Cultivating Wellness, Balance & Inspired Life!
What is the Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine?
The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine is a powerful practice tracing its roots back to ancient Taoist philosophies that sought not only to heal physical ailments but to cultivate the inner landscape of the individual to better express the force of life seen to be flowing through all things. [Read more]
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a powerful healing art that originated in the ancient tradition of Chinese Medicine. Needles are inserted in points on the body that give access to the foundational energies that compose the body and maintain its function. Acupuncture is the only medicinal practice that works directly with what is known as the "energy body" of the human being. [Read more]
Chinese Medicine
Chinese Medicine is a practice of medicine that dates back over 5 000 years in ancient China. Chinese Medicine is a profound medicine practice in its breadth of therapies, from acupuncture, cupping, and moxibustion to qi gong, tai chi and meditation. It treats the body and mind as an interconnected whole, offering perceptions of health that are truly unprecedented. [Read more]
The Five Elements
The Five Element Tradition is an ancient school of thought of Chinese Medicine that encompasses seeing the phenomenal world of nature as being governed by five dynamic forces that are symbolized by five elemental energies that generate each other in cycle of co-creation and community: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood. These forces also work within every human being and the Five Element school of acupuncture involves treating imbalances in the natural cycle embodied in human physiology. Five Element acupuncture treatments are profound as they address the true root mechanism of disease: elemental constitutional imbalance. [Read more]
Sound Healing
Sound Healing is one of the most exciting realms of healing in our modern world. With roots in ancient notions and traditions of the sacredness of sound combined with modern innovations in the science of sound (cymatics), sound healing is a powerful healing modality that offers extraordinary benefits. [Read more]
Darren Austin Hall, D. Ac. Ba Hons
Darren Austin Hall, D.Ac. is an Integrated Health Practitioner who specializes in Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Sound Healing and inspired living. A graduate of the esteemed Institute of Traditional Medicine where he received his Diploma in Acupuncture and learned under teachers, shamans, indigenous elders from around the world (and even a Druid!), Darren brings a dynamic, holistic approach to his practice drawing from many diverse traditions to help his patients in the many colourful ways cultural evolution has developed. Along with his domestic studies, Darren studied Kung Fu and a form of standing meditation called Qigong in China for two years where he worked as an English teacher. Darren also has a certificate in Creative Transformation Therapy that he received after completing a two-year intensive with eminent psychotherapist and 'American Shaman', Bradford Keeney, who imparted to him the powerful tradition of Shaking Medicine used by the Bushmen of the Kalahari, perhaps the most ancient healing practice in human history. Darren is also a passionate educator and published writer on health and spirituality and performs sound healing shows under the guise SHEN (Sound Healing ENergy) using quartz crystal singing bowls and mantra with the Chakra model to show people that the best antidepressant is music. He has also worked as a volunteer for the PWA (People With Aids) clinic and is currently in the midst of a two year clinical intensive with eminent Chinese Medicine vanguard, Lonny S. Jarrett.When Darren isn't waking people up to the incredible healing potential that we all have within us, he can be found plucking his guitar while singing love songs to Mother Earth, staring lovingly at plants and trees with ever new found wonder and encouraging people to include 'qi' in their daily vocabulary (qi is a central Chinese Medicine concept and that has been loosely translated as 'vital energy' or 'life-force', though Darren likes to leave it open to interpretation. It is the reason acupuncture works miracles!). Darren is passionate to serve all people in the realm of health and help them create lives of artful beauty. As he constantly decries: 'You are what you are searching for!'
CONTACT BY PHONE: 647 726 7789
OR VIA EMAIL: dhbodhi@gmail.com
CONTACT BY PHONE: 647 726 7789
OR VIA EMAIL: dhbodhi@gmail.com
Check out my latest article published in Vitality Magazine!
"The Healing Power of Qi: Working With Vital Energy"
http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/mar10_tcm
Inner Traditions Healing VBlog I : Inner Body Awareness
In my first ever video blog I discuss what Eckhart Tolle calls Inner Body Awareness, which is cultivating sensitivity to the field of energy pervading the human body. This energy has been called 'qi' by the Chinese and is loosely translated as the life-force that pervades all living things. However, because energy cannot die, we apprehend that there is an element of mystery to qi. I share my experiences working with this kind of awareness, as developed by my practices of yoga and qi gong (working with the qi). I believe developing and honing this kind of awareness can fundamentally transform one's life by helping us to become more embodied and less stuck in hyper-mental states of over-thinking and obsessive thought that are plaguing modern humanity with all kinds of stress related disorders. By focusing one's mind in the body instead of unto to itself, a new world of sensation and being human is opened up. The benefits to developing this awareness are extraordinary, from increasing one's peacefulness to boosting the immune system and even re-enchanting one's life with an exciting new paradigm of how to live. By being aware of our body in this way, we bring powerful presence into our lives and are better able to react and stay centred in stressful situations. It's nothing short of magic, and yet so mundane at the same time.
KULA YOGA ANNEX
HOT HOUR SOUND HEALING
EVERY THURSDAY, 630- 730pm!!!
304 Brunswick Ave. (near Bloor & Bathurst)
I shall be playing quartz crystal singing bowls for a yoga class
taught by the extraordinary Josie Houpt, with a focus
on working with the chakras. Come and experience this profound
yoga class, melding ideas of tantra and chakra philosophy
with asana practice!
HOT HOUR SOUND HEALING
EVERY THURSDAY, 630- 730pm!!!
304 Brunswick Ave. (near Bloor & Bathurst)
I shall be playing quartz crystal singing bowls for a yoga class
taught by the extraordinary Josie Houpt, with a focus
on working with the chakras. Come and experience this profound
yoga class, melding ideas of tantra and chakra philosophy
with asana practice!
COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC at Kokoro Dojo Begins Sunday July 4th!
Join us for our Community Acupuncture Clinic Sundays from 4-6pm at Kokoro Dojo (358 Dupont Street, near Spadina & Dupont). The focus is on Pain and Stress related issues, though we will also be treating all variety of needs. The treatments will be in a community styled setting with patients sitting in chairs or lying on comfortable shiatsu mats on the ground. The treatments are $30. Join us and experience the powerful art of acupuncture at an affordable rate! Call or email to reserve a spot as space is limited. TEL: 416 925 5722/EMAIL:kokorodojo@mac.com/WEBSITE:www.kokorodojo.com.