Hannah Rachel
05-23-2010, 05:39 PM
Introduction to the
Theory and Practice
of Buddhist Medicine
Buddhist Lineage Methods for
Profound Health, Healing and Spiritual Development
Presented by Devatara Holman, MS, MA, LAc
A special course for meditators and healers, physicians and
other health-care professionals, yoga and Qigong practitioners,
health enthusiasts and all others devoted to advanced self-care and the benefit of all sentient beings.
(30 hours Acupuncture CEUs pending)
Part 1: Saturday/Sunday; June 26 & 27, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Part 2: Saturday/Sunday; July 24 & 25, 10 am – 6 pm
Valuable knowledge and tools if you are:
· ready to begin a core practice that will balance your body and mind, dispel illness, and alleviate emotional discomfort
· seeking authentic methods to help free yourself and others from physical and emotional suffering
· dedicated to transforming past difficulties and accepting the true nature of your own mind
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
• Learn life-long practices for profound physical and psycho-spiritual transformation.
• Balance emotions and treat symptoms and illnesses in yourself and others.
• Develop a cognitive understanding of the wisdom methods of an authentic, ancient and unbroken Buddhist lineage.
• Expand your understanding of meditation and its practical potential for rapid transformation in your life.
ABOUT THE COURSE:
This comprehensive four-day course provides you with a practical repertoire of authentic tools to transform afflictive emotions, resolve physical ailments, and powerfully support spiritual development. Participants will also develop a clear, cognitive understanding of the theory behind these potent, enduring techniques.
The teachings and practices offered in this course are based on the 800-year-old Emei Linji Chan Lineage of the Sino-Tibetan borderland—ancient knowledge that has only become available to the lay population in the past ten years.
A senior student of Emei Lineage Head, Grandmaster Fu Weizhong, and student of Emei methods since 1985, Devatara Holman is a Certified Master in the Emei Linji Chan Lineage (now referred to as the Emei Qigong Lineage for the benefit of educating the lay population). She has been granted the privilege of offering these teachings in America and is making them available in our community. Devatara lived in the border region of China and Tibet for seven years during the 1980’s, where she began her study of Buddhist medicine and the integration of medicine and spiritual practices. For the benefit of all sentient beings, Devatara has dedicated her life to increasing awareness of the great benefits of Buddhist medicine and the wisdom of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage.
PROGRAM TOPICS:
This popular course features lecture, moving and still practices for healing oneself, and hands-on practice for healing self and others, including:
• Defining Buddhist Medicine
• What is Qigong
• Brief History of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage
• Wuji Gong (Non-Dual Skill) instruction and practice
• The Buddhist view on the role of ‘thinking’ in health and illness • The Buddhist view on the current state of the Universe and the role of humans to reduce suffering and increase happiness for all sentient beings
• Feeling Qi and Testing Our Perception of Qi
• Elements of Qi Information Healing
• The Emei Buddhist View of Human Illness
• Self-Healing Meditation with:
Healing Sounds
Empowered Objects
Sitting Meditation
• Group Healing
• Understanding the Dualistic and Non-Dual Realms, Yin-Yang, Taiji and Wuji
• The Human Body Life Energy Field
• A Layman’s View of Karma, An In-depth Discussion How Previous Thinking Produces our Physical Reality
• Methods to Transfer and Clear Afflictive Emotional States, Disease, Previous Thinking and Previous Karma
• Buddhist Medicine View on Guiding our Minds on the Right Path • Patterns of Disease Qi Dispersal and Absorption of Universal Qi
• Energy Information Transmission Methods Instruction and Practice
• Universal Mantra Qi Transmission and Methods to Clear Diseases in Self and Others
TESTIMONIALS:
"This course is rich, deep, and reliable, both in theoretical understanding, and in health-giving practices that one can learn for a lifetime. I recommend it without reservation."
—Byron Belitsos, award-winning coauthor of A Return to Healing
“Devatara Holman is a truly inspired teacher with a very dynamic presence.”
—B.D., Radio Producer
“These methods are absolutely revolutionary! These jewels have changed my world!”
—L.G., Chiropractor, Buddhist Practitioner
“Holman delivers a profound wealth of information with tremendous skill, grace and joyfulness.”
