college studies and professions related to qigong, meditation, kungfu, healing, acupuncture and the

[o]

I have 2 questions.

1) I am interested in qigong, meditation, eastern philosophies (esp. Zen Buddhism), and other related things. Are there any college programs or courses that could incorporate any of the above? I imagine that there would be something about eastern philosophies but I dont' know about the rest.

2) What are all of the different professions that involve qigong, meditation, kungfu, healing, acupuncture or anything else related?

[Shaolin Master]

If you do a course in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) it covers most topics mentioned. You could select a range of electives usually to cover religious studies.

Typically TCM courses include philosophy, TCM theory, Acuouncture, Massage, Herbalism, Dietary Therapy, Pathophysiology, Tai Qi/Qi Gong (usually one semester only though), a little language studies, and the like.

Kung fu you could do on the side and the teacher usually would reinforce the academic studies of the traditional medicine.

2) What are all of the different professions that involve qigong, meditation, kungfu, healing, acupuncture or anything else related?

The profession mixing all those would be TCM Doctor/KungFu Teacher which is most common.

Regards

Shi Chan Long

[Ma_Xu_Zha]

Most accupunture colleges here in the states ususally offer qigong and taiji clases along with TCM.

[brucelee2]

I think that someone posted recently (on maybe the kung fu forum or internal arts) that you could go to either the Naropa Institute (in boulder colorado?) or Esalen institute (I forget which) and have your university major be Tai Chi (and I don't know what else).

[o]

I was looking for something more in the range of Zen training with healing people (with qi) on the side. Is such a combo possible (as a profession)?

[ninja turtle]

check out naturalhealers.com for schools- good stuff.