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 Thea Elijah, M.Ac.,Dipl. Herb Thea Elijah has been a student of Chinese herbal medicine for 20 years. She is the former Director of the Chinese Herbal Studies Program at TAI Sophia Institute and at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture. She has studied with Ted Kaptchuk, Leon Hammer, and has worked closely with Lonny Jarrett (note her contribution to a chapter in Lonny Jarrett's new book, The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine). Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallee and J.R.Worsley have been equally influential in shaping her understanding of the depth of Chinese medicine. Thea Elijah's expertise is bringing the herbs and formulas to life with descriptions that are memorable, poetic, and always clinically relevant.
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Mission Statement Healing may be practiced as a means of dispelling illness; it may also be practiced as a means of fostering health, or cultivating virtue. The Perennial Medicine traditions hold as their central focus the client's essential wholeness. Because there is a direct relationship between the nature of a person's illness and the nature of that person's wellness, in the Perennial Medicine traditions, therapeutic actions are chosen specifically to resonate simultaneously with both the client's highest potential, and with their current manifestation of distress. Through the cultivation of virtue, illness is dispelled and health is restored. Health that has been restored due to the cultivation of virtue is not the same as health that has been restored simply due to the dispelling of illness. The physical manifestations of health may appear to be the same, but on the level of the spirit, the difference is incalculable.
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Thea is also a Master Teacher of the Shadhuliyyah Sufi Order, and a teaching assistant at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism. Her primary focus is the underlying principles of energy medicine in a cross-cultural context, with a particular emphasis on heart-centered healing. She currently teaches Chinese Medicine, Sufi Healing, and Medicine Without Form across the United States, and especially in Southern Vermont, where she lives with her family.
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When we focus solely on dispelling illness in order to restore health, a priceless opportunity for the spirit is lost. When our healing strategy has as its aim the evocation of the client's own original nature as its catalyst for the transformation of body, mind, and spirit, the results are profound for both practitioner and client. The client experiences healing as a transformation that occurs from within; and the practitioner is also transformed through the continuous practice of resonating with the highest in our clients.
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