Courses allow you to feel the benefits of consistent practice. Within a course, we typically revisit the same forms at each session, refining our technique and taking us deeper into the practice to receive more of its benefits. In between sessions, I provide follow-along videos of the main forms that you can practice with. At the end of the course, you will have the skills to incorporate the forms into your own practice, should you wish to do so.
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Past courses:
QIGONG TOWARDS BALANCED LIFE
October 2024
We focused on Qigong practices that work with the three main states of energy (Wuji, Taiji, and Wuxing). We explored the felt sense of these energies in our bodies as well as how they can support us in our Qigong practice and daily life.
Specific Qigong practices taught in this course:
Wuji Moving Set: clearing habitual patterns from your body and heart-mind, resetting your energy to its original state
Alternate Nostril Breathing: establishing a healthy balance between opposites (yin and yang)
Five Waves: harmonizing energy flow through the natural, rhythmic cycles of our days and lives
WINTER QIGONG
January/February 2023 and 2024
Qigong for the winter season, especially nourishing for the kidneys and adrenals. We replenished our reserves, storing the energy of the returning sun for spring’s growth.
Specific Qigong practices taught in this course:
Bone-Marrow Cleanse: cleansing one of the deepest tissues of our body (the bone marrow)
Washing the Body with the Energy of the Sun: nourishing the whole body with the energy of the returning sun and harmonizing with the awakening yang energy of the season
Bear Forms from Five Animal Frolics: learning from Bear how to conserve energy while simultaneously building strength
LIGHT WITHIN DARKNESS: PRINCIPLES OF QIGONG PRACTICE
November/December 2023
Qigong journey towards balance in body, mind, and heart. We actively relaxed into the descending darkness and sensed the ever-present light within.
Each week we focused on one principle of Qigong practice and explored how it feels in our body with both meditative and active Qigong. The heart of our active practice was a sequence from Five Animal Frolics. Embodying white tiger, bear, deer, crane and monkey, we explored some of the foundational principles of Qigong practice.