minutes!

Join us for a:

PREVIEW of our next Transformational Facelift Massage Workshops and learn what you can do for yourself at home to enhance not just your face health and beauty but your total health.

We can't wait to share some wonderful "before and after" stories and videos from our recent Transformational Face Lift workshop with you.

Check out: www.RejuvenateMyFace.com

Listen to our **Free** audio recording today!

In this free audio call on Natural Facial Rejuvenation Massage, Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac. discusses the pros and cons of the hottest facial techniques in the market place.

To see other students' Natural Facial Rejuvenation stories and video, click on the link below:
www.RejuvenateMyFace.com

To find out more and to get our free special gifts why don't you check out our Comedy blog on the healing benefits of laughter. We are building a collection of tons of fun suggestions for you to help you have …

more fun and play, – and boost your health … on the way!

Remember, Your Laughter Heals!

Go to: http://www.ComediesThat Heal.com

Tell us what you want and have some fun!

offered by Drs Susan and Julian Lange OMD, L.Ac from www.MeridianHolisticHealing.com

HOLISTIC HEALING MADE EASY

Chinese Medicine Teacher Extraordinaire

She was my first Chinese Medicine Teacher in 1974 and     here she is with my Mum, Jane Hutson, in Hong Kong.

Frances was a wonderful teacher in the old Chinese tradition, big on Five Elements, herbs, Face Reading, Facial Analysis, Hand Reading, Hand Writing Analysis.  She had many gifts and skills and inspired our whole family. She was very big on Community Service and founded the Hong Kong School of Hygiene.  Her son Thomas is a practising chiropractor in Hong Kong.

Frances first taught me her Facial Rejuvenation protocol in the early 70s and I based my early classes "The Lazy Way to Looking Good" on her protocol. We also use her protocol in our "Natural Facial Rejuvenation" classes, that I co-teach with cranio-sacral therapist, Mary Louise Muller, – all these years later.

I recently met up with Maura Bright who practises Cosmetic Acupuncture and Facial Rejuvenation in London's Harley Street.  She studied with Daphne Youngson who was also a student of Dr Frances Wong, in the early days.

We are both excited to be reconnecting with our Ancient Chinese Medicine lineage.

posted by Susan Lange OMD, L.Ac at www.MeridianHolistic.com/HealthyLiving

Transformational

LEARN OUR UNIQUE FACIAL REJUVENATION SYSTEM

WITH NATURAL FACE LIFT MASSAGE

Watch our Intro Video at www.RejuvenateMyFace.com

Blend acupressure and facial rejuvenation techniques to bring softness and balance to your face, being and life energies

Lift Your Face, Lift Your Spirits!

OPTION ONE: LIVE CLASS;   OPTION TWO:  HOME STUDY COURSE

Transformational Face-Lift massage is a blend of the best of traditional and modern healing touch. The acupressure work is rooted deep in Chinese tradition and was taught to Dr Susan Lange, OMD, L.Ac by her first acupuncture teacher, Dr. Frances Wong, in Hong Kong in the early 1970’s. We blend this with skillful gentle touch that comes from biodynamic craniosacral roots to transform the face, the body and its structural balance.

We will be teaching Self Help skills so you do not need to be a practitioner for Level 1

In this class you will learn information and skills that help you and your clients to:

Level I

• Improve elasticity and tone in the skin, connective tissue and muscular layers of the face
• Enhance circulation of lymph, blood and chi
• Restore expressivity, joy and youthfulness to the face
• Bring relaxation to the whole body through contacting the social engagement nervous system
• Read and transform underlying stagnations, weaknesses and imbalances reflected in the face, – the yin and theyang.
• Evaluate your face for before and after assessment – Bring a mirror to witness the immediate effects of this technique!

Level II

• Increases acupressure contacts and the in-depth understanding for more powerful effect
• Completes the Dr. Wong acupressure face-lift sequence for an easy daily routine you can teach your clients
• Deepens exploration of fascial and muscular relationships of the face and neck for tighter, firmer skin
• Deepens understanding of the breathing face and tissue and bony relationships
• Deepens understanding of the five element personality and face shapes and their importance in face-lift massage to assess underlying issues. You will be learning an overview of Chinese Face Reading for this.
• Gives tools to work with releasing the tensions and weaknesses that create wrinkles, lines, flab and sagging, for greater tone and resilience
• Explores the complex issues that affect and are affected by face-lift massage, i.e. dental work, cosmetic surgery, environmental exposure and emotions

For student stories from our most recent Classes click here: www.RejuvenateMyFace.com

Mary Louise Muller, M.Ed., RCSTO, RPP, is a gifted biodynamic craniosacral therapist in private practice in Murrieta and Los Angeles, CA. She is the developer of Resonant Healing and an internationally recognized teacher and author. Mary Louise has been active in the healing arts for 35 years.

