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Core Health works with universal energy (qi) to expand the inherently good, healthy core (dao) we each have within us. Its methods combine modern science (kinesiology, hypnosis, NLP, Heart-Math) with traditional Daoist techniques (Inner Smile, ecstatic excursions). They effectively open the self to the greater universe and enhance the presence of Dao in everyday living, in the process clearing away both physical ailments and psychological blockages.

Core Health provides several set courses to open and clear the bodymind: Heart Forgiveness, Funny with Money, and Core Health I & II. I am now ready to serve as a facilitator, helping people through this process.

For more details, please go to www.corehealth.us or contact me at 727-501-6915.

A 3-day workshop that introduces a variety of ways to better understand and activate our energy body, including qigong, yoga, breathing, meditations, dancing, diets, and fengshui. It centers on guided practices and emphasizes the concrete applicability of the techniques. It also explores questions of why they work as they do from the perspective of both traditional Eastern thinking and modern Western science.

Date: Sept. 9-11, 2011

Location: Santa Rosa, California

Tuition: $330.00 (incl. textbook)

Contact: Lori (lori@enerqihealing.com)

For more details and to share the news, see the complete flyer by clicking here: EnergyBody

The 8^th International Conference on Daoist Studies will be held June 6-10, 2012 in Utting am Ammersee near Munich, Germany. The theme is “Living Dao Today: Views and Visions.” Its focus is on the practical contribution Daoism can make to the 21st century, especially in conjunction with Chinese medicine. Keynote speakers are Vincent Goossaert and Vivienne Lo.

For more details, click here: DaoConf2012

New book from Three Pines Press (www.threepinespress.com)

Living Authentically: Daoist Contributions to Modern Psychology (prepublication $25 plus shippping)

Publication date: August 2011

This book brings together classical scholars of Daoism, professors of psychology, practicing psychologists, medical doctors, and alternative practitioners (acupuncturists, qigong healers, pedagogues, and counselors) in an exciting new journey of discovery. This fruitful venture, born during panels at several Daoist conferences, explores ways of living in the world, sustaining relationships, and educating children, in a stress-free, truly authentic way. It outlines different Daoist visions and concepts of the conscious and subconscious mind and its transformations; it correlates these to different schools of psychology today (psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy, humanistic psychology, positive psychology); and it explores options on how we can best become fully authentic, allowing the universal power of Dao to flow freely through all our attitudes and actions.

For complete table of contents, introduction, and list of contributors, see PSYCH-Sample

I have recently helped translate 100 rules for health, put together by a contemporary master on the basis of ancient Daoist and Buddhist teachings. To look at them for inspiration and study, please go to http://yijinjing.ro/health-rules.

A Daoist Sword Master

The Eight Immortals’ Revolving Sword of Pure Yang by Dr. Baolin Wu with Michael McBride and Vincent Wu

edited by Livia Kohn, coming out from Three Pines Press in May 2011 (inquiries to threepinespress@gmail.com)

This is the story of Master Wu and the esoteric sword practice he learned at the White Cloud Monastery in Beijing. It opens this practice to the outside world for the first time, explaining its history, theory, cosmology, and practice in great detail.

Practicing sword to attain immortality is a profound Daoist method. Master Wu shares his insights and practice instructions as a way of self-cultivation, illuminating the power of the practice to drive away inauspicious energies, eliminate harmful incidents, and safeguard against ghosts. Able to harness good fortune, practice of this sword set enhances inner communication and creates an intimate connection with the universe.

Dr. Baolin Wu is a senior master of Daoist sword and other practices. After working as a physician at Guang’anmen Hospital in Beijing for many years, he emigrated to  the U.S. in 1990. Since then, Master Wu has served as a teacher of Daoist exercise and TCM practitioner in Santa Monica

Symposium on how best to learn through body, mind, and spirit.

When: April 6-10, 2011

Where: Marlboro College, Vermont

Learning is contextual.  It happens in a time and place; it happens in a culture and language; it happens amongst a particular group of people.  Attention to these matters of context is essential for making learning (and teaching) effective and meaningful.

Learning is physical.  This is true at the level of the neuron and at the level of the whole body.  Whether one is learning philosophy or Spanish or modern dance, the body is entailed and the body enables.

Learning is perceptual.  What we know – and what we do with what we know – depends on what we perceive, feel, and experience.  Even in our most rational moments, our thinking relies upon our senses as much as upon formal logic.

Livia will teach the embodied application of Chinese cosmology on Friday afternoon.

The emerging fields of energy medicine and energy psychology offer completely new ways of dealing with the body and its potential ailments. Traditional systems of energy centers and conduits (chakras and meridians) as well as modern techniqes of movement and energetic field activation provide new and fascinating ways of working with the body and transforming the self.

In this workshop, we will explore energy healing on three levels: muscular-skeletal, internal, and psychological. We will use gentle guided movement to music based on Chinese qigong to release tensions and stress from the muscles, joints, and spine. We will learn an age-old form of Daoist meditation to stimulate and harmonize the internal organs and endocrine glands. And we will practice a brand-new system of pressure-point activation to address psychological issues: releasing fear, letting go of trauma, affirming the self, and creating a positive vision of our future.

When: April 16, 3-6 pm

Where: The Longhouse, Gulfport, FL

How much: $ 30