Workshop One: Metal
Saturday 8th October
Saturday 8th October
10:00 - 16:00
€80 per Workshop
€360 for all 5 workshops (15% discount)
(Price includes all ingredients, lunch & handouts)
Workshop Content
The 5 elements of Chinese Traditional Medicine are each associated with a season, body organs, emotions, colours and certain foods. Join us over 5 Saturdays throughout the year to learn how food, gentle stretches and pressure points can keep you physically, emotionally and mentally fit throughout the changing seasons of the year.
The morning will start with an introduction to oriental medicine and how to eat in the different seasons so as to achieve holistic wellbeing. We will prepare some lunch in tune with the season and it’s element.
After food we will work through gentle stretches for self-healing and vitality, learn where the elements reside in the body and practice pressure points to bring us into balance.
You Will:
· Be introduced to Oriental Medicine and the 5 elements
· Learn which foods support the element and help to heal
· Prepare and eat a tasty lunch in balance with the elements
· Practice some gentle 5 element stretches
· Learn the location of elements in the body
· Learn acupressure points for self healing
All Workshop Dates
Metal: Sat 8th October
Water: Sat 26th November:
Wood: Sat 21st January:
Earth: Sat 18th March
Fire: Sat 3rd June
Macrobiotics & Shiatsu
Macrobiotics uses the 5 elements as it’s basis and teaches us what and how to eat throughout the year, so as to remain in harmony with our environment and achieve physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Shiatsu is a physical therapy that uses gentle stretches, movements and pressure points to treat pain and discomfort in the body and mind. They are both based on the natural laws of life and change common to Traditional Chinese Medicine,