The Chinese Yin –  Yang Theory

The philosophy is that health the balance of complimentary opposites:

• fire and water
• mind and body
• self and nature

Pumpkin and Chinese Chicken soup

Master Zhao and May Sun showed me how to make Chinese chicken soup

Ingredients for Chinese Chicken Soup:

1. one whole organic chicken
2. one packet of dried winter Chinese herb mix
3. 8 cloves of fresh garlic
4. filtered water to cover

Method

•  Place Chinese herbs and chicken in big pot. Bring to the boil.
• Simmer  on very low heat for 2 hours until the chicken falls off the bone.
• Remove all the bones
• Crush the garlic into the soup and stir
• Add salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients for Pumpkin Soup:

• one organic butternut pumpkin
• One or two sweet potatoes
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tsp each cumin,
• 2  tsps. coconut oil

Method:

1. wash scrub and dice vegetables
2. gently heat up oil and lightly toss the cubed vegetables with the spices.
3. cover with water and simmer till soft
4. set aside enough cubes of pumpkin to garnish
5. blend till smooth and thick

To Serve :

•  with tinfoil make an ” S” shape.
• plate the soup by dividing the plate with the “S “shape forming the Yin -Yang.
• scoop two ladles on of each soup one on either side of the “S”
• garnish the pumpkin soup  with a piece of chicken and the chicken soup  with a pumpkin cube set aside.

This Yin – Yang soup can also be made with spinach soup instead of pumpkin soup.

Other Yin – Yang polarities include:

• conscious and unconscious
• positive and negative
• hot and cold

The two major sources of Qi are:

air and food

Two ingredients in Qigong training :

respiratory techniques and diet