Healing Tao USA | uroburro | Activity https://healingtaousa.com/members/uroburro/activity/ Activity feed for uroburro. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:15:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 bfb05efe23464e7c2ff84b3f88228a61 uroburro replied to the topic Multiple Sclerosis in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/multiple-sclerosis/#post-24649 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:58:57 -0400 Hi Nnonnth;

Yes, I’m in the complementary healthcare field. I work with a company called Celletech – celletech.com. We manufacture complementary healthcare products. Conceptually they’re similar to homeopathic remedies, but made using a more contemporary process and frequently using combinations of remedies to achieve the desired effect. Single…[Read more]

]]> d14126ab1bf54858dabfe90c99c8b888 uroburro replied to the topic Dragon Bone update in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dragon-bone-update/#post-23247 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:15:42 -0400 OK, testing on myself, taking the formula ~3x/day, I notice a deeper sense of space within myself and a nice calm rooted sensation. I am also taking the actual tincture once a day, so there’s probably some reinforcement happening there. I think there’s a good possibility that this formula will be a nice energetic supplement for inner work.

If…[Read more]

]]> b1f673c61b008428cebc5cdfbe3f06e7 uroburro replied to the topic Question for Michael and anyone else re: belly dance in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-for-michael-and-anyone-else-re-belly-dance/page/2/#post-22797 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:04:11 -0400 (Hi Jason)

Around here equating any type of tribal with bellydance is anathema. I am not familiar enough with the terms and the form specifics to ID the differences, but for the traditionalists, it’s a big difference.

Popular Egyptian-style is not held in high regard, too close to stripping. The classicists though are still very…[Read more]

]]> 933640e112acc74f6ce41e61af346fdc uroburro replied to the topic Question for Michael and anyone else re: belly dance in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-for-michael-and-anyone-else-re-belly-dance/#post-22785 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:55:11 -0400 Ahh, yes, OK. I’ve probably seen ATS performers. I have seen Rachel Brice on DVD, she looks great. Have you seen Nourhan Sharif and her husband Yosry? They’re based in NY. I wouldn’t say that she has the best form from a qigong perspective – I’ve seen a lot of joint locking out – but she’s an amazing performer. Her husband is considered one of the…[Read more]

]]> 3e56804ce94f1afe86164c0101f05f4c uroburro replied to the topic Question for Michael and anyone else re: belly dance in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-for-michael-and-anyone-else-re-belly-dance/#post-22779 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:36:50 -0400 There is one male dancer here in Madison, and there is at least one professional associated with Suhaila – one of the top bellydancers in the US/World. There are some great male BD instructors: checkout Zaza Hassan:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ReXdd7nAvFo

He looks like he’s having a great time.

-ML

]]> bb0107f21b7355e9b07690b4226b493f uroburro replied to the topic Question for Michael and anyone else re: belly dance in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-for-michael-and-anyone-else-re-belly-dance/#post-22777 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:30:40 -0400 Mona N’wal, the head instructor here, teaches classical style bellydance. Her mix includes Egyptian, Lebanese and Persian. The tribal forms I’ve seen don’t appear to focus too heavily on proper form, so I might not have exposure to the same ones you’re describing. Traditional Egyptian style can be quite different than contemporary. Alot of the…[Read more]

]]> 4d87916bb9c504974e24fe99f159806a uroburro replied to the topic Question for Michael and anyone else re: belly dance in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-for-michael-and-anyone-else-re-belly-dance/#post-22767 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:36:55 -0400 I’ve been watching my wife, daughter and some professionals bellydance for a few years. I note with great interest that many of their routines and techniques are about structural alignment; the particular application is also optimal for the flow of qi. Hands/arms are frequently held in embrace the tree/belt channel postures, the hips are tucked in…[Read more]

]]> 68bd18a6edadc671e75f4fa216a2d264 uroburro replied to the topic Villagers in central China dig up a ton of dinosaur bones in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/villagers-in-central-china-dig-up-a-ton-of-dinosaur-bones/#post-22746 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:19:44 -0400 I’m brewing up a batch of a dragon bone tonic based on a Ron Teeguarden formula: Poria, Codonopsis, Jujube date, Oyster shell, Cinnamon, Dragon Bone in 2/3rds brandy and 1/3rd 100 proof Vodka. I recently discovered that a friend of mine is an amateur paleontologist and had a nice collection of bones and fragments from a dig in South Dakota (US).…[Read more]

]]> 4d27c2b7579ac6f563848e05792f45b2 uroburro replied to the topic dream practice in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dream-practice/#post-22278 Sun, 27 May 2007 23:10:45 -0400 Thanks for the thoughts. Intriguing!

