Optimise Your Health with the Chinese Five Elements

The Chinese Five Element system is ancient and describes the flow of energy within the elements of Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood. Discover how it can improve your health, wellbeing and your connection to the natural world in this 7-week interactive livestream course.

The Chinese Five Elements is deceptively simple in concept but can offer profound insights into what is playing out in your physical and mental health, behaviour and relationships. 

We are a combination of all five Elements, which perform at their best when in harmonious relationship with each other. As there is a tendency to favour one or two elements over others, imbalances can arise and show up as physical symptoms, emotional traits or changes in behaviour. 

Each element has a unique personality which expresses itself throughout the body/mind eg the energy of FIRE is expansive and outward which can manifest as: circulatory issues such as cold hands and feet, a love or hate of bitter-tasting foods, a tendency to giggle inappropriately, to be a charismatic personality in social situations or prefer meditation and self-reflection. In this course, you will find out how this all fits together.

This experiential self-development course will help you connect to your own inner Five Elements. We will look at each element individually and together as a way of gaining personal insight and to inspire new ways forward. You will also receive a basic understanding of Yin/Yang and how the energies of the Five Elements flow can be witnessed and experienced within our daily life.

In this livestream course you will:

• Learn how this ancient knowledge is relevant for today
• Identify which element/s you invest your energy in most/least
• Discover where your strengths and challenges lie
• Highlight areas for change to re-establish body/mind balance
• Have a template to apply to other areas of your life
• Create a meaningful connection to the natural world

We will explore creatively through:

Talks, visualisations, gentle movement, discussion, practical exercises, drawing etc as a way of bringing the theory into a personal experience. There will be some observation and reflection tasks to do at home.

There are 7 sessions for this course:

• Week 1: Intro to Yin/Yang, Five Elements, what is health and well-being and homeostasis?
• Week 2: Wood Element
• Week 3: Fire Element
• Week 4: Earth Element
• Week 5: Metal Element
• Week 6: Water Element
• Week 7: Shen and Ko Cycles, bringing it all together

Please bring paper and coloured pencils.

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Entry requirements

• This course is open to all.
• To enrol on this course, click 'BOOK NOW'.
• If it is fully booked, click 'REGISTER INTEREST' for updates.

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We will not be recording these classes. One of the unique aspects of the College's online courses is that they are highly interactive. Participants are encouraged to discuss and share with the tutor and the group. These sharings can be very personal, and some may not feel comfortable with them being recorded. If you need to miss any sessions, your tutor will be happy to offer a brief outline of the material covered.

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Previous participants say:

"This was VERY, VERY good."

"Doe was lovely. Receptive to questions, full of knowledge & easy to listen to. I loved the way the educational side & spiritual side came together. Very informative & have taken a lot of new concepts away with me." 

"Doe explained a complex topic in a simple way. I thought I would have trouble keeping up. I would love to explore this topic in more depth."

"Great - and I would like to learn more!"

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