You will learn how to employ moxibustion, acupuncture and meditation to make your life healthier, and potentially longer, by avoiding problems before they start. Even for people not interested in doing the practices this is a nice introduction to how these modalities work in practice. These practices have long been used throughout Asia to reinforce health, avoid illness, reduce stress and generally make your life better. It removes the mystery from how traditional medicine is practiced in a large part of the world and turns it into something approachable. And it shows you how you can take care of you!

Moxibustion is an art that is over two thousand five hundred years old. Its practice predates that of acupuncture and is at least as old as herbal medicine. It was known in the time of the Roman’s in the West and lost somewhere along the way. The earliest modern descriptions were from Western traders in Asia where it was used to treat gout.

Acupuncture involves the insertion of filiform needles into the body to correct the movement of qi, or subtle energy, through the channels. It has been successfully used to treat all varieties of disease for thousands of years as well.

Finally, students will be introduced to the energetic form employed by many traditional spirit figures to reinforce the health and extend lifespan.