The clinic vision, second post

There is a bit more to the current vision for our future clinic.

In addition to the several healing modalities there will be classes that emphasise healing through movement. Qi gong, yoga, and Pilates mat classes are currently what I imagine we will want to offer.

I am also interested in working with going local with both food and herbal medicines. There is a school teaching western herbology in Forestville. Talking with some local herb growers, and with some graduates of this school's program, I have come to believe that by using local herbs, and Chinese herbs grown locally that acupuncture practitioners and Chinese medical herbalists will be able to wean ourselves from the dependence on Chinese imports. Although up until now Chinese herbs have been very reasonably priced for the American market, that is about to change. Changing climate conditions and natural disasters have been hard on China recently, and it is causing soaring prices there and for their exports, especially for food and herbs. Other factors are the devalued dollar, and shipping prices. It behooves us to work on this issue, and our clinic is an ideal setting for some of this work.

One of my hopes for the clinic, as part of encouraging local community is that we will be able to have classes in growing food and herbs. On the space wish list for the clinic is space for at least a small garden. I hope that we will be encouraging cottage industry herb gardens to be planted in the area.

We aren't going to be doing all of this from the first moment of opening the clinic. It will all take time.