Tibetan Medical External Therapies
A Weekend Workshop with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
SEPTEMBER 26 - 27 at Pure Land Farms
This workshop introduces participants to Sowa Rigpa, the traditional medical system of Tibet with special emphasis on the hands on external therapies.
Dr. Nida will introduce his new book, Tibetan Healing Massage, forthcoming from Sky Press.
Massage therapy is a part of every healing tradition in the world, and healing touch may be the oldest and most natural therapy known to humans: ancient Egyptian and Indian written records of massage therapy date from 2500 BCE, and oral traditions speak of origins still older. Kunyé is the massage therapy of Sowa Rigpa—traditional Tibetan Medicine—and with other Sowa Rigpa 'external therapies' forms a key component of a sophisticated and holistic system of medicine that offers us a path to health and happiness through the cultivation of balance and harmony.
With precise and varied manual techniques, specially-prepared herb-infused oils tailored to the individual's unique constitution and environment as well as the changes of both life and season, as well as an array of low-tech tools such as heated and cooled stones, herbal compresses, incense, copper cups, and traditional wooden tools, kunyé and the related external therapies discussed in this book offer a noninvasive and highly-adaptable approach to health and wellness that a properly trained therapist can safely and effectively practice for people of all ages and states of health.
