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Core Health™ is an easy and enjoyable way to reconnect to our energy system’s pure core of health. Working from the inside-out and expanding our inherent in-power, it combines modern Western science (notably quantum physics and behavioral kinesiology) with traditional Eastern cosmology and methods as well as with universal visions of spiritual attainment and human perfection. In the following, I outline the main points of convergence with Daoism in terms of theory and practice and the key features Core Health adds. An apparatus provides further materials: Core Health sequences; bibliography, and web resources.

To see the full text, click here: Core&Dao

Free First Session: Thursday, March 29, 5:30 pm

Also courses: Heart Forgiveness:  Fri-Sun, March 30-April 1— (Fri, 5:30-7:00 pm; Sat, Sun 1:00-2:30 pm)

Funny with Money: Fri-Sun, April 13-15— (Fri, 5:30-7:00 pm; Sat, Sun 1:00-2:30 pm)

The Longhouse, 2309 49^th St. S, Gulfport, FL 33707

Price:  EACH $100 plus $35 material fee (Personal Progress Journal and CDs)

Check out the details, click here: CoreHealth

NEW BOOK. OUT IN MARCH 2012. Check: www.threepinespress.com

People today live longer than in any time in history and they want to stay young and active for many years to come. The Chinese have successfully practiced longevity techniques for millennia, working with process-oriented and energy-based methods. Their literature is full of essential insights and practical guidelines to longer, healthier, and happier lives.

A Source Book in Chinese Longevity is the first comprehensive collection of traditional longevity sources in English translation. Arranged chronologically, it presents materials from ancient medical manuscripts through medieval manuals and Daoist scriptures to late imperial works that specifically focus on women. Well organized and illustrated, it provides easy access to a treasure trove of information, fascinating to scholars, practitioners, and lay readers alike.

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