HEALING AND WELLNESS RETREAT IN BOSTON, MA

Rate:

TBA

Contact

If you are interested, please call 617-820-8394 or email chiwell.retreats@gmail.com inquiry or reservation. Minimal 6 attendees are needed for a new retreat.

Retreat Master

Dr. Miles Chong Chen, the founder of Chi Wellnness Clinic in Boston, is a pioneering thinker and practitioner of holistic care and sustainable wellness. He describes his childhood experience:

"When I grew up in China, six out of my ten neighbors were traditional medicinal herbalists. We lived in apartments above an herbal processing plant. Kids could roam freely amid the raw herbs (many of them were also food). The medicine men were not educated at modern colleges, but apprenticed with a master since they were 9 - 12 years old. They taught me ancient wisdom and practices, developed by Daoists and Zen budhists in China, that remain valid and powerful today. When I turned 16, I became a farmer on Mount Wuyi in Fujian, China. I observed many local peasants practicing Daoist exercises. These exercises allowed the regional people to live healthy, happy and harmonious lives, despite often enduring extreme hardship and poverty.

"My early childhood education, which was mostly "old and primitive," left a strong imprint on my being. In contrast, my adult education, at college in China and later graduate school in the US, was centered on Western science and cutting edge technology. I believe that some ancient practices are biologically relevant and medicinally useful. My personal practice of sustainable wellness motivates me to share with others the benefits I have experienced from using this ancient wisdom. I have always been drawn to mountains and springs for their healing, tranquil and harmonious atmospheres. The magic mountains of Western North Carolina are special and spiritual indeed."

Health Retreat

The retreat is not a simple get-away, but a learning experience of inner healing, which you have to feel at the natural, instinctual and intuitive levels. Dr. Chen will teach each student in such a way that they "get it" for life and "know" its effectiveness. The experience, therefore, is a life transformation. Students will change from consumers to activists seeking health, happiness and harmony. Each student will master self-care in a personalized and internalized manner. There will be a lot of hands-on practice during the retreat. Please call 781.290.0488 to make reservation.

Goal

To maximize innate healing for sustainable health, happiness and harmony

Weight Issues, Diabetes, Eating Disorders, Hypertension Aches & Pains, Muscle Stiffness, Muscle spasticity, Neuralgia Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Fatigue PMS, Menopause, Immunodeficiency, Cancers

Topics

1. Developing a holistic view of health
2. Feeling your own wellness instincts: appetite, thirst, fatigue, tension
3. Acquiring simple skills that can be practiced on a daily basis
4. Eating well and food selection for healthy weight and emotional life
5. Relaxing stress physically, mentally and emotionally
6. Finding your own rhythm: high productivity, low maintenance, a harmonious life

Program

1. Wulong Tea Ceremony
2. Introducing the concept of sustainable wellness
3. Why we are capable of self-care: wellness instincts endowed by nature
4. Turning inward to hear the mind, body and emotions
5. Feeling and relaxing tension from head to toe
6. Stretching and moving the joints (Chen Tai Chi)
7. Deep breathing, meditation & qigong (chi gong)
8. Experiencing total relaxation
9. Foods that make you well, as nature intended
10. Eating well: the pleasure, relaxation and nourishment of eating
11. Visit area organic farms
12. Wholesome food ingredients and balanced diet
13. Cooking class: aroma, color and taste
14. Cultivate vegetables and herbs in the herb farm
15. Reconnect with nature: empowerment from the circulation of Chi
16. Reclaim confidence in innate healing ability and optimism in life
17. Simplify life to achieve harmony

DISCLAIMER: Self-care is not designed to replace, but rather to complement Western health care, for chronic condtions. Please consult with your physician about specific medical issues.