Spring Qigong and Five Elements Practices

The Free Introductory Class offers both a “taste” of the upcoming series and a practice drawn from the curriculum of a longer series. It is not simply a “sales pitch”, and you are welcome to join even if you cannot attend the series.

The “Five Elements” is a core idea of Chinese Medicine and a “Lens” for viewing our Health, our Emotional Life, and our Spirit in a fundamentally different way than western medicine or psychology. It’s used in Feng Shui to choreograph the energies of our home, in Diet to nourish ourselves better. It shapes the passage of time through the seasons of the year and manifests the cardinal directions. There’s even more, but you get the idea: We can use the Five Elements as our guide to bringing a deep and vibrant understanding of our body, our self, and the world.

Our core inner work will bring the Five Elements to our physical, mental-emotional, and spirit bodies with Sound, Visualization and Movement.

Our core Qigong will be Eight Brocades. Ba Duan Jin, the 12th century “Eight Brocades” qigong has been practiced for centuries and in recent years all over the world. We will sample a gentle, accessible version of this form.

This class is a "taste" of the practices we will do in a 12-week series. In that series, we will dive into the Ba Duan Jin and will also learn a wonderful, playful 5 Celestial Animals Qigong (a new addition to my classes), as well as internal practices to fundamentally shift our emotional landscape and reactions to life. The deceptive power of these traditional practices is that they appear simple, but can go quite deep if we let them.

Read more about the series and these practices here:

https://tiger-heart-tao.com/sunday-spring-series/

View a recording of a past Spring Practice intro here:

Also check out other Health & Wellness events in Trout Run, Workshops in Trout Run.