Ring in Chinese New Year with Five Element Theory

Saturday, February 5 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm ~ Victoria Zito
$20-$40 sliding scale

This class will add technicolor to the honey of flowers and magic of wood New Mexico is laden with, in light of the Year of the Tiger. In the optimal year to put brilliant ideas into practice, let's harness transformational allies and practical tools from the natural world based on feeling, desire, tongue and pulse!

While some interpret Winter as impending doom, and others a valuable time for introspection, we can signal a soft surrender to shorter days and darker nights by building Kidney Qi and immunity alongside nourishing the water element.  

Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the 8 Principles School: Yin/Yang, Excess/Deficient, Exterior / Interior, Hot/Cold and 5 Elements: Water/Wood/Fire/Earth/Metal. They are interconnected with each other and can be used as a lens onto deficiency caused by genetics/lifestyle or deficiency begun after an external excess has invaded.

Encourage balance in your body by learning which symptoms correlate with Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and or Metal, of which all apply to the Tiger type. You will walk away knowing which common weeds regulate blood, how to distinguish Yin and Yang deficiency, the 3 Treasures of the body, and how reading your tongue and pulse helps inform these!

Like Tarot, I-Ching, Yoga, or Research, Tongue and Pulse Diagnostics is a data point for informing the self.  Bring a notebook and a mug to this class!

Victoria’s Biography: Victoria is a clinically trained hypnotherapist and herbalist whose practice adds nuance to science and spirit’s attempt to convey the same message, in two different ways. Her close study of botany in Vermont precipitated her interest in locating plant’s inherent desire to benefit human health; with a heart and mind entrained to the woods already, she later studied western and Chinese herbalism in Appalachia and participated in pilot research projects with woodland botanicals that merged the two.

Later welcomed by the embrace of wild diversity of plants in the micro-climates of Florida, this began her home of the study of hypnotherapy. Taking note of the interplay between mind, emotion and spirit has inspired her to observe how the inner ecosystem correlates with outer ones. She was given insight into these changes by learning to assess Qi and Essence by taking the pulse.

Everyday she strives to learn more on the synchronicities and folkways of plants and bring them into the context of herbal medicine!