Marcus Van Slageren
About me
I am a therapist with 30 years of experience specialising in Traditional Oriental Medicine, currently working between my practices in Barcelona, where I normally work the first week of the month, and Brighton, where I arrived in the summer of 2013. My name is…
My approach to oriental medicine
In my approach to Traditional Oriental Medicine my intention is to integrate it’s different aspects in the way they were applied by the early practitioners. This implies the adjustment of: breathing, moving, life attitude and diet and the application of manual therapy and acupuncture….
Treatments
The treatments that I offer include: Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Qi kung, Pharmacopeia, Diet adjustment and Life Coaching.
TRYING TO CONCEIVE
This is the first in a series of posts on female fertility In this series of blogs I would like to attend one of the most challenging and often heart wrenching problems of modern life: the problems that modern couples face sometimes to conceive….
WINTER WIND
After the bountiful and outgoing summer comes autumn with the harvest and the gathering of the result of last year. The outward-directed energy starts to turn and will slowly turn inwards. In Catalunya where I used to live, there is still the big celebration…
AUTUMN and the changing of the seasons.
As we now have already entered full into Autumn, the leaves are golden and the skies are nostalgic. It could be helpful to reflect on the changing of the seasons. Health, in the understanding of Traditional Oriental Medicine is the capacity to adapt to…