Nice weather is here and what can be better than spending time on your health and well being.
We are excited to announce a few new light summer courses to promote health and overall well being. It's been a long winter and our bodies tend to hold a lot of tension from the experiences of life throughout the season...
The following courses are designed to help stimulate your body and mind, to refresh your spirit for the summer!
Morning Workshops: STARTS July 6th and is ongoing until August 21st.
Students can choose 10 of any of the following four classes listed here to build their own receipt for summer wellness...
- Guided Meditation
Mondays, 7:50am to 8:50am
Meditation involves focusing the mind in order to increase awareness of the present moment, promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance personal or spiritual growth. Mindfulness is characterized by calm awareness of one's body functions, feelings, content of consciousness and consciousness itself as they occur within the mind.
In this class the philosophy, psychology, and science underpinning the technique of Mindfulness Meditation will be explored from Eastern and Western perspectives. Understanding and overcoming common obstacles and difficulties will be emphasized along with suggestions for helping to entrench a daily practice. There will be a guided group sitting into silence followed by a question period to address your direct experience.
- Mindful Breathing
Tuesdays, 7:50am to 8:50am
Breathing is essential for life yet most people breathe in a constricted and inefficient way. Good breathing habits help regulate the nervous system, promoting relaxation and a calm, positive mental outlook. This class will guide students through simple exercises to retrain their breathing, enabling them to breathe naturally: deeply and slowly from the abdomen. One immediate benefit of natural breathing is enhanced body awareness, and classes will engage this awareness to help students locate and dissolve areas of physical or emotional tension in their bodies.
- Morning Yoga
Wednesday & Fridays, 7:50am to 8:50am
Yoga is a practice of self discovery. By balancing strength with softness in your body, you will feel the ease with which your movements flow from your breath. Learn techniques for linking to your breath, and poses appropriate for your body. This class is open to all levels of practice and experience.
- Qi Gong & Meridian Stretches
Thursdays, 7:50am to 8:50am
Come and practice a series of simple but profound exercises that promote self-healing, relaxation and enhanced body-mind awareness. These exercises are drawn from a variety of Japanese sources, and involve the use of breath, posture/movement and mental imagery to enhance the circulation of vital energy (ki) in the body. Students will develop an awareness of ki and will learn to work with it in skillful ways for the purpose of self-healing.
For further information, please call (416) 323-1818 ex.25 or 1-800-263-1703 ex.25.
- Visual Meditation for Self Care & Positive Change
Wednesday July 18th, 10am to 5pm
In this 6-hour workshop you will learn simple and easy to follow self-hypnosis techniques to:
- Relieve stress and relax
- Gain confidence
- Get motivated
- Change unwanted habits
- Stay positive and focused
- Become more effective
It will be explained how your set of beliefs is formed in the subconscious mind and affects your daily behavior and responses. It determines how you approach your life and the attitude you adopt in dealing with challenges. It is life's key factor in success or failure. You will learn and practice easy to follow techniques that really work in replacing old and unwanted thought and behavior patterns rooted in the subconscious mind, with fresh and positive suggestions for lasting results. After the workshop, a 20-minute daily practice of what you have learned will help you bring about a profound change in how you perceive, and feel about yourself.
Course Cost: $100 (+gst)
- Feng Shui: An intro to finding balance
Saturday July 11th, 2009; from 10:30am to 2:30pm
Learn the basics of Feng Shui and how to get started.- Learn what sectors to spend more time in, your best locations and directions.
- Find your favourable colours
- Understand what clutter does, and how to enhance your Qi
- Find out if you have missing sectors and what it means.
- We look at the whole concept of House and Land shapes
Course Cost: $65 (+gst)
- Feng Shui: For Your Garden
Wednesday July 15th, 2009; from 7pm to 8:30pm
We will explain what features and information make a good feng shui garden.
Course contents
- Basic principles of good garden design and the Eight Trigrams
- Locate the "Spiritual Heart" of the garden
- Locate the "Yang" and the "Yin" powers of the garden
- Define your garden purpose and functions on designed features
- How to communicate with the garden spirits to assist in design of gardens
- Communicate with flowers and plants consciousness (plants spirits)
- Identify four seasons plants, flowers and vegetables to plant
- Methods to enhance plants/flowers growth
Course Cost: $30 (+gst)
- Shiatsu101: An introduction to shiatsu therapy (30 Hours)
(Now approved for 15 CEU's by the CMTO!)
If you would like to learn a simple but effective techniques which improve health and aid in relaxation, this is the course for you! Shiatsu is a popular style of Oriental Bodywork that can help you to maintain better health and ease the aches and stresses of daily life. This introductory course will teach you correct shiatsu therapeutic massage techniques and how to give a relaxing full body treatment through hands on practice.
Students will also learn:
- the history of shiatsu
- basic shiatsu theory, holding pressure and methods
- self shiatsu
- meditation, breathing exercises
- meridian stretches
- health and wellness tips
Take advantage of our summer special offer where you and a friend can enjoy this experience together! Sign up today and receive a second spot in the class for ½ price!
Summer sessions:
One week intensive, July 13 -July 17, 2009, 10am - 5 pm
(Monday to Friday)
One week intensive, August 10 - August 14, 2009, 10am - 5 pm
(Monday to Friday)
Cost: $250.00* (plus gst)
Visit this link for further details:
http://www.shiatsucanada.com/public/workshops/shiatsu101.htm
- Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine (100 hours)
This course will introduce the history and philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is the bases of all Eastern Medicine.
Topics will include the concepts and physiology of the following:
"Qi"/"Chi" or "Ki" (a central theme in Chinese medical theory),
Energy, Blood and Body Fluids,
Essence,
Shen and Mingmen,
Yin and Yang theory,
Five Element theories,
Functions of the Zhang-Fu Organs,
Six Pathogens/Evils
Seven Emotions
Organ Patterns
Diagnosis: Observations, Palpation and Questioning/Listening
Meridians (lines within the body containing energy)
This Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine course provides students with the necessary knowledge of eastern philosophies and theories.
This course is one of Three Major Foundational Courses offered at the Shiatsu School of Canada and is ideal for those interested in continuing their studies in any eastern therapeutic practices. such as: acupuncture, shiatsu, Chinese herbal diagnosis and treatment, eastern nutrition and Tuina (Chinese massage).
Students can take this course as a general interest course or part of a full or part time diploma program. Upon completion of this (TCM) Traditional Chinese Medicine course, students can further their knowledge by continuing their studies in any of the following courses or full diploma programs:
- Summer Intensive Start 2009: excellent start date for RMTs and Other Healthcare Professionals
One Term only: August 4th to 28th, 2009:
Mondays 9am to 5pm (August 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st)
Tuesdays to Fridays 9am - 1pm (4 weeks) ** NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS **
Please call The Shiatsu School of Canada & SSC Acupuncture Institute for further information or to register for any of the above mentioned courses.
547 College Street, Toronto, ON Canada M6G 1A9
Ph: 416-323-1818 or Toll Free: 1-800-263-1703
www.shiatsucanada.com
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