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As society focuses more on diets, treatment modalities, and health insurance, are we losing contact with the essence of what it means to heal? This talk will include the importance of adjusting recommendations for each individual, and how simple macrobiotic approaches can be applied to both minor imbalances and degenerative diseases.

The body has two natural power centers, Liver and Kidney, that are essential for deep health and vitality. This lecture will explain the nature and meaning of these two centers through Oriental medicine. Your immunity, vitality, and capacity to heal hinge on regaining and maintaining the strength of these key organs. Learn simple priorities to empower these vital centers for improved health, better mental clarity, and emotional calm.

In this inspirational, holistic workshop you'll learn about the interconnectedness of the brain and healing, and how the role of the mind is pivotal in healing the brain. As you participate in powerful brain-power boosting activities you'll discover untapped healing potential and inspirational methods to help you develop greater mental strength and optimal brain power. You'll also get new scientific information about the brain's ability to health and change, and proven exercises to boost brain power.

Let go of the concept of macrobiotics as a set of rules and have better results in your life by opening to the many choices within a wide range of possibilities: the spirit of inclusion rather than exclusion; flexibility rather than rigidity; and the joyful pursuit of your dreams.

You are what you eat; therefore, know the energy in the foods you eat. Foods shape a person's body, emotions, characteristics, health, politics, and culture. Every food has a unique energy and effect on the body, mind, and spirit. Discover the energy of foods in traditional diets, the Standard American Diet, ethnic diets, popular diets, and the macrobiotic diet. Learn invaluable scientific facts about how foods can harm and heal. Jane will discuss foods common to the macrobiotic diet, describe their specific energy, and how preparation can transform, heal, and create balance with other foods.

Based upon their traveling experiences over the last 30 years, Warren and Marquita Wepman will reveal their shocking secrets on how to eat a balanced, healthy diet, even while traveling by airplane, ship, bus, or automobile. In this lecture, students will learn that they can: a) Travel and still eat well; b) Be able to make healthy food selections in restaurants; c) Be freed of the anxiety that they may injure their health when they travel; d) Feel an inner joy that they can take on vacation.

Discover how you can enhance your nutrition and the process of digestion through proper cooking as well as by sticking to mainly a whole grain and vegetable-based diet, supplemented with other foods. Proper cooking enhances our basic nutrients and makes them easier to absorb and utilize. I will discuss how the main methods of preparation; boiling, steaming, sautéing, baking, and pickling, affect your nutritional, physical, and mental well-being. Many popular nutritional myths will also be discussed. This class will teach you how to make healthier dietary choices and how to prepare food for optimal nutritional benefit.

Looking at health through Asian principles, many women's health issues can be understood to have their roots in the problems with the liver, specifically stagnation of liver "ki" (an Asian word for energy flow). Women's health issues attributed to this include PMS, irregular menstruation, ovarian cancer, breast health problems, thyroid problems, digestive problems, emotional disturbances and much more. Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of liver ki stagnation, and get suggestions for recipes, exercises and healing techniques. Knowing about the role of the liver from this energy perspective and what can be done to overcome the problem has helped countless women restore health and well-being.

To get the most out of macrobiotic dietary and lifestyle changes, it is always nice to know how to proceed in life. You will be surprised to learn of the seemingly simple things that can truly alter the results you see from day to day. Warren will also discuss some of the common mistakes people make on a daily basis. Whether you are brand new to macrobiotics, have been practicing for some time, or just checking into it, you will benefit from this class. The small points are often the things that are overlooked.

Hear the inspiring, firsthand accounts of many people who faced serious, life-threatening illnesses yet fully recovered, and the alternative methods they used to support their return to health. There will be a "follow up" Recovery Panel session on Friday at 4:45 pm, where some of the panelists will be available for your questions.

If you have thought of chronic pain as something that is an unavoidable part of aging and simply here to stay, new hope may come from ordinary foods. Learn which foods can cool down inflammation, ease digestive and menstrual pains, clear away artery blockages, restore circulation to oxygen-starved tissues, and much more.

Food can be powerful in preventing and reversing diabetes. However, the old models of food for diabetes has had limited results, and dietary approaches have changed as we have learned more about the disease. Learn about new research on the relationship between dietary fat and diabetes, and how low-fat, vegetarian diets are ideal for people with diabetes, when combined with exercise, can be more effective in reversing type 2 diabetes than other diets studied. The new dietary changes recommended are simple, but profound, and they work.

In this exciting lecture, macrobiotic teacher Gabriele Kushi explores natural ways of working with the menopausal transition. As menopause triggers many physical and emotional changes like hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, and sleeplessness, it also brings forth spiritual issues that mark a redefinition of the feminine self. To address the total impact of menopause, Gabriele Kushi has created a supportive, practical, and personal lecture to dealing with this transition in a woman's life. Women will learn how to nurture their spiritual growth, adjust their food intake to their changing needs, and enjoy good health throughout the mid-life years and beyond.

