Imagine Healthcare Classes

Staying healthy with the seasons
discover the ways in which adjusting your daily lifestyle to stay in harmony with the changes of the seasons, can enhance your health. as we Look at the principles of the cycles of the seasons, used as the basis of Chinese and Ayurvedic Medicine, you will discover the importance of living withing the energetic folding and unfolding of the seasonal transitions to improve both your mental and physical well being. This idea of living in harmony with the seasons and each seasons impact on certain aspects of physiology, give you an idea of how to build strength in the systems of the body and mind to impede the invasion of pathogenic factors.

Spirit Treatments
In a clinical setting, Mari Ane Anderson L.Ac. and Pamela Monroe LMT discuss their experience of treating the spirit in their individual practices, and the profound results of treating a patient at the point where conciiousness meets matter. From conception to death, the spirit resides in, and animates, the physical body through our daily experience. the quality and livliness of of this human experience is spirit influencing form. The class will include how to create a treatment plan for individual patients, and hands on practice over the course of the day with two distinctly different patients.

Staying Healthy with the Seasons
The Summer Cycle
Learn how to use the expansive quality of the energy that summer generates, to regulate the systems of the body and mind, in a transitional continuum, that nurtures good health throughout the rest of the year. In Ayurvedic principle, the Pitta Dosha is the regulator of the element of Fire, in Chinese medicine summer season being the domain of fire regulates the heart and small intestine as well as the pericardium and the triple heater. Therefore this class looks at theSummer season as the perfect time to tend and nurture the element of fire. In doing so, we are bring a state of health to the element of fire that will insure its influence on the continuing cycles of the year, without creating excesses or defficiencies of heat or other related aspects of fire.

Yin Yang Imbalance
What happens when the Yin and Yang aspects of the body mind and spirit become pathologically out of sync in relation to each other? Since all the aspects of health and well being can be described in terms of the relationship between the yin and the yang as it passes back and forth between these two aspects, the idea of life itself is dependant on this basic function. A principle that is used in both Ayurvedic and Chinese medical models, we will look at how the influence of Yin and Yang promotes good health, and how to identify a condition that is enough out of balance as to create serious health problems.