Tremendous thanks to everyone who has kept our program vibrant through these challenging recent years!

Tim's classes are accessible and simple—so a beginner can benefit from them. His classes are also deeply complex—there is always another layer to uncover and explore.                       ... Louise F.

CTM 1: Channel-based Therapeutic Movement Certificate (50 hrs online)

• Experience the Chinese understanding of the body channels (meridians) as conduits of qi (movement and communication) in conjunction with the biomedical concept of fascial connections reaching from the limbs up through your head and torso. We also explore the breath as a source of movement, transformation, and health in conjunction with the respiratory diaphragm's action outward through the same fascial network.

• Explore a broad experience of the Lungs from Chinese medicine including the relationship to your chest, shoulders, diaphragm, abdomen, lower back, Heart, Kidneys, sinuses, and skin, as well as the autumnal "metal tiger" season when stagnant pathogenic qi is purged and the immune system activated.

• Activate the dynamic root of your feet that frees your hips and pelvis, strengthens knees and lower back, supports your spine, neck, and head, and invigorates circulation. Learn to assess postural alignment and how meditative walking can be one of the most complete exercises for whole body health and fitness.

• Experience how the broader Kidney system influences your water metabolism, adrenal balance, and the health of your entire pelvic region through exercises that loosen and activate your deep abdomen, lower back, and spine as well as expelling chronic pains worsened by cold weather.

1/09-1/23 Session 5: Freeing Your Spine and Alleviating Chronic Pain  (3 weeks)

• Learn gentle yet deep spinal twists for releasing tension to relieve pain and weakness due to obstructions to the free flow of qi and blood. Strengthen your reserves and improve circulation to help relieve headaches, back and shoulder pain, joint pain and stiffness, and repetitive stress injuries of the wrist, arm, and shoulders, as well as improve range of motion, and invigorate your vision and hearing.

• Wake up slow, stiff muscles, clear away the winter doldrums and workday frustration, and energize your body from feet to fingertips while encouraging relaxed clarity of mind. Your Liver system governs the free flow of qi and blood throughout you body to encourage strong, fluid movement, good digestion, deep relaxed breathing, sexual health, restful sleep, and emotional balance.

• Activate your abdomen, limbs, and mid-back to build core support, leg strength, and muscle health. Abdominal exercises harmonize the deep yin-yang dynamics behind digestion and daily energy, tissue strength, bright complexion, and relaxed concentration.

• Open your chest and shoulders, relieve arm pain, and help reduce inflammation, anxiety, palpitations, and insomnia. In Chinese medicine, Heart, Mind, and Spirit are aspects of a single system that radiates through the channels to express vibrant health through your face, skin, voice, eyes, and posture.

• Learn a personalized approach to the Transforming Sinews Method (Muscle Change Classic), one of the most popular routines for strengthening joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles, fascia, and bones. Natural and graceful, this routine can be developed into a strenuous full-body practice of twelve exercises. We will explore multiple variations of each exercise to ensure a good fit for every practitioner.

• Explore multiple approaches to each exercise of the Eight-piece Brocade, a popular routine that draws upon the channel system to integrate the mobilization of your outer musculoskeletal system with the regulation of your inner organ systems in a brief daily practice.

• Investigate how the ancient Six Word Formula (Six Healing Sounds) utilizes vocal resonance, visualization, and movement for treating your organ systems and relieving the effects of emotional stress. We will also explore how to create new routines from the entire year’s repertoire tailored to the personal needs of you, your students, or clients.

CTM 2: Advanced Channel-based Therapeutic Movement Certificate (50 hours)

Deepen your practice of Chinese therapeutic movement by exploring how the basic strategies combine to create powerful and synergistic effects through the movements of Tai Chi, Bagua, the Five Animal Play, and other traditional practices. In order to fully uncover the internal dynamics of traditional exercises, we will compare multiple systems of each (for example with five different interpretations of the Tiger Play, both in place and walking). We will review the basic exercises and strategies of CTM 1 as a jumping off point for each new curriculum block. This course will also further your understanding of traditional Chinese diagnosis and treatment strategies.

Program Enrollment
  ● There is a discount for the complete 33-week series ($599).
  ● Optionally, participants can opt for rolling enrollments in individual 2-week sessions ($39) and 4-week sessions ($79) as described in the schedule (for a total of $648).
  ● Upon completion of all CTM 2 workshops, a 50-hour certificate will be issued.
  ● Certificates require the full sequence in order).