Thea Elijah's Herb Class for Massachusetts Licensing

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Folks - if any of you are in Massachusetts and need an herb class,

Thea is offering this in January. Of course anyone else is also welcomed.

 

I am attaching her email with contact information at the end.

 

Anne

 

 

 

Do you know anyone who wants to get an acupuncture license in

Massachusetts, but needs to meet the 30 hour herb requirement?

 

Periodically I do a class on herbs 30 hours long, to help students or

practitioners without an herb background get their intro requirement

met in a single 4-day intensive.

 

I'm thinking of doing one January 4-5-6-7 2008 here in southern

Vermont, and since I don't do them often (and since it is often a real

pain to get the hours otherwise) I want to beat the bushes for anyone

who might need this opportunity.

 

 

Anyone have ideas on how to get the word out to students at other

schools who don't have herbs and want to go to MA? All help would be

a service.

 

 

 

It's going to be a very fun and dramatic and informative and magical

seminar, because I want it to be a real experience, not just a

time-filler to meet a requirement. It's also worth taking if you just

want an intro to my style of herb teaching.

 

 

 

Here's some promo if you would want to send it on to anyone:

 

Spirit of the Herbs

 

 

 

A Five Element Perspective on Herbal Studies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing may be practiced as a means of dispelling illness; it may also

be practiced as a means of fostering health, or cultivating virtue.

The Five Element Tradition holds as its central focus the client's

essential wholeness. Because there is a direct relationship between

the nature of a person's illness and the nature of that person's

wellness (i.e. constitutional type of Causative Factor), in the Five

Element tradition, acupuncture points and herbs are chosen

specifically to resonate simultaneously with both the client's highest

potential, and with their current manifestation of distress. Through

the cultivation of virtue, illness is dispelled and health is restored.

 

 

 

Health that has been restored due to the cultivation of

virtue is not the same as health that has been restored simply due to

the dispelling of illness. The physical manifestations of health may

appear to be the same, but on the level of the spirit, the difference

is incalculable. When we focus solely on dispelling illness in order

to restore health, a priceless opportunity for the spirit is lost.

When our healing strategy has as its aim the evocation of the client's

own original nature as its catalyst for the transformation of body

mind and spirit, the results are profound for both practitioner and

client. The client experiences healing as a transformation that

occurs from within; and the practitioner is also transformed through

the continuous practice of resonating with the highest in our clients.

 

 

 

What does the Five Element perspective bring to Herbal Studies?

 

 

 

Water: Fear to Wisdom

 

Wood: Anger to Visionary Creativity

 

Fire: Joy to Propriety

 

Earth: Worry to Thoughtfulness

 

Metal: Grief to Righteousness

 

 

 

In order for our diagnosis to be complete, we must be able to

recognize the ways in which a person's own spirit may be part of the

pattern of disharmony. But this is not enough. We must also know

the nature of the treasure at the client's own depth. Illness is a

mirror of health; the unique pattern of a client's illness shows

clearly the unique pattern of the client's potential virtues. The

herbal formulas themselves can teach us to know with accuracy who our

clients are, in their perfection, and how we can best support them in

uncovering the jewel of their own original nature.

 

 

 

Learning to bring a Five Element perspective to Chinese herbalism does

not mean ignoring the vast resource of TCM information about the

formulas and singles. It means gaining an understanding of the Five

Confucian Transformations of Virtue, and how they apply to actual

clinical situations. When the Five Element perspective is combined

with an understanding of the Zang/Fu Patterns of Disharmony, it allows

the practitioner to " read " the client's illness as a map of spiritual

as well as physical territory.

 

 

 

This introductory seminar is designed for the practitioner of Chinese

Medicine who has already had an acupuncture education, who wishes to

be introduced to the basics of what Chinese herbal medicine has to

offer. It is a 30 hour, four-day seminar; class is held from 9-12:30

and 1:30-5:30 each day. The teaching format is primarily

lecture/performance art interspersed with participatory exercises, Q & A

and discussion.

 

 

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

0.Students will be introduced to various commonly used herbal formulas

in terms of their transformative potential for the body, mind and spirit.

 

0.Students will gain an understanding of how the 5 Element and 8

Principle/Pattern of Disharmony paradigms can be practiced as part of

a unified approach to both pathology and wellness.

 

0.Students will gain an experiential understanding of each of the 5

Elements as embodied by various herbs and formulas.

 

0.Students will learn, through the energetics of the different

formulas introduced, how Patterns of Disharmony reveal different

aspects of each of the 5 Elements.

 

0.Students will learn the rudiments of how to " translate " physical

symptom patterns into spirit-level indications.

 

0.Students will have an opportunity to explore in themselves (as well

as in their clients) what it means to transform pathology into virtue.

 

 

 

THEA ELIJAH has been a student of Chinese herbal medicine for over 20

years. She is the former Director of the Chinese Herbal Studies

Program at TAI Sophia Institute and at the Academy for Five Element

Acupuncture. She has studied with Ted Kaptchuk, Leon Hammer, and has

worked closely with Lonny Jarrett (note her contribution to a chapter

in Lonny Jarrett's book, The Clinical Practice of ).

Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee and J. R. Worsley have been equally

influential in shaping her understanding of the depth of Chinese

medicine. Her expertise is bringing the herbs and formulas to life

with descriptions that are memorable, poetic, and always clinically

relevant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TO REGISTER NOW send a check to: Thea Elijah PO BOX 493, Putney

Vermont 05346

 

spiritoftheherbs 802-387-4679

 

 

 

COST PER SEMINAR: $450 early registration (more than 2 months prior to

seminar date) $500 late registration (less than 2 months prior to

seminar date)

 

 

 

CLASS WILL BE HELD IN: Putney, Vermont.