100 Hour TRAINING PROGRAM—Level 1:

Chow Qigong is a powerful system. Learn techniques of health assessment using energy concepts, skills in touch healing, acupressure, energy manipulation, traditional Chinese massage, relaxation skills, Qigong exercises to boost your Qi maximize stamina, wellness, and disease prevention.  Learning will be augmented by methods of visualization and meditation specially developed by Master Chow.  Some independent study and practice will be an integral part of the course.  A certificate of completion is awarded at the completion of all requirements of the course.

This 100 hour training program is an integral component of a more extensive 400 hour training course and a part of The Chow (Medical) Qigong System.  Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow's highly successful training program is based on the model developed at the East West Academy of Healing Arts by Dr. Chow with the cooperation of the University of California, San Francisco Extension, Division of Nursing Continuing Education.  It has been implemented in Kalispel, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seatle, Spokane, Washington D.C. and the Canadian cities of Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, and Waterloo as well as in many other areas.  Dr. Chow is combining ancient and modern and Eastern and Western theories and practices with her own original theories and practices utilizing Energy Principles.  The Chow Integrated Healing System is both powerful and dynamically effective, as well as cost effective.

The Chow Integrated System focuses on enhancing or maximizing one's own health potential and subsequently assisting others in health promotion.  New and ancient concepts regarding life stages from birth to death area explored as well as new meanings of health and illness, and other interpretations of physiological responses.  Participants learn the system of Chow Qigong with techniques of health assessment using energy concepts.  Skills in the touch systems of healing, which include mental processes laying-on-of-hands, acupressure, polarity, and energy manipulation will be demonstrated and practiced.  Chinese methods of cooking and nutrition will be taught.  These will be augmented by visualization, imagery and meditative processes especially developed by Dr. Chow.  Creative use of stress relaxation skills and Chinese forms of exercise will be taught.

These skills can be useful in the prevention and treatment of chronic and degenerative conditions, our primary problems of today.  Emphasis will be placed on the system of touch healing techniques for the reduction of stress, the prevention of specific problems, and the rebalancing of energy.  Imbalances influences conditions such as headaches, sinus conditions, bursitis, tendonitis, backache, leg pains, abdominal cramps/distress, menstrual problems, PMS, pulled muscles, arthritis, paralytic conditions, disabilities, mental/emotional problems such as depression, and many, many others.

The goal of Dr. Chow's course is to provide a MODEL for integrating the best scientific theories, energy principles and practices of both Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine to more efficiently maximize human function and health with greater cost-effectiveness and human-ness.

Objectives of the Course:

1: To show how the American/Canadian Medical and health promotion systems work and how holistic health concepts may be integrated into them.

2:  To help students understand how health is a part of a larger eco-life-system.

3:  To point out common elements in transcultural healing systems.

4:  To teach a conceptual framework of holistic health, emphasizing the Chinese traditional health system as one model based on the Tao philosophy and the Laws of the Five Elements.

5:  To teach skills of health assessment via energy concepts.

6:  To assist students to identify stress and learn additional ways of coping.

7:  To teach the utilization of energy  systems and healing techniques, prevention of and therapy for health problems, the development of stamina, and the building of the immune system for the enhancement of one's own life.

To enhance skills such as communication, problem-solving, dealing with emotions, perfecting self-discipline, organizing and managing lives, healing, etc.  The understanding of energy enables students to integrate new theories and skills with old.

Course CONTENT:

1: Holistic health, disease prevention, and health promotion—general principles and the status of the art; trans-cultural perspective; integration strategies.

2:  Creative concepts of Body, Mind, and Spirit.

3:  Stress identification.

4:  Relaxation techniques—some quickly learned exercises.

5:  Meditation, visualization, imagery—Dr. Chow's processes of positive energy theory.

6:  General introduction to the system of traditional Chinese health practices.

7: Taoism and the Laws of the Five Elements.

8: Life stages: birth to death.

9: Chinese exercises forms for basic centering—includes Chow Qigong, Taiji, proper posture and breathing, building stamina.

10: Chinese way of cooking and nutrition.

11: Theory and demonstration of energy systems—their effectiveness and usage in combination with sound, light, color, texture, taste, humor, dance, etc.

12: Meridian systems, points and their utilization.

13: Health assessment via energy concepts.  Diagnostic sensitivity.

14: Concept of self-responsibility and the teaching of it to others.

15: Touch healing techniques and massage.

16: Protection methods—healer/healee concepts, cautions, adverse reactions and remedies.

17: Prevention of specific problems.

18: Special affirmative interaction exercises—affirmation, news and good, fantasy sharing, self-praise, etc.

19: Perfecting techniques—review, discussion of practice/exercise, ongoing evaluations, personal transformation.

20: Practice hours and clinical sessions.

21: Examinations and demonstrations.

Although the division of topics is defined above, it is understood that in order to teach what is holistic in nature, the topics will necessarily be intertwined with one another.  Additional assignments for practice, exercises, research, readings, a personal project and the keeping of journal will be required.  Notes on the outcomes of some case studies resulting from the research of Dr. Chow's

Instructor: Effie Poy Yew Chow, Ph.D., R.N., Qigong Grandmaster, Certified Acupuncturist.  President, East West Academy of Healing Arts.  Other gust lecturers with special areas of expertise may be invited and students who have completed the course may assist.

In order to receive a certificate of completion from the East West of Healing Arts, the student is expected to complete the following:

1: Attend all classes.  In consideration of others and the process, please be on time.
2. Daily journals handed in at the beginning of each class session.
3. Practice exercises regularly.
4. Hand in major project by the first day of the last session of the series of classes.
5. Attain 75% on the open examination/review.
6. Carried out all assignments.

What you accomplish depends upon your commitment and efforts.  Of the students who have gone through this course, some have established their own private practices, some have incorporated the knowledge in their present professional positions, some have developed mini-teaching packages modeled on this course, and some have used this knowledge for their own growth and development.  It is unlimited as to what you can do… the limitation is your own decision of priority and creative spirit.  So soar the boundless, lofty skies with your creative minds to feel the magic of the new and ancient wisdom; the universe and the power is for you to behold.  Reach for that impossible dream.