—S.G., Writer
“Devatara Holman knows more about meditation and energy work than any American teacher I have ever met. In addition to being a lovely person, she is a very wise and skilled teacher and healer.”
—T.B., Health Consultant
Dates:
Part 1: Saturday/Sunday; June 26 & 27 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Part 2: Saturday/Sunday; July 24 & 25 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location:
Sausalito Healing Arts, 85 Liberty Ship Way #103
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-6061 // www.SausalitoHealingArts.com (https://www.sausalitohealingarts.com/)
Please call Devatara to register/discuss terms: 415-332-1013
$625 (save $ early registration/payment by June 1: $575)
Small group setting designed for personalized instruction, attention and support!
For more course info, please visit https://marinorientalmedicine.com (https://marinorientalmedicine.com/) or contact Devatara Holman
415-332-1013 // [email protected] ([email protected])
About the instructor:
Devatara Holman M.A., M.S., LAc, acupuncture and Buddhist medicine practitioner, founded Marin Oriental Medicine in Sausalito, where she has provided private instruction and healing sessions since 1994. Unusually trained in Eastern healing arts, she speaks Chinese fluently and lived in China and Tibet for seven years where she studied the practical integration of medicine and spiritual practices. A student of Emei methods since 1985 and senior student of Emei Lineage Head, Grandmaster Fu Weizhong, Devatara is a Certified Master in the Emei Tradition and has dedicated her life to increasing awareness of the benefits Buddhist medicine and the wisdom of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage. She is trained in Vajrayana Buddhism and is a dedicated student of H.H. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Her teachings on Buddhist Medicine come primarily from the Emei and Dzogchen traditions.
A respected healer and author of several scientific articles on Energy Medicine, Devatara has also held faculty positions at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and San Francisco State University. She serves on the Dzogchen Sri Singha Board of Directors, which furthers the international work of H.H. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Devatara is co-chair of the Emei Advisory Committee, which supports Grandmaster Fu Weizhong’s work in the West; and is a Director of the Qigong Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education about Qigong and energy medicine.
Marin Oriental Medicine, 38 Caledonia Street Suite One, Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-1013 // www.MarinOrientalMedicine.com (https://www.marinorientalmedicine.com/)
Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be made in writing no later than two weeks prior to the seminar.
Theory and Practice
of Buddhist Medicine
Buddhist Lineage Methods for
Profound Health, Healing and Spiritual Development
Presented by Devatara Holman, MS, MA, LAc
A special course for meditators and healers, physicians and
other health-care professionals, yoga and Qigong practitioners,
health enthusiasts and all others devoted to advanced self-care and the benefit of all sentient beings.
(30 hours Acupuncture CEUs pending)
Part 1: Saturday/Sunday; June 26 & 27, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Part 2: Saturday/Sunday; July 24 & 25, 10 am – 6 pm
Valuable knowledge and tools if you are:
· ready to begin a core practice that will balance your body and mind, dispel illness, and alleviate emotional discomfort
· seeking authentic methods to help free yourself and others from physical and emotional suffering
· dedicated to transforming past difficulties and accepting the true nature of your own mind
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
• Learn life-long practices for profound physical and psycho-spiritual transformation.
• Balance emotions and treat symptoms and illnesses in yourself and others.
• Develop a cognitive understanding of the wisdom methods of an authentic, ancient and unbroken Buddhist lineage.
• Expand your understanding of meditation and its practical potential for rapid transformation in your life.
ABOUT THE COURSE:
This comprehensive four-day course provides you with a practical repertoire of authentic tools to transform afflictive emotions, resolve physical ailments, and powerfully support spiritual development. Participants will also develop a clear, cognitive understanding of the theory behind these potent, enduring techniques.
The teachings and practices offered in this course are based on the 800-year-old Emei Linji Chan Lineage of the Sino-Tibetan borderland—ancient knowledge that has only become available to the lay population in the past ten years.
A senior student of Emei Lineage Head, Grandmaster Fu Weizhong, and student of Emei methods since 1985, Devatara Holman is a Certified Master in the Emei Linji Chan Lineage (now referred to as the Emei Qigong Lineage for the benefit of educating the lay population). She has been granted the privilege of offering these teachings in America and is making them available in our community. Devatara lived in the border region of China and Tibet for seven years during the 1980’s, where she began her study of Buddhist medicine and the integration of medicine and spiritual practices. For the benefit of all sentient beings, Devatara has dedicated her life to increasing awareness of the great benefits of Buddhist medicine and the wisdom of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage.
