Write Your UnPrescription Returns 23 April 2022 at 10a PDT
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Write Your UnPrescription Returns

Please join us again for The UnPrescription, an antidote to an algorithmic world. It’s a time for us to improvise our health and happiness. The UnPrescription is an introduction to improvising life. We are addressing occupational burnout, fostering the creativity necessary for progress, countering cancel culture, and holding at bay the takeover by artificial intelligence. These are reflective, joyful, healing, freeing sessions for anyone in a healing profession, or associated in any way, shape, manner, or form to anyone in the healing professions. If you have ever even just consulted a healer you are welcome.

Participants will practice improvisational writing, dancing, singing, drumming, acting, cooking, and drawing/painting in one hour online live video sessions on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month 10-11am Pacific Time. Please join us and so many others from all around the world.

We continue this series on Saturday, 23 April 2022 with Jaysi facilitating improvisational writing. While form and discipline are her strong suits, she recognizes the pinnacle of mastery of any art or science lies in the freedom to improvise spontaneously. As such she is enthusiastic about studying improvisational acting, clowning, and cultivating her natural knack for punning.

Although there is no fee, we welcome your financial support to cover the cost of honoring the facilitators and hosting the series.

And as always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Topic: Write Your UnPrescription with Jaysi Zoom Meeting
When: 23 April 2022 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89168423261?pwd=UzAyZVVObE1MK2ZYWGo1NzlIVHpiUT09

Meeting ID: 891 6842 3261
Passcode: 738790

To stay in the loop for future sessions and series please visit The UnPrescription.

Share Your Experience, Share Your Prosperity

This week’s Ready, Steady, Go! action item is to share your experience of walking around your block with someone, anyone. Even if anyone can’t join you at this time, share with someone a story from your walk(s). And please share your experience with us in the comments on the post, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtags #ReadySteadyGo and #SharingIsCaring and #SharingIsProsperity.

Because Dad Humor is Good Medicine

*In honor of Easter Egg Hunts:
I tried to organize a professional Hide-and-Seek tournament, but it was a complete failure………
………..Good players are hard to find.

*And because I’m writing from the San Francisco Bay Area:
Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
….Because if they flew over the bay, they’re bagels!

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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A Walk Around the Block – Ready, Steady, Go!
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

A Walk Around the Block
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to Wana Shue who joins Arundhati Vyas on team Ready, Steady, Go! Wana is a folk artist and folk medicine worker exhibiting through this website. Their medicine of patience, presence, and sacred intuition saturate their birthwork and ceremony support. With Beyond Holistic they write to promote rituals of reflection, collective contribution, and cross pollination.

In their own words:

It’s with sweet pleasure that I am writing my first piece with Beyond Holistic. Recently introduced to the Ready, Steady, Go! team I appreciate the approachability of the suggestions, scaling focal impact from the individual level to reach global systems. May this progression aid depth in our awareness and in our agency.

As seasons are changing, winter shifting into spring for the northern hemisphere, I invite a pause to notice adaptation through our ecosystems. Wherever you are, in whatever climate, time evolves our landscape. Relationships between flora and fauna change to uplift new life and in the lengthening days the older become wiser. With the forward momentum of spring, I will offer some practices to engage a new or remembered mindfulness.”

This week’s Ready, Steady, Go! action item is to engage your health and heart by simply taking a walk around the block with your senses alive and alert for what surrounds you. Please let us know your experience with it as a comment on the post, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtags #ReadySteadyGo and #WalkAroundTheBlock

As always, we welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Stay tuned for Writing Your UnPrescription next Saturday, 23 April 2022.

Because Dad Humor is Good Medicine

*What do bees do if they need a ride? Wait at the buzz stop!

*Fun fact: Australia’s biggest export is boomerangs. It’s also their biggest import.

