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Yoga Central Now Offers T’ai Chi Chih and Qi Healing Workshops

Yoga Central, located in Branchburg, is expanding their schedule to include T’ai Chi Chih and Qi Healing classes.

The Qi Healing/Clinical QiGong Introductory Workshop will be held on Saturday, March 21, from 1-4pm. If you are experiencing the “winter blues,” classified in part by low, stuck or fragmented energy, tap into the treasure of simple yet profound healing practices utilized and tested for centuries. Based on Classical Chinese Medicine, these methods can cultivate, build, move, cleanse and balance our energy. The result is restored health, wellbeing and vitality.

This experiential workshop will focus on ways that we can help ourselves use body, mind and breath to discover peaceful calm within. It will also show us how we can assist others. Each participant will receive a Qi Healing session from one of the instructors.

Please bring a notebook and wear comfortable clothing. Preregister by March 18. Cost is $45 if paid by March 15, $55 afterwards.

The second workshop consists of six consecutive sessions, beginning on Wednesday, March 25 from 6-7:15pm. Dr. Janet M. Oussaty, instructor, facilitates joy through movement as participants practice 19 simple, gentle movements in the non-martial art of T’ai Chi Chih. In this moving meditation, individuals have been able to reduce stress, pain, regulate blood pressure, increase energy and more regardless of any physical limitations.

Dr. Janet M. Oussaty is an accredited T’ai Chi Chih and Seijaku instructor. She has been teaching TCC for fifteen years. The cost for the workshop series is $83.

Location: Yoga Central, 953 Rt. 202 N, Branchburg. For more information, call 908-707-0759 or visit YogaCentralNJ.com.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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