]]> 09a0077c8fc32ca94b1d13cedc3d8997 uroburro replied to the topic Question on Practice and Eating Food in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/question-on-practice-and-eating-food/#post-22375 Sun, 27 May 2007 23:01:26 -0400 I asked Michael this same question; his response was that it’s best to practice on an empty stomach, but that he had been practicing long enough that it didn’t matter for him. Michael’s response seems to suggest that once you have sufficiently established strong chi flow you do not have to wait to practice when there’s food in the belly.

I…[Read more]

]]> 869f6380da8586558ab0c351b977fc11 uroburro replied to the topic Letter to a uterus in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/letter-to-a-uterus/#post-22307 Sat, 26 May 2007 19:06:17 -0400 My wife and daughter are bellydancers and my daughter is considering it as a profession. I have had many opportunities to watch a wide variety of bellydancers and I am also struck by the co-incidences between the two. I have a goal to develop a qigong for bellydancers, to make explicit the implicit connections between the two: Belly qigong. My…[Read more]

]]> a7726960af30a611df879e53b37a30f3 uroburro replied to the topic Letter to a uterus in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/letter-to-a-uterus/#post-22305 Sat, 26 May 2007 19:06:03 -0400 My wife and daughter are bellydancers and my daughter is considering it as a profession. I have had many opportunities to watch a wide variety of bellydancers and I am also struck by the co-incidences between the two. I have a goal to develop a qigong for bellydancers, to make explicit the implicit connections between the two: Belly qigong. My…[Read more]

]]> cea924d67f23a764d589b642593c2915 uroburro replied to the topic Need your advice, what would you do? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/need-your-advice-what-would-you-do/#post-21535 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:13:58 -0400 From the tone of your message Wendy, it sounds like you have given plenty. The laptop, while useful, would not be an immediate necessity if shippable at a later date, and that’s only if the laptop is a real need. Also, the laptop doesn’t necessarily have to be a new one. Lots of good used ones available.

Though simplistic, an old training…[Read more]

]]> 791be832be6c34138e95bb01cf762665 uroburro replied to the topic The Swami Strikes Again..."The universe has us surrounded..." in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/the-swami-strikes-again-the-universe-has-us-surrounded/#post-21509 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:31:55 -0400 The Swami is still smokin’ hot. The wordplay made my day.

]]> 2c464ebbe0a22940972ce14b234637a7 uroburro replied to the topic Sugar Rush: How Our Deepest Cravings/Earth Element Develop & Are Controlled in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sugar-rush-how-our-deepest-cravingsearth-element-develop-are-controlled/#post-21164 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:34:08 -0400 A corollary:

Most of the food grown in the US is mono-cropped. As a result the soils are depleted of nutrients. Nutrient-deficient foods are less sweet when measured by taste or by refractometer. Foods that are grown in nutrient-dense soils have a natural sweetness with a complexity of flavors. In the US, up until the late 1800s to somewhere…[Read more]

]]> 09c56590163984180c71a3b232a5112f uroburro replied to the topic Different Btw Diet & Nutrition - good NYT article in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/different-btw-diet-nutrition-good-nyt-article/#post-20893 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:11:58 -0400 Thanks for the link Michael.

The author’s – Michael Pollan – book, The Omnivore’s Dilemna is a great read. An atypical journey through the typical American diet. Interesting paraphrase of one his topics: We’re walking corn. It’s difficult to tell if the corn is cultivating us, or we’re cultivating corn.

]]> 84f9c7a4a501788ea9d4ad414067f230 uroburro replied to the topic Ken Wilber on Science & Integral Spirituality (long Book Summary & brief Winn critique) in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/ken-wilber-on-science-integral-spirituality-long-book-summary-brief-winn-critique/#post-20473 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:10:35 -0400 If you are willing to take a rigorous approach Michael, I definitely think that Inner Alchemy can provide a genuine context to the Integralist worldview.