Studies show people who have fulfilling relationships have healthier lives. Learn how food and lifestyle choices can create more open and loving communications with your partner, more virility and spark, and improve your sex life and relationship.

What should we have on hand in our homes to insure that we are ready for all common ailments? In my medical practice, I see so many people turn to over-the-counter drugs even though they know better. They do this because there are no simple ingredients on hand that would enable them to handle the unexpected headache, child's cough, food poisoning, or sprained ankle. We can stock up on simple herbs and basic cooking ingredients used in European and Oriental traditions to ensure that we reclaim our freedom from our "popping-a-pill" culture.

If you have any health problems that have not been overcome by treatments or dietary changes, gluten intolerance could be the hidden cause. Learn all about this common but most often misdiagnosed ailment, and how going gluten-free, especially when combined with healthy whole foods, can help you achieve great health.

We are greatly effected by everything that happens to us in our lives: including experiences we have had, our family atmosphere, how people have spoken, what we've seen. In a way our experiences are like food, they have been "consumed and assimilated" by us. Just like junk food, eating can cause health problems over time. Numerous studies have shown how negative patterns, traumas, and residues of emotional stress can build up and contribute to health problems including heart disease, cancer, asthma, skin problems, intestinal conditions, and much more. In this class you will discover how to use "MacroSomatics" to "read" the language of the body in order to read the story of your life that is being told there; learn where you could be restricting your self-expression by holding on to past patterns that contribute to physical and emotional tension; and find out how to restore natural "biological pulsation" essential to overall health and well-being.

Most people know that coffee or chili peppers affect them, but what about vegetables such as lettuce, cauliflower, squash, or cucumbers? Common foods like carrots and cabbage all have special properties and effects. This lecture will cover why they have different types of properties and energies and what they are especially good for. We will particularly focus on the unique properties of the principal grains, which include corn, rice, wheat, oats, millet, buckwheat, rye, and barley.

Macrobiotics is a philosophy that can be applied to every aspect of life. It has the potential to create greater physical, emotional, and mental health. The ultimate goal is to raise your judgment, your ability to see life clearly, and make wise choices. We will explore the understanding behind our choices of health and life. According to the modern macrobiotic pioneer, George Ohsawa, all problems for people and society arise from poor judgment. This class will be an exercise in raising our judgment and awareness.

Dr. Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet", will explore how our food choices have far greater ramifications than most of us realize, especially for spiritual and psychological health, peace, and social justice. Inquiring deeply into food brings us to the hidden core of our culture and beyond: to a path of immense and inviting social transformation and personal healing. By understanding and transcending the "military-industrial-meat-medical-pharmaceutical complex", we can awaken vibrant natural health and our inherent capacity for compassion and wisdom.

Food dramatically affects how our brains work being especially responsive to sugar and processed foods on one hand, and protein foods on the other. These foods profoundly affect mood and thinking because they regulate insulin levels in the brain, which is the key to many brain functions. People often suffer from a wide range of insulin-related brain imbalances including confused thinking, mood swings, and loss of memory long before contracting more advanced illnesses such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. This lecture will show how you can use food and exercise to enhance the clarity of your thinking, boost your sense of well-being, and protect your memory.

The acidity or alkalinity of our bodies profoundly affects our well-being. The balance of these two states predisposes us to either glowing health or, with only a slight shift, leaves us vulnerable to a host of physical, emotional, and mental ills. In this class, I will demystify the concept of acid and alkaline in clear and simple terms. You will learn how to create an optimal alkaline condition through diet, eating habits, cooking methods, activity, and proper environment.

Notwithstanding our defense systems, police, insurance companies, and antibiotics, modern people experience life as a threat. We declare war on what gives us fear: war on AIDS, drugs, cancer, etc. In this lecture, Adelbert will clearly explain the underlying causes of fear. He will suggest ways to overcome your fear and maintain your health and courage in the face of this alarming trend.

Participants will have the opportunity to experience the power of music to reveal insights and to provide healing energy when their experience is deepened with meditation and imagery techniques. Following a brief overview of sound, music, and the physics of vibration, the presenter will teach two methods for deepening the experience of music. One is a meditative listening technique based on an ancient Zen practice of listening for the silence between musical notes. The second is a technique based on listening to several pieces of original piano music while allowing the music to evoke the full sensory range of imagery.

Come discover how to overcome the unique challenges of working with the medical world. Discover new projects happening around the U.S. in food and nutrition and how we can tap into this market to bring macrobiotics into a new era.

In 2006 and 2007, nutrition guidelines for the prevention of cancer were published by leading cancer organizations. These guidelines synthesize the results of thousands of research studies and point to a dietary pattern that emphasizes whole foods, minimal red meat, and lots of vegetables and fruits. Dr. Kushi will talk about his perspective on the development of these guidelines and the evidence on which they are based.

