Tai Chi for Seniors - Tai Chi for Health Institute - Dao of Well Being™
Volume 3, Issue 3
Tai Chi & Qigong for Health Newsletter
In this Issue Summer Health
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Life is Play (excerpt) Playing with Movie Stars
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Journey to China & Tibet Highlights & Photo Essay
4
Watermelon: is it the Natural Viagra?
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16 Blueberries for Age Related Mental Decline Qigong & Tai Chi Benefits
23
Qigong Notes & Guidelines
25
About Us
26
Women‘s Retreat Photo Essay
28
2011 Summer
Summer Health & Harmony We hope you are having a great summer! To help you along with that, this edition of our newsletter has some great tips on how to keep in balance with the season and environment, stay healthy and build up your energy. Summer is the season of abundant sunshine and long warm days and it is the most yang time of the year according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. It‘s a time of activity, expansion, growth, creativity, outgoingness, and moving outward in nature and in our lives. It is associated with the Fire element which represents physical strength, force, courage, desire, initiative, passion, and rejuvenation. It represents both light and heat. (Summer Season Health & Harmony continued on page 2)
China & Tibet Tour October 12-28, 2011 There is still time to register. Special discount on fee until August. 6, 2011 call (800) 341-8895
“If you want to be healthy and live to be 100, do Qigong,” says Oprah’s Dr. Oz. “Qigong slows the aging process!” Harvard Medical School
Add watermelon to your diet to keep cool, calm and healthy in the summertime. The phyto-nutrients in watermelon can have amazing positive effects in our body like relaxing the blood vessels, much like Viagra. (see page 15)