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The Healing Alchemy of Five Tastes

In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five tastes according to five-element philosophy. In exploring the five tastes, we can understand how to use them to benefit the integrity of our organ and emotion systems. In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five…

pink and yellow graphic that reads the healing alchemy of the five tastees with michelle adams with a picture of michelle, a black woman with an orange head scarf

In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five tastes according to five-element philosophy. In exploring the five tastes, we can understand how to use them to benefit the integrity of our organ and emotion systems.

In this workshop, Michelle Adams teaches us about the healing benefits of the five tastes according to five-element philosophy. In exploring the five tastes, we can understand how to use them to benefit the integrity of our organ and emotion systems.This video is adapted from an event we ran as part of Through the Portal: Healing Justice Beyond Pandemic – a community-led public health programme through a disability justice and anti-oppression lens. The programme was launched in 2020, in response to the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on communities that are marginalised.

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