Susan Lange O.M.D., L.Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist and Doctor of Oriental Medicine, as well as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist, in private practice in Santa Monica, CA. Trained in Hong Kong, and Europe, she has been teaching natural face-lift massage since the early 1980’s. She is also Core Energetics therapist (a form of body psychotherapy) and brings an in-depth knowledge of the 5 psycho types to the Face Lift massage work. Along with her husband Julian Lange O.M.D., L.Ac, she opened one of the first and finest non-toxic holistic healing centers in Santa Monica in 1990.

Contact us at:
lifeshape@aol.com • 951-677-0652
info@MeridianHolistic.com • 310-395-9525 ext 2#

Find us online at:
www.lifeshapes.org
www.MeridianHolisticHealth.com

Course Tuition Level I One Day
$250.00 - full payment includes 7 CE hrs
$197.00 – reduced price if paid up to 2 weeks in advance inc. CE hrs

$147.00 – extra reduced price if paid 1 month in advance

$97.00 for returning graduates

Plus SPECIAL BONUS: "Five Element Mini Face Lift Chart" to use at home
Level II Three Day
$597 – full payment includes 21 CE hrs

$547 – reduced price if paid up to 2 weeks in advance
$497 – reduced price if paid 4 weeks in advance inc. CE hrs

Another SPECIAL BONUS:
If you sign up & pay for both Level 1 & Level 2 more than 2 weeks in advance of taking your Level 1 class, the tuition for both Levels is $547 … TOTAL! (That's a $300 discount early bird special!)

Class Hours:
Level 1 One Day 9:30 to 6:00
Level 2 Three Day 9:30 to 6:15 Days 1 and 2
9:00 to 5:00 Day 3

Refund Policy- If a class participant finds it necessary to withdraw up to three weeks in advance, the full deposit is refunded. If a participant withdraws after that time, all tuition is nonrefundable, but may be applied to a future seminar.

Continuing Education Hours available.

Acupuncture Continuing Education Hours pending, 7 hours for Level I, 21 hours for Level II

Nursing Continuing Education Hours available. Provider approved by the Cal. Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12248 for 7 contact hours. Level I, for 21 contact hours Level II

LifeShapes is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education Approved Provider. 7 continuing education hours are available for Level I, 21 continuing education hours for level II.

Contact: Meridian Center 310 395 9525    or info(@)MeridianHolisticHealth.com

or LifeShapes 951-677-0652 lifeshape@aol.com

For student stories from our most recent Level 1 Classes click here: www.RejuvenateMyFace.com

 Acne and Pimples: Top 7 Factors to Healing Acne, Pimples and Other Skin Conditions with Chinese Medicine

Don't we all hanker after a healthy looking face and beautiful skin? Worrisome skin problems can range from symptoms as excruciating as acne, pimples, psoriasis and eczema to simply having a sallow dull skin complexion. In Chinese Medicine there are some basic principles that we follow to heal skin problems such as acne, pimples, eczema and psoriasis. No matter what type of skin problem we might have it can be very uncomfortable and embarrassing if it affects our face. For long term skin and face health you need a multi pronged approach. Don't get seduced by the single quick fixes for acne and pimples and other skin problems that you read about on the internet – especially the topical creams that you put on your face and skin. They may be simple but they are usually not effective enough for face and skin health.

There are seven key factors that need to be addressed to have a healthy face and healthy skin. They are as follows: 

1. Treat the gut: leaky gut and parasite issues are in fact a big deal in the treatment of face health and skin health through Chinese Medicine. This approach is not well known or widely used in Western or conventional treatments. Conventional treatments focus mostly on topical skin treatments: skin and face creams, antibiotics and steroids which of course affect the digestion, kill off the good bacteria and can make the acne and pimples worse. When the digestion gets worse the face and skin get worse and it becomes one aggravating and frustrating, even embarrassing vicious cycle. So improving your digestion is an important step to improve face health and skin health and to reduce acne, pimples and other skin problems.

2. Improve your Diet: a simple first step is to determine if you are more Yin or more Yang. A lot has been written about general diet for the management of acne, pimples and other skin problems, for example avoid greasy foods, eat more fresh fruit and vegetables, go on a detox diet, but in Chinese Medicine we are much more specific. We hold the same general principles but why is it important to determine if you are Yin or Yang? Because then you can be more aware of the foods that are right for you and therefore be more effective in reducing acne, pimples and other skin conditions. If you're more Yang for example you would want to avoid hot spicy foods because they would exacerbate the heat toxin that is already in your body creating the skin condition of acne or pimples. If you are too Yin you would want to avoid cold or damp foods, which contribute to different skin and face problems.

