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April 21: Pasadena – Free Intro to Medical Qigong – 6pm to 7pm
April 28: Pasadena – Medical Qigong Class – 6pm to 7pm
May 1: Venice – Medical Qigong for Beginners – 9am to 10am
May 1: Venice – Advanced Medical Qigong – 10am to 11am
May 3: Highland Park – Community Medical Qigong – 6am to 7am
May 5: Pasadena – Medical Qigong Class – 6pm to 7pm
May 8: Cypress Park – Chinese Medicine Cafe Hour – 5:30pm

This is the first in a series of cooking classes on making healthy and delicious meals with Chinese Herbs. Learn authentic Cantonese style cooking from a Cantonese Chef.

Class Information:
Eating healthy doesn’t necessarily mean you have to compromise on taste. Over thousands of years, the Cantonese from Southern China have refined and mastered the art of integrating food with medicine to make tasty dishes that you and your family/patients will love to eat.

Beginning with How to Cook Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup, chef/instructor Henry Jun Wah Lee will introduce you to Cantonese cooking and how it can help you make wellness, and longevity a normal part of your everyday life.

Benefits of the Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup:

The herbal soup you will be learning to make is a tonic that is perfect for the coming winter as it warms the body, boosts your Qi or vital energy, builds blood, and strengthens the immune system. You will also learn several modifications include one for post partum women to aid them in their recovery after child birth.

In the class How to Cook Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup you will:

1. Enjoy a bowl of Chinese Herbal Chicken Soup. Trying to buy this at a quality restaurant can cost you $15-$25 a bowl, if you can find it.
2. Participate in a live demonstration of the entire preparation and cooking process. The class will be taught in a working kitchen.
3. Learn where to shop for ingredients – including how to get sulfur-free, pesticide-free and/or organic herbs.
4. Learn the philosophy behind Cantonese cooking.
5. Gain a deeper understanding of the properties of foods which will help you decide how to shop and modify dishes for your specific constitution or condition.
6. Receive useful handouts and a bag of herbs you can take home and make your own soup with right away.

This is a beginner cooking class for people who want to play an active role in their own health and well-being. You don’t have to be a good cook nor do you have to have any knowledge of Chinese Herbs or Chinese Medicine. Henry will guide you through the whole process in this fast and fun half-day class.

Class Fee: $58.00 (before Dec. 1) or $68.00 (on or after Dec. 1). Fee also includes a bowl of soup, handouts and herbs you can take home.

Day and Time: Saturday, December 12th, 2009 from 9 am to 1 pm.

Location: Los Angeles, California. Exact location to be determined.

Class size is limited to 12 people maximum so reserve your space early!

For more information or to register, please contact Henry at 310-980-8645 or email info@henryjunwahlee.com

About Henry Jun Wah Lee
Henry Jun Wah Lee is a Medical Qigong instructor with a Masters degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has been cooking since he was a child, learning and honing his skills in his family’s Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia, PA where he grew up. His bicultural background provides him with unique insights on bridging the gap many westerners face when learning Chinese Medicine, or integrating Chinese wellness practices into their lives. For more information, please visit www.HenryJunWahLee.com

About Cantonese Cuisine:
Southern Chinese (Cantonese) cuisine is renowned both internationally as well as across China for its delicious flavors, diverse and exotic ingredients and health benefits. Cantonese cooking has been refined for more than 2,000 years – much longer than most civilizations have existed. Its depth, history, and wisdom are revealed not just in its flavors but also in its integration with other aspects of living – health, culture, art and philosophy.

For the Cantonese, food isn’t just something tasty you put in your mouth. Food is life. Food is medicine. It is how we can nourish our bodies as well as our minds and spirits. Thanks to the influence of the Taoists, developers of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cantonese cooks look not just for flavor and freshness but also for taste, temperature and other medicinal properties of foods. Chinese herbs are a natural part of everyday cooking and goes into soups and dishes. They can be used for prevention, overall wellness, longevity and for specific illnesses.

Qi Gong with Merle Morgan to Support Tree People - July 26, 4-5:30pm.

My original Qi Gong teacher, Merle Morgan, is back to teaching! Perfect for new people or as a review for those who’ve taken her classes before. Merle is an incredible teacher and she’s the one who inspired me to get on the path of Chinese Medicine.

