"Heaven moves, Earth consents, Man acts,

       so that in the absolute sense, human activity results

            from the pure intermingling of heavenearth."  

The Way of Heaven Claude Larre and Elizabeth Rochat dela Valee p. 42

      Following the Tao:       

The Rooting of the Spirits 

An Introduction in the Taoist Alchemical Tradition

3 Spring St. #2 * Montpelier * VT   

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Mark Twain wrote to his best friend of 40 years, after the death of his daughter:  "I do not want most people to write (to me), but I do want you to do it.  The others break my heart, but you will not.  You have something divine in you that is not in the other men.  You have the touch that heals, not lacerates.  And you know the secret places of our hearts.  You know our life--the outside of it--as the others do--and the inside of it--which they do not.  You have seen our whole voyage.  You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone.  For it is gone.  And there is nothing in its place.  The vanity of life was all we had, and there is no more vanity left in us."

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Dates and Times

The Spring: March 9-13, 2011    

(The Summer: June 7-11, 2011)

(The Autumn: November 2-6, 2011)  

Details

Registration and Inquiries * Contact Taylore Grymonnt  

email: tay2tay99@yahoo.com  

phone: 802.223.0303-work

            802.917.4224-cell  

Please contact Taylore if you are planning to attend.

Location (for the entire workshop) Wed-Sunday  

(Tues-Sat in the summer) 

3 Spring St. #2 Montpelier VT 

Wednesday and Thursday - Clinical Consultation Days :  

9AM-9PM *** CEU's Available

Diagnosis of CF, CSOE training, treatment, recommendations for future treatments  

and support for strengthening the practitioner/patient relationship. 

Shadowing fee: $100.00

Consultation/Treatment (1 1/2 hour): $200.00  

Checking for blocks (1/2 hour):  $75.00

We encourage practitioners to schedule consults for their clients and/or for themselves.

If you are bringing 1-4 people for consults:

All scheduling must be done one week prior to the event

If you are scheduling more than 4 people:

Please contact Taylore for different arrangements by March 1st (May 15th, October 15th) 

*Practitioners are responsible for gathering all fees (as well as missed appointments) for their patients

and giving them to Taylore at the end of each clinical day.* 

Friday - Didactic Workshop : The Rooting of the Spirits 

Introduction in the Taoist Alchemical Tradition

(with special focus on alchemical protocols including The 13 Ghost Points,  

The Seven Internal and External Dragons, and The 9 Needles to Return Yang.

This Didactic Day will continue in each of the  

3 weekends for more advanced practitioner training.

9AM-5PM *** CEU'S Available   

(There will be an evening treatment following the workshop to which all are invited to shadow.)  

Fee $150.00 

Refunds in full up to one week prior to the event minus a $15.00 processing fee

Saturday and Sunday - Clinical Treatment Days :

9AM-9PM *** CEU'S AVAILABLE  

(These longer and deeper treatments utilize ancient Taoist protocols and arise from the clinical work on Wed/Thur.)  

More rigorous clinical application and exploration of the spirit of this Tradition.  Treatments on these two days generally work with much longer segments of time and practitioner training is rigorous.  The Art of Needling and Moxabustion, Treatment Planning and Execution, the Disciplines of to See, to Hear, to Ask and to Feel.  The capacity to ethically and maturely follow the movement of the Wild Magic of this Ancient Tradition. To work with True Qi.

Shadowing fee $100.00

Treatment cost $500.00

Note:

Treatment shadowing  Sat/Sun requires further information. Please be sure to get that information from Taylore (tay2tay99@yahoo.com / 802.917.4224 ) one week prior to the time of the event.

Special Discount Rates for entire workshop  

 Fee $425  for Practitioners of all Healing Modalities

  Fee $350 for enrolled students in Training Programs  

(Please contact Taylore if special financial arrangements are necessary.

We remain present to the economic challenges of our lives.)

The Chinese are of the opinion that real authenticity is inexhaustible and reliable, 

while discourse is uncertain and contradictory.  Like a silkworm, each of us, 

in the course of our life, secretes the silken thread of our existence, 

which is truly primary matter, stemming from spontaneous movement.  

This happens between Heaven and Earth, because there exists a Way, 

about which nothing can be said but that it reveals its virtue, 

and through which all that takes place occurs.

The Way of Heaven Claude Larre SJ p.4

Stillpoint:  A Wild Hearth   

Treatment and Training in Five element Taoist Medicine  

Rockland, Maine * New York, NY * Montpelier, VT
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Laura Barnard Stelmok, BA MAc, Dipl.Ac (NCCA), Meg Dellenbaugh BA, LMT, Noah Stelmok BA, LMT 

*Entrusted to The Source of our Medicine. Heaven.

*Rooted in the discipline of Generosity. Earth.

*Practiced with respect for Our failings and Our truest potential.  Human & the 10,000.    

An Offering of Love: to keep an open door, no matter what.     

Laura Barnard Stelmok

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Received her Bachelor's Degree from Bowdoin College '83 in Religion and German. She studied Acupuncture with JR and JB Worsley at the Worsley Institute of Classical Acupuncture in Florida and the College of Traditional Acupuncture in the UK, receiving a Licensure, Advanced Licenciate and Masters Degree in Acupuncture in 1992.  Laura continued her post-graduate clinical training with the Worsleys until 2001.

Laura spent 5 intensive years studying Five Element Acupuncture and Rooting Shen with Niki Bilton, Master Practitioner and Teacher and more recently has studied with Jeffery Yuen, a Taoist priest, herbalist and acupuncturist.  

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Laura has been running 5 Element Theory and Clinical Supervision groups in Maine, Vermont and New York since 2006. She has been in private clinical practice since 1991. Her practice, Stillpoint, has been in Rockland, Maine since 1996, where she lives with her husband and son. In addition to the practice of 5 Element Taoist Medicine, Laura is a writer and a visual artist.