I also do not see/feel the embodiment, though do hear the talk. My sense is that there is a lot of becoming, and no being, in their approach to the body. I tend in this direction myself, so…[Read more]

]]> cc5625747ff2c54bd420575f1fdbfb06 uroburro replied to the topic Ken Wilber on Science & Integral Spirituality (long Book Summary & brief Winn critique) in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/ken-wilber-on-science-integral-spirituality-long-book-summary-brief-winn-critique/#post-20469 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:53:39 -0400 Thanks for the big post Michael. I’ve read some of K. Wilbur’s books in the past. I greatly appreciate his rigor, but have found that he is soo cerebral that my body feels starved for oxygen when I pore through his texts. I end up feeling like I was the disembodied head from the movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam.…[Read more]

]]> a32415163ffa032a1b9436d127b498e0 uroburro replied to the topic Frequently ASked Questions now posted. in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/frequently-asked-questions-now-posted/#post-20262 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:14:22 -0400 Reading the Inner Alchemy|Is it safe to integrate Q/A, your (Michael’s) answer includes the following:

Getting Tao ultimately means “getting to the essence of oneself”. This requires diving deep into the Unknown Center of your chi field. Consider me a diving guide.

As I read ‘Getting Tao’, I wondered what you meant by choosing those words;…[Read more]

]]> 190db3d225416508eb2356a07c0dd936 uroburro replied to the topic Request feedback on new Healing Tao Mission statement in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/request-feedback-on-new-healing-tao-mission-statement/#post-19063 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:25:37 -0400 IMO, mission statements need to be clear and concise. Your proposed mission statements are vaguely worded and difficult to understand. If you’re trying to reach the general public, you can’t use jargon; the high school business school student as target reader sounds right to me also. If you’re trying to reach people with a background in the…[Read more]

]]> f300517834674a3f139a64effc198937 uroburro replied to the topic COW'S MILK AND DAIRY in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/cows-milk-and-dairy/#post-18961 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:28:13 -0400 I do agree with you that we as a society are using drugs and foods as poor substitutes for love Alexander, but I’d like to clarify the way I used need in this thread. I mean the signal your body is trying to give you about its nutritional needs in the moment. Discerning this signal is extremely difficult for most people, me included. Thoughts like…[Read more]

]]> a487e62d9664d27d30495b73af678f7d uroburro replied to the topic COW'S MILK AND DAIRY in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/cows-milk-and-dairy/#post-18955 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:21:57 -0400 Controversial point: I don’t think anything is inherently healthy or unhealthy. Each substance has energetic properties. If those properties are what is needed, then the substance is ‘healthy’, ie good for you. Meat, coffee, coke, water, etc. doesn’t matter; if it’s what you need, it’s good for you.

Determining what is needed seems to be a very…[Read more]

]]> e34ca1621a83bc2cc28092f7e72444b5 uroburro replied to the topic COW'S MILK AND DAIRY in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/cows-milk-and-dairy/#post-18949 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:54:20 -0400 There is a huge amount of info in here, some of which is regurgitation of old data: fat is bad, cholesterol is bad, calcium needs to be balanced with magnesium, to name a few. Reasonable people shown unbiased data (very hard to come by) might entertain a discussion of the facts. Unfortunately the point gets lost in the diatribe.

The Coke…[Read more]

]]> d8cf752a404e8375fab89981b67dcb80 uroburro replied to the topic Sexual herbs in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/sexual-herbs/#post-18771 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:46:01 -0400 Unless there is a serious medical condition, ginseng is usually not given to men below the age of 40; no need to tonify when there is an abundance. From your description, it sounds like you have plenty of kidney yang energy, and are aware of it.

]]> 38523a15bc22d9e8011b4c37fbe243fb uroburro replied to the topic EMF fries organs and eyes in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/emf-fries-organs-and-eyes/#post-18299 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:56:21 -0400 Wendy, re: HCl/Water, fresh lemon juice can be much more effective than straight hcl in establishing proper acidity for your stomach and digestive tract. I’ve heard 9 parts water to 1 part fresh lemon juice is considered the best ratio–I put 1/4 lemon in a 12 oz. glass of water, which seems about right.

Mike (uroburro)
PS I’m relatively new…[Read more]

]]> 8e04c4f4bce2d6fd83d326ec6408944c uroburro replied to the topic Process Theologian on 9/11 & question of Evil in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/process-theologian-on-911-question-of-evil/#post-17854 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:16:18 -0400 Thanks for the post Michael. Steve Bhaerman (Swami Beyondanda) is also a very reasonable (and funny) man. As much as I have a hard time swallowing the 9/11 conspiracy story, when reasonable people can provide a factual basis for the story, it requires listening to.

I don’t remember the exact quote from Hannah Arendt, but it was something along…[Read more]

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