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Welcome to Verticle-Force Martial Arts. Find out more about Ba Gua Quan and Michael Guen.

Michael Guen, Ph.D., L.Ac.,C.T. holds a doctorate degree in psychology from Boston University, is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, and a practitioner of other natural therapies. He is a 5th generation disciple of the Yin Fu ba gua quan lineage under Grandmaster Gong Baozai, and a thirty year student of Yang family tai chi chuan. An author and lecturer, he operates a clinic and teaches life practice and martial arts in Santa Rosa, California.

Ongoing Trainings

ROOTS OF SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY AND SPIRITUAL MEDICINE (aka Unified Human Field Analysis & Biochemistry of Nutrition)

When: Saturdays from 9:00AM to 11:30AM

Where: Wasah Institute, Santa Rosa

This weekly gathering led by Dr. Michael Guen accompanies the weekly Women's and Men's Groups held in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, California.

For information about Men's and Women's Groups please scroll down for info.

Addressed in the Roots of Spiritual Psychology and Spiritual Medicine are topics related to psychology, medicine, and any manner or form of human relationship, as pertains to pursuit of human potential in this age of world crisis. Coming from an integrative perspective of Chinese medicine, modern science, western spiritual science, and the World Mysteries, a mixture of class work and movement is offered. The main tool for cultivation of inner wisdom and technical expertise is the Unified Human Field Analysis distilled by Dr. Guen. Based on "separate parts analysis" ability and grounded in the four main internal organ systems (see description below), Unified Human Field Analysis simultaneously heals and transforms one's core beliefs and character. Attendance hours may be applied towards intern hours in the One-Effort Living Consultant certification program.

This class is held at 130 Steiner Court in Santa Rosa. Please park on Sonoma Avenue, and walk in.

Tuition is $40 per class. A regular Wasah membership ($30.00 annually) is needed to attend. Individually discounted tuition rates are available to those who become full Wasah members ($50.00 annually).

Contact Patricia Bernard with questions regards membership.

707-280-0563

The Presenter

Dr. Michael Guen graduated from ACTCM and holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University. He specializes in TCM spiritual psychology in his private practice in Santa Rosa. He is the author of “Way of the Saint: The Forgotten Relationship Between Medicine, Mysticism And Martial Arts.” Michael is lineage holder of the famous Chinese medicine/philosophy system ba gua quan (eight trigrams boxing) from the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace. In 2008, he lectured on Indigenous TCM Psychology at the 2nd Annual Academic Congress on TCM Psychology in Beijing, in San Francisco at the 2008 CSOMA Expo, and will be teaching again at the 2009 CSOMA Expo.

SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Spiritual Autobiography was conceived in 1997 as a preparatory training to acclimate students to the rigor and language of orthodox life practice. Since then the program has expanded into two independent courses of learning—Women’s Spiritual Autobiography (WSA), now called Women's Mysteries (WM), and Men’s Spiritual Autobiography (MSA), now called Men's Mysteries (MM). Two distinct methodologies and curriculum honor the different physiologies, temperaments, and learning styles of women and men.

The root orthodox tradition from which Spiritual Autobiography derived is a synthesis of Chinese medicine, spiritual psychology, eastern and western mysticism, and martial arts. A core value promoted at Wasah Institute is for extraordinary achievement to manifest in ordinary thought, word, feeling, and action. For this to take place, both material and spiritual sides of one’s nature must be integrated and unified. In an age of cultural fragmentation, role models bearing such high degree of unification and integration must step forth and lead the charge for planetary healing. The common path for all participants in this program —is first to discover one's personal story and higher life purpose, then to “spiritualize” it by incorporating salient lessons into everyday life.

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Women's and Men's Program Descriptions

Women's Mysteries

With each new cycle a new generation of women forms. Building the concept of a" women’s lineage" is critical to provide women with a forum to exercise hierarchical power within a homogenous women-run structure. Focused inquiry outside of mainstream is essential at first, to enable women to crystallize their knowledge of discrete female dynamics, politics, and the exclusive way love/power moves amongst women, and between women and men. Equipped with this awareness and control, women may more thoroughly achieve the objectives of character-reformation, communication networking, and healing, within patriarchy.

Men's Mysteries

Weekly classes held throughout the year (except August) cover the above inner architecture material, but in looser fashion. Focus of men's training is on strengthening the modern male spirit through incorporating "structure" and "ritual" into the male spiritual organization. These objectives are pursued through group prayer, meditation, drumming, personal sharing, and practice of orthodox martial art postures and applications. Three guiding principles of the Wasah Men's Mysteries are: Precision, Sensitivity, Communication.

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