Lecture Series(Zoom)
The macrobiotic approach has a coherent and easy to learn philosophy based on whole nutrition and a holistic understanding of life. These lectures cover the essentials of macrobiotic diet, lifestyle, way of life, and philosophy.
When you join theses classes you’ll hear presentations, take part in question and answer periods, and learn new information on how to create health through the most fundamental of daily activities-how to choose, prepare and consume the food we eat each day.
If you’re interested in attending a program, please fill out a contact form and you will be notified when the next program is scheduled.
Our programs
1. "Principles of Health and Diet"
These lectures will explore the views and guiding principles central to the macrobiotic way of life and explain the logic and reasoning behind the macrobiotic diet. We will discuss health, sickness, cause, condition, symptoms. We will cover the nutritional and healing properties of various foods and offer practical advice on creating optimum health, harmonizing your energy with the cycles of nature, and more.
- Universal Principles of Harmony and Balance
- Macrobiotic view of Health and Sickness
- Food Classification by Yin & Yang
- Progressive Development of Sickness
- Diet and Evolution
- Macrobiotic Diet
- Manner of Eating
❝ One is not healed through macrobiotics, but through the comprehension of the principles on which the diet is based. It is not brown rice or gomashio which heals, but your spirit which gives you the will to heal ❞
-George Ohsawa, founder of modern macrobiotics
2. "Energy of Food"
In order to and understand the effects of food and successfully manage your health through diet, it is necessary to go beyond the conventional caloric and nutrients-approach to food and turn toward the East for a different perspective.
This series focuses on the ancient Oriental method of identifying and categorizing foods according to their energy type and their related effects on blood, major organs, and body temperature, as well as their effects on emotions and state of mind. You can use this knowledge in daily life to produce meals which are balanced, healing and satisfying.
- Five Transformations
- Food Energetics
- Healing Foods
- Principles of Cooking
3. "Oriental Diagnosis and Health Evaluation"
This series introduces the basics of physiognomy-the ancient Oriental art of reading health condition, character and destiny in the face and other features of the human body.
You will learn how to evaluate a person’s overall health, including constitutional strengths and weaknesses, physical condition, mental characteristics and emotional tendencies. We will discuss what the face, ears, hands, feet, skin, posture, height, shape, colors, etc. can reveal about a person’s condition of major organs, blood quality and energy level. We will evaluate famous people’s physical and mental conditions.
- What the face reveals
- Constitutional traits and hereditary factors
- Physical, mental and emotional characteristics
- Assessing general vitality and blood quality
- Major organs and systems strengths and weaknesses
- Self-diagnosis
4. Nine Star ki Astrology
At first glance, you might wonder why astrology should be part of the macrobiotic curriculum. However, Nine Star Ki is based on the same principles underlying all traditional systems of health and cosmologies of ancient China, including Acupuncture, physiognomy, shiatsu massage, Feng Shui, the I-Ching and many others. Known as Kigaku (“science of energy”) in Japan, Nine Star Ki was introduced to macrobiotic students by Michio Kushi in the 80s and has grown in popularity ever since.
Related to the movement of Ki-energy (called “Qi” in Chinese) affecting Earth’s atmospheric condition. This ancient system of astrology is based on a recurring nine- year cycle of changing energy. It divides people into nine types, each having distinct personality and character traits depending on the particular energy of their year and month of birth. The basic principles are easy to understand and remarkably accurate. An understanding of Nine Star Ki can be very useful when striving after more harmonious relationships.
You will discover:
- What “star” or energy type you are
- The personality and character traits related to your Ki-energy type
- Physical and mental strengths associated with your Ki-energy type
- How you relate to people around you according to their 9 Ki-energy type
- How to unriddle and improve family, work, and love relationships
- What occupation or position you are best suited for
- What years or months are best for accomplishing your goals
- What directions of travel are suitable or not for any particular year or month
- How to use the Nine Star Ki system to assess potential business associations and ventures.
