What’s in store / Weston Creek Healing with energy HEALING hands of a different kind can be found a couple of kilometres away over in Fisher at Dr Wu Zhixing’s Chinese Therapy Centre, where Heather Johnson has very recently begun offering “energy healing”. She says the gentle technique is particularly suited to very frail elderly people, chronic disease patients or people recovering from major illnesses like cancer, and is so relaxing it sometimes puts people to sleep. Dr Wu himself began his career performing acupuncture in a Chinese hospital in the city of Hangzhou at the
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beginning of the ‘90s. “Then I went back to university and did a further three years of Chinese herbal medicine,” he says, explaining that traditional Chinese medicine is about staying consistently healthy over time, by looking at the body as a single system that must be kept in harmony. “In China we see that everything is connected to health,” he says, explaining that his range of treatments like acupuncture, reflexology and tui na (Chinese massage) often come with holistic advice on diet and exercise to maintain health.
WESTON Creek Chiropractic Centre shares its premises with the Therapeutic Massage Centre, which was taken over this year by masseur Ian McDonald. Before Ian bought the centre, it was where he worked for almost 10 years. “Here we do Western-style massage,” he says, explaining the broad
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separation between the Asian and European traditions, each of which are tied into very different understandings of human health. “The Western style is based on Western scientific research and medicine, and it’s broken down into a number of groups, like relaxation massage, which is for de-stressing and general relaxation of the muscles, and remedial, which includes sports massage and special massages for things like pregnancy or lymphatic drainage.” The centre’s highly qualified staff are particularly in demand among sportspeople – amateur and professional. “People from sporting groups have come and obviously been very happy with the service they get here, because they tell all their sporting friends and we get a lot of work through word of mouth,” Ian says.
Club gets a new look Over in leafy Stirling near the local playing fields, Weston Creek Labor Club has had a major interior redesign, which will be fully unveiled on December 2. “The whole of the internal area’s been given a completely new look,” says venue manager Resty Fisher. “There’s new carpet, a new-look bistro and serving area, a new
gaming area and the TAB’s been redone as well.” The small Weston Creek Labor Club is a friendly place in the suburbs to meet friends, have a meal, and try out one of Canberra’s best bowling greens. Resty also has lots of good reasons for members and guests to come and celebrate the completion
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of the renovations and enjoy the new facilities. “We’ve got a lot of specials to come and enjoy for our opening week,” he says. “There’s menu specials in the bistro, free Monday bowls, cash giveaways every evening and it’s happy hour all day, every day for the first week.”
NEARBY Waramanga Primary School is used for training by Karilee Calisthenics, the ACT’s champion club for the past three years. According to its proud president Malcolm Robertson, it attracts people from all over town because it’s number one. “That just comes down to coaching, primarily, and I’m not sure how we ended up with the best coaches,” says Malcolm. He says there is a push in Canberra to reinvent the unique Australian dance sport as “cali-dance” since everywhere else in the world, “calisthenics” refers to physical exercises like star jumps. Canberra’s seven Australian Calisthenics teams compete regularly across a range of different dance, marching and gymnastic routines that combine flexibility, poise and grace, strength and agility, performance skills, rhythm, co-ordination and team spirit. “It starts again in February when school goes back, and we’ll be recruiting during January,” says Malcolm.