HEALING WORKSHOPS

“Everything in nature has a spirit, a resonance, an elemental energy; and in the same way we have a unique expression of our own. This energy can be accessed for through cultivating relationships with plant spirits and sharing their medicine for the health and harmony of our body, mind and spirit.”

—Marlow Brooks 

Long ago while living in England, I studied Five Element Acupuncture with the renowned J.R. Worsley. I had heard that one of his former students, Eliot Cowan, was inspired by Dr. Worsley’s suggestion that, instead of needles, working with local plant spirits to heal the body, mind and spirit could be “a thousand times stronger” and had created a system combining 5 Element diagnosis and treatment with plant spirits. I found this thrilling and completed a rigorous four year acupuncture degree and private shamanic plant spirit studies with Eliot Cowan and others. 

From the beginning I found this medicine incredibly potent, magical and effective for just about any disease and imbalance of body, mind and spirit. By 1996, while living in Vermont, I was training healers and apprentices to add this powerful modality to their practices. We were all astounded by the remarkable results.

In 1997 I moved to Boulder, Colorado to teach “The Psychology of the 5 Elements” at Naropa University and have been teaching the year long course ever since. After 20 years of teaching, I wrote a book, “Singing our Heart’s Song: A Guide to the Five Elements and Plant Spirit Healing” (link)  sharing a comprehensive journey through the profound wisdom and knowledge I’d grown to revere.

Throughout the years I’ve coupled my university teaching with healing workshops and apprenticeships in Boulder, Colorado, at my wilderness cabins in the surrounding mountains, and all over the world. 

Contact me if you are interested in attending or setting up a workshop (at any location) or you wish to join my classes in Boulder, Colorado. I also offer private sessions in person and on the phone. 

  • "Using the tools of the Five Element system has been not only helpful, but it has given me an expanded glimpse into each of the people that I work with. I have new ways to evaluate people, their condition and what will inspire them back to functional movement. The Pilates Method is something I have worked with and offered people for a very long time because I have been both a rehabilitation client following surgery and a student of the Method, and it works. It is with great relief and gratitude that I have an entirely new set of diagnostic skills with the Five Elements that will enhance and inform my future work for a lifetime to come."

    —MUKTI

  • "I deeply appreciate the feedback and support that you have been giving me. Your guidance is opening my world and expanding my understanding of my own journey into healing. You guide me to move deeper. Sometimes I feel satisfied or stuck at the surface and you invite me to flow into my own wisdom, this is where my most profound learning is happening. Truly, thank you."

    —ELENA

  • "Chinese medicine has always been a collective endeavor. For thousands of years, human beings have drawn upon a deep desire to know themselves and how to apply those discoveries to the process of healing… This book is an exquisite example of a collective offering that will add to the development of Chinese medicine as a healing art."

    —ALEXANDER LOVE

  • “Marlow Brooks has created a unique synthesis of dharma, poetry, and art that is transmitted with a depth born of care and experience. A thing of beauty, it is a delight to contemplate. There is wisdom, passion, and power to be found here for the reader who will engage in the spirit of inquiry and revelation that Marlow offers us.”

    —LONNY S. JARRETT
    author of Nourishing Destiny: The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine