Leta Herman, Energetic Acupressure

The Acupressure Workshop Series started on March 6th, 2011. This is a general class for those who want a deeper understanding of acupressure theories for personal use or to incorporate into an existing practice.

Come to one or many of the series! To register, click here.

Meet each of the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine in living, breathing 3-D as Leta walks, talks, and even dances them right before your eyes!

"This work comes right from Leta's heart…and her funny bone!"

The first step to improving relationships is to understand and accept yourself and how you naturally interact with others and with your environment. Then from that place of understanding, you can choose to stretch your own energetic abilities by learning to interact positively with those who move through the world differently than you do.

This class gives you the skills to understand how you can choose to interact in a new way with those close to you (family, partners, friends) as well as in your professional relationships. Examples of things you can do that will greatly enhance relationships include:

• Changing your cadence and sentence structure when speaking.
• Changing the intensity of your gaze
• Changing the firmness of your handshake
• Changing how you reward (or criticize)

These are just a few of the topics we will focus on during this class.(4 hours)

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Bring the Five Elements to your school or teen group! The Five Elements are fun and interactive and provokes a lot of thoughtful discussions among friends. 

The class for teens is fun, interactive, and music-filled. Students learn how to identify which element they are and how to identify their friends' elements. The class can also help teens deal with their parents in a totally new way!

Discover how the Chinese Five Element philosophy can help you maximize your full potential in business and enhance your customer, employee, and co-worker interactions.

Classes can be tailored for your specific business needs:

• Customer Retention - How to create instant rapport with customers
• Team Building - Each of us is constitutionally geared to excel in certain areas. Why not build a team where each person's role matches their energetic potential. And then teach each team member to respect and utilize the skills of every other team member. 
• Human Resources -Placing employees in positions in which they can excel
• Maximizing your potential as a business leader -- For business owners looking to understand themselves better so as to focus on what they do best and find the best support for their weaker areas.(4 and 8 hours)

  To register, please click here.

This introduction to the Five Elements is specifically designed for practitioners in the mental health field or similar related practices. Learn how to identify your clients' energetic types and then discover how to utilize this knowledge to work with clients. Understand your own element and how to modify it to increase your rapport with different types of client. Also learn how to apply this work to couples therapy.

Introduction to Chinese concepts, such as:

• Qi
• The flow of qi through the meridians
• "Wind" or resistance caused by injuries

Basic acupressure and energetic techniques for:

• Muscle/ligament/tendon pain
• Backaches
• Headaches                                     (4 hours)

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Students will be introduced to a number of acupressure techniques that have long-lasting pain relief effects on tension and pain resulting from injury, repetitive motion, and stress. (4 hours)

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In Chinese Medicine theory, there are five main meridian systems of the body (Primary, Sinew, Luo, Divergent, and Eight Extraodinary). In this workshop, Leta will provide an introduction to the differences between the five systems. We will then work on understanding the Primary Meridians, which are the most commonly used in Chinese Medicine.
 
The course will introduce you to the pathways of the meridians, some of the functions of each meridian and its related organ, the key points and their uses, as well as the poetry or the "ode" of the meridian.
 
This is a first in a series of workshops that cover interesting topics in Chinese Medicine. The course is useful for anyone thinking about training in acupressure or acupuncture, as well as those just interested in expanding their own personal knowledge. In addition, those who are in the healing field may appreciate understanding the meridians to enhance their own modality. This workshop will be followed by more focused workshops outlining each of the meridians plus other topics of interest in Chinese Medicine . (6 hours plus 1 hour lunch)

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“The Secret” is the buzzword to manifest what you want in life (as seen on Oprah!). But how does “The Secret” affect healing in general? Explore the paradoxes and conundrums of this radical way of thinking with respect to being in the healing profession or undergoing your own personal healing.(2 hours)

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Come learn the Chinese Medicine approach to staying healthy all year long. This one hour workshop describes techniques to stay healthy.

Acupressure Workshop Series, Nov 13th, 2011, the Water Element, Earth/Metal meridians, Acupressure Pain Points (Dr. Tan), Tonification and Dispersal of Points, Pulses and Tonuges

Elemental Energetics: Intro to the Five Elements, Sept 27th, 2011 at Lange Chiropractic, Northampton, MA

Discover Your Elemental Potential, Sept 25th, 2011 at the Natural Living Expo in Sturbridge, MA

Acupressure Workshop Series, Sept 17th, 2011, Northampton, MA - The Metal Element, Left/Right Imbalances, Earth Meridians, Pulses and Tongues

Realizing Your Elemental Potential, Aug 16, 2011, Northampton, MA

Acupressure Workshop Series, Aug 6th, 2011, Northampton, MA - The Earth Element, Moxabustion, Sound of the Voice, Pulses and Tongues

Acupressure Workshop Series, July 9th, 2011, Northampton, MA - The Fire Element, The Fire Meridians, Acu-Touch, Pulses and Tongues.

The Five Elements: Realizing Your Elemental Potential, June 25, 2011, Northampton, MA.

Acupresure Workshop Series, June 12th, 2011, Northampton, MA - The Five Spirits, Liv/GB meridians, Gua Sha, Pulses and Tongues.

Source Alignment: Daoist Alchemical Transformation, April 17, 2011, Whole Health Expo, Northampton, MA

Acupressure Workshop Series, March 6, 2011, Northampton, MA 

Alchemy and Chinese Medicine, January 30, 2011, Belchertown, MA 

The Five Elements: Realizing Your Elemental Potential, January 29, 2011, Belchertown, MA 

Mount Holyoke College J-Term, The Chinese Five Elements: How Your Constitutional Element Affects Your Life and Your Relationships, January 18-21, 2011. 

The Five Elements: Realizing Your Elemental Potential, July 24, 2010, Greenfield Community Acupuncture. 

The Five Elements: Realizing Your Elemental Potential, May 23, 2010 

Energetic Meridians of the Body, May 16, 2010 

The Five Elements & Relationship, 14 February, 2010

The Five Elements for the Mental Health Field, January 30, 2010 

Mount Holyoke College J-Term, The Chinese Five Elements: How Your Constitutional Element Affects Your Life and Your Relationships, January 20-23, 2010.   

The Five Elements Intro, December 9, 2009  

Mount Holyoke College J-Term, The Chinese Five Elements: How Your Constitutional Element Affects Your Life and Your Relationships, January 20-23, 2009

Hampshire College Path To Health Series -- 5 Elements: Discovering Your Elemental Potential, November 17, 2009, Hampshire College Spiritual Life Center

Intro to the Five Elements, October 28, 2008.  Lange Chiropractic

How the Law of Attraction Challenges Our Healing Beliefs,September 14, 2008, Whole Health Expo, Manchester, NH.

Acupressure for Massage Therapists (practice), October 25, 2008, Lange Chiropractic

Ghost Point Treatments: Source Energy Alignment in the Classical Chinese Tradition, October 18 or 19, 2008,  Whole Health Expo, Northampton, MA

Acupressure and Five Elements Seminar, October 12, 2008.  Shaolin Kung Fu of Amherst

Acupressure for Massage Therapists (theory), September 27, 2008.  Lange Chiropractic

The Five Elements: Discovering Your Elemental Potential, September 13, 2008,  Whole Health Expo, Manchester, NH

The Five Elements for Business Leaders, May 27, 2008, Gill-Montague Women Business Owners

Self-Help Acupressure, May 15, 2008.  Shaolin Kung Fu of Amherst

Advanced class, March 29, 2008.  Lange Chiropractic

Introductory class, March 15, 2008.  Lange Chiropractic

Short Intro, March 8, 2008, Whole Health Expo, Northampton, MA