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Qi Gong for Beginners and Beyond

Qi--the Vital Life Force that can be engaged by humans to create robust health. The art of working with qi is known as qi gong. This month, Qi Gong for Healing is pleased to announce that Patty Pagano will be teaching new classes on Wu Ji Jing Gong for beginners and beyond. The beginner class will be held at 2 p.m., on Tuesdays at the Chester studio and Thursdays at the Dunellen studio. The beyond beginner class will be held at 12 noon, on Mondays in Dunellen.

Qi gong methods are simple and refreshing, useful for sustaining or regaining health. Most people who practice become able to feel qi. These simple body-mind exercises and moving meditations can change one’s outlook on life. Cultivation of qi facilitates the smooth beneficial movement of qi throughout the body. In the beginner class, students learn 15 meditative and repeating movements that will help relax and open the mind, body and qi. It also teaches principles of alignment. This class is a prerequisite for the beyond beginner class which takes students into greater depth analysis and refinement of movements.

Classes are $80 per month or $25 to drop in. Now is the perfect time to learn this beautiful, graceful and powerful moving meditation. 

For more information and studio address, contact Patty at 908-392-1313 or [email protected]. QiGongForHealing.com. See ad, page 9.

Qi Gong For Healing - 1275 Bound Brook Road, Suite 1 Second Floor, Middlesex, NJ

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In-Print News Briefs January 2023
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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