Élisabeth Rochat de la vallée

MONDAY CEU CLASSES 12:30 TO 2:00PM (PDT)

12:30 TO 2:00PM (PDT) - 3:30 to 5:00 pm (EDT) - 8:30 to 10:00 pm (UK Time) - 9:30 to 11:00 pm (Paris Time)

How to understand si 思, to think, to consider, to long for, feeling, thought has an emotion that can either benefit life when in its good use or harm life when in excess.

60$ per class with CEU, 45$ without. Your choice of 2 classes: 110$ with CEU, 80$ without.
Your choice of 4 classes: 200$ with CEU, 152$ without.

For information and registration: robyn.sodders@gmail.com

ICOM – 2 SERIES ON EXHAUSTION/TAXATION

Tuesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 pm (London) – 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EDT) – 10:00 to 11:30 am (PDT)

Part 1: Tuesdays April 14, 21, 28 and May 5.
Insights and lessons from traditional Chinese texts to understand more deeply fatigue and
exhaustion, problems that are increasingly present in modern life. Learn how to manage them.

Part 2: Tuesdays September 8, 15, 22.
Explore how the practitioners are faced with an exhausted (and often exhausting) patient but
also with their own exhaustion. Learn how practitioners can protect themselves from exhaustion.

Cost Part 1: £140 – Part 2: £105 – Both Parts: £245

For more information and registration: Kate Joseph – cpd@orientalmed.ac.uk – https://orientalmed.ac.uk/product/exhaustion/

CEU CLASSES with DAOIST TRADITIONS COLLEGE

WHAT IS WUWEI 無為 NON ACTING

Tuesday, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm (EDT) - 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm (PDT)

Usually translated as non-acting, non-interference, no deliberate action, etc. wu wei 無為 is to let things take their own course. It is not inertia or complete passivity, but a way to cultivate oneself to diminish personal desires, interests, ambition, etc, The Daodejing, Book of the Way and its Virtue, presents how activities coming from this emptiness of the Heart/mind are aligned with the natural movement of life and full of an effective potency.

Other texts from the Zhuangzi, the Huainanzi, the Guanzi (Neiye) enrich et deepen this presentation.

June 2: The you 有 and the wu 無. To have and to have nothing - to be something and to be nothing - To have determinations/qualities/features and to have none, to be indeterminate.

June 9: Non acting wuwei 無為. How to become able to do nothing against the natural order, the spontaneous flow of life, in us as well as in anybody and in the universe.

June 16: The value of wuwei 無為 for the practitioner. How the Non acting is at the core of the therapeutical behavior and the best asset for the efficacy of the treatment.

Information and registration: jmoore@daoisttraditions.edu (828) 225-3993
https://daoisttraditions.edu/dtc-events/

CEU CLASSES WITH FIVE BRANCHES

9.00 am - 6.00 pm (PDT) - 12:00 to 9:00 pm (EDT) - 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (UK Time)

June 12: AGING AND LONGEVITY.

Ageing is part of life, but it can be normal or premature. It can be either a gentle decline with no serious imbalance or the start of a succession of imbalances which trigger or aggravate a pathological condition. The kidneys and the fire of Mingmen are fundamental to the process of ageing, but emotions and psychology as well as the conduct of life also play an important role. We present how the classical texts see ageing and how they describe the cycles of its coming and manifestation. We show how the organs preside over ageing, but also how ageing can harm them.

We will study some pathologies, due to the organic decline caused by ageing, or aggravated by ageing and developing complications which are characteristic of ageing as phlegm, loss of memory, loss of sleep, dementia.

We will also look at the best strategies to age well and live out the years allotted by Heaven. To keep the best possible yin yang harmony at every stage of aging. To accept the inevitable decline while maintaining a taste for life and a sense of joy.

June 13: EMOTIONS.

After a general presentation of the views of emotions in classical Chinese texts of philosophy and medicine, each of the emotions will be discussed in detail. We describe how each emotion may injure the organ it is related to and what is the mechanism for the symptoms and pathologies they cause; also, since all the relationships which exist between the various functions of the body may be involved, how an organ may be affected by various emotions and how an emotion may affect different organs.

We also expose how a human being actually experiences a mix of emotions rather than being prey to a single type of emotion.

During the presentation, we will explain the Chinese characters for each of the emotions allowing a deeper understanding and a better approach of what they are in Chinese thought.

June 14: PATIENT/PRACTITIONER RELATIONSHIP.

Patient as practitioner are each an aggregate of qi guided by a vital spirit. The interaction between both depends not only on what they know and want to do or to be, but also on what they are in their inner reality. We analyze the interaction of qi between both at each level and at each moment during the time of the session.

We present the attitude of the great physician, based on the classical texts about the pathway leading each human to their inner realization, and expressed in the medical classics. We explore the consequences of that in diagnostic, treatment, ethic behavior, self cultivation… including a reflection on emotions, heart/mind, intent and will, inner dispositions and spirit, the source of intuition.

We journey into this terrain of heart-to-heart dynamics that exist at the root of Chinese medicine. We question on how to go to the spirit and what does it mean.

As our profession evolves with the changing landscape of healthcare, this area of study and expertise remains a treasure house of clinical efficacy and healing potential.

Information and registration: daom@fivebranches.edu

CLASSICAL CHINESE THOUGHT

TEXTS FROM THE ZHUANGZI

On the Sunday - 8 am to 12 (PDT) - 11 am to 3 pm (EDT) - 4 pm to 8 pm (London).

We translate and study, word by word, sentence by sentence, a chosen text from the Zhuangzi, in order to understand the deep and rich meaning of this unique thinker. No specific requirement, only to wish to know better the foundation of Daoism and eventually ready to learn to recognise Chinese characters.

Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026: The Zhuangzi chapter 11 and some excerpts from ch.12..

Information and registration: robyn.sodders@gmail.com

Video Teachings

Some past classes and other teachings are available as online videos, in most cases also in a version valid for Credits (CEU, PDA and other). More details in the Online Teachings page.

Teachings in French and other languages

For the program of teachings in French and other languages, please click here.

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