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Body Wise: Links to Cultural Practicies
Off-Site Links to
Cultural Practices

 

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Ayurveda

The Ayurvedic Center

The Deepak Chopra Homepage

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Hawaiian Healing

Hawaiian healing: Aunty Margaret

  • "Auntie" Margaret Machado, now retired, once taught at Captain Cook on the Kona Coast of the Big Island.  She was the only authentic,  Hawaiian kupuna licensed by the state of Hawaii to train therapists under state requirements.  She now serves as consultant when available. Her daughter, Nerita Machado, now teaches Auntie's style of lomilomi massage.
     

Hawaiian Native Plants

  • an exhaustive list of Hawaiian flora by the University of Hawaii Botany Department

The Kai Malino Wellness Center

  • a resource for quality Hawaiian herbal products including 'awa (kava)

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Native American Healing

Native American Herbal: Plant Knowledge

  • just one small part of the incredible website by the late Paula Giese

Native American Ethnobotany Database

  • Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples

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Oriental Medicine

Acupuncture.com

  • Gateway to Chinese Medicine, Health and Wellness

Children's Guide to the Buddha's Art of Healing

  • During the fall of 1998, the 5th grade students of Pocantico Hills School were given the great honor of being asked to design a children's guide to an exhibit of paintings from Tibet. The exhibit is entitled "The Buddha's Art of Healing."

Holistic Online: Acupuncture

The Qi Journal: Traditional Chinese Medicine (with interactive model)

The Scientific Basis of Acupuncture

Tibetan Medicine Resources

  • Various aspects of Tibetan Buddhist medicine, including efforts to study and preserve these ancient methods and make them available

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