Heathmont Chinese Medicine

14/08/2022

Device use creates a dopamine hit that becomes addictive creating anxiety and irrational emotions if we don't keep getting the hit. Take control

05/04/2022

This is a great offer, 3 classes and you're in front financially and emotionally, then 18 days still to go!

Are you new to our studio?
Are you a local & live within 20km of PHY?
Then your eligible for our 21 Day New Student Intro Offer $59
This offer only available by emailing
info@purehotyoga.com.au
www.purehotyoga.com.au

01/02/2022

Unfortunately we are having some phone connection issues at the clinic today.
If you need to reach us please email info@heathmontchinesemedicine.com.au

Thank you for your understanding 💚

05/05/2021

A reminder of the magic of winter fast approaching, this perfect pumpkin was grown by our very own Ciara.

29/03/2021

More on Jaguarina (Ella Hattan), swordswoman extraordinaire, and all-round martial artist. She "was expert in fighting with the singlestick, rapier, dagger, bayonet, lance, Spanish knife, and bowie knife, defeating fencing heavyweights such as Sergeant Owen Davis of the U.S. Cavalry, the famed knife duelist Charles Engelbrecht of the Danish Royal Guard, and the fencing master E. N. Jennings of the Royal Irish Hussars.

"By 1897, Hattan had defeated sixty men in contests on foot as well as on horseback, and was declared “the only woman in the world who has . . . been able to wrest championship honors from men of the greatest skill in the use of all chivalric weapons.” For the past twelve years, asserted the Boston Daily Globe, she had “met all comers in mounted contests, and has never been defeated in a battle for general points” (Boston Daily Globe, May 31, 1897).

"Of these opponents, twenty-seven were said to have been masters-at-arms—a statistic verified by at least one major newspaper (Cleveland Plain Dealer, Apr. 10, 1989). As a result of these combats, Hattan carried scars on her face, arms, and body (New York Sunday Telegraph, Dec. 20, 1903). Still, more than one male reporter, expecting to meet a “fierce faced Amazon,” was shocked to find that Hattan exuded grace, refinement, and, as one put it, “perfect self-control and sweetness” (Cleveland Plain Dealer, Apr. 10, 1989).

"As Hattan herself explained, 'I’m a firm believer in the philosophy that women were meant to be just as robust and hardy as men—and they can be without losing any of their womanliness. In fact, physical culture gives grace, beauty, self-reliance— while taking nothing but aches and dyspepsia.' (Victoria Daily Colonist, Mar. 11, 1893)

"In addition to her prowess at arms, Hattan also evinced a profound intellect and eloquence, especially in her statements regarding health and physical culture: 'If the people of the world were, all at once, transformed into original beings, as intended by nature, there would be little left to do for doctors and instructors in physical development. The so-called advancements in civilization have obliterated our natural selves to such a degree that the first requisites of nature to a healthful condition of the body are so obscured that by the time a man or woman of the present has fairly entered upon life they are so artificial, so unreal in their existence that they require teaching how to live. The whole secret of good health, and a fair physical development, is in returning to the first principles of nature . . . The very simplicity of the thing constitutes its chief mystery. It is only because we have outlived all plainness and all that is simple and natural that we are forced to resort to complicated expedients to undo the evils resulting from unnatural and artificial living." (Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 28, 1890)."

https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/blog/womens-history-spotlight-jaguarina-and-colonel-monstery/

22/03/2021

truth

10/03/2021

All the hacks

12/02/2021

Hi Everyone, we must close until Thursday. On Monday I'll call everyone with an appointment next week to reschedule or arrange herbs or do whatever we need to do. Please, have a gentle weekend, I'll be thinking of you. 🙏 Talk soon. KR Justin HCM

18/01/2021

Check this out if you also have a young women in the house 🏋️‍♀️

C o u r a g e & C r o w n s 💃 👑

*event link in comments 💕

Gee I love this name I came up with. It took me all day on Saturday until I had shower late arvo. So many good messages are received in the shower ✨✨

I'm so looking forward to running these groups for Young Women. My friends say to me- "I wish I had someone to teach me these things when I was younger."

Yep I hear you, I hear you. 🙏❤

Courage to say yes to all the things you really want to say yes to.
Courage to say no to the things that don't feel right.
Courage to be your unique self.

And all the while....all the while, adjusting your crown so you are being the most beautiful and amazing version of yourself.

