AGENDA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010

DAILY SELF-HEALING PRACTICE
We have orchestrated special times just for you. Take advantage of daily self-healing practices to nurture yourself and increase your own energy foundation.

7:15 - 8:15 a.m.
Taoist Stretching
Josie Zhuo, MTCM, LAc

Taiji helps you become more flexible in body, mind and spirit. Popular instructor and gifted practitioner Josie Zhuo helps us jumpstart the day.

LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong 1, 2, 3 - Nan Lu, OMD
(Private Session: For participants completing training in Levels 1, 2, and 3 of this energy healing art under the guidance of Nan Lu, OMD)

The Dragon's Way® Instructor Certification Training
(Private Session: For participants completing training as certified instructors of The Dragon's Way® Program)

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall

8:45 - 9:00 a.m.
Conference Welcome
Ellen Schaplowsky, VP, TCM World Foundation

9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
KEYNOTEL
True Complementary Medicine: Understanding How the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection Really Works
Nan Lu, OMD

In this reality, everything that exists has energy; everything has a unique purpose. While the search for meaning lies beneath consciousness, it drives everyday life experience. Without understanding one's true identity, one’s true life purpose, the concept of spirit remains isolated from body–mind–spirit medicine. Practicing true complementary medicine involves insight into the interactions of this powerful trinity. It encompasses an understanding of the whole and a sensitivity to which aspect of the body, mind or spirit is involved when health is compromised. Do conditions start with the body, or end with it? How can practitioners help individuals recover balance and well-being without understanding the inextricable connections of the body, mind and spirit? This session explores the wisdom and knowledge inherent in each aspect of the self and illuminates body-mind-spirit medicine that transcends vocabulary.

11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Break

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
A Taste of TCM

1. Qigong Meridian Therapy (QMT)
   (Learn unique QMT hand techniques.)
2. Four Energy Gates
   (Discover the secrets of these energy gates.)
3. Flat Stomach Energy Movements
   (Take home these powerful movements!)
4. Self-Defense Energy Movements
   (Explore effective ways to protect yourself.)
5. Everyday First-Aid Energy Movements for Anxiety
   (Practice special energy movements to keep anxiety in check.)

12:30 - 2:00 p.m. - Lunchtime
Networking Luncheon Buffet: Join us for a delicious Marriott-style luncheon at half-price (Registration required.)
We've arranged special networking opportunities where you can continue to build community over lunch. Lunchtime is also your time to explore our Exhibit Hall, practice Wu Ming Qigong, meditate quietly, or slip into a Qigong Meridian Therapy or LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong. (Be sure to schedule your appointment.)

12:30 - 2:30 p.m., 5:30 - 7:00 p.m., 9:00 - 10:00 p.m
QMT (Qigong Meridian Therapy) and LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong - Personal Sessions
Have you QMT'd today? Our trained QMT practitioners are ready to offer an experience of a lifetime! Likewise, our trained LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong practitioners can help you explore energy for healing purposes. Schedule appointments in either (or both!) to support your own healing journey.

• Qigong Meridian Therapy Sessions
  See what the buzz is about! These fantastic meridian massages have everyone talking.
• LifeForce: Tao of Medical Qigong Sessions
  Medical Qigong uses energy for medical purposes. Experience this extraordinary healing session.

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
The Dragon's Way® Weight Loss and Stress Management Instructor Certification Training
(Private Session: Prerequisite, The Dragon's Way® Instructor Certification Training Enrollment)

2:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Meditation
Brother/Doctor Bernard Seif, SMC, EdD, DNM

Experience the quiet joy of connecting with your inner spirit and strength. Recharge for the afternoon ahead.

2:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Concurrent Workshops

Focus on Ancestry: Healing Our Lineage, Fulfilling Our Heritage
Thea Elijah, MAc

What does it mean to have been born into our particular family of origin? To answer this question fully, we may begin by looking at the influences of our own nuclear family - but we mustn't stop there! As children, the influences of immediate family are paramount; they form our matrix for knowing ourselves. In adolescence, the emergence of our own reproductive capacities opens a doorway into our individual manifestation of the infinite resources of our ancestry. This allows us, as adults, to find our own direction as a flowering of capacities that come to us from much further back than our own parents, and have the power to carry us much further forward.

Eat, Sleep, and Let It Go: Lessons learned from Caring for Children
Stephen Cowan MD, FAAP, CAc

There are common questions that every pediatrician encounters in helping parents raise healthy children. The basic challenges that children face as they make their way through the world are analogous to our own daily spiritual practices. Children can be our gurus. Using examples from his holistic pediatric practice, Stephen Cowan, MD, leads a lively exploration of these fundamental connections that nurture a healthy body-mind-spirit.

Women Wise, Women Healthy
Christine Page, MD

It has been said that a thousand years of peace will come when women heal their hearts. For this to occur, we need to appreciate the unique gifts women bring to the planet and how the well-being of the individual and that of future generations is affected when these gifts are suppressed. Dr. Page helps us examine the vital need for women to accept responsibility for their own health and healing and offers us specific techniques for helping nurture a healthy body-mind-spirit connection.

You, the Flu and Complementary Medicine
Abdul Alim Muhammad, MD

In 2009, the media carried dire warnings of a possible global pandemic of Type A H1Ni influenza, similar in magnitude to the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 50-100 million people worldwide. While widespread, the 2009 flu strain has not yet proved as lethal a pandemic as the devastating 1918 flu. In fact, it turned out that deaths from H1N1 virus in 2009 were actually below the typical annual death rate of seasonal influenza. So, why all the media frenzy? Could it have more to do with economics and politics than epidemiology? As we enter the 2010 flu season, Dr. Muhammad offers a provocative workshop on the current status of public health, and the complementary medicine approach to this timely issue.

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Dinner on Your Own

7:45 - 9:00 p.m
Healthy Parents; Healthy Children - Creating Families that Thrive
Christine Page, MD; Nan Lu, OMD, Abdul Alim Muhammad, MD

It's seems like a simple truth: It's almost impossible to help the child without involving the parents. Parents need to be present in the deepest sense and be a part of the healing process. The relationship is the central one. Beliefs play a key role in building healthy families. This panel examines how the mother's and father's beliefs can impact their baby's health and world view.

9:15 - 9:45 p.m
Guided Meditation
Christine Page, MD