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Draw/Paint Your UnPrescription 9 April 2022 at 10a PDT
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Draw/Paint Your UnPrescription
Please join us for The UnPrescription, an antidote to an algorithmic world. The UnPrescription is an introduction to various improvisational practices. These are reflective, joyful, healing, freeing sessions for anyone in a healing profession, or associated in any way, shape, manner, or form to anyone in the healing professions.

Participants will practice improvisational writing, dancing, singing, drumming, acting, cooking, and drawing/painting in one hour online live video sessions on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month 10-11am Pacific Time. Please join us and so many others from all around the world.

We begin this series on 9 April 2022 with Nate Barton facilitating improvisational drawing/painting. Nate is an artist who teaches art. He works in multiple mediums from oil pastels to watercolors, pen and ink, ceramics and wood. He has more than 25 years of experience and loves teaching nearly as much as he loves making art. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and two sons. His works can be found on Instagram @etannotrab and on his wesbsite

What to bring:
Something to paint with.
Something that has ink. Sharpies are great.
Something else to add color, for example, oil pastels, colored pencils, crayons.
Don’t forget something, besides your walls, to draw or paint on.
If you don’t have any of these things, improvise! 🙂

Although there is no fee, we welcome your financial support to cover the cost of honoring the facilitators and hosting the series. And as always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Topic: The UnPrescription with Nate Barton Zoom Meeting
When: Apr 9, 2022 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73155762184?pwd=xPsm0QGhqXmma4smJ5F5Lj4UWkyzfC.1

Meeting ID: 731 5576 2184
Passcode: cF5w50

To stay in the loop for future sessions and series please visit The UnPrescription.

Because Dad Humor is Good Medicine
In honor of our creative spirits:

*The guy that invented the umbrella was gonna call it the brella……
….but he hesitated.

*Before the invention of the wheel……
….everything was a drag!

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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It’s a Tie; Need Tiebreakers. And, Walk Your Doc!
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Request Friends to Be Tiebreakers
The survey results are in with your preferences of when you want to resume our personal practices. Here are the results:

We need tiebreakers!
Here is the survey link to send to your friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers. Please ask them to respond by September 15 and we will be able to start in October.

I look forward to cultivating our well-being and resilience together with Beyond Asana (yoga poses, guided meditation, discussion of foundations of yoga) and Ji Juju (qi gong).

Walk Your Doc!
I’m adding to our practices the Walk Your Doc program. This is an opportunity to nurture your own fitness, create community connections, and get your doc out for a walk. Please submit a health related question which we can discuss for a few minutes as we walk.

Friday evenings at 5:30 PM PST

Saturday mornings at 11:30 AM PST

Contact me for meeting place or call-in information.

Please fill this liability waiver form prior to joining a class.

We start on 10 Sep 2021. Please let me know whenever you will be joining. Thanks!

Rinse and Repeat Your UnPrescription Next Saturday!
As part of Beyond Holistic’s UnPrescription program, I will be a guest facilitator on Saturday 11 September 2021 at 10am PST for Dr. Laurel Braitman’s Writing Medicine program hosted by Stanford University’s Medicine and the Muse Program. These are reflective writing sessions for anyone in or related in any way, shape, manner, or form to anyone practicing in the healing professions. There is no cost. Please join us and so many others from all around the world. Please sign up here for the log in information.

As always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Because Humor is Good Medicine
Even “B/Dad humor”:

Q: Why was the math teacher late to work?
A: She took the rhombus.

Q: Why can’t you trust an atom?
A: Because they make up everything.

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Write Your UnPrescription 28 Aug 2021 at 10a PST
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Write Your UnPrescription
As part of Beyond Holistic’s UnPrescription program, I will be a guest facilitator on Saturday 28 August 2021 at 10am PST for Dr. Laurel Braitman’s Writing Medicine program hosted by Stanford University’s Medicine and the Muse Program. These are reflective writing sessions for anyone in or related in any way, shape, manner, or form to anyone practicing in the healing professions. There is no cost. Please join us and so many others from all around the world. Please sign up here for the log in information.

