Winter 2025 Seasonal Wellness: Personal and Collective Health

Part of: Seasonal Wellness Class Series with Dr. Paul Arellano

When: Sunday, December 14th from 12 PM - 1:30 PM

Where: Remote via Zoom

Cost: Free and Open to the public, no prior knowledge necessary*

Join us for the first in an ongoing series of Seasonal Wellness classes and community discussion. Using the Classical Chinese climate and health system of the Wuyun Liuqi as a starting point, Dr. Paul Arellano will guide the class through the seasonal energetics of this particular year. The class will provide practical guidance on optimizing health in the 2025 Winter Season, including lifestyle, diet and wellness tips. Beyond that, we will discuss how the energetic pattern of this year affects not only personal health but also climate patterns, socio-political movements and interpersonal relationships. There will be time in the class to discuss and share the different ways we are seeing the patterns at work play out in our lives and communities. The focus will be how we can harmonize these dissonant forces within our own lives to be in better service to healing ourselves, our families, communities and the world.

Sample from the class:

On November 22nd, 2025, we enter into the final “Qi Period” of the year, according to the Classical Chinese Wuyun Liuqi system of climate and health. This is an important turning point, as it begins a period of heightened risk for epidemic disease to develop in abnormally warm winter conditions. We are already seeing warmer-than-average temperatures across much of the northern hemisphere in 2025, which can feel comfortable, but carries increased risk of communicable diseases as insects and other disease vectors are out much later in the year than usual. This pattern was last seen in 2019, when we saw the 2nd-warmest December on record globally, and the COVID-19 pandemic began to develop. So: how can we anticipate and respond personally to the health risks associated with this particular year?

Find out more by joining us this December. Seasonal Wellness classes occur quarterly, near the solstices and equinoxes, providing tangible skills to navigate current and upcoming climate and cosmological energies.

*Donations will be accepted for those who would like to financially support this work