Retreat Offerings
Acupuncture | Activate your body’s self-healing process with an ancient practice that has been around for thousands of years: acupuncture. Combined with organic foods, tai chi and qi gong, acupuncture will assist your body to align and harmonize. By opening your meridians and creating qi movement through energy blockages you will feel the benefits of this treatment from relaxation and pain relief to a rejuvenated and energetic state. The above service is for members of Dao USA only. Alchemy | As the backbone of Daoism, true alchemy is essentially the breath behind the movement and the void behind the stillness. Learn from Wu Dang Chen, an accomplished alchemist, how your breath defines not only who you are, but how it assimilates your destiny. A true alchemist understands the meaning behind life, and those questions which we all chase for answers. Find the answers and find yourself through alchemy. Ayurvedic Medicine | Is the Body-Mind-Spirit Herbal Medical System of Ancient India. It is the world’s oldest continuously practiced medical system. Practiced properly, its approach to each person is that of Individualised Medicine, with unique, modifiable formulations created for each patient. Ayurveda is a today a governmentally-supported health care system in the countries of India and Nepal, where it is often practiced in conjunction with Western Medicine. Numerous studies have verified the efficacy of Ayurvedic herbs as well as supporting Ayurveda’s claims about the primacy of the relationship of digestion to health. The Ayurvedic Medicine toolkit for health includes all of the following types of recommendations:- A healthy lifestyle, which includes living in proper harmony with all aspects and beings of the natural world (including the bio-rhythms of our own bodies) and avoiding activities and habits which are causing or contributing to the presenting health issues.
- Proper nutrition, including dietary practices and specific foods to help heal the person’s presenting conditions, including:
- dietary recommendations to enhance digestion and remove aam (digestive toxins)
- dietary recommendations to balance doshas (bio-energies)
- research-based food items and dietary recommendations relevant to presenting conditions
- Medicines, including herbs, herbal and mineral preparations, medicated oils, syrups, and teas, etc. Herbs are rarely taken singly in Ayurvedic practice. Rather, they are combined classically in certain ways in order to enhance and balance each others’ effects, and are formulated individually for each patient.
- Panchakarma and Rasayana The cleansing and rejuvenation practices of Ayurveda are powerful methods for balancing the doshas, removing toxins from the body’s tissues, and addressing chronic conditions and illnesses.
- Therapeutic Yoga Practices appropriate to the individual
- Personal character strengths and weaknesses
- Your life’s mission: what is your gift and goal for this journey
- Relationships with your friends, spouse, nature and others
- Career strengths, choices, and the way to get ahead in your field and excel
- Health and wellness concerns, how to maintain your body and organs to prevent disease
- Housing choices, including where to live, when is best to move and what type of house to inhabit
- Life strategy, from planning the next nine months to nine years using your unique strengths and abilities to avoid conflict with nature; maximizing your quality of life