When do you want to resume yoga and qi gong practice?
If you haven’t already done so, please let me know the times and dates you’d be able to resume our personal practices through this very easy, very short form. Please respond by August 31 so we can start again sometime in September. I look forward to cultivating our well-being and resilience together with Beyond Asana (yoga poses, guided meditation, discussion of foundations of yoga) and Ji Juju (qi gong).

As always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Humor is Good Medicine
Inspired by my dear friend Kathy Sartori of Fiscal Fitness, and because humor is good medicine, even “Dad humor”:

Q: What do you call a can opener that doesn’t work?
A: A can’t opener!

Q: Where do spiders seek health advice?
A: WebMD

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Share A Song with Ready, Steady, Go!
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Share a Song!
This week’s Ready, Steady, Go! action item is to strengthen our social connections by sharing music with someone. Please let us know your experience with it as a comment on the post, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtags #ReadySteadyGo and #SongstoShare

When do you want to resume practice?
Please let me know the times and dates you’d be able to resume our personal practices through this very easy, very short form. Please respond by August 22 so we can start again in September. I look forward to cultivating our well-being and resilience together with Beyond Asana (yoga poses, guided meditation, discussion of foundations of yoga) and Ji Juju (qi gong).

As always, I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Humor is Good Medicine
And, inspired by my dear friend Kathy Sartori of Fiscal Fitness, and because humor is good medicine, even “Dad humor”:

I can’t believe I got fired from my job at the calendar factory……All I did was take a day off!

To the inventor of Zero, all I have to say is “Thanks for nothing!”

I invite each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Resuming Personal Resilience Practices and Ready, Steady, Go!
by Jayshree Chander

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Dear Friends,

Resuming Personal Practices
First on the agenda is resuming our personal practices that promote our well-being and resilience with Beyond Asana (yoga poses, guided meditation, discussion of foundations of yoga) and Ji Juju(qi gong). Please let me know the times and dates you’d be able to commit to participate through this very easy, very short form. Please respond by August 20 so we can start again in September.

Introducing intern, Arundhati Vyas

I’d like to introduce Arundhati Vyas, our new intern, who will be crafting our Ready, Steady, Go! action items, simple things you can do to bolster your well-being and resilience. Arundhati is a Masters in Public Health student interested in gender inequity in healthcare, health policy, and the role of technology in shaping public health systems and outcomes. In her free time, Arundhati enjoys writing, playing piano, and spending time with her baby niece. I am delighted to welcome her on board.

Ready, Steady, Go!
This week’s Ready, Steady, Go! action item is to explore the ways in which music can help us to feel more connected with ourselves, and as a result, improve our physical and mental health. To start, listen to a song you love at a place and time in which you can really focus on the sounds in the music. The goal is to listen with intention and enjoyment. Please let us know your experience with it as a comment on the post, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtags #ReadySteadyGo and #MusicILove

Website Overhaul
Beyond Holistic is revamping the website, folding in the sites for JypsyJays Productions and Nei Jing Now! I’m really enjoying working with the excellent team at Another Day Another Colour courtesy of Vikas Sharan, CEO of Open Growth, a venture incubation and holding company, and self-described “new-age marketing strategist.” Stay tuned for the new look!

I welcome your support for any of our efforts.

Humor is Good Medicine
And, inspired by my dear friend Kathy Sartori of Fiscal Fitness, and because humor is good medicine, even “Dad humor”:

Q: What did the person who invented the door knock win?
A: The No-bell prize

Q: What happened after I was struggling to fasten my seat belt?
A: It finally clicked

Q: What do call the thieves that broke into my house and stole everything except my soap, shampoo, and towels?
A: Dirty fellows

I welcome each of you to submit a joke or a riddle for the next newsletter.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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New offering: Morning Ji Juju (Qi/Ki/Chi Cultivation) starting 5 Nov 2020
by Jayshree Chander

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I’m delighted to be presenting two wonderful teachers to help us get our morning juju on! In fact, I’m calling our Tuesday and Thursday morning practice Ji Juju. Please visit the new Ji Juju page to learn why.