3. Reduce Heat Toxins: in Chinese Medicine there are various forms of heat such as heat in the liver, heat in the stomach or lungs, heat in the blood and damp heat. Different kinds of heat can result in different kinds of skin and face problems.

4. Healthy Breathing: oxygenates the blood, improves circulation and lymph flow and helps the body, face and skin to detoxify so that acne, pimples, psoriasis and eczema symptoms can be reduced. Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga breathing, – these are all good ways to improve the circulation to your skin, help your body detox impurities from the skin, get that heat toxin flushed out and acne and pimples on the skin cleared up

5. Avoid toxic skin products: these can contribute to the heat toxins in your body and skin and contribute to acne and pimples on the skin. Even in "organic" skin products you can find petrochemicals and preservatives that don't just irritate your surface skin but also get absorbed through the skin into your body. So read the labels and become skin care savvy. eg avoid methyl and propyl parabens, vaseline, and excessive use of skin creams that might have a petroleum base. Household and garden chemicals, household cleaning products can also create heat toxins which affect your skin health.

6. Release old Trauma: areas of your body where you have had accidents can be weaker than the rest of you and therefore be more susceptible to skin problems. Any area of trauma or emotional distress creates what we call "stagnation" in Chinese Medicine and contributes to heat toxins in the blood. This can manifest as skin problems such as acne, pimples, psoriasis or eczema.

7. Emotions: in Chinese Medicine bottled up emotions build and create heat just like old trauma, so make sure you de-stress as much as you can, to reduce the chance of acne and pimples on your skin and face.

Bonus tip: Probably the most important question that a doctor of Chinese Medicine should ask someone one with acne, pimples, eczema or psoriasis is "are you constipated?" This would also help them determine what kind of Yin or Yang foods and activities would help the skin. So make sure that you're not constipated and pay attention to the above factors for beautiful, healthy face and skin.

And get your FREE self evaluation copy of

"Are You Yin or Are You Yang? Why You Need to Know This",

to help you on your way to beautiful healthy skin

when you sign up for our monthly FREE Healthy Skin and Digestion coaching calls at http://www.MyHealthyDigestion.com

To Your Best Health

From Dr Susan Lange OMD, L.Ac and the Meridian Center for Holistic Medicine  

1. Acupuncture Treatment: Acupuncture treatment of "toxic" scarring by a qualified acupuncturist inserting acupuncture needles around the scarring can be very beneficial.

2. Silica & Silicone Gels: Silica (microscopic quartz crystals) gel and silicone (a polymer with silica as a component) gel impregnated sheets which promote healing of scarring and the skin. The gel can be applied directly to the scarring and neighboring skin. Re-usable adhesive strips of fabric that are impregnated with silicone are also available. These strips may have an advantage over the gel because they are adhered directly over the scarring and can be worn for extended periods of time. The gel has to be reapplied to the scarring through out the day, especially if covered by clothing. Some people may find the adhesive on the strips irritating to their skin.

3. Essential Oils: These are extracted from plants and can be beneficial for scarring and skin healing. Generally, essential oils should not be applied directly to the skin or the scarring. Prepare a liniment by mixing 10 – 20 drops of the essential oil with 10 ml of a vegetable oil like apricot oil, grape seed oil, or almond oil. Helichrysum is a "skin regenerative", it is good for tissue trauma, reduces scarring and skin discoloration. Geranium and Moroccan Blue Tansy are also good for repairing damaged skin.

4. Herbs: There are Chinese herbal formulas which are ideally administered about 6 hours after surgery in order to prevent adhesions from forming. These formulas encourage intestinal peristalsis and the circulation of Qi in the abdomen.

The herbs, Arnica (Leopardbane) and/or Calendula (Marigold) promote healing and in a gel (preferably without alcohol or a petroleum base) can be applied to the vicinity of the surgery.

5. Homeopathic Remedies: A long history of use and can be very useful in addressing post surgery scarring.

• Arnica for bruising, any injury, and surgical trauma.


• Silica for scarring, keloids, and wounds that are slow to heal and suppurate.


• Graphites for scarring and keloids.

7. Neural Therapy: A scar therapy that is commonly used in Germany and Austria to treat pain and other conditions. It involves the injection of procaine around scarring and other areas to normalize the electro chemical activity of the local cells. Neural therapy is thought to correct regulatory dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system and because of this it is used to treat a surprising range of disorders in people with scarring of any kind.

BONUS TIP. Enzymes: Enzymatic action may make the scarring more elastic. Bromelain for post surgery swelling and inflammation. Injections of Hyaluronidase, a mucolytic enzyme, directly into the scarring to soften and break it down.

And if you would like further information about acupuncture treatment for post surgery scarring or to ask me any other questions visit: http://www.MeridianHolistic.com/askthedoctor.html Dr Julian Lange, OMD, LAc. "The Holistic Health Strategist."

