Winter and the Water Element - the Inner Explorations
How to Stay Healthy and Balanced During the Winter Season with the Five Element Energies?
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- Oct 11
Autumn - Body, Mind, Spirit clear-out
Autumn is the season of great preparations for the downtime in Winter. We can utilise this energy for our health and wellbeing if we...
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- Sep 22
"Honourable Harvest" - Earth Element's higher octave of consciousness
Much of the bases of the Classical Chinese Medicine do not pertain to Chinese or Oriental cultures only, they have been lived and followed..
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- Sep 1
Late Summer - Energy of completion
We have got over the maximum heat and active Yang energy of the Summer months, and now we start going back to self, back to our center.
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- Jul 25
Summer - learning about Self
How can we best utilise the everywhere present energy of Summer to build our health and wellbeing?
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- Apr 17
April - newly found innocence
In April are awarded with the newly found innocence to rejoice in. Here is how to best flow with the energies of April.
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- Mar 29
Sweet Violet - Flower Essence
This is a new chapter at DOROTAO: flower essences. Although it is not new to Chinese Medicine. Tuning into plants for their energetic...
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- Mar 9
March - the courage to change
"Don't be afraid of seeing new parts of you born: the blacksmith is an artist and what he creates is only a work of art."
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- Feb 26
Common fern (Polypodium vulgare) - timeless health and beauty
Ferns are living fossils. The Chinese herbalists call them the "ancients", the "sages" and as such they pass on to us the ancient wisdom.
Dorota
- Feb 8
February - sprouting time
With some delay, I provide you with a new format of my monthly energy updates starting from this month. With February 5th started off the...
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- Jan 18
Lunar New Year - improving your health with Yin Water Hare in 2023
4th February marks the beginning of the first month of Spring and a change into the energy of Water Rabbit.
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- Jan 11
January - balance of willpower
In January we still have that low time in which not much is happening in Nature, so follow it and rest and recharge your batteries .
Dorota
- Dec 19, 2022
Wild Rose - for finding a sparkle in life
That zesty taste of its fruits gives me just that: the zest for life. It does sound like a perfect pick-me-up for the Winter blues.
Dorota
- Dec 8, 2022
December - withdrawing and accumulating
So, here's the Winter season! According to the Classics, 7th December marks the beginning of the second month of Winter.
Dorota
- Nov 12, 2022
Rough Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) - coffee alternative?
Xanthium is perfect for this cold season in cases you cannot get rid of your blocked nose and start noticing musculoskeletal aches too.
Dorota
- Nov 2, 2022
November - last orders for letting go
Being at the far end of the Autumn there is more emphasis on Colon and clearing out activity.
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- Oct 7, 2022
October - Acceptance
Metal element is introducing us into the Yin phase of the year by its Lung-related quality of acceptance.
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- Sep 12, 2022
Clover, red or white? Three or four leaves? - the plant of equilibrium as well as good fortune
Red Clover (Trifolium pratenseas) is one of the most utilised plants across the globe, cultures and traditions.
Dorota
- Sep 5, 2022
September - homecoming
September is the month of centering ourselves after flying high during the Summer months. That centering energy was already present in Augus
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- Aug 31, 2022
What Element are you? - Five Element Quiz will help you find out
The aim of the Quiz is to help you familiarise yourselves with the Five Elements in a more personalised way: by identifying your predominant
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