Bridging the gap between world class research, and local community health promotion in Colorado

The Institute seeks to be proactive in the community and connect with local health care providers and community groups. Entertaining and inspiring these lectures are designed to increase knowledge and motivation for participants to live a healthier more vigorous life. This season we will be conducting a series of lectures for various groups around town including the Olli program at the University of Denver.

Topics include:

• Pathways to Wisdom: Healthy Aging in Mind, Body and Spirit

• How to Relieve Pain and Stay Healthy Naturally

• Meditation in Motion: The Art and Science of T’ai Chi Ch’uan

• Exercise is Medicine: How to Treat, Relieve and Prevent Common Ailments

 

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Sponsors provide space, promotion and pay for printing and the speaker honorarium. Low income organizations can request assistance and larger organizations are asked to contribute what they can. (more…)

Postgraduate part-time courses and training in evidence-based health care

Led by internationally recognised experts and leaders in evidence-based practice and education, the Programme has received worldwide recognition for the quality of its teaching and graduates.
Our mission is to develop students to influence and improve health care practice through our world-class programme in evidence-based health care. Part-time postgraduate courses devised to be undertaken by those in full-time employment.

For healthcare professionals and researchers, for example:

• doctors, nurses, clinical researchers
• healthcare managers, health information specialists
• medical journalists, professionals in health-related industries

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Advice from the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic”

“The philosophy of Winter is one of stillness and conservation. During winter, lakes and rivers freeze, snow falls, all creatures in nature hibernate to some extent, and so should we. Retire early to bed and sleep in later. Get up with the sunrise. Desires and focus on your troubles should be kept quiet and subdued as if keeping a happy secret. Stay warm, avoid the cold and especially, avoid sweating and then going out in the cold. All this is in harmony with the Qi of Winter, and all this is the method of protecting ones stillness and conservation.”

(Huang Di Nei Jing Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Internal Medicine)

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The Art of Letting Go: Remedy for Stressful Holidays
By Joseph Brady

Can you worry yourself sick? You bet you can. As we head into the holiday season after a bitter election, many are dreading the political conversations with that crazy old uncle that every family seems to have. . If we don’t handle it well, we not only suffer rifts in the family fault lines we can actually weaken immune response and make ourselves sick.

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By Jacqui Shumway and Joseph Brady

There is more to balance than not falling over, it may also keep us from falling apart. After the 2016 election and the information age sweeping us along faster and faster, stress levels are becoming greater and greater. Some stress can make you stronger biologically, but it can also lead to breakdowns in the system when we exceed our “stress limit.” Minor breakdowns often show up as “feeling” tired, depressed, out of shape … just plain stressed out. Instead of speeding up the pace, the antidote to that stress may be to slow down in everything, including our exercise programs. One method of slowing down is being referred to as both the “latest exercise craze to hit the western health market” and as “ an ancient Chinese art that is one of China’s national treasures” – T’ai Chi Chuan.

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