DIY Integrative Health
We are awash in a media environment of health claims and conflicting information. This workshop aims to equip you with an individualized approach to evaluating your health so as to make good food and lifestyle choices. To accomplish this, we will move between a contemporary scientific viewpoint and one that draws from Eastern Medicine.
details
- when: sunday, april 17th, 2011, from 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
- to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2011 Boston Skillshare.
lesson plan
1) Introduction - How are we feeling?
2) "Chinese Medicine vs Science?" - Can something be wrong and work great at the same time?
3) Food - the controversies and ideologies (free discussion about food; modern macrobiotics)
4) Two views of digestion (Western vs. Eastern)
5) "Is ice cream bad for you?" - Individual difference applied to nutrition and the notion of "liver load"
6) Diagnostic tools - break into groups/individuals to try out pulse and tongue/face diagnoses
7) Treatments - Planetary herbology, intro to meridians and finding them, acupuncture discussion, movement as therapy (how to seek treatment for ailments)
8) The future of healthcare by way of the (recent) past. (closing discussion)
facilitator experience
I'm a graduate student in the life sciences with an independent interest in 'alternative' health and healthcare democracy.
intended audience
Everybody
other resources suggested by the facilitator
If possible, bring a hand mirror as we will be using it to look at our faces and tongues. See, e.g.:
http://www.yinyanghouse.com/theory/chinese/tongue_diagnosis