Courage and Crowns - see event details for upcoming groups for Young Women 12-20 ###

18/12/2020

Justin and the Staff would like to say thank you 🙏 for your support in 2020 and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The clinic will be closed from December 24th until January 5th 2021. Bookings can be made online here.
https://www.heathmontchinesemedicine.com.au/bookings/

12/11/2020

The Professor, such a gift to humanity...

Hall of Happiness – Cheng Man Ching (Zhèng Mànqīng 鄭曼青) (1902-1975). This poem by Professor Cheng, hung in the Tai Chi studio on 87 Bowery.
"May the joy that is everlasting gather in this hall. Not the joy of a sumptuous feast, which slips away even as we leave the table; nor that which music brings—it is only of a limited duration. Beauty and a pretty face are like flowers; they bloom for a while, then die. Even our youth slips swiftly away and is gone.

No, enduring happiness is not in these, nor in the three joys of Jung Kung. We may as well forget them, for the joy I mean is worlds away from these.

It is the joy of continuous growth, of helping to develop in ourselves and others the talents and abilities with which we were born—the gifts of heaven to mortal men. It is to revive the exhausted and to rejuvenate that which is in decline, so that we are enabled to dispel sickness and suffering.

Let true affection and happy concourse abide in this hall. Let us here correct our past mistakes and lose preoccupation with self. With the constancy of the planets in their courses or of the dragon in his cloud wrapped path, let us enter the land of health and ever after walk within its bounds.

Let us fortify ourselves against weakness and learn to be self reliant, without ever a moment’s lapse. Then our resolution will become the very air we breathe, the world we live in; then we will be as happy as a fish in crystal waters. This is the joy which lasts, that we can carry with us to the end of our days. And tell me, if you can; what greater happiness can life bestow?"

04/08/2020

Master Gu, Chinese Daoist Master, & I explore the definition, meaning & philosophy of the Yin and Yang Symbol + how it can help us find balance in our lives....

24/06/2020

Take it easy sometimes :)

How much exercise is too much?

Women are especially susceptible to doing damage to their delicate balance of hormones when participating in high intensity exercise too frequently.

The body craves movement, yes. And hormones love movement, yes. However, the current trends of high intensity exercise at the crack of dawn each and every day are, in some cases, doing more harm than good.

You see, the female body is Yin in nature. It needs rest and restoration and nurturing. The combination of reduced sleep and pushing the body beyond its limits on a regular basis is enough to cause increased stress levels as the body frantically tries to repair. Combining this with a low carb diet (all the rage right now) and the body is desperate for nourishment.

Some symptoms of hormonal imbalance that could be associated with over exercising are hair loss, fatigue and loss of period.

This is not to say that high intensity exercise is not beneficial. It absolutely is... when executed well. Try alternating high intensity exercise with yoga or Pilates to allow the body full recovery and restoration.

This allows the inner workings of the body such as the intricate hormones to remain balanced.

19/06/2020

Hi Everyone, our modem is on the blink, Dodo is sending us a new one but until then there are no phones! Sorry. Please feel free to reach out here or via email info@heathmontchinesemedicine.com.au

03/06/2020

Winter is here! Chinese Medicine understands the importance of living in harmony with the seasons. According to Chinese Medicine, winter is associated with Yin, the most dark, slow, cooling, contracting energy. The season of winter also influences the kidneys. In Chinese Medicine the kidneys are said to store a vital essence important for sustaining energy, due to this, we must protect this energy from depletion in the cooler months of the year. Some simple ways to protect our bodies during winter include consuming warming foods and liquids such as soup and teas, keeping our chest and feet warm with socks and scarves, slowing down physical activity and taking time to rest and reflect inward 💚

25/05/2020

This will be an interesting read

My apologies for sorta falling off the map here. I've had my hands full with several projects but the one that has take most of my time recently is almost ready and I wanted to post about it here at this point to start the slow drip of advertising.

My dear friend and colleague Shelley Ochs and I have finished an ebook about how COVID-19 was dealt with here from a Chinese medicine perspective. We have translated quite a lot of material, some I had already posted (protocols), but most of the material in it will be found in English for the first time. We have lectures by three of the four person steering committee, academic discussions about how to approach this and other epidemics by three top scholar physicians in China and two case discussions, although with some other material.

We managed to get all the material (rights) and translated, edit, format, etc. in less than two months, which is longer than we originally hoped for, but anyone who's ever done a book, even a short one like this will understand the significance of that accomplishment.

It will be released as a FREE ebook as soon as the ebook programing (or whatever you call it) has been completed, hopefully before Friday, May 29th.

Anyway, I will leave you with the cover image. Please share this post and stayed tuned for the actual release.