Course
Descriptions

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"Healthcare in America is expensive and underperforming. Despite spending exponentially more on Healthcare than any other country in the world, Americans suffer from more chronic conditions and poor health than most. Healthcare consumes 18% of our GDP and costs continue to rise. This is unsustainable, and our nation will lose its ability to compete in the global market as a result. Of this expenditures, it is estimated that chronic conditions which are largely affected by people's choices and behaviors consume more than 75% of healthcare costs. The current Healthcare model does not work because we do not have a core competency in engaging the patient to optimize their health, self care and well-being.

Now juxtapose this with the fact that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 80% of all heart disease! . But our system is not designed to do this it is the sign to intervene once the disease is established with very poor outcomes.

We have gotten it wrong. The job of medicine is not only to diagnose and treat disease. This Paradigm along alone does not work. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is calling for a 'radical redesign' of Healthcare in this country, they call for changing the balance of power, to coproduce health and well-being in partnership with patients, families, and communities. They call for customizing care to the individual's needs, values, and preferences guided by an understanding of "what matters" to the person in addition to "what's the matter"? They call for promoting well-being to focus on outcomes that matter most to people appreciating that their health and happiness may not require health care.

These are indeed radical changes. The question is: how do we redesigned the system to do this?

The answer is Whole Health.? What is Whole Health? Whole Health is an integrative approach to health care that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. But this requires a radical redesign of what health care is. And the time is now!"

Tracy Goudet, MD, Executive Director,

Veterans Health Administration Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation

AUM Compendium of Courses
for Integrative Health

Mind/Body Exercises

Tai Chi Chuan, Medical Qi Gong, Mindfulness (Shamata, Vispasana), Yoga, and Tai Chi Sword.

The purpose of learning these methods is to empower a health professional with healing technology that they can use to effectively restore energy in clients that have physical deficiencies. Mind/Body exercises are also used for prevention of health imbalances. These techniques are tried and tested methods that can effectively help a person maintain maximum health efficiency on a continual basis.

Foundations of Tai Chi & Qi Gong: This class will address both the Energetic and Academic aspects of Tai Chi & Qi Gong. Students will study the health benefits of the movements, as well as the history. The students will learn the principals of Yang Tai Chi, and Maahaah-Rooh Medical Will Gong.

Tai Chi Chuan:

24 (short set)
108 (long slow set)
108 Chen Man Chen

Students will learn and practice Yang Tai Chi forms. Students will gain and achieve physical re-alignment, balance, and relaxation.

Medical Qi-Gong:

Energetic Set I
Energetic Set II
Wild Goose
Integrated Qi Gong

Students will learn the health and healing benefits of the Maahaah-Rooh system Form 1.

Mindfulness:

Vispasna (Meditation)
Shamata (Meditation)
Tai Chi Sword

Students will learn the physical structure of sitting as well as the proper mental approach to sitting. Students will also learn how to mentally navigate challenges to attaining a relax mind.

Introduction to TCM Philosophy (lecture and discussion):

Students will be introduced to the history, philosophy, and theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Text book will be provided.

Yoga

Hatha Yoga

To provide the basic skills to recommend specific practices to patients suffering from a variety of medical conditions. At least one session a month is dedicated to more energetic movement practices from the Afro-Brazilian martial art tradition of Capoeira. Capoeira can improve strength, flexibility, and coordination as well as physical communication. Students simultaneously explore the design of movement and breath protocols for specific medical conditions and learn how to design a prescription of practices for a variety of ailments for patients with varying physical abilities.

Humanistic Psychology

Emotional Intelligence

This course encompasses lectures and experiential group exercises designed to raise the practitioner’s awareness and cognition of negative and positive emotional states that largely affect our everyday life via the leadership roles we play, the decisions we make, how we relate to others, and our personal wellness and peace of mind. As we get in-touch with our own emotions, we are able to inquire within ourselves as to the possible reasons we behave the way we do and begin to heal and outgrow personal trauma and body dysfunctions. We will learn to engage ourselves in a lifelong process to ensure full maturity and the rising of our consciousness and thereby help our immediate envelope, our love ones, our community and our world to do the same.

Emphatic Listening

Ethics

Psychology of Energetic Defense

This course provides an overview for the psychology of defense before, during and after combat, focusing on the mental and emotional processes involved with physically practicing energetic defense.

Compassionate Psychology

Conflict Resolution

Horse Communion

Humanistic & Wellness Coaching

Bereavement Counseling

Energetic Theory

Intro to TCM Philosophy (I, II, III)

Lecture and discussion. Students will be introduced to the history, philosophy, and theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (Text book will be provided.)

Intro to Japanese Energetic Medicine

Intro to 5 Elements

An Introduction to Five Element Theory and Practice.
This course provides the foundation of classical Five Element acupoint therapy. Includes presentation of the dynamic energetic relationships of the Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood elements for establishing and maintaining healthy balance in body, mind and spirit.

Reiki (I, II, III): Usui & Karuna

Usui Reiki is designed for healers oriented toward achieving peace and unity in the world through the support of inner peace and wholeness. The practitioner is trained to tap into the individual's energy field, with or without light touch, to support the individual's inherent capacities to heal - physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually.

Karuna Ki is the Reiki of compassion, an exploration in the development of deep compassion for self and others, in and out of the healing room. It is also the exploration of the use of the voice through chanting to enhance the healing process.

Advanced methods in Reiki will be taught and practiced by students commensurate with the experience they have gathered previously in the course.

Ayurvedic Medicine (I, II, III)

Ayurveda is a system of holistic healing which originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. The word Ayurveda is the combination of two Sanskrit words, "Ayu" meaning "Life" and "Veda" meaning "Science" or "Wisdom". Ayurveda is based on the understanding that all things are connected. Ayurveda reminds us that health is the balanced and dynamic integration between our environment, body, mind, and spirit. This course is designed to give you a basic understanding of Ayurveda, the Ayurvedic world view, and how Ayurveda can be used for healing.

Native American Medical Philosophy

This course uses an empirical approach to the utilization of native plants and materials for medicinal use on the American continent, specializing in indigenous knowledge and practices from the native peoples of the Southeastern United States.

Nutritional Science

Grounding the Skies (Astrology)

Traditional cultures have an intimate understanding of the rhythms of the phenomenal world around them. The seasons, the sun’s light, the moon’s monthly journey and other cycles are well integrated and shape life. Modern living often isolates us from nature’s ebbs and flows. Yet understanding the rhythms and cyclic nature of the natural world facilitates our ability to align with life’s currents, rather than struggling against them. In this course we will explore the earth’s cycles to foster a more experiential connection to them and, in the process, probe their influence on our clients’ and our personal well-being.

Sound Healing

Aromatherapy (I, II, III)