I’m honored that Maida Sensei, Chief Instructor of the Northern California Ki Society and authorized examiner representing Ki Society Headquarters in Japan, is leading a Ki (Qi or Chi) cultivation practice for us on Tuesday mornings. We are so lucky to have this opportunity.

I’m equally thrilled that Sierra Boyd will be leading a Qi Gong warm up for us on Thursday mornings. Sierra has been studying and practicing Dayan Wild Goose Qi Gong as taught by Wen Wu School teachers under the direction of Professor Hui Liu in El Cerrito, CA for over a decade.

Ji Juju

Ki Cultivation with Maida Sensei (resumes 10 Nov 2020)
Days:Tuesdays
Time: 06:00-07:00 AM PST
Venue: temporarily on Zoom while we harmonize the COVID-19 situation.
Please contact me to receive the video room link.

Sensei usually offers instruction by membership. Please offer a donation in support of the Northern California Ki Society. Your generosity and reciprocity is greatly appreciated and fully tax deductible.  

Dayan Qi Gong warm up with Sierra Boyd (resumes 5 Nov 2020)
Days:Thursdays
Time: 06:00-07:00 AM PST
Venue: temporarily on Meet while we harmonize the COVID-19 situation.
Please contact me to receive the video room link.

A donation to Beyond Holistic is also welcome, and not required.
Requested donation:
$30 per month for unlimited attendance to morning practice of Ji Juju sessions Tu/Thu and Beyond Asana M/W/F;
$10 for drop-in;
In-kind hour-per-hour support very welcome.
Your support is greatly appreciated and fully tax deductible

Please fill this liability waiver form prior to joining a class. Thanks!

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Beyond Asana: Asana Pranayama practice resumes tomorrow!
by Jayshree Chander

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We resume our morning yoga practice tomorrow, bright and early for most of us. As we head into winter, this is a good time to start your days by getting yourself warmed up from the inside out. 

Current class focus: getting up and out of bed, getting the body and breath warmed up for the day. 

This is a led practice with minimal corrections given due to limitations of online venue. Each yogi must be mindful of one’s own limitations and attend to any modifications necessary.

Beyond Asana

Asana Pranayama practice
Days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 06:00-07:00 AM PST

Time: 06:00-07:00 AM PST

Venue: temporarily on Meet while we harmonize the COVID-19 situation.
Please contact me to receive the video room link.

A donation is requested, and is not required.
Requested donation:
$30 per month for unlimited attendance;
$10 for drop-in;
In-kind hour-per-hour support very welcome.
Your support is greatly appreciated and fully tax deductible

Please fill this liability waiver form prior to joining a class. Thanks!

Here’s the link to the Beyond Asana page, if you ever want to reference it.

Looking forward, staying present,

Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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Dear Friends,

We resume our explorations of the foundations of yoga practice. Our next ten sessions will focus on the qualities of enlightenment

Beyond Asana
Yama Niyama practice
Days: Sundays 18:30-20:00 (6:30-8 PM) PST
We will meet every other week, and adjust accordingly to accommodate holiday weekends or other special events. To stay apprised of any schedule modifications please ensure that you are on my email list.

Time: 06:00-07:00 AM PST

Venue: temporarily on Meet while we harmonize the COVID-19 situation.
Please contact me to receive the video room link.

A donation is requested, and is not required.
Requested donation:
$120 for 10 sessions;
$75 for 5 sessions;
$20 for drop-in;
In-kind hour-per-hour support very welcome.
Your support is greatly appreciated and fully tax deductible

Please fill this liability waiver form prior to joining a class. Thanks!

Here’s the link to the Beyond Asana page, if you ever want to reference it.

Looking forward, staying present,
Jayshree

Jayshree Chander, MD, MPH
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Family and Community Medicine

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