PROGRAM TOPICS:
This popular course features lecture, moving and still practices for healing oneself, and hands-on practice for healing self and others, including:
• Defining Buddhist Medicine
• What is Qigong
• Brief History of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage
• Wuji Gong (Non-Dual Skill) instruction and practice
• The Buddhist view on the role of ‘thinking’ in health and illness • The Buddhist view on the current state of the Universe and the role of humans to reduce suffering and increase happiness for all sentient beings
• Feeling Qi and Testing Our Perception of Qi
• Elements of Qi Information Healing
• The Emei Buddhist View of Human Illness
• Self-Healing Meditation with:
Healing Sounds
Empowered Objects
Sitting Meditation
• Group Healing
• Understanding the Dualistic and Non-Dual Realms, Yin-Yang, Taiji and Wuji
• The Human Body Life Energy Field
• A Layman’s View of Karma, An In-depth Discussion How Previous Thinking Produces our Physical Reality
• Methods to Transfer and Clear Afflictive Emotional States, Disease, Previous Thinking and Previous Karma
• Buddhist Medicine View on Guiding our Minds on the Right Path • Patterns of Disease Qi Dispersal and Absorption of Universal Qi
• Energy Information Transmission Methods Instruction and Practice
• Universal Mantra Qi Transmission and Methods to Clear Diseases in Self and Others
TESTIMONIALS:
"This course is rich, deep, and reliable, both in theoretical understanding, and in health-giving practices that one can learn for a lifetime. I recommend it without reservation."
—Byron Belitsos, award-winning coauthor of A Return to Healing
“Devatara Holman is a truly inspired teacher with a very dynamic presence.”
—B.D., Radio Producer
“These methods are absolutely revolutionary! These jewels have changed my world!”
—L.G., Chiropractor, Buddhist Practitioner
“Holman delivers a profound wealth of information with tremendous skill, grace and joyfulness.”
—S.G., Writer
“Devatara Holman knows more about meditation and energy work than any American teacher I have ever met. In addition to being a lovely person, she is a very wise and skilled teacher and healer.”
—T.B., Health Consultant
Dates:
Part 1: Saturday/Sunday; June 26 & 27 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Part 2: Saturday/Sunday; July 24 & 25 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location:
Sausalito Healing Arts, 85 Liberty Ship Way #103
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-6061 // www.SausalitoHealingArts.com (https://www.sausalitohealingarts.com/)
Please call Devatara to register/discuss terms: 415-332-1013
$625 (save $ early registration/payment by June 1: $575)
Small group setting designed for personalized instruction, attention and support!
For more course info, please visit https://marinorientalmedicine.com (https://marinorientalmedicine.com/) or contact Devatara Holman
415-332-1013 // [email protected] ([email protected])
About the instructor:
Devatara Holman M.A., M.S., LAc, acupuncture and Buddhist medicine practitioner, founded Marin Oriental Medicine in Sausalito, where she has provided private instruction and healing sessions since 1994. Unusually trained in Eastern healing arts, she speaks Chinese fluently and lived in China and Tibet for seven years where she studied the practical integration of medicine and spiritual practices. A student of Emei methods since 1985 and senior student of Emei Lineage Head, Grandmaster Fu Weizhong, Devatara is a Certified Master in the Emei Tradition and has dedicated her life to increasing awareness of the benefits Buddhist medicine and the wisdom of the Emei Linji Chan Lineage. She is trained in Vajrayana Buddhism and is a dedicated student of H.H. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Her teachings on Buddhist Medicine come primarily from the Emei and Dzogchen traditions.
A respected healer and author of several scientific articles on Energy Medicine, Devatara has also held faculty positions at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and San Francisco State University. She serves on the Dzogchen Sri Singha Board of Directors, which furthers the international work of H.H. Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Devatara is co-chair of the Emei Advisory Committee, which supports Grandmaster Fu Weizhong’s work in the West; and is a Director of the Qigong Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and public education about Qigong and energy medicine.
Marin Oriental Medicine, 38 Caledonia Street Suite One, Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-1013 // www.MarinOrientalMedicine.com (https://www.marinorientalmedicine.com/)
Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be made in writing no later than two weeks prior to the seminar.