EARLY MORNING SELF-HEALING PRACTICES

It's still all about you! As practitioners in the healing professions, it's essential to build and maintain your energy foundation at every opportunity. We hope you've taken advantage of the many experiences for do just that throughout the conference. Continue your healing journey with one modality... or switch! Either modality will help create better health and allow you to de-stress.

7:15-8:15 a.m. Taiji – Joseph Acquah

Wu Ming Qigong – Irma Jenne

8:00-8:30 a.m. Complimentary Coffee Break

8:30-10:30 a.m. Intensives
Stephen Cowan, MD, FAAP
The Five Phases of Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention is one or our most precious gifts. Biologically, we are designed to pay attention and yet our culture now faces an epidemic of Attention Deficit Disorder. Western medicine offers a paucity of treatment options to practitioners and parents for these problems. An estimated 10 million children in the U.S. are currently being treated with stimulant medications. Are our children showing us our own problems? Is distraction dangerous to our health? Does stress lead to distraction, or does distraction lead to stress? This intensive explores these questions and investigates the meaning of attention. It also examines ways to improve attention in our children and ourselves through a holistic model that employs the principles of Chinese Medicine, which Dr. Cowan has been using successfully with families for many years in his practice.

Thea Elijah, MAc
Part I: Medicine Without Form: Healer as Medicine

What modern science dismisses as the Placebo Effect is a practical, teachable set of skills anyone can learn. Medicine's "inner aspect" has always been considered an essential part of traditional healing modalities worldwide... until today. Because of this "inner aspect," you are potentially your most powerful healing asset. This workshop is designed to teach reliable methods of accessing the Healing Connection. The skills taught are applicable to "healing" situations outside of formal health-care contexts, including family life, classrooms, activism for social change, and work within organizational structures. Participants will learn how to open to the power of their own healing modality, as well as how to become anchored in the clearest, strongest, healthiest part of themselves.

Nan Lu, OMD
Using TCM as Urgent Care for Common Family Health Emergencies

Acupoints for headaches and stomachaches, watermelon juice for sunburn, celery juice for insomnia, hot compresses with scallions to relieve menstrual cramps, dandelions for acne? Learn the many different ways to use the healing energies of foods, as well as explore many different ways to relieve energy stagnation that can help alleviate common minor family health emergencies. Explore why these easy-to-use remedies known for centuries can help you and your family members stay well and prevent health problems. Teach yourself how to turn to the healing power of nature and nature's gifts before heading to the local drugstore.

10:30-11:00 p.m. Break