What is The Healing Tao

What is the
Universal or Healing Tao?

A Complete
Body-Mind-Spirit System

Benefits of a Body-Mind-Spirit System

Rooting...Centering...Body Awareness
Balance the effects of stress and emotion
Detoxify body organs
Awaken universal, cosmic and earth forces

Experience Profound physical and emotional rejuvenation, and have fun!

What's Makes Taoist Cosmology Unique ?

The Taoist perspective on human anatomy and physiology is based on observations made thousands of years ago in deep meditation, observations concerning the correspondences between organs, emotions, senses, colors, and seasons. Five Element Theory describes this Taoist cosmology, and a way of understanding relationships between these five elements, five energies, five organ pairs. This is a very pragmatic philosophy. It provides many entry ways for the serious student to enter into a direct experience of the links between internal vitality and the energies of the cosmos. The expression "As above, so below" comes to life through meditation, movement, and internal alchemy. Benefits accrue in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions.

Each organ pair resonates to a different frequency. Using these sounds and postures helps the organs release heat and toxins, which results in profound physical and emotional rejuvenation. For example, the liver is associated with the emotion anger. With its sound and posture, anger can be transformed to the virtue Kindness. Because of awareness of these correspondences, Taoists do not worry about cause and effect, nor do they make a big distinction between physical and emotional disorders. Rather they see illness as an indication that things are out of balance. They developed a vast array of tools for self-healing and accessing energy directly from the forces of nature, including meditation formulas, T'ai Chi Chi Kung, and self-massage.

The exercises and meditations you learn in a Healing Tao Foundation Practice course support your efforts to restore and maintain harmony on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes.

Healing Tao Practices

Women's Taoist Practices - Taoists developed an array of internal practices to promote healing. Here we focus on practices that are especially helpful for women, whether you are in menopause, approaching it, or in the middle of childbearing years. The menu includes breast massage, ovarian breathing, and a version of The Microcosmic Orbit with a special focus on balancing the endocrine glands. Time permitting, we will include iron shirt postures and the Six Healing Sounds that work with the emotions and physical organs.

An Alternative to Tears: Original Taoists didn't want to squander hard earned personal energy but recognized how important it is to acknowledge their emotions rather than suppress them. They developed a repertoire of highly accessible ways to refine, transform and recycle emotional energy. Come see for yourself whether you have an affinity for these techniques and observe whether you feel more energetic when you put them into practice

The Inner Smile - a profoundly relaxing way to awaken the body's healing power, directing smiling chi to vital organs and glands.

The Six Healing Sounds cool and detoxify organs and transform emotional energy.

Chi Self-Massage is a unique routine to distribute vital life force, promoting balance and healing.

The Microcosmic Orbit - The ancient foundation for Healing and the Martial Arts. Control, direct, conserve, and recycle vital life-force energy through the major acupuncture meridians in the body.

A Simple Inner Workout - Moving To Transform

Read an article by Judith about Qigong on IAMVALLEY.com

Exercise your internal organs and emotional body as well as your muscles with Chi Kung (qigong) -- non-competitive, nurturing Chinese moving meditation. Once mastered, you will apply these energetic principles to your daily life. They make any exercise regimen more effective. Comparable to Hatha Yoga in strenuousness, these stretching, twisting body postures place great emphasis on strengthening tendons and enhancing Chi energy flow. Movements help clear symptoms like fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain, stomach upset, or nasal congestion by removing toxins from the body. Grounding movements help anchor oneself firmly in the body. They make an excellent self-healing discipline and are the foundation for higher spiritual practice.

T'ai Chi - Yang Style, Short Form

Improve balance, enhance grounding, lower blood pressure, destress, create more neutral healing force, connect profoundly to the three universal forces, become rooted, centered, and present, learn to let your structure support you in this soft martial art form. You can move effortlessly through the world, discovering the powerful healing metaphors in your body.

Tao Yin

This series of mat exercises emphasizes strengthening the tendons and psoas muscle and increasing flexibility of the spine. These help open the qwa, an essential ingredient in mastery of the t'ai chi form. They are of particular benefit to people with sciatic pain, chronic back weakness, or problems with balance.

Precious Drops

Taoist techniques for promoting the flow of saliva and tears for those who deal with dry mouth and dry eye from allergies, chemical sensitivities and drug reactions.

Energetic Detox

Self-massage techniques, meditations and exercises described above remove toxins, promote healing, and help clear symptoms like fatigue, headache, muscle and joint pain.

Essence Qigong

These Qigong forms work with subtle essence (qi, chi, prana, life force) rather than developing muscles and tendons. They are very effective in clearing negativity and fatigue, and raise the body's vibration to enhance healing. These practices are an essential self care ingredient to deal with life stresses and toxins, and are especially important as part of a regimen for dealing with serious life threatening or long-term conditions.

For more information, visit the International Universal Tao web site.