Come and join Merle Morgan L.Ac from 4.00pm-5.30pm, Sunday 26 July, and support TreePeople at the same time.  Learn the ‘Golden Eight’ as a series to develop your own energy (Qi) or use isolated exercises as prescription for your patients…..or if you learned them already, come along for a thorough review.

TreePeople:
12601 Mulholland Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Telephone (818) 753-4600

For more information and directions, please go to the TreePeople website: http://www.treepeople.org/

Infrared Photography at the Los Angeles Arboretum

I ventured out to the Los Angeles Arboretum on Sunday and took photos using an infrared filter for my Canon SX1 IS digital camera. Pretty cool, eh?

Infrared light is invisible to the naked eye but with the help of a filter, you can see the world from a completely different perspective. Objects which are bright in visible light become dark. And objects normally dark become bright. Very cool and eerie at the same time.

More infrared photography - at the Learning Garden in Venice, CA

What do you need to get started?
An infrared filter such as the Hoya R72, a digital camera that can take add-on filters (Digital SLRs and some prosumer cameras like my Canon SX1IS), and a tripod. You’ll also need a photo editing program like Adobe Photoshop for post production.

Links for further reading
Getting Started Guide to infrared photography
101 Absolutely Breathtaking Infrared Photographs
Comprehensive Digital Camera Infrared Photography Guide

Visit my Chinese medicine web site: http://www.HenryJunWahLee.com

Hey, did I mention I am a Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Intern at the Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles, California? If you are in the Southern California area, come see me for acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and medical Qi Gong!

My website just went up so come check it out! The address is based on my Chinese name. http://www.HenryJunWahLee.com.

Look for me in the Learning Garden every Saturday at 10 am.

Every Saturday morning from 10 am – 12 noon, I lead a Qi Gong practice group at the Learning Garden in Venice, CA. The practice has been going for more than 5 years. It was originally formed to provide a place for students of Master Hong Liu to have regular group practice.

Starting Saturday, March 21 I will be opening the class up to new people who are interested in learning Grandmaster Hong Liu’s Medical Qi Gong. Whether you are a natural healer, a student of the healing arts or someone interested in self-healing and cultivation, this is a great place to get introduced to his forms.

To give a little history, I have been a student of Master Hong for over 8 years. His classes and the amazing results I personally witnessed from his treatments were what originally inspired me to become a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. I’ve seen him bring people out of comas, cure hepatitis and beat cancer using Qi Gong and medicinal herbs. I highly recommend his forms due to their simplicity, effectiveness, their specific medical applications and the wide range of exercises that are offered.

If you don’t know who Master Hong Liu is, he is one of the few Qi Gong Grandmasters in the world and is regarded as a living treasure in China and Hawaii. He was a western trained physician in China who studied under several Qi Gong Masters. He has written a book, The Healing Art of Qi Gong which tells about his story. The last 1/3 of the book is filled with practical, easy to learn and easy to teach Qi Gong exercises you can do for a variety of diseases. He currently travels around the country teaching classes, doing research on the benefits of Qi Gong and providing private healing sessions.

About the class
In the first hour we start with warm up and preparation exercises, followed by Spring seasonal Qi Gong which changes about every 15 days. The seasonal Qi Gong helps you stay in tune with the seasons and are great for general wellness as well as for specific Spring-related medical conditions. In the second hour, we do one of his more advanced forms. If you are new, I recommend doing only the first hour.

Cost is $5 per class. 20% is donated to the Learning Garden.

About the Seasonal Qi Gong
The movement of the Earth and the Sun create our seasons. The seasons affect your energy and your internal organs. The effect can show up in your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual states.

You can learn how to draw from the peaking energies of the seasons rather than fighting them, ending up drained and dry. Using 3,000-year-old practices, you can maximize your internal organs, sleeping and eating patterns, emotions, thought patterns– even your prosperity. Learn how to nourish the beginnings of yang energy in the Spring so that your mood, joints, liver and gallbladder are in their best shape.

Class Location:
The Learning Garden (www.thelearninggarden.org)
Southeast corner of Venice Blvd and Walgrove Ave, next to Venice High School in Venice, CA. Entrance is through the gate on Walgrove Ave. There is usually ample street parking on Walgrove and on Venice.

Class starts March 21, 2009 at 10 am.

Contact:
Henry Lee, e-mail henry@evosia.com or call 310-980-8645. Contact me if you plan to attend. Visit my web site: www.leejunwah.com