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Michael Reid Kreuzer, D.Ayur, Ph.D. Ayurveda
Master Herbalist, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Doctor of Philosophy in Buddhist Ayurveda, Pastoral Counselor, Center Co-Founder
Please Call him (No public e-mail available for Michael)
(1) 510-292-6696 - 7 Days a Week - 10 AM to 8 PM.
Michael completed a Six-Year 1800-Hour Apprenticeship with Ayurvedic Doctor Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., observing over 1900 patient Consultations and served on the faculty of Dr. Vasant Lad's Ayurvedic Institute.
He now serves on the faculty of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute in Berkeley.
Michael has served more than 6000 patients in his 12 year Ayurvedic Healing career.
Now a lay person, Michael was previously trained in meditation as a novice Buddhist Monk for more than 3 and a half years in the Nalanda Monastery Tradition of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he is inspired (by Patch Adams) to dedicate his life to “relentless joyful service” (Seva) on the path of a Ayurveda Practitioner in the Buddhist Ayurveda Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing systems.
Watch Ayurveda video classes (25 hours of free video) recorded back when Michael was a novice monk: http://www.archive.org/details/ayurveda_institute
Michael is available 7 days a week for Ayurvedic Herbal - Chinese Herbal Medicine Consultations which may be conducted jointly in Berkeley at either our Telegraph Avenue area Berkeley clinic
(see http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=Chilton+Way+and+Parker,+94704
and http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&q1=Chilton%20Way%20and%20Parker%2C%2094704
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Parker%20%26%20Chilton%2C%20Berkeley%2C%20CA%2094704)
or our University Avenue Berkeley clinic with either Rev. Jenny Dinh, Chinese-Ayurvedic Practitioner or Licensed Acupuncturist Ms. Sheng-Wei Lan, L.Ac.
Call now to book an appointment at 510-292-6696. Health consultations with traditional Indo-Tibetan-Chinese pulse and tongue diagnosis with Michael or Jenny cost sliding scale donation of from $70 to $100 per hour (no one is ever turned away due to lack of funds). Customized organic herbal tea powder formula (www.BanyanBotanicals.com and www.mayway.com) is $35 to $50 for a 6 to 8 week supply. Follow-up consultations are typically every 2 to 3 months. Detailed advice is given specific to the diagnosis, on making useful diet-nutritional changes, daily routine, lifestyle, and stress-management-meditation techniques.
Here is my Facebook Profile for Ayurveda-TCM: http://www.facebook.com/people/Ayurvedic-Healing/1337800098
Rev. Jenny Dinh, D.Ayur, Ph.D Ayur, M.H., C.M.T., P.K.S., Chinese Master Herbalist, Ayurvedic Massage Therapist
Jenny Dinh, Ayurvedic Chinese Master Herbalist Ayurvedic Massage Therapist Partner, D.Ayur, Ph.D Ayur, M.H., C.M.T., P.K.S.
Chinese Medicine-Ayurvedic Practitioner - Thai Massage, Chinese Tui Na and Ayurvedic Massage Practitioner
(1) 510-292-6696 - For Ayurvedic Massage or for Chinese Herbal Consultations in San Francisco and Berkeley.
A bright pitta-vata-constitution type individual Jenny has studied with Dr. Vasant Lad of the Ayurvedic Institute for 2 years and for 4 years with Master Herbalist Michael Reid Kreuzer, D.Ayur, Ph.D of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute for more than 1800 hours and has seen more than 1300 patients. Jenny has studied Chinese Medicine for more than 2500 hours, and in New Mexico she completed her advanced Gurukula internship with Dr. Vasant Lad having studied over 1000 hours of Ayurveda at the Ayurvedic Institute. A level 6 graduate of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (Ph.D), Jenny has a Clinical Ayurvedic Herbalist (CAH) Certificate (750 hours - 50 Trimester Units over 3 years), and a Pancha Karma Specialist Certificate (700 hours).
Along with Michael, Jenny assists with the Distance Learning Program (www.ayurvedic-college.com) of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and serves on its faculty.
Jenny has a Master Herbalist Certificate (1800 hours), a Doctorate Degree in Ayurvedic Science (3200 hours) and has completed the coursework for her Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine .
In 2010, Jenny expects to receive her Acupuncturist (L.Ac.) from the State of California. Her specialty is working with back pain, shoulder problems, and neck pain.
As a student of Buddhist Ayurveda and the Chinese Healing Arts Jenny offers sliding scale herbal and dietary consultations to those in need, and free of charge to those who are indigent
Michael and Jenny's Ayurveda mentor Dr. Vasant Lad says that “Herbs are only 5% of the cure”.
Thus, Michael has long vowed to perfect the skills of being an Ayurvedic healer who can cure and prevent “dis-eases” by pointing-out and removing the mental-emotional causes of the afflictions (klesha) of living beings: 1. vata greed, 2. pitta hatred, and 3. kapha confusion. (Called the Three Poisons)
All suffering (in body, feelings-emotions, mind, actions, and consciousness) is caused by the “monkey mind” and its con-fused attachment to sensations, feelings-thoughts of windy desire (vata space-air), of fiery anger (pitta fire-water), and of muddled (kapha water-earth) confusion (confusion is the denying of cause and effect - Karma).
Serving since 1996 as an “Herb doctor”, now in his 43rd year, Michael practices a mix of Indian-Tibetan Ayurveda and Chinese healing arts along with Dharma in the Nagarjuna - Atisha Tibetan Lamrim path, Vipassana meditation, and Zen (Chan) meditation.
After all, Ayurveda says that, “Herbs are only 5% of the cure. 95% of the cure is wise understanding and self-discipline” in the Five Pillars of Good Health:
1. Proper sleep (not too much or too little),
2. Proper diet-nutrition (locally-grown, fresh, seasonal, primarily plant-based (vegetarian when appropriate) whole natural toxin-free, pesticide-free, non-Genetically modified organism GMO foods according to the constitution of vata-pitta-kapha). Thus, there is a vata diet, a pitta diet. a kapha diet and mixed diets of vata-pitta diet and pitta-kapha diet.
3. Daily Exercise (Yoga, Tai Chi, Aikido, Qi Gong, walking, hiking, swimming, devotional bowing-prostrations or any regular Exercise that makes you sweat (to release toxins via the skin) for at least 30 minutes daily.
4. Daily meditation (Vipassana Samadhi, Zen (Chan) or Dhyana - time-proven ”stress management” and prevention technique) - the only bad meditation is the day you don't “sit” to meditate; (Meditation is good preventive medicine) and
5. Brahmacharya (purity-heartedness - virtue, which for lay persons suggests self-control of sexuality - don't over-indulge and make yourself ill, implies protect your ojas immunity, and protect yours and other's relationship commitments and vows), and it also traditionally means celibacy for monks-nuns-priests-yogis.
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