Tibetan Moxibustion Course (CEU's available)

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Dear all,

 

The American Branch of the Shang Shung Institute is pleased to

announce an intensive course of Moxibustion, an external therapy of

Tibetan Medicine. This course will be taught by Elio Guarisco, from

May 18-30, 2009. This very special course is a rare and amazing

opportunity to learn Moxibustion in the tradition of our founder,

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, as well as his Root Master, Rigdzin Changchub

Dorje.

 

This course will be open to the public, and is pending NCCAOM PDA

points (continuing education credits) for acupuncturists.

 

For more information or to register for this summer intensive course,

please contact the Shang Shung Institute secretary, Diane Sievers, at

secretary or (413) 369 - 4928.

 

American Branch, Shang Shung Institute

www.shangshung.org

www.shangshunginstitute.org

 

Please pass this message on to all who may be interested. This

course is open to the general public.

 

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Who: Elio Guarisco, student of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, and skilled

practitioner and teacher of Moxibustion.

 

What: A 9-day course on Tibetan Moxibustion, According to the

Tradition of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. This course will take place over

13 days.

 

When: Monday, May 18 - Saturday, May 30, 2009. The course will be

taught in three, three-day sessions. Each three-day session will be

followed by a two-day break.

 

Where: The Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine at

Tsegyalgar East, 18 Schoolhouse Rd, Conway, MA

 

Why: To preserve and distribute knowledge of TIbetan Medicine,

especially this characteristic technique

 

How Much: $550 for the general public.

 

Course Description

 

Tibetan medicine, known as Sowa Rigpa, is an ancient form of natural

medicine indigenous to the Tibetan people and still practiced today

throughout Tibet, the Himalayan regions, China, India, Mongolia,

Siberia and in the Western world where ever Tibetans live in exile.

The Tibetan medical system is a complex synthesis developed over

millennia drawing on both indigenous Tibetan culture and from other

traditions such as the Greek (via Persia), Ayurvedic (from India) and

Chinese systems. Integrating these with the already robust pre-

buddhist culture of ancient Tibetan civilization known as Zhang

Zhung, Sowa Rigpa flourished amid intercultural dialogues with the

leading physicians of India, China, Nepal, Byzantium and Persia who

traveled to Tibet as early as the 7th century. These exchanges

resulted in a magnificent body of accumulated knowledge unrivaled for

its depth of understanding still intact within a vast literary

tradition unknown outside of Tibet until recent times.

 

Moxibustion is the king and most effective of all external therapies

in Tibetan medicine. Moxa uses the power of heat to unblock the

causes and the effects of illnesses. With few exceptions, heat works

to solve both problems that are of a cold nature as well as problems

of a hot nature. In an era in which medical care depends more and

more on machines both for diagnosis and for treatments, the ancient

knowledge of moxibustion offers a method of healing that anyone can

apply for himself in any given circumstance. Moxibustion can be very

helpful in curing or relieving many types of illnesses such as: loss

of digestive heat, anemia, edema, tumors, cysts, gastric disorders,

lymphatic disorders, bile disorders, bad digestion, stress, insanity,

epilepsy, neurological and vascular disorders, arthritis. In

particular it is effective for all illnesses that are a result of

cold conditions, energetic imbalance, and nerve and lymph problems.

 

This moxibustion course is inspired by the work and exhaustive

researches done in this field during the course of many years by

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu who studied and compared a large number of

ancient sources of Tibetan moxibustion. The result of such researches

is now materialized in his manual of Moxibustion entitled The Clear

Crystal Mirror, a Concise Guide to the Practice of Moxibustion.

 

During the course, the practice of moxibustion will be introduced

along with the basic principles of Tibetan medicine. Five hundred

points of moxibustion will be described together with their

therapeutic indications, and the various methods will be taught and

practically applied. Complementary to the main subject of the

moxibustion, one will also learn various other ancillary external

therapies.

 

This course is structured in three, three days sessions. Between each

session will be a two day break. Each of the three sessions comprises

a total of 13.5 hours for a total of 40.5 hours. This course is

pending NCCAOM PDA points (continuing education credits) for

acupuncturists.=