Audio Clips in the Spirit of Chinese Medicine
These are available as free downloads for your personal use and professional study.
Please do not duplicate, except for short excerpts for publication, credited to the author.
Of interest to anyone, regardless of training:
'The Perennial Medicine"
(available both as a CD or an audio download - scroll down for link)
This is the essential statement of my perspective on healing and the healing traditions. Please email a request with your name and address for a free copy (donations accepted).
Perennial Medicine:
Medicine reflects the cosmology of the culture out of which it arises. In this CD, PERENNIAL MEDICINE, Thea Elijah elucidates and compares two broad categories of medicine. These categories are what she calls Perennial Medicine and Annual Medicine. Chinese medicine is a form of Perennial Medicine and Western allopathic medicine is a form of Annual Medicine.
Both Perennial Medicine and Annual Medicine must answer the questions: what is the highest good?; what is the causative power or agency for change?; what is the meaning of life and why are we here?; what happens after this life? Each system of medicine answers these questions very differently.
Practitioners of Chinese medicine who were raised in the culture of Western allopathic medicine need to understand the differences between the paradigm of the medical system in which we were raised and the paradigm of the medical system that we have chosen to practice. This CD, PERENNIAL MEDICINE, elegantly makes these distinctions clear and thereby empowers and encourages us to develop ourselves as practitioners of the resonance medicine that is Chinese medicine.
PERENNIAL MEDICINE - now available as a download:
NUMEROLOGY :Comparison of 5 & 8:
This CD, COMPARISON OF 5 & 8, is the first of a pair with INTEGRATION OF 5 & 8. In COMPARISON OF 5 & 8 Thea Elijah takes us on the evolutionary journey that is numerology. We move through the stages of consciousness that are "1" through "12" and start to see how these movements inform Chinese medicine. Thea gives us the setting in which "5" and "8" reside so that we may begin to understand them. By comparing the energetics of "5" & "8" we are given a starting place of difference and comparison from which we can then move on to the second CD -- INTEGRATING 5 & 8.
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Seasons and Weather:
Integrating 5 & 8:
This CD, INTEGRATING 5 & 8, is the second in a pair with COMPARISON OF 5 & 8. In INTEGRATION OF 5 & 8 Thea Elijah shares with us the richness and power that come from the integration of 5 Elements and 8 Principles. We are able to see how every person has a "5 Element Destiny" and an "8 Principle Excuse". By sounding the resonances of the 5 Virtues we can bring about deep levels of healing. Integrating the treatment of "constitution" and "the daily weather report" allows us to broaden the range of our healing work.
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FINDING A SENSE OF BELONGING
This is my keynote speech at the Building Bridges conference in 2007. I have posted the written form, but it is much more powerful to hear it.
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INTRO TO MEDICINE WITHOUT FORM:
Here is an audio sample of a recent intro session for Medicine Without Form.
(Class exercises are edited out, since they are experiential and don't make good listening!)
IF WE'RE ALL ONE, WHY CAN'T WE GET ALONG?
This is a sermon that I preached at a Unitarian church on Sufi peacemaking skills.
LEGITIMACY: This is a guided meditation/transmission/exercise best done standing or sitting with your feet on the ground. It is an empowerment of our secure sense of beauty, agency and belonging as a child of Heaven and Earth, designed to help us to be able to be powerful without dominating or being dominated, and be filled with awe and appreciation for others’ finest qualities and achievements without feeling lesser in ourselves.
Audio clips from classes now being offered:
INTRO TO SPIRIT OF THE HERBS
Here is the heart of my approach to teaching 5 element herbal studies. Included is a description of the difference between working with herbs from the paradigm of Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and Shamanism.
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INTRO TO EMOTION TESTING
This is the beginning of my class of Assessing Emotion. So many 5 Element practitioners have had bad experiences with this form of training that they would rather almost any other fate than actually attend a workshop on this subject-- but I promise you, this is different. It's not about manipulation. It's about communicating clearly to someone that you are listening to them even more deeply than words alone can convey. Listen.
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THE 5 VIRTUES
This is a single-day workshop that I taught in 2007, and it gives a context for the purpose behind assessing the 5 emotions: namely, to help in their journey of transformation into embodiment of the 5 virtues.
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FROM WHOLE HEART ACUPUNCTURE:
A discussion of love, sex, romance, pain, betrayal and healing-- to be listened to after watching Janis Joplin sing "Cry, Baby." see video of Janis Joplin:
Disscussion:
Of interest to practitioners:
ZHE BEI MU FRITILLARIA
This is about the sharpness and particularity of grief's most private moments, and how they can drive us into twisted fanaticism, or into the keenest appreciation for life's most precious of details. (The transcript is on the web site, but the audio transmission is so much stronger.)
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CINNAMON TWIG SOUP WITH DRAGON BONE AND OYSTER SHELL
This is an emotionally challenging (and liberating) doosey of a lecture on love and sex and many of the other forms of madness that we unwittingly bring into the mix, like jing thievery.
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PRACTITIONER PREP:
This is a recording from a class right before seeing a client in front of class together. It is a narrative describing my customary inner process of centering and opening before engaging with a client.
New - By request:
XI CLEFT POINTS - Recording only
This is a recording of Thea Elijah's two hour phone class on Xi cleft points. It is cleanly edited into a very information-rich and evocative description of the nature of Xi clefts and their usage, as well as a close-up look at each Xi cleft point, its name, and its functions. This discussion is rich in metaphor and imagery, and is energetically rather than symptomatically based, so that practitioners can "feel" the point descriptions. This recording would be of interest to 5 element and non-5 element acupuncturists wishing to deepen their understanding of Xi clefts.
