Dear all,

The American Branch of the Shang Shung Institute is pleased to
announce an intensive course of Moxibustion, an external therapy of
Tibetan Medicine. This course will be taught by Elio Guarisco, from
May 18-30, 2009. This very special course is a rare and amazing
opportunity to learn Moxibustion in the tradition of our founder,
Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, as well as his Root Master, Rigdzin Changchub
Dorje.

This course will be open to the public, and is pending NCCAOM PDA
points (continuing education credits) for acupuncturists.

For more information or to register for this summer intensive course,
please contact the Shang Shung Institute secretary, Diane Sievers, at
secretary@... or (413) 369 - 4928.

American Branch, Shang Shung Institute
www.shangshung.org
www.shangshunginstitute.org

Please pass this message on to all who may be interested. This
course is open to the general public.

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Who: Elio Guarisco, student of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, and skilled
practitioner and teacher of Moxibustion.

What: A 9-day course on Tibetan Moxibustion, According to the
Tradition of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. This course will take place over
13 days.

When: Monday, May 18 - Saturday, May 30, 2009. The course will be
taught in three, three-day sessions. Each three-day session will be
followed by a two-day break.

Where: The Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine at
Tsegyalgar East, 18 Schoolhouse Rd, Conway, MA

Why: To preserve and distribute knowledge of TIbetan Medicine,
especially this characteristic technique

How Much: $550 for the general public.

Course Description

Tibetan medicine, known as Sowa Rigpa, is an ancient form of natural
medicine indigenous to the Tibetan people and still practiced today
throughout Tibet, the Himalayan regions, China, India, Mongolia,
Siberia and in the Western world where ever Tibetans live in exile.
The Tibetan medical system is a complex synthesis developed over
millennia drawing on both indigenous Tibetan culture and from other
traditions such as the Greek (via Persia), Ayurvedic (from India) and
Chinese systems. Integrating these with the already robust pre-
buddhist culture of ancient Tibetan civilization known as Zhang
Zhung, Sowa Rigpa flourished amid intercultural dialogues with the
leading physicians of India, China, Nepal, Byzantium and Persia who
traveled to Tibet as early as the 7th century. These exchanges
resulted in a magnificent body of accumulated knowledge unrivaled for
its depth of understanding still intact within a vast literary
tradition unknown outside of Tibet until recent times.

Moxibustion is the king and most effective of all external therapies
in Tibetan medicine. Moxa uses the power of heat to unblock the
causes and the effects of illnesses. With few exceptions, heat works
to solve both problems that are of a cold nature as well as problems
of a hot nature. In an era in which medical care depends more and
more on machines both for diagnosis and for treatments, the ancient
knowledge of moxibustion offers a method of healing that anyone can
apply for himself in any given circumstance. Moxibustion can be very
helpful in curing or relieving many types of illnesses such as: loss
of digestive heat, anemia, edema, tumors, cysts, gastric disorders,
lymphatic disorders, bile disorders, bad digestion, stress, insanity,
epilepsy, neurological and vascular disorders, arthritis. In
particular it is effective for all illnesses that are a result of
cold conditions, energetic imbalance, and nerve and lymph problems.

This moxibustion course is inspired by the work and exhaustive
researches done in this field during the course of many years by
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu who studied and compared a large number of
ancient sources of Tibetan moxibustion. The result of such researches
is now materialized in his manual of Moxibustion entitled The Clear
Crystal Mirror, a Concise Guide to the Practice of Moxibustion.

During the course, the practice of moxibustion will be introduced
along with the basic principles of Tibetan medicine. Five hundred
points of moxibustion will be described together with their
therapeutic indications, and the various methods will be taught and
practically applied. Complementary to the main subject of the
moxibustion, one will also learn various other ancillary external
therapies.

This course is structured in three, three days sessions. Between each
session will be a two day break. Each of the three sessions comprises
a total of 13.5 hours for a total of 40.5 hours. This course is
pending NCCAOM PDA points (continuing education credits) for
acupuncturists.=


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