Classes, events, and other activities
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Distinct from other schools, Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) delivers academic excellence with a focus on the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit. We invite you to attend our Open House to learn more about our accredited graduate programs:

You'll have an opportunity to:

• Meet the admissions team
• Participate in discussions with faculty, students, and alumni
• Tour the Institute's healing arts library, wellness clinic, and natural surroundings
• Learn about financing your education

Information Sessions and Class Observations

The Office of Graduate Admissions offers small group information sessions by appointment on Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please contact us to reserve your space in an upcoming session. If these times don’t work with your schedule, we’ll be happy to make other arrangements.

We also encourage you to schedule an observation of an academic class. This is a great way for you to experience our innovative approach to teaching and learning.

To RSVP for the Open House, to schedule a visit, and for more information about our graduate programs, please contact the Office of Graduate Admissions at admissions@muih.edu or 410-888-9048 ext. 6647.

Redefining Health weekend offers you an opportunity to step away from your daily life to reflect and discover new possibilities that you can put into practice right away. This program addresses the challenges we all experience as an integral part of life and offers at least 20 effective, simple, and yet profound techniques to enable you to rethink, refocus, and reframe your personal thinking as it relates to your emotional and physical health.

For more than 20 years, thousands of people nationally and internationally have experienced powerful and positive changes in their thinking, language, and behavior as a result of participating in this program. This workshop has provided a healing and empowering framework for their lives.

This program provides the opportunity to:

• Gain insights that allow you to gently challenge your assumptions
• Identify personal emotional triggers and learn how to reframe them
• Increase the ability to examine your perceptions and choose your reactions
• Engage in partnership with others without opposition and judgment

Join us and redefine your fears, your relationships, you career, and your health.

Consider bringing the most important people in your life to share in this experience, including your partners, family members, friends, colleagues, co-workers, patients, clients, and others.

Instructors:

Dianne Connelly, Ph.D., M.Ac.(UK) and Robert Duggan, M.A., M.Ac.(UK)

Dianne Connelly and Robert Duggan are brilliant facilitators, provocative teachers, accomplished authors, and compassionate healers. As the founders of Tai Sophia Institute, they have been leaders in redefining the conversations and practices around health and wellness for more than 40 years. In their presence, students, patients, and colleagues find themselves becoming more aware and awake to their lives and all the possibilities for the future.

Fee: Public: $165 (coupon holders add your promotion code when prompted) /
Alumni: $125 / Free for Tai Sophia Students, Faculty, and Staff

CEUs: 12

Nursing Contact Hours: 12.5

This continuing education activity was approved by Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For More Information

Contact Pat DeLorenzo, Director of Continuing Education and Alumni Affairs at pdelorenzo@tai.edu or 410-888-9048 ext. 6642.

What Participants Are Saying About Redefining Health

Since attending this most recent Redefining Health workshop, I can truly say that my life has been changed. This workshop opens your eyes, as well as your mind, to acknowledging the things happening around you. Too often, we become used to our experiences. The touch of your partners hand, the sounds of a child’s voice; we become comfortable with these senses and don’t give them the acknowledgement they deserve. This workshop reawakens you to these experiences. I think everyone should attend this workshop if given the option, I promise you will not be disappointed.

Lindsay Cribbs, Undergraduate student and nanny

I attended Redefining Health in early October. I attended for both personal and professional reasons. I am at a point in my life where I feel I am surrounded by illness. As a Nurse Practitioner, I deal with it every day at work. I am also working through chronic Lyme disease. I needed help with the struggles of a chronic medical condition, and burnout I feel with my work.
Bob and Diane were very captivating. The ideas they presented from other global tribes and cultures were simplistic, yet profound framed in our modern American society. Anyone, no matter what age or season of life they're in, can benefit from attending this seminar. Redefining Health can help those with illness, those who are struggling in relationships, or anyone with uncertainties in life.
I received many gifts during the two day seminar. Namely that, instead of viewing my illness as a cross to bear, I can now see the gifts it has given me. Without Lyme disease, I wouldn't have learned to take care of myself as well as I do now, I wouldn't be interested in integrative health as a means to further my healing and that of my patients, and I wouldn't have attended Redefining Health. I hope to apply what I learned at the seminar in my professional practice by pursuing a wellness model for healthcare, rather than simply accepting the disease care model that we now have.
I will not soon forget what I have taken from this seminar. I hope to attend Redefining Health and other seminars in the future at Tai Sophia. What a gem!

Erin Prokop, Nurse Practitioner

Hear a panel of practicing acupuncturists describe their career paths, their practices, and how they work with a variety of healthcare providers and patients in many different settings.

Join us for a book signing for the second edition of American Herbal Products Association's Botanical Safety Handbook with editors Michael McGuffin, executive director of the American Herbal Products Association, and Zoe Gardner of the research and development department at Traditional Medicinals, along with Tieraona Low Dog, AHPA expert advisory council member and integrative medicine thought leader.

Course Description:

This weekend is open to graduates of the Applied Healing Arts and the Transformative Leadership and Social Change programs. It will be designed just like the weekends you experienced while in the program. First thing on Saturday morning, participants will identify agenda items and create the structure for the rest of the weekend. Then off we go!

We will have a lot of fun as we build new partnerships, tend each other, inspire and be inspired, go deeper with the work, and envision new IS and POEs.

The course is limited to the first 30 participants, so register early and bring your classmates!

