Living a Connected Life

Speaker Series in the Hungerford!

Beginning October 2018, Shoeizan Enkyoji Buddhist Temple of Rochester will be offering free monthly presentations on a wide range of topics which tie together how we can live healthier, more vibrant, connected lives!

Join us on October 21st at 1pm for our first speaker, Dr. Joshua Keeler as he explains the world of proper body mechanics and how to create better blood flow to reduce daily pain and discomfort. Click the links below to meet some of our other speakers!

This series will highlight fascinating topics that can enrich our lives and improve our overall health and well-being. Topics will include but not be limited to chiropractic, the great outdoors, herbalism, farming, martial arts and body mechanics, meditation and mindfulness, and managing our stressful lives with plant based whole foods.

To see a glimpse of what the speakers are going to touch on, continue reading the following vehicle visualization.

Let's use the common vehicle analogy as a way to look at your body as a vehicle. First imagine that your body transports you, your inner being, just as your car transports you and your family around town.

How does your vehicle communicate with your computer and your engine? Is the computer your brain, does it tell you what to do? Maybe it is the engine, maybe the brain makes everything else function. Could it be that your digestion is where all of the engine functions happen? If that is the case, what is the computer exactly?

Now think about maintenance of this vehicle. What happens when you don't fuel up your vehicle or don't put in the correct fluids? What happens when your vehicle sits for too long while on vacation or over the winter? What happens when your check engine light comes on and is ignored indefinitely....I've done with this multiple vehicles. If our fuel is our food and our fluids are proper hydration (predominantly water), our vacation is our sedentary lifestyles, and our check engine light is our aches and pains, then how can tending to all of these things in turn help all of the others? Let's say all of the above have happened. Your poor little car sat all winter with an empty fuel tank and won't start. In this particular situation, you get the little gas can and come back and fill up the tank. Still puttering....oh my, now what? Our vehicles have been on standby for so long, it's difficult sometimes to decide what is the quickest fix. Do we eat healthier?....We try a little, go for a walk here and there, see the chiropractor once a month, take our medications....and yet we are still just puttering through life.

By sharing the knowledge from such a wide range of experts, we hope to provide and gain (we will be listening too!) insight into how we can balance the options to improve our physical bodies, our mental and emotional states, and our spiritual beings.