**Have you ever wished you could gain a general sense of what’s happening with your health on a day-to-day basis?**

Time & Location
Jan 12, 2025 1:00-2:30PM

Asheville, 3 Louisiana Ave, Asheville, NC 28806, USA

About the event
Your Tongue: A Window into Your Health!

Have you ever wished you could gain a general sense of what’s happening with your health on a day-to-day basis?

In this free class, you will learn simple techniques to understand what your tongue might be revealing about the quality of your health. With this knowledge, you can monitor your well-being daily and recognize when it might be time to make changes or seek support to become your healthiest, most empowered self.

No tongue is ever “perfect,” so as a diagnostic tool, we must interpret what we see in the context of the world we live in and the collective and individual challenges we face. That said, we often have far more power to effect positive change than we realize.

Chinese tongue diagnosis is a subtle art, but learning what a healthy baseline looks like—and understanding where you fall on that spectrum—can be an empowering guidepost. It can help you take steps toward regeneration, address current imbalances, and even prevent deeper health issues in the future.

In this class, I’ll explain the Chinese Medicine perspective on the tongue, including:

• What a healthy tongue looks like

• Basic qualities of the tongue body and tongue coat

• What different colors signify

• The meanings behind various shapes

• Some different textures and what they may indicate

• The significance of tongue coat and some different qualities to the coat

One of my favorite aspects of this medicine is its incredible potential for prevention. As an acupuncturist, I have been trained to assess where you are now, understand what may have brought you here, and identify where you might be headed—whether you stay on your current path or choose a healthier one.

This is the first in a series of classes designed to demystify Chinese Medicine for the layperson and empower you with its wisdom and tools. This ancient practice is deeply rooted in the understanding that our bodies are not separate from nature but a part of it. Nature flows through us, and we are governed by the same mechanisms and qualities we observe in the natural world. We are a microcosm of this earthly macrocosm.

Our bodies’ resilience in the face of challenges never ceases to amaze me. And when we align ourselves with nature’s flows within us, we have an opportunity for a more easeful, vital and luminous life.

I look forward to meeting you and spending some time together as we explore tongue qualities as an wonderful window into your health!

What to bring:

· An unbrushed & unscraped tongue! This is IMPORTANT for accuracy!

· A hand mirror or your phone.

o A hand mirror will give you a more accurate color quality and capacity for closeup viewing so that is recommended.

o But using your phone to look at your tongue will do in pinch.

· A notebook for taking notes if you wish.