Please check out the details below for specific information on our workshops this year
2 Day Weekender - Five Element Workshop: Discover your Element
Discover about yourself and others through the theory of the Five Elements. Throughout this workshop you will discover and learn about all of the elements. You will learn how they make up the very fabric of our universe, including ourselves, and how they influence our very being emotionally, mentally & physically. We will cover how all of these elements are present within us from birth and how one of them is imbalanced giving us our constitutional imbalance type or CF - Constitutional Factor, having an important effect on our personality, emotions and physical health. You will gain insight into the virtues and vices of each. How to recognize the signs for each element within someone - Colour, sound, emotion and Odour. And then what steps we can take to balance them. This workshop will help you to see life and its surroundings in a fuller context, lead you to a new and compassionate understanding of yourself and others and to inspire personal understanding, growth and development.
Date & Time
Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th March 2015 - 10am to 4pm
Cost
Natural Elements Members - £105
Non members - £110
Double Workshop Saver Deal!!!
NE Members - £190 for two workshops if paid and booked in advance with Chinese Health Preservation: Self Massage Workshop.
UK Shaolin Temple Members - £200 for two workshops if paid and booked in advance with Chinese Health Preservation: Self Massage Workshop PLUS 10% will go to UKST Charity.
Venue
TBC
2 Day Weekender - Chinese Health Preservation: Self Massage Workshop
Chinese Self-Massage is at least 2500 years old and is used to promote health and longevity. It can also be used to treat diseases and injuries after they have occurred as well as a preventive system too. Chinese self-massage uses the application of finger pressure to individual or collective acupressure points through out the body. It also uses a number of specific manipulations and movements applied to other areas of the body. In this workshop you will learn routines for health preservation, specific treatments for the aged, beauty treatment for face and body, cold prevention / treatment of colds and flu (learn an ancient Wei Ke method for releasing pain from the body / designed by the famous Chinese military general Wei Kei), exercises to tonify the brain / clear headache, and treatment of specific health conditions e.g: gastrula disturbances / IBS / Asthma etc. You will also be able to request any practices for specific conditions.
Date & Time
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th April 2015 - 10am to 4pm
Cost
Natural Elements Members - £105
Non members - £110
Double Workshop Saver Deal!!!
NE Members - £190 for two workshops if paid and booked in advance with Chinese Health Preservation: Self Massage Workshop.
UK Shaolin Temple Members - £200 for two workshops if paid and booked in advance with Chinese Health Preservation: Self Massage Workshop PLUS 10% will go to UKST Charity.
Venue
TBC
2 Day Weekender - Tui Na Chinese Medical Massage: for practitioners
In depth workshop aimed at holistic body workers and or acupuncturists.
This is a two day practical workshop learning the ancient Chinese Medical Massage Techniques of Tui Na. It is suitable for acupuncturists, massage therapists and or body workers that would like to expand their skill set. It is a great opportunity to highlight areas that can be challenging for a practitioner and look at different conditions. New and inspiring methods that give effective and powerful results. This workshop will cover the following:
- A good understanding of the basic Chinese medicine principles. Learn to feel the physiology under the fingertips in terms of Chinese Medicine - ie. excess and deficiency, and be able to apply the various Tui Na techniques to this.
- Understanding the nature/character of pain and applying Tui Na to this.
- The ways different types of qi move in the body and which massage techniques support these.
- Learn and practice in detail the 14 Traditional Tui Na Hand movements.
- Learn a simple but very effective Tui Na protocol: The Wei Ke method of releasing pain from the body.
- Observe a brief demonstration of different types of Moxabustion and a brief demonstration of fire cupping.
Date & Time
Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th June 2015 - 10am to 5pm
Cost
£140 for two days
Venue
TBC
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Discover about yourself and others through the theory of the Five Elements. Throughout this workshop you will discover and learn about all of the elements. You will learn how they make up the very fabric of our universe, including ourselves, and how they influence our very being emotionally, mentally & physically. We will cover how all of these elements are present within us from birth and how one of them is imbalanced giving us our constitutional imbalance type or CF - Constitutional Factor, having an important effect on our personality, emotions and physical health. You will gain insight into the virtues and vices of each. How to recognize the signs for each element within someone - Colour, sound, emotion and Odour. And then what steps we can take to balance them. This workshop will help you to see life and its surroundings in a fuller context, lead you to a new and compassionate understanding of yourself and others and to inspire personal understanding, growth and development. 
