Introduction to The Wellness Retreat

Everyday we are being bombarded with messages from doctors, pharmaceutical corporations and supplement marketers about what constitutes health and what disease interventions you need when you are ailing. They hand out quick fixes. As result, the health care costs sky-rocket and yet we feel less and less healthy and well.
In these wellness retreats, Dr. Chen will teach you the principles and skills of his holistic health care system. You will become empowered to handle your own health care, and to live a life of well-being that is joyful and happy.
The retreats are organized into an introductory One-Day Retreat and in-depth Three-Day Retreat. We encourage you start with a One-Day or Three-Day retreat, and then practice daily at home the principles and skills you have learned for a month. You can sign up another Three-Day retreat for evaluation of the benefits of self-care practice to your health conditions, and make your practice more and more effective and potent.

Listening to Your Body, Mind and Emotion

Everyone is born with this ability to listen. In this retreat you will learn how to listen to your body, detect problems early, and how to prevent them to become serious diseases. You will find that changes needed for good health are do-able, simple, and easy. When you listen to, and understand your own body, you can find the right self-care within you; and if necessary seek out the right medical treatment from your physicians. You will achieve and maintain optimal good health. You will learn:

1. How to listen to your body, how to assess your health, and find where your body is shutting down.
2. How to quiet your mind and detect subtle dysfunctions in your body.

Relaxing Tensions: How to overcome Tension-Related Health Conditions

Our daily lives are filled with stress, which causes tension. Tension creates fear, and fear stunts your life. You can find these places where tension resides and then get rid of it. Tension feels tight, numb, painful, and you have a general uncomfortable feeling-of-being in your body. These sensations, when left untreated, become more problematic and debilitating. This tension is treatable by listening to your body and relaxing. You can live a pain free, courageous life, unburdened by pain. You will learn:

1. How to relax tensions physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Eating Well: How to Overcome Diet-Related Health Conditions

Eating well is paramount to living well. In our culture we have lost the pleasure of eating. Eating has become associated with guilt. It is not celebrated and has become de-coupled from pleasure. This retreat rekindles your appetite and teaches what eating well is about: pleasure, relaxation, and nourishment. It discusses:

1. Pleasure found in the aroma, taste, and texture of food.
2. Nourishment and how to get what you need from food.
3. What appetite is and what it means for you.
4. How to restore healthy weight

Dr. Chen's philosophy is authentic and truthful. He lives by the principles he teaches, and speaks with authenticity and experience. His message is not packaged. Our bodies are individuals, so too are the lessons you take away. The simple skills you learn here are profound and will benefit you for life. The experience will be transformative and set you on a path to healthy living and well-being.