Instructors:
Tom Balles, M.Ac., L.Ac., DiplAc (NCCAOM), has been a practicing acupuncturist since 1985. He received a Licentiate in Acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (U.K.) and a Master of Acupuncture from Maryland University of Integrative Health. Mr. Balles has been teaching in the graduate degree and certificate programs at MUIH for the past 16 years. He has facilitated workshops internationally and is the author of Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things and Cultivating a Healing Presence: A Guide. His work focuses on the many lessons nature can teach us about sustaining wellness among individuals, families, organizations, and communities.

Allyson Jones, L.Ac., M.Ac., holds a Master of Acupuncture from Maryland University of Integrative Health, where she serves on the faculty in the Transformative Leadership and Social Change and the Acupuncture programs. She is a licensed acupuncturist and co-owner of Point Well Taken Acupuncture Center. Ms. Jones also teaches MUIH’s Redefining Health workshops to business and community groups, both nationally and internationally. Her prior work experience includes clinical social work, child advocacy, and corporate public affairs consulting. Ms. Jones holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland.

Course Description

Nearly 90% of U.S. adults use the Internet to find a health care practitioner. Having an online presence is now vital for the holistic professional. In this class, participants will take a “deep dive” into online marketing tactics by learning how to create their signature clinical program, as well as a proven online communication process to attract new clients. During the weekend, they will also have the opportunity to build a website from scratch during a hands-on session. A framework for converting website visitors into loyal clients is essential to success and will be covered at the end of the weekend.

Instructor:
Miriam G. Zacharias, M.S., LPSN is a marketing strategist who inspires holistic health leaders to achieve greater personal and financial freedom and build the business of their dreams. Following 20 years as a sales and marketing executive in the high-tech industry, Ms. Zacharias received training and worked with individual clients in the areas of holistic nutrition, executive coaching, and sports nutrition. She is currently chief nutrition officer and marketing strategist at TriathlonExperts.com, serves as vice president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, is a certified coaching clinic facilitator, and is an influential expert in helping others attract their ideal clients and keep them loyal for life. Learn more about Ms. Zacharias by visiting www.miriamzacharias.com.

Fee: $295 General Public, $195 MUIH Alumni and Students

Distinct from other schools, Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) delivers academic excellence with a focus on the interconnection of mind, body, and spirit. We invite you to attend our Open House to learn more about our accredited graduate programs:

You'll have an opportunity to:

• Meet the admissions team
• Participate in discussions with faculty, students, and alumni
• Tour the Institute's healing arts library, wellness clinic, and natural surroundings
• Learn about financing your education

Information Sessions and Class Observations

The Office of Graduate Admissions offers small group information sessions by appointment on Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please contact us to reserve your space in an upcoming session. If these times don’t work with your schedule, we’ll be happy to make other arrangements.

We also encourage you to schedule an observation of an academic class. This is a great way for you to experience our innovative approach to teaching and learning.

To RSVP for the Open House, to schedule a visit, and for more information about our graduate programs, please contact the Office of Graduate Admissions at admissions@muih.edu or 410-888-9048 ext. 6647.

Course Description

This program features information that Paul Pitchford has developed based on decades of healing and awareness practice. He applies this fresh approach to 21st century nutrition in his daily work with clients, as well as in the design of food programs, diets, and nutritional products.

In this course, Pitchford will discuss how to cleanse toxins or purge parasites, choose whole food supplements, reduce or build up body mass, and overcome infections, arthritis, cancer or fatigue.

Pitchford merges classical Asian tradition with modern nutrition to create a new and unique integrated awareness that puts contradictory health and nutrition research into a clear and workable perspective.

Program Overview

Using readings from Chinese Medicine and other ancient healing systems, participants will explore the inherent qualities of food and how these impact the eater’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Participants will be provided with a highly functional definition of Yin/Yang according to traditional Chinese clinical nutrition. This definition will include these energetic dimensions:

• The 5 climatic excesses [Hot/Cold/Damp/Wind/Dry] as assessment tools and their nutritional components used for patient recommendations
• Other essential dimensions of Chinese medicine with dietary advisories:
  • Strength [Excess/Deficiency]
  • Depth [Interior/Exterior]
  • Flow [Slippery/Obstructive]
  • Weight [Light/Heavy]
• How traditional Chinese metaphysics and the Sattva concept of Ayurveda of India can be utilized to develop a clear and engaging understanding of ideal modern nutrition that enhances one’s vision of unity and compassion
• The Qi energetics system according to Chinese medicine and how the spleen-pancreas Qi model informs us of virtually all beneficial dietary habits.
• How obstructed liver Qi inhibits the entire digestive process and ways to smooth out liver Qi stagnation
• The nutritional aspect of stem cells elucidated via the Jing concept of Chinese medicine and metaphysics

Instructor
Paul Pitchford studied and apprenticed with masters of pre-Revolutionary Traditional Chinese Medicine, nutrition, and Tai Ji and Chan (Zen) meditation. His landmark book, Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (North Atlantic Books, available in 7 languages, including forthcoming Chinese and Korean translations), forms the foundation of his unique dietary teachings, which unify Eastern and Western therapies.

For more than three decades, Mr. Pitchford’s writings, teachings, and consultations have inspired millions worldwide, including readers, students, and health practitioners. His work has become a primary impetus behind the most fundamental, clinically effective, and innovative dietary movement today, widely known as “whole foods nutrition.” He sees a universal shift to whole foods nutrition as essential for overcoming ecologic ravages to the Earth.

Best known for his teachings on foundational healing, Mr. Pitchford emphasizes awareness practices, mindful exercises such as yoga and tai ji, and regenerative nutrition. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Fee: $295 General Public, $195 Maryland University of Integrated Health Alumni and Students