Nepal World Healing Exchange Trip   October 27 - November 15, 2011 Swyambhunath   Mani Rimdu Pilgrimage     October 27 - November 15, 2011 (Eligible for up to 21.5 CEU/PDA's including one day training)   Our Guides - Wild Earth Journey's Thomas Kelly (Photographer and Yoga Teacher), Melanie Rubin (AWB Managing Director) and Micah O'Neil (AWB Board Member) The purpose of Acupuncturists Without Borders World Healing Exchange program is to provide service and trauma treatment training in communities around the world as well as to learn from indigenous and traditional healers about their healing practices. On these journeys we also renew and refresh ourselves and deepen our own practices to support the work we each do in the world.   AWB Clinic at Thupten Choling Monastery Please join Thomas Kelly, Carroll Dunham (Kathmandu only) and Acupuncturists Without Borders on an intimate journey to the heartland of the Himalayas to share in healing exchange with Tibetan doctors and others, to witness the swirling colors of the Mani Rimdu festival and meet one of the greatest living Vajrayana masters of this century: Trulshik Rinpoche, senior retreat master for the Dalai Lama. Learn more about service, local healing practices, Buddhism and wilderness, as we retreat ever deeper, before returning to engage more deeply in the world renewed. We will partake of meditation and yoga, share our healing expertise with locals, and immerse ourselves into the deep joy of walking - helping to clear our minds on some of the sweetest trails in all the Himalaya.    Morning Meditation in Front of Ratna Giri                              During this special program we will offer free acupuncture clinics in rural Nepalese villages and local monasteries, meet with, and learn from, traditional healers, provide training to local people, trek in one of the most profoundly moving mountain ranges in the world and have the opportunity to experience sacred places throughout the Kathmandu Valley. AWB's fifth international WHE program will combine healing, service, practice, and culture in a way that we hope will leave you inspired, renewed and committed to the vision of a better world. We hope you will come along for the journey!     Click HERE for Nepal Information Packet         CLICK HERE to learn more about Wild Earth Journeys   Please call (505) 266-3878 if you have questions or email programs@acuwithoutborders.org.   We hope to see you in Nepal!
Chiwong Monastery   Trip Fee (does not include international airfare):    Early Bird:  Full Payment is due by August 1, 2011   $3,500 (cash or check price)/AWB Member (add 3% for credit card payment)     $3,800 (cash or check price)/Non-member (add 3% for credit card payment)   Regular Rate:  Full Payment is due by September 1, 2011   $3,800 (cash or check price)/AWB Member (add 3% for credit card payment)   $4,100 (cash or check price)/Non-member (add 3% for credit card payment)        Deposit: A non-refundable $500 deposit by check (credit cards will be accepted with an additional 3% charge) is required to hold your spot. Deposit can be done online or mailed to:     AWB, 909 Virginia NE, Suite 211  Albuquerque, NM 87108   Call 505-266-3878 if you would like to pay by credit card or go to the link below and MAKE SURE to note that this is a deposit for the Nepal trip. Credit card deposit is $515.00 http://acuwithoutborders.org/donate_online.php.   Note: For those who have not been to an AWB training, there will be a one-day required AWB clinical training offered on October 28th in Kathmandu.  7.5 CEU's will be offered, and the course fee is $150.00.     Trip is limited to 15 participants Acupuncturists and their partners are welcome   CLICK HERE for Nepal Information Packet including Payment Information Reflections from AWB's Recent WHE Trip to Oaxaca   AWB Clinic at Charco Redondo, Oaxaca      I am still processing all that happened during the two weeks we spent in Oaxaca. What I can say moved me as a person was how connected we truly are. Even though we came from different parts of the world, spoke different languages, we all gathered together to be part of a healing exchange. That's what happened, an exchange of information, of knowledge, wisdom, emotions, of healing modalities...we shared our lives together, how naturally healing it all was! Thank you!      -Lupita Martín   I am truly humbled by my time and experiences in Oaxaca as my intention was to go on this trip to "give back," little did I know that I would be receiving so much in return!   -Charlotte Gallagher   The trip gave me what was originally my intention to bring (an open heart and mind). It was wonderful to volunteer my acupuncture skills to these beautiful communities, but I left grateful to AWB, the healers, and the 4 elements of nature.     -Darren Spowart

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About World Healing Exchange Program:

In the fall of 2009 AWB launched our first World Healing Exchange (WHE) Program to Nepal. Here are some of the goals of the WHE Program:

• To treat local people in underserved areas around the world who have been traumatized due to war, poverty, economic and environmental hardship, and oppression;
• To develop partnerships with local health care providers for cross-cultural exchange and training that will support long-term treatment and healing in these geographic areas; and
• To provide an opportunity for Western acupuncturists to develop new awareness of themselves as healers, and return to their lives and practices with greater vision and clarity of purpose.

In Nepal AWB volunteers treated about 600 villagers, monks, nuns, and others, and established relationships with local Tibetan doctors in preparation for providing training on a return visit.

• Nine volunteer teams of 3 - 5 people each have traveled to Haiti, and this has been a life-changing experience for each volunteer;
• Almost 4,000 Haitian nationals and relief workers have been treated; and
• With the current trip to Haiti in August of 2010 which will train 40 local Haitian health care providers, the ability to treat trauma in Haiti using AWB's field protocols will be expanded geometrically.

• In Ecuador in March of 2010, almost a thousand local people were treated to support them in recovering from the impact of environmental devastation to their rainforests and other indigenous resources.
• In July of 2010, AWB went with a team of volunteers to train traditional acupuncturists in Mongolia who are interested in addressing substance abuse issues.
• In August of 2010 AWB trained approximately 60 Local Healers and treated HIV+ patients as well as trafficked children in orphanages as a followup to AWB's trip to Nepal in October of 2009.
  
• In February of 2011 AWB will travel with volunteers to Oaxaca, Mexico to work with local people who have been impacted by political instability and poverty, and to lay a foundation for training local healers (see announcement below).
• AWB is currently planning a return trip to Nepal in October of 2011.