To me healing is an art and just as the artist masters their craft, the healer must know theirs.
I first learned to hone my skills in the martial arts. I had no idea at the time the intertwined relationship of martial and healing arts. While reviewing charts and following approved protocals may suffice for today's modern medicine, the refined skills of a martial artist often led to proficiency in hands-on manipulative physical therapies like massage and chiropractic, as well as more sensitive disciplines like acupuncuture and cranial-sacral therapies.
It is also true that injuries, sometimes serious, are commonplace in martial arts so having healing skills is important. So my first venture into healing was learning Chinese (Asian/Eastern) emergency medical techniques (bleeding, sprains, breaks) as part of our association's annual sparring seminars. As wonderful and effective as these techniques are, it's still best not to get hurt and so a big part of being a martial artist is healing your own body first and then striving for optimal wellbeing.
Optimum wellness is when your body is flexible and strong with both speed and stamina. Your mind too. There's a brightness in someone's being who is at or near optimal wellness. In Eastern medicine we look for it in the sparkle of the eyes and luster in one's complexion.
With my mind well-trained (Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and my body fit (lifelong Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Kung Fu practice) I am then best able to assist in a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that, if I could paint, is a picture of you at your best, overcoming obstacles, helping others along the way, and having fun while doing it!
I first learned to hone my skills in the martial arts. I had no idea at the time the intertwined relationship of martial and healing arts. While reviewing charts and following approved protocals may suffice for today's modern medicine, the refined skills of a martial artist often led to proficiency in hands-on manipulative physical therapies like massage and chiropractic, as well as more sensitive disciplines like acupuncuture and cranial-sacral therapies.
It is also true that injuries, sometimes serious, are commonplace in martial arts so having healing skills is important. So my first venture into healing was learning Chinese (Asian/Eastern) emergency medical techniques (bleeding, sprains, breaks) as part of our association's annual sparring seminars. As wonderful and effective as these techniques are, it's still best not to get hurt and so a big part of being a martial artist is healing your own body first and then striving for optimal wellbeing.
Optimum wellness is when your body is flexible and strong with both speed and stamina. Your mind too. There's a brightness in someone's being who is at or near optimal wellness. In Eastern medicine we look for it in the sparkle of the eyes and luster in one's complexion.
With my mind well-trained (Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and my body fit (lifelong Qi Gong, Tai Chi, and Kung Fu practice) I am then best able to assist in a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that, if I could paint, is a picture of you at your best, overcoming obstacles, helping others along the way, and having fun while doing it!
Adam's powerful insights and gentle enthusiasm allow him to quickly penetrate deeply into my situation. He is both knowledgeable and curious, and provides guidance that is clear, transformative and easy to incorporate into my life."
What's holding you back in life or has you feeling stuck?
I can help if you're looking for a clear channel for which to reflect truth and illuminate the way forward.
I have been blessed with and cultivated a deep understanding of the multitude of layers at play and am expert at helping you to identify limiting beliefs, while optimizing through insight and skill your ability to turn confusion into clarity, adversity into an advantage, and pain into healing.
I call this work, "Occupational Tai Chi" as it is designed to empower you to know your center and move with grace in all aspects of life.
I can help if you're looking for a clear channel for which to reflect truth and illuminate the way forward.
I have been blessed with and cultivated a deep understanding of the multitude of layers at play and am expert at helping you to identify limiting beliefs, while optimizing through insight and skill your ability to turn confusion into clarity, adversity into an advantage, and pain into healing.
I call this work, "Occupational Tai Chi" as it is designed to empower you to know your center and move with grace in all aspects of life.
- I am a skilled and intuitive diagnostician utilizing 5-Element Theory and Traditional Chinese Medicine's patterns of differentiation.
- I perform advanced manual therapies including TuiNa, Acupressure, and Cranial-Sacral techniques to quickly resolve troubling physical issues.
- I teach physical therapies to align, awaken, strengthen and lengthen your muscles and tendons thus protecting your bones and joints.
- I offer nutritional advice to reduce toxins and maximize the nutritive quality of your diet and give herbal suggestions (primarily from the Traditional Chinese Medicine cabinet) for those needing more intensive interventions.
- I help to open one's mind toward expanding perspectives and new possibilities, while resolving past and/or present traumas.
I just have to tell you how much difference I am feeling right now. You have helped me come up with dynamic solutions and apply my efforts to fix some very important things. I cannot tell you how the help you have provided me thus far has contributed to getting me back into the game!"
Call or email and we can work out a plan to meet in-person here in Marin County, especially if you'd like bodywork, or talk over the phone/video chat.
* sessions are customized to address most acute and critical concerns, while simultaneously uncovering and caring for the core or root imbalance.
* cost is self-determined in what is called, "pay-what-feels-right"
* sessions are customized to address most acute and critical concerns, while simultaneously uncovering and caring for the core or root imbalance.
* cost is self-determined in what is called, "pay-what-feels-right"
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