Alex Tan offers a range of workshops to promote healthy living in Beijing.

These health programs are designed to allow you to immerse yourself in a new perspective of health and learning.
They seek to empower people through the learning of preventative health information and practices that allow a better understanding of the relationship between our environment, lifestyle and health.
The aim is to help you discover the transformative powers of Eastern Health practices for restoring and maintaining balance, health and happiness.

Alex has also set up his Traditional Chinese medicine Clinic to The Hutong

In this one and a half hour discussion we hope to lift the veil on some of the ideas and philosophy behind Asian health and lifestyle practices. We will investigate how such different models of health and medicine developed in the east and west. How can we use both eastern and western ideas to improve our health and how to incorporate these into our daily lives? The focus is on leaving you with the motivation to use this knowledge in a practical and useful way.

Cost: Free

Teacher: Alex Tan – qualified TCM practitioner & educator

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How to Live a Healthy Lifestyle in Beijing

Developing Healthy Habits Using Traditional Chinese Wisdom

Five Session course

In this five-session program we aim to help you to lift the veil on some of the ideas and philosophy behind Asian health and lifestyle practices. The goal of this 5-session program is to incorporate preventative Chinese medicine into your daily life for restoring and maintaining energy, being more efficient at work and dealing more positively with life’s challenges.

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To breathe is to live. We can survive for weeks without food, for days without water, but only minutes without breath. Breathing is a master key to the self-healing. We will explore the dynamics and methods of breathing well from both an ancient Eastern and modern medicine point of view.

The benefits of breathwork include: centering the mind, being more efficient at work, dealing more positively with life’s challenges – and the best part is that it is easy to do, requires very little time and is literally right under your nose. Come along and learn why if you do a second more of breath-work today than you did yesterday you will have made spiritual progress.

Cost: 100rmb

Teacher: Alex Tan – qualified TCM practitioner & educator

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Eat Well & Stay Healthy the Traditional Chinese Way

What, when and how you eat flows into every part of your life. In the East, food is described as possessing certain qualities such as a warming or cooling nature, possessing certain flavours or acting on the body in a certain way. The nutritional value of a food is stated as a set of energetic properties, which describe the actions a food has on the human body. Learn about these basic principles of a healthy diet including, energies of foods, flavors and directions of foods and how to eat with the seasons according to Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Cost: 100rmb for  1½ hour discussion

Teacher: Alex Tan – qualified TCM practitioner & educator

here are no strict rules, no strict master, nor any attendance requirements. The aim of the class is to give people flexibility and the opportunity to experience and practice Qi Gong on their own terms, in an effort to make Qi Gong practice more accessible to those who are interested.

Every Tuesday  6 – 7pm

Cost: 60rmb

Teacher: Alex Tan – qualified TCM practitioner & educator

In this introduction to Chinese herbs we will examine a brief history of herbal medicine and the development of herbal theory, tastes, actions and more. We will also look at how a herbal prescription is formulated with the Emperor, minister, assistant and envoy.
Finally, we explore the different formulations available and learn how to identify common ‘patterns’ for colds and flu in order to buy the most suitable patent medicines from the local pharmacy.

Cost: 100rmb

Teacher: Alex Tan – qualified TCM practitioner & educator

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The perfect tour for friends or family, (young or old) visiting Beijing to really witness first hand and feel the essence of morning exercise and ancient Chinese health preservation exercises. Take a guided tour with Alex Tan who has a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and has been practicing Qi Gong for more than ten years.

Total – 90 minutes – 7am-8.30am (flexible)

Includes

• Guide – qualified TCM practitioner who specialises in preventive health – fluent in English with Asian heritage
• Entrance Fee
• Guided tour with history & explanations of the Temple of Earth (di tan)
• Explanations of exercises & benefits according to Chinese medical theory
• History of morning exercise and the Chinese body clock, and how to take advantage of cosmic cycles for better health and wellbeing (2 page handout incl.)
• Qi Gong class – 30 minutes

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Gain self-defence skills in the style of Bruce Lee of  learn to fight like the man himself!

Master of kung fu, Marco Lee specialises in the form of Wing Chun Kung Fu, made famous by the legendary Bruce Lee. These classes are for those who want to learn self-defence and those keen to develop martial art skills and learn this Kung Fu form in its entirety.

Learn some ancient martial arts routines on a Hutong Rooftop.
The workshop is designed to take people from a non-martial arts background into easy to follow defensive techniques and fitness. Highly acclaimed Jiangsu prodigy, Master Zhu brings his expertise to Beijing to share with students.

Cost: 100 Rmb, 80 Rmb Members

There are many kinds of schools of Yoga. Each has its way to make our mind calm: hard physical work, breathing techniques, different body postures. Himalayan Yoga is one of the most ancient systems, merging the most important techniques of all schools. The roots are coming from Shamanism, Buddhist and Taoist techniques.

Learn some ancient martial arts routines on a Hutong Rooftop. The workshop is designed to take people from a non-martial arts background into easy to follow defensive techniques and fitness. Highly acclaimed Jiangsu prodigy, Master Zhu brings his expertise to Beijing to share with students.

Straight Bamboo TCM Clinic is open at the Hutong 4 days a week for Chinese Medicine and related treatments

A Unique Blend of Eastern Medicine with a Western Perspective

Focus

• Comfortable, private surroundings
• Individualised and personal treatment with a focus on holistic health, effective communication & information for English speakers
• Treatment and assistance designed to help you understand your imbalance and what you can do about it using Chinese medicine dietary therapy, Qigong, positive psychology and daily rhythms

Services

• Acupressure, Moxibustion, Cupping, Gua-sha & Massage

These are all TCM techniques to influence the balance of yin and yang and the flow of Qi in the body’s meridian system

• Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese herbs can be used to enhance the body’s function – available in raw and patent forms for maximum convenience

• Lifestyle Consultation

How to gain greater health & happiness using ancient Chinese health knowledge – for people who want to increase health awareness and discover balance through positive interventions

• Qi Gong

One-to-one training in the 8 Golden Treasures, a set of ancient Daoist exercises coordinated with breathing methods designed specifically to increase resilience and resistance to disease

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