Instructor: Dorel
Rotar
Sessions
Meet:
FRIDAYS, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
From: September 19
Until: November 17 (2008)
Location:
Pacific Complementary Medicine Center,
Seminar Room (suite 9A)
Cost: 2-month session for $64.00
(payable upon registration)
Reserve
a space, as class sizes are limited to 10 people.
Benefits:
Benefits of this course include the optimization
of body alignment and balance, the opening up of
the energetic channels, and reconnecting us to our
natural root of health.
Please bring your own yoga mat!
(Mats are available for purchase in PCMC's Herb
Center)
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This
course intends to combine traditional Indian Yoga with Chinese
Daoist Yoga concepts and practices. Having complementary characteristics,
these two yogic methods have the potential to form an integrated
Tai Chi continuum.
Participants are going to benefic from the Yin aspect of Yoga
Practice, which focuses on the connective tissues and the Yang
qualities of Yoga practice with its emphasis on the muscles.
Both methods are inseparable, and they complement each other,
like the moon and the sun!
The Daoist methods will manipulate the acupuncture meridians,
and will involve the opening up and an energizing enhancement
of the body. Many of the exercises in this category will involve
standing up routines that will optimize body alignment and balance.
These are very important concepts in Tai Chi, Chi Qong and other
Nei Jia - Chinese Martial arts - because they are very relaxing
and calming. These sets of exercises include the "Eight
Brocades", and we are going to learn how to reconnect our
body to the earth energy and we are going to rediscover our
natural roots.
My own clinical experience with patients showed me that many
people live mostly in the upper levels of existence-thoughts
and emotions-with little or no connectedness to their bodies.
Missing this vital link with our planet and themselves, these
people feel disconnected, anxious, restless, and devitalized
like uprooted trees. It is the intention and the objective of
this course to facilitate the mind-body, sky-earth reconnection.
Dorel is a California State licensed
acupuncturist and herbalist practicing at PCMC in Stockton as
well as in Carmichael, Sacramento Metropolitan Area.
He is an enthusiastic practitioner of Tai Chi, Pa-Kua, Qi Gong,
and Yoga. Dorel's Yoga training includes Hatha-Yoga, Kundalini-Yoga,
Ashtanga-Yoga, and two years of living and practice in an Indian
monastery.
Yoga is a 3000-year old holistic practice developed in India.
Yoda relaxation training helps reduce the harmful effects of
physical and mental stress.
Yoga is used therapeutically to help improve blood circulation,
enhance pancreatic activity, stimulate insulin secretion and
promote digestion.
Along with dietary management, yoga can complement the lifestyle
changes necessary for controlling weight and/or metabolic symptoms.
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