About Nourishing Life

Yang Sheng (Nourishing Life) focuses on where the body is strong rather than where it is weak. By definition it is not medicine; it’s wellness and self-care. Actions and thoughts you can do moment-to-moment, day in and day out to engender robust health: body, mind and spirit.

Nourishing Life principles focus on the cultivation of healthy Qi (body energy/vitality) and the re-establishment of the life-force itself rather than targeting symptomatic expression. The patient gains sensitivity to their own imbalances, becomes more actively involved in their health care, and develops the healer within herself.

Seeds for Change

Yang Sheng suggests that you examine the seeds, the origins of your symptoms or disease manifestation. Is there a part of you that has lost connection with your center, with your intuition? That somehow you are living out of resonance? Each time we break from harmony some residue is left behind. Being connected to the universal stream of the Dao can be understood and examined through the Jing-Qi-Shen model and enables you to live from Source energies– where you stop trying to get everything to line up perfectly on the outside and turn inward toward something more sustainable. This is the Lifetime Solution. Health is the result of living a life in harmony.

Living From Source Energies

When the Jing-Qi-Shen axis is flourishing, at the level of Jing–an analog for hormones and associated with the Kidneys– you are rooted in your innate constitution, your truest core and deepest self, and this is where authentic purpose dwells.

At the Qi level– the Spleen, Liver, and Lungs– there is a choice of how you interact with your life through various habit-behaviors such as emotions, beliefs, exercise, diet, rest, and stress. You can either treasure or spend your Qi. When Qi is treasured, it purifies and accumulates. Surplus Qi is stored in the kidneys as Jing, while some of the Qi rises to imbue the Heart- the sovereign of spirit.

Finally, the pure Qi rises to cultivate the Shen, your spirit–providing the experience of connection with all beings, a profound worldview of satisfaction and one that ultimately brings wisdom. Living in balanced harmony from all three levels: Jing, Qi & Shen is living in accordance with the universal laws of nature inherent in the Dao. Once you are living from Source energies, all of life starts falling into place all on it’s own. Life does itself.

Yang Sheng Techniques

Most of the special Yang Sheng techniques are geared to encourage the flourishing of the Jing-Qi-Shen axis to connect Heaven and Earth. We will teach you dietary refinement, Superfoods, qi gong, special longevity elixirs, health teas, Dao Flow yoga, longevity massage, herbal tonics, the cultivation of ease and happiness, transformation of emotions, and many others.

Where Health Meets Consciousness

Healing is about awareness. For any healing to occur there must be listening; receptivity. One of the most valuable ways we interact with our patients is to hold up a ‘mirror’ so that they can see themselves more clearly. Healing is about resonance, sharing and coming together between the practitioner and patient. This resonance becomes the platform for healing. Intellect and labels (healer-healee) drop away at the treatment room door, and the patient is held in the field of self-exploration–a potent environment to unravel the causes of feeling unwell and the beginning of transformation. The inner healer is born.