Yin Yang Balance – Perfect your health through resonating with Winter
According to the Chinese Calendar Winter, the most Yin time of the year ruled by the Water Element and the Kidneys, starts on the 7th- 8th day of November. By now, the hours of light have become much less than the hours of darkness. The Yin Yang cycle and Winter A brief reminder of…
Autumn: descending into retreat yields great benefits
According to the Chinese calendar, Autumn begins on the 7th of August, when after the Summer Solstice (23 of June) the light of the day gradually starts to decrease and the first cool weather appear. Proceeding towards the Autumn Equinox 23rd of September when daylight and night are equal it then moves gradually to its…
The Chinese calendar: supporting a healthy life through resonance
The Chinese Calendar: resonance between heaven and the human being In ancient times, the Chinese observed that there was a strict correlation between human and natural rhythms. Looking further, they also realised that at the basis of all life is the never ending cycle of day and night, from sunrise to sunset to night and…
Holistic or not? A strong debate within Chinese Medicine
Is Chinese Medicine holistic? In the world of Chinese medicine, the concept of ‘Oneness’ is very much debated and many suggest that the ‘holistic’ view is something imported from elsewhere and inserted into the corpus of Chinese Medicine’s from a cultural environment alien to it. The above statement can, however, be easily confuted from…
Dao, the ‘way’: falling in love with life
Dao, the path of the myriad things Falling in love with life can only happen when we understand how Life works as well as our role of co-creators in the Void (Wuji 無極), from where the myriad of things spring forth. The supreme ruler of both Void and Life, as well as the path through…
My wise taoist master
My wise taoist master and the change of my perception During my time at college, firstly in the UK and then at the ‘Beijing College of Traditional Chinese medicine’ (now ‘Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine’), I had been fascinated by the fact that Chinese medicine seemed to have a holistic vision of the person…