Chinese Medicine describes The Human Being as existing on three levels, that of Body, Mind, Spirit. These three levels function happily together when we are in balance, healthy and at ease. Our bodies will move naturally and without difficulty, our minds too will demonstrate flexibility and steadiness and in our emotional life, we will respond appropriately to all the various demands made upon it. 

All three levels are inextricably linked and the quality of harmony and moments of peace we have all touched on at various times in our lives, is described as these three layers moving in the same direction, at an even pace and in constant good communication with each other.

So what happens when we are overloaded and overburdened beyond our own capacity to maintain balance? And on what level of human experience do these stresses occur? In our practice, we are learning to work on all levels at once as, stress on one level of life, will effect another level because there is only the oneness of body, mind, spirit (Heart). 

The human being has a very complex body and inner life, capable of creating the most creative and complex works of art, pieces of music and so on, yet there is a price we pay for our own complexity.

Lao Tzu said "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

The Tao encourages us to be in touch with our own selves, particularly our deepest selves, for when we know who we really are, that is when we discover real peace.

When we are in resonance, like the clear tone of a bell, we re-member something in the deepest and most basic way. We can't know practice from outside of these three layers of reality. Come and learn to navigate your own individual body, the breath with all its individual grooves, your inner and outer worlds with all its people, things and happenings as it is the mind that navigates the meeting point. 

12.30pm - 4.30pm
THE SHALA, WEST NORWOOD