You have guests or family coming to visit, you want to make your home look welcoming, you don't want to spend any more money and you're almost too busy to think straight.

What can you do?

 It's still the holiday season and we're still having wonderful friends come to visit us at home.  But I want to give you some simple tips that I did for the holidays that can be used for any festive occasion throughout the year.

• My yard is full of shrubs that always need pruning.  I gathered up some over abundant branches of pepper trees that happened to have lots of reddish pink berries and spread them in layers along shelves and the mantelpiece.  Old Christmas decorations or  knick knacks from yard sales (or car boot sales in England) that I'd collected throughout the years were placed amongst the foliage.
• I even found some white narcissus in the garden that went beautifully with all the red berries 
• Old Christmas lights?. No time or money for a Christmas tree?  We piled our old glass hand painted balls and Christmas ornaments into bowls full of green foliage.  If you don't have old balls, what other  glittery or shiny  ornaments could you find lying around the house that when placed in a heap on a bed of leafy greens could look spectacular?
• Buy from your local farmers market.  You have to eat so why not pick up wonderful, luscious local  foods and homemade products to decorate your home. We filled up yet more bowls with tangerines, lemons, nuts, olive oil,  and homemade organic chocolates for our guests to enjoy looking at and munching on, for healthy seasonal snacks and gifts.  The decorations became the gifts so they have served double duty. They're good for our friends and good for our community.
• Fun for you!  The best part is for this to be more fun and satisfying for you!  At the end of the holidays the food is eaten, the colorful gifts have been given and you have not contributed to the ever growing landfills. There is less clean up and more green up.  You have just "Greened Up" your holidays. Congratulations! I hope that you have as much fun doing this as I did.  Stress free and fun.
• To learn more simple and economical ECO tips visit our blog at http://MeridianHolistic.com/HealthyLiving

 PS   My ECO Christmas and Holiday decorating tips were inspired by one of my favorite old fashioned books:  "Natural Christmas", a Madderlake book  by Tom Pritchard and Billy Jarecki.

Are you continually wrestling with your weight and feeling deprived by austere diet regimes? Maybe you are living on salads and forever counting calories?

Would you be suprised to know that eating nothing but salads can actually make you gain weight? Well it’s so!

What about weight loss without dieting? What a concept!

We always teach that to reach and maintain a healthy weight it’s important to have really healthy digestion. We believe that good digestion is the foundation for good health. If you would like to learn more you can listen to our FREE recordings where we talk about digestion that are archived under "resources" at our main website, www.MeridianHolistic.com <http://www.meridianholistic.com/>

We also offer a FREE monthly teleseminar on the first Monday of each month where we answer your questions and debunk myths about digestive health and digestive cleanses.

*But here’s a completely different “Quantum Weight Loss Approach” that we want to share with you …***

Yesterday, Susan and I had a fun visit with the psychotherapist and author of the book “Freedom from Food", Patricia Bisch. Patricia is a lovely person who drew largely from her own experience in creating her book. What I think is unique about her approach to weight loss is that she isn’t promoting a new kind of diet, instead she addresses one’s need to eat and what one is trying to emotionally fill or solve by eating. Her approach is directed towards identifying the psychological wounds that drive us to consume food and gain excess weight. She then gives really practical advice about how to resolve these issues with the ultimate goal being that we can eat what we want to without having to be over weight.

I believe “Freedom from Food” is a worthwhile read and presents a good method for anyone interested in weight loss without dieting. But the main reason I want to bring Patricia’s work to your attention is that it furthers the ideal of achieving better health through inner change and that is something that Susan and I will always support.

And by the way, when she wasn’t looking we spied in her refrigerator and it was stuffed with all kinds of goodies. She told us that she’s famous for having a fridge with no room in it. And Patricia really enjoys her food, we know, because we saw her freely savour several slices of the date bread we brought. I wonder how she stays so slim and gorgeous? Find out in her book which you can get, along with her CD, at her website www.FreedomFromFood.net <http://www.freedomfromfood.net/>

And if you'd like some ongoing tips and encouragement to reduce bloating, improve your digestion and to feel better about yourself join us on our free monthly conference calls at http://www.My-Digestive-Health.com 
 

Here are some new definitions that we have come up with to better explain what we mean by ECO-fitness and why it's so important

E-C-O-fit vs retrofit

To add a component or accessory or new technology, features or modifications to something that did not have it when it was manufactured (ie older systems) that is Ecological, Comfortable and Organic (if possible)

 ECO fitness

The practice of choosing materials and products with a primary concern for their influence upon the health and well being of all the organisms inhabiting that shared environment or ecosystem

 To E-C-O-fit your home is to modify your existing home to be more:

*           Ecological and Environmentally friendly

*           Comfortable to humans and all living creatures; Connected

*           Organic (food, products and materials)