Welcome to the Year of the Yang Wood Dragon an aricle by Dr. Anne Shelton Crute to accompany the presentation at Ritual Health for Da Yuan Circle. The Yang Wood Dragon year features exciting, inspiring energy! Big displays! Ideas will gain momentum quickly, and the year will burst in right away with very little transition period. The impetus for change is strong and will last far beyond this year, or even this 12-year cycle.
Announcement: Extra Clinic Day with Dr. Anne - Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Anne will be offering an additional clinic day at our office, specifically dedicated to acupuncture and herbal medicine. Dr. Anne brings years of experience and expertise in these complementary therapies, fostering holistic healing for our patients. Starting next week, patients can book appointments with Dr. Anne for acupuncture sessions and herbal medicine consultations on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This expansion of services provides an more opportunities to feel amazing using a natural approach to heal and balance body and mind. Experience the transformative benefits of acupuncture and herbal medicine at our clinic with Dr. Anne's guidance in the Berkeley office at Walnut & Vine in the Gourmet Ghetto. Schedule your appointment today and sign up for the email list for infrequent announcements and helpful offerings!
I’m so grateful to have had Namkhai Norbu in my life. He touched many of us deeply. His worldwide offering of the Dzogchen teachings and preservation of Tibetan Medicine in its full integrity planted many seeds that we will watch root, grow, and flower. His teachings affect the way I work with each and every patient in my clinic.
My Tibetan Medicine teacher, Dr. Phuntsog Wangmo is the director of Norbu’s school, the Shang Shung Institute. I’m pleased that I’ll have her and all of her amazing graduates to continue to learn from and work with.
These traditions benefit everyone. I’m happy to be a part of it. In endless gratitude…
Anne Shelton Crute, LAc. is pleased to be teaching a workshop called "Acupressure for Self-Care" on February 8, 2018 from 6-8 at Abrams Claghorn Gallery. The space is right around the corner from the Pomona office in Albany, CA.
Abrams Claghorn is hosting events related to healing to complement their current exhibition, Healing Images: A Prescription for America, in which the art of Georgia Carbone is on display--art as medicine!
We will be learning about acupressure points and techniques from Chinese Medicine that you can use at home for a healthier, happier life. We will touch on topics such as pain, digestion, psycho-emotional health, stamina, insomnia and even warding off the common cold.
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In India, herbal medicine is effectively used as the first line of treatment of many syndromes for which most Americans commonly wouldn't think about consulting with an herbalist. First hand, I witnessed the effective treatment of cardiovascular disease, typhoid fever, mumps, diabetic neuropathy, recurrent urinary tract infections, hemorrhoids, lactation issues, insomnia, glaucoma, retinopathies, even myopia.
This simple recipe will help you get your caveman on--with refined elegance. I call it Cavegirl Pate. It's delicious and easy, a gateway recipe for would-be organ meat eaters.
Chicken livers are probably the most palatable "starter" organs. They are iron-rich and nourish blood, containing all nine amino acids, some in quite high levels. One serving of livers contains 100% RDA of vitamin A and an impressive dose of 4 of the much-needed B vitamins. That's helpful to support vision, the immune system, brain, nervous system and muscles.
Things to do when you are grieving:
#1. Lie in bed for several weeks. Check.
#2. Start small. Integrate. Try to remember to eat. Stare at the wall or out the window a bunch. Stagger outside, stare at a tree, the sky, stagger back in. Just don't move to fast or go too far. Don't buffer the pain. The reason it hurts so much is because there is so much love abound in the first place: for the lost loved one, within the family, within the community.... You get the idea. This part seems to take awhile.
#3. Make prayer flags. 135 feet or so of them.
It's easy enough.
Buy cheap fabric. Cut it into whatever size you like. (Mine are 5 x 6in.) Pick a meaningful symbol and get to work with Sharpies. I picked runes that a traditional teacher taught me. But, I also made a few sets with Sanskrit to give as gifts. This is the "prayer" part of "prayer flags." Pay attention while you write. Saturate in the meaning.
Sew it on the cheapest bias tape you can find with a zigzag stitch. It helps to measure and sew the lengths of bias tape together first so you don't have to start and stop. Then, you can sew and sew. (Or, cry and cry.) Another opportunity to pay attention, to saturate, etc.
The bias tape folds naturally over the top of the flag. Leave some long ends to make it easy to tie up. They roll up nicely to give as gifts.
