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Integrative HEALTH
Beyond acupuncture, we offer other types of therapeutic sessions to stimulate the bodymind. Chi Nei Tsang is a great way to open the energy in the gut and abdomen. Classes in Chi Gong, Taichi and other internal arts extend and deepen the therapies offered at our clinic.
CHI NEI TSANG?
Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) is one part of the larger Universal Healing Tao system of internal transformation. CNT helps regulate imbalances primarily held at the belly center through direct and indirect techniques. These chi gong techniques let blockages slowly and safely dissolve into useable energy.
Chi Nei Tsang provides direct attention to the three centers of the head, chest and abdomen. Like many Taoist methods, experience has taught that by balancing the center of our body, the positive effects ripple outwards to all systems of connection. CNT is a great way to start the process of transforming stress and tension into self healing and resilience.
Chi Nei tsang - Moving the 5 elements
A powerful hands-on qi manipulation technique that affects the five major systems of the body: vascular, lymphatic, nervous, muscular, and chi (energy). These systems, connected through internal networks (acupuncture meridians) all cross in the abdominal center, where unreleased stress and tension may cause obstruction. Through simple manipulations of the central channel which connects head, chest center, abdominal center, we can release physical, emotional, and mental resistance that can cause illness.
Beyond the five systems, we have five types of potential energy that exists in all of nature. These are rising, falling, expanding, contracting and rotating. Our body, being part of nature, also falls into these energetic tendencies which pervade our cosmos. Since we are all made up of differents ratios of the same stuff, the five energies affect each of us differently. Internally, when these energies become unbalanced and pathogenic, they have a tendancy to stir up "winds". These winds are potential energy ready to be recycled and reused.
Over time, CNT helps get to the core of imbalance by moving these deep energetic "winds" trapped by stagnation in the abdominal cavity's chi collection points. These winds are like deep "eddies" of energy trapped with no where to go. They are powerful and can pull energy from and weaken the nervous system, inflame organs, or unbalance emotional energy. Dedicating time to softening these areas of resistance allows that whirlpool to dissolve and move downstream.
Chi nei tsang - digging up root causes
Chi, the life-force energy, moves through the body’s internal channels, nervous system, blood vessels, and lymph glands. These systems concentrate and cross paths in the abdomen, which acts as their control center. Tensions, worries, and stresses of the day, month, or year accumulate and are seldom dispersed. ‘These disturbances can cause physical "tangling and knotting" of the nerves, blood vessels, and lymph nodes. The result is the gradual obstruction of energy circulation, which may lead to any number of maladies including, but not limited to, indigestion, constipation, bloating, insomnia, whole body toxicity, poor skin quality, and an inability to lose weight.
The ancient Taoists realized that negative emotions cause serious damage to one’s health, impairing both physical and spiritual functions. They understood that each human emotion is an expression of energy and that certain emotions could indicate the negative energy behind many physical ailments. They also identified a specific cycle of relationships between the emotions and the organs. For example, the experience of a “knot” in one’s stomach indicated the presence of worry, the negative emotion that accumulates in the stomach and spleen.
The Taoists discovered that most maladies could be healed once the underlying toxins and negative forces were released from the body. They developed the art of Chi Nei Tsang to recycle and transform negative energies that obstruct the internal organs and cause knots in the abdomen. Chi Nei Tsang clears out the toxins, bad emotions, and excessive heat or heat deficiencies-that cause the organs to dysfunction allowing each student to transform stress into vitality.