Teachers

Alex Jack (USA),

a macrobiotic teacher, counsellor, and author for over 25 years, has written many books including The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health and The Cancer Prevention Diet with Michio Kushi, Aveline Kushi’s Complete Guide to Macrobiotic Cooking, and The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Sound and Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit with Don Campbell.

He served as director of the Kushi Institute in the U.S. and is currently the president of Planetary Health/Amberwaves, a grassroots network devoted to preserving rice, millet, and other essential foods from the threat of genetic engineering and climate change. He offers information on macrobiotic health and healing at www.macrobioticpath.com.

Lectures

•  Vanishing Nutrients
The vitamins and minerals in the world’s food supply continue to decline sharply. Alex presents the latest research he has conducted and explores what role global warming, electromagnetic radiation, GMOs, hybrid seeds, and other factors play in this alarming trend and its impact on the macrobiotic community.

•  Cool Fusion
Mainstream science is promoting hot fusion, a global network of new low-radiation nuclear reactors, as the answer to the energy crisis. The environmental community is supporting wind, solar, and other renewable technologies including cold fusion. Both approaches have serious drawbacks. In between is cool fusion, or the transmutation of elements proposed by George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi. This class presents the latest developments in this exciting new macrobiotic approach to ending material scarcity.

•  Whole Grains and Human Evolution
Meat-eaters, practitioners of the Paleolithic Diet, and many scientists believe people only started to eat grains with the introduction of agriculture about ten thousand years ago. This class presents a wealth of new scientific research, as well as literary and artistic evidence, that ancient ancestors cooked and baked cereal grasses as their principal food.

•  The Turning Point: 2011-2013
In this two-part workshop, Alex will look at Nine Star Ki influences during this critical 3-year period and how they will affect health, politics, the economy, and other aspects of social and personal destiny.

•  Profiles in Oriental Diagnosis
2011 is the 150th anniversary of the start of the   U.S. Civil War. This class will focus on a macrobiotic analysis of this historic event in terms of the traditional European, African, and American diets; slavery and the global spread of brown rice, President Abraham Lincoln’s constitution and condition; and the character of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, who was born and brought up as a vegetarian.

•  The Tao of Writing
This workshop introduces a variety of ways to enhance Ki flow when you write, improve your creativity, and express your originality with pen and ink, keyboard and mouse, or finger in the sand.