Community acupuncture is back
Since December 1, 2022, Bertrand Loranger, Ac, has been offering patients at the Montreal Gongfu Research Center the opportunity to receive acupuncture care at a lower rate. Its intention above all is...
The Amazing Immune Boosting Power of Japanese Moxibustion
For several weeks, Dr. Shimetaro Hara was the oldest living male in Japan. Only four years into his retirement as the oldest active medical doctor, the 108 year old preeminent scientific researcher...
A push-hands push in Montreal
By Martin Payette, xingyiquan instructor I'm looking forward to all the students upping their push-hands game after the upcoming Yang style Taijiquan seminar at the start of next month (October 1 and 2). Push...
Ancient Chinese exercise for neck and back pain now used by physiotherapists
Illustration: “Technique for curing dizziness” (xuanyun), a 19th century recreation of the Daoyin Tu (Diagrams of Therapeutic Movement) from approximately 200 BC. Illustration by Kun Lan, dated 1875. By Dan G. Reid, tuina...
5 reasons for a massage therapist to study channel theory
The channel system is the cornerstone of Chinese medicine. It was developed over 2000 years ago and recorded in a book called the Yellow Emperors Inner Classic (黃帝內經 huáng dì nèi jīng)....
Tuina Community Clinic
What is Tuina? Tuina is one of the many of branches of Chinese medicine. Most people already know about acupuncture, but there is a lot more to Chinese medicine than needles: it also...
Structural Hygiene – keeping your body healthy
By Ethan Murchie Today we all know that hygiene is important. More than important in fact, it is an essential part of modern civilization. In medicine, many of the most life saving changes...
Dr Li Ding’s Jingluo Qigong, a Treasure for the world
by Ethan Murchie There are many many varieties of qigong one can practice. The history of qigong over the past seventy years in communist china ensured that there are a plethora of methods...
Sonny Umpad and Maija Soderholm, Random Flow Methodology
by Ethan Murchie A couple of years ago I met Maija Soderholm for the first time. I had seen some clips online of her with her teacher Sonny Umpad and I had a...
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