HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Make health part of your resolution because it is the center of your life. As we all discover at some point, without it, everything else falls apart…dreams, projects, travels…In French the traditional New Year greeting is “Bonne année, Bonne santé” (Good year, good health). There is much wisdom in that greeting.

The team of East West Holistic Medicine is here to wish you “Bonne année, bonne santé” and support you in achieving “vibrant health”. The ancient Chinese define as health way beyond the mere absence of symptoms…herbal remedies, food therapy, massage, energy work, acupuncture, online consultations, Qi Gong and Yoga…all of it at your disposal!

Make Qi Gong for Kidney part of your 2016 New Year resolution toward health!

Join us on Monday January 11, the day we are beginning our 3 week challenge and practice of Qi Gong for Kidney. Many of you asked for it, you got it!

The event starts at 7:00 in the park, every morning from Monday through Friday, just like before. Well…if it is really cold, we will compromise this time and practice in the Community Center.

This is a Free event!…the third of its kind in

We will have our third “Qi Gong challenge” this January. And, yes, as much as possible we will do it outside and do like the Chinese do: wear warm clothes, hats and gloves. Some mornings in October were already cool and we sure had to get our Qi moving at 7:00 in the park! Yet, our hearty Patagonians asked for more and wanted me to organize another challenge in winter…so, here it is: one more in January!

So, come join us! if it really is too cold, we will meet at the Community Center.

What Kidney and Bladder mean in Chinese medicine - beyond the organs

Relationships according to the Wheel of 5 energies:

• Kidney/Bladder: Water energy
• Season: winter
• Color: Deep blue or black
• Movement: descending, horizontal, inward, quiet
• Taste: salty
• Sensory organ and sense: ears and hearing
• Controls: bones, teeth, spine and marrow, brain
• Manifests into: hair
• Functions: regulates sexuality, reproductive and hormonal functions
• Secretion: urine
• Positive aspects: humidity, moisture and freshness, body fluids, resilience, fluidity and flexibility, renewal, purification, energy reserve
• Negative aspects: water retention, inundation, edema, deformation, lack of water, dryness, brittleness, stagnation, decomposition
• Positive emotions: calm will, intuition, self-confidence, spiritual and ancestral memory, courage and

Three Treasures Series

Jing, source of our longevity and vitality

Oriental medicine lists 3 fundamental treasures essential to human health: Jing, Qi, Shen. “Treasure” means something precious and unique to be cherished and protected, like our. national parks designated “national treasures” to protect them from mindless exploitation. Treasure entails the necessity of conscious care and awareness of irreplaceable value.

Jing is the first of the three treasures, sometimes translated as “kidney essence” but much wider than that. Some other Western terms could include “vital energy,” “DNA,” “constitution,”. “body fluids and lubrication” or “libido.”

The Orient considers that taking care of our Jing is a foremost requirement for longevity and youthful aging, since aging is basically a process of drying up, as attested by wrinkles or stiff joints.

In Parts I, II & III of the Jing series are divided into several sections:

• Understanding the meaning of Jing and Kidney essence 
• Tools, such as facial diagnosis, to assess our own Jing or that of other people.
• The emotional and spiritual aspects of Jing
• Common symptoms alerting to Jing and Kidney imbalance that include lower back pain,, fatigue and “adrenal exhaustion,” low libido or infertility, loss of hearing