Makropedia: Most of the world’s people have no access to unbiased information on health and diet. Hundreds of millions are too poor to attend classes or buy books. In addition, the many thousands of scientific and medical studies are written in a language not suitable for the layperson. On Makropedia.com, people will soon be able to find, free of charge, the macrobiotic and scientific information they need. It will be a site with sound, practical knowledge and will be a resource for the world.

True health goes far beyond not being sick. Super health spans the spectrum from physical to spiritual health and includes developing the senses, the emotions, the intellect, social skills, and being able to share energy and consciousness. We will discuss criteria for judging one's health level and ways to infinitely expand our development.

Yin and yang are the basic tools of macrobiotic understanding, simple yet not always easy to grasp. In a step-by-step progression, Ginat will explain the principles of expansion and contraction in words that a layperson can clearly understand. Examples from daily life will help bring these concepts alive and make them the means for personal development and understanding that they were meant to be.

Change is the key to health and life. Knowing how to adapt the macrobiotic approach to diet and lifestyle at the different stages of development is the key to long lasting health and happiness. We will discuss the diet and lifestyle needs such as it pertains to children, to the various stages of healing, to active adults, to the elderly, and more. We will draw upon science, tradition, and macrobiotic philosophy to understand how to adapt your eating and lifestyle to your changing needs.

The heart is the coordinating center of the body. The pulse beat that it sends through the organism helps regulate how cells and organs function. Your health, intuition, and your capacity to experience love and joy depend on your ability to listen to and follow your heart. This lecture will teach you to truly follow the embracing consciousness that resides in the heart allowing you to integrate all aspects of your inner life. You will be shown how such listening can help you heal physically and how it can integrate you giving your life direction, purpose, and fulfillment.

Deco and her husband discuss their experience of building an eco-village based on Japanese traditions and macrobiotic principles in conjunction with their local community. Participants interested in developing effective macrobiotic communities are invited to bring their ideas for discussion.

Very few of George Ohsawa's teachings are incorporated into mainstream macrobiotics. Norio explains: "When I was a child, George Ohsawa was like a grandfather to me, but it was only until much later in life that I began to understand him." For example, he said there is only one disease: arrogance. What does this mean? How can we learn to recognize this arrogance within ourselves? To begin to understand, we must first look at the core of who we are. Come join Norio for an in-depth inquiry about what it means to be human.

Ki is the engine of life. In Oriental medicine, ki (qi in Chinese) connects spiritual and physical realities. All body-mind problems are rooted, to some degree, in energy imbalance, whether stagnated or stuck. The Four Gates are a set of simple and practical acupressure points which activate ki in a grand way, stimulate greater healing, and unify the realms of body, mind, and spirit. This lecture leads you into new insights and awareness of energy connections between body and spirit.

We have all heard many times in our lives that "balance is the key to health". The truth is, if we were so good at finding and maintaining balance, we would not need to study creating health. So why is balance so hard to find and to keep? To have an exciting, adventurous life and to keep healthy, we need to understand balance. Warren explains the macrobiotic approach to living a balanced life and how to maintain our direction. This is a timely lecture given the nature of modern times and how active we all are.

Do you have bone and joint pain, a stiff and creaky body? Avoid the current epidemic of bone loss and joint replacement. Jane Stanchich conquered her osteo-arthritis over 25 years ago and enjoys a pain-free, active life through the adoption of macrobiotic dietary principles, special remedies, and effective lifestyle practices. She will teach simple, proven steps to help reverse the wearing away of cartilage and bone. Discover the very common and surprising causes of arthritis and osteoporosis.

The foundation of our energy, bone and teeth health, hearing, and love life depend on the condition of our kidneys, bladder, and adrenal glands. Learn natural methods and foods that can totally recharge your kidneys.

Figuring out what to eat can be a challenge. There seems to be two main approaches. One is more analytical based on nutrition and scientific data, which can be complex with theories that are difficult to practice. The other is an overly simplistic approach that gives a few hints and may be easy to follow, but can lead to mistakes. The macrobiotic approach lies somewhat in the middle. Its dietary recommendations are based on an understanding of life and humanity; its practice is simple and common sense. We will discuss ways to help us choose our food wisely yet in a flexible and enjoyable way.

Learn why diets don’t work and find out which foods are best for weight loss, the ones to avoid, and how you can stop craving unhealthy foods and start craving the right ones. Don’t just take the weight off, keep it off!

Dr. Malik first outlines the definition, diagnosis, and current scientific understanding of factors that contribute to or may cause depression including issues with neurotransmitter, blood sugar, and hormone imbalances; nutrient imbalances; effects of drugs and nicotine, allergies and sensitivities; poor digestion and more. He goes on to discuss natural medicines and a systematic and holistic approach to identifying and treating the causes of depression.

Accumulated toxins create a "body burden" that impedes many self healing processes. Go on a tour of your detoxification systems, including the liver and kidneys, and learn how they get overloaded, how to avoid some common environmental toxins, and the best foods and other natural methods to support effective release of stored toxins.

A casual atmosphere in which you can meet with some of the people featured on the recovery panel and ask questions.