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Instituut voor Shiatsu Massage Therapie
A practically-oriented follow-up day to yesterdays workshop, with use of the kitchen.
To this workshop are invited:
- participants of the workshop Nutrition in TCM by Daverick;
- nutrition education students;
- graduated nutrition education students.
This workshop will explore how to enrich our cooking with an understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and how to create specific recipes for various conditions. The primary focus of the day will be on creating healing soups.
There will be a short lecture to initiate the day. We will then look at the energetics of various individual foods and the principles of creating recipes for various conditions. Participants will be asked to create their own recipes to support the healing of various tcm patterns.
During the second part of the workshop we will move to the kitchen to get "hands on". There will be some tastings of various foods to feel their energetic effect. Daverick will then prepare a number of dishes (with a bit of help from participants!) which we will all share at the end of the day.
There will be plenty of time during the day for questions. If time allows, we will also incorporate some Qigong exercises for digestion.
The intention of this day is to bring theory to life, literally moving out of the classroom and into the kitchen. Through working "hands on" and using our creativity the learning becomes real and embodied. My hope is that this will be a lot of fun and will bring fresh inspiration into our relationship with food.
Daverick Leggett BA Hons., PGCE, MRSS
Biographical Statement
Born and bred in southeast England, Daverick Leggett began his working life as a farmer and gardener near Forest Row, Sussex. After several formative years living close to the earth, he moved into a community with a focus on communal living, sustainable lifestyle and public education. His passion for education then led him to train and work for five years as a teacher in the state education system. These early experiences laid the ground for the development of his current work as a teacher and writer.
Qualifying as a Shiatsu practitioner in 1987, Daverick moved on to become a regional director of the European Shiatsu School, an active member of the UK Shiatsu Society management group and an editor of its journal. Following a move to Devon in the early 1990’s Daverick became a director of the Centre for Oriental Medicine. His passion for Chinese medicine also led him to train with Qigong master Zhixing Wang. He began teaching Qigong as an accredited teacher in 1995.
Alongside his interest in bodywork and movement he continued to study and develop his understanding of food energetics, the oriental approach to nutrition. His two books were published in 1994 and 1999. Daverick has now become a respected teacher of Qigong, food energetics and traditional Chinese medicine throughout the UK and abroad.
The titles of his two books (Helping Ourselves and Recipes for Self-Healing) contain the essential intent of his work: finding ways of helping people to help themselves to deeper health and more vibrant living. He is known for his skilful translation of the principles of oriental medicine into the reality of western daily life, and for his ability to help people directly experience the subtle world of Qi.
Having migrated slowly westwards throughout his life, Daverick now lives in Devon with his teenage son.