Links to alternative medicine, Tai Chi, Qigong, self growth, health & wellness websites for training and coaching
- Alternative Healing Choices: Your Guide to Complementary, Alternative, Holistic and Natural Healthcare
- Information on Complementary, Alternative, Holistic and Natural Healthcare, types of modalities and practitioners, resources and books. A book is also offered in hard copy and e-book.
- American Tai Chi Association
- The Tai Chi & Consumer Health Information Center is hosted by American Tai Chi Association (ATCA), a national non-profit organization that serves Tai Chi professionals in the United States. The ATCA's mission is to: promote Tai Chi as an complementary and alternative medicine and therapy to benefit the public health; promote Tai Chi as a powerful physical exercise that can help people to stay healthy; and represent and serve Tai Chi coaches nationwide
- Circle of Life Health and Wellness Coaching
- The Circle of Life is a comprehensive and holistic Mind-Body Wellness and Health Coaching system designed for group wellness coaching and individual health coaching. It is the only wellness coaching method with a 20-year success track record, utilized nationally in health coaching, wellness coaching, and stress management and lifestyle coaching programs, designed for diverse populations of people who want to regain health, prevent disease, and improve the quality of their lives.
- Eastover Estate & Eco-Village
- Eastover is a 600 acre holistic retreat center only minutes away from the center of downtown Lenox, ideal for teachers, groups, organizations and companies to host retreats, workshops, and group events. It offers spacious studio facilities including yoga studios, meditation rooms, outdoor spaces, conference meeting rooms, and even a commercial kitchen for cooking class.
- Esalen Institute
- The Esalen Institute was founded in 1962 as an alternative educational center devoted to the exploration of what Aldous Huxley called the "human potential," the world of unrealized human capacities that lies beyond the imagination. Esalen soon became known for its blend of East/West philosophies, its experiential/didactic workshops, the steady influx of philosophers, psychologists, artists, and religious thinkers, and its breathtaking grounds blessed with natural hot springs.
- Empty Vessel
- Abode of the Eternal Tao publishes The Empty Vessel, A Journal of Contemporary Taoism, a quarterly publication dedicated to the exploration and dissemination of non-religious Taoist philosophy and practice. Books, healing music CDs, travel to China available.
- FeeltheQi.com
- FeeltheQi.com is the website of Roger Jahnke, OMD, author of The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi. You can find out about his upcoming workshops and teacher training programs. Additionally there are articles and resource information available on FeeltheQi.com to inspire your practice. Receive updates on Tai Chi and Qigong research, training and retreat opportunities, insights for your practice, travel to China, secrets of Chinese medicine, offers for downloads and announcements of free teleconferences with the Energy Empowerment newsletter.
- Global Health Institute (GHI)
- The Global Health Institute (GHI) is an IRS 501(c)(3) foundation dedicated to advancing the integration of healthcare to embrace the relationship of mind, body and spirit. GHI educates health professionals, students and the media community on the discoveries advancing the integration of efficacious modalities in healthcare for better patient outcomes. The charter for GHI foundation was conceived in 2003 by an interdisciplinary team of doctors, scientists and theologians.
- Healer Within Community
- Web site for the groundbreaking book, The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine: Movement * Massage * Meditation * Breathing . Encourages grassroots community practice of Qigong.
- Healer Within Foundation
- The Healer Within Foundation, is an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara, California whose mission is to empower individuals, groups, families, and communities in their quest for greater health, wellness, productivity, and purposeful living. The Healer Within Foundation’s programs empower people using medically proven self-care practices that effectively support disease prevention, accelerate healing, and decrease unnecessary mental and physical suffering. Currently their largest program is Tai Chi Easy™, an “evidence based” program using gentle movement, breath practice, self‐applied massage, and meditation. Trained Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leaders support end-users in lowering risk for preventable chronic diseases, improving sleep problems, managing pain, speeding rehabilitation, reducing depression and anxiety, assisting in recovery from addiction, and more.
- Health Action
- Comprehensive productivity enhancement, wellness, health promotion, and integrative medicine. Through modeling, design, programming and training, we transform health care in collaboration with innovative American businesses. In Health Action's wellness and productivity maximization model, we do not work with what is wrong with people. We uncover what is right, and maximize and multiply that.
- HealthWorld Online
- HealthWorld Online is the Internet's leading resource on alternative medicine, wellness, and mind/body health.
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- International Qigong Alliance™
- The International Qigong Alliance is a network of Qigong schools, instructors and practitioners, a nonprofit organization and a global Qigong community with over 600 members in 45 countries.
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- Kripalu Center
- The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health offers a world of yoga, holistic health, and self-discovery in breathtaking Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with professional trainings, workshops, and retreats.
- National Qigong Association (NQA)
- The NQA is a democratic, grass roots, nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization as well as a community of Qigong enthusiasts that work together to promote Qigong in America. We embrace and support equally: schools, traditions, teaching styles, and philosophies of Qigong.
- Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
- The nation's largest holistic learning center in Rhinebeck, NY offers workshops, retreats, professional trainings, conferences, and winter learning vacations in the Caribbean and Costa Rica.
- Peaceable Dragon
- Peaceable Dragon is a consortium of instructors and students of the internal arts who seek to further develop and enhance their physical, emotional and spiritual condition. It is a collaboration of expertise in a variety of styles of Qigong, Taijiquan (Tai Chi), Yoga, Aikido, Meditation and other Internal Arts.
- Qi Journal
- Publication and website for both Qigong and Tai Chi practitioners. Calendar of events, listing of professionals, products for sale.
- Qigong Institute
- A not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting Qigong through research and education. A clearinghouse for related news and scientific facts to aid researchers, writers, practitioners, and members of the Western medical community.
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- Relaxed and Alert
- The Relaxed and Alert website provides the guidance, tools, and support you need to transition to a happier and more productive lifestyle.
- Self-Growth.com
- SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to the information about Self Improvement, Personal Growth, and Self Help on the Internet. It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other websites on the World Wide Web.
- SimplyAware
- Sifu Chris and Fayne Bouguyon founded SimplyAware to share their passion for the healing and wellness techniques of Asia. SimplyAware is a service organization dedicated to community education and well-being, with private and group classes in Sun and Yang Tai Chi, Intuitive Defense, Meditation, Life Coaching, Nutritional Guidance, Personal Training and Stress Management.
- World Tai Chi and Qigong Day
- The World Tai Chi and Qigong Day website helps to organize an annual worldwide event for peace and healing that occurs at 10 am in each time zone around the world -- since 1998.
- Wu Tao® The Dancing Way
- Wu Tao or The Dancing Way, is a dance-based therapy that balances and harmonizes the vital energy in the body. It has its foundations in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and is a system of healing, with a holistic philosophy and practice, that restores balance to the person on all levels.