Chi - The Breath of Life

Business Class Now One-Day Only

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:20:53 -0700

Recently we had the opportunity to poll some of the people who have signed up, or are thinking about signing up, for the Business & Ethics class in November and we learned that a majority were struggling to find time to do a full three-day class. We decided to offer a different format, a one-day seminar in Practitioner Ethics combined with an open-forum discussion of business and marketing best practices and contemporary resources that will be shaped by the interests of the class participants.
This class *will* fulfill practitioner certification requirements, so for those students needing to complete the class we are offering a nifty opportunity to get through it quickly and for a reduced fee. We may not offer this again in the future, so now is definitely the time!
The class will be held on Monday, November 8 from 9:00am to 5:30pm, with one hour for lunch, and the tuition will be $150.00.
Please call the Institute at 510-848-9558 to register for the class. If you have a credit card on file with us indicate whether we may charge the card for your tuition; if not, please be sure to leave your telephone number we can confirm your registration and make arrangements for you to pay when you arrive for the class.
Thank you!

Gilles’ first new CD of the century: in other words, it’s about time!

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:25:33 -0700

The Sunning Meditations CD outlines a simple, universal practice for health and wellbeing. Universal, because it has the potential to benefit everybody. Simple, because it can be done in brief stretches of time in the midst of our busy days, requires no equipment or special clothing, and can be done discreetly just about anywhere, anytime. Interestingly, latest mainstream medical research indicates most of us are at risk of Vitamin D deficiency because we don’t get enough beneficial sun due to lifestyle and concerns about skin cancer. Step by step, Gilles Marin leads you through simple, accessible meditations using the sun, which are designed to support our body’s endocrine system in its critical task of producing the right balance of seratonin and melatonin, our wake-sleeping hormones. A lack of seratonin makes us tired and depressed. The production of melatonin is proportional to the production of seratonin, which is what enables us to have a deep, healthy sleep. Nothing is more beneficial than improving these vital functions, and you will begin to improve them immediately, with deeper and more profound benefit as you continue to practice.
For more information, and to order your copy of this exciting new CD, please click here. From now until October 28th, we’re offering half-off shipping on any order of CD’s.

They’re back! Activating Inner Fire & Harmonizing Our Inner Earth are once more available!

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:55:36 -0700

With the reissue of Activating Inner Fire, and Harmonizing Our Inner Earth, two of our long out-of-print CD’s return to the lineup and are available by mail just in time for the change of season, and in readiness for students returning to our Fall classes.
Harmonizing Our Inner Earth is subtitled The Power of Nutrition, Harmony, and Comfort. It deals specifically with our relationship to the Earth attributes of nurturing, supporting, and comforting our spirits and our bodies, triggering healing on the deepest, yet most pragmatic levels of our human existence.