Mon, Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 20, Mar 12, 19, 26, Apr 2, 9 (Note Date Change from Original Class Schedule)

Ling Gui Qi Gong

6-7pm

Cost: $165 for 11-week series/$16 drop-in

Chen School of Taiji Chuan
425 N. 36th St. Seattle, WA 98103


In this class series instructions will be given for the Ling Gui Spiritual Turtle Qi Gong form. Study the long revered qualities of the turtle including slow, calm breathing, efficient sustained movements, and energy conservation. The season winter most specifically supports this simple yet deep internal practice. Uncover your access to those places of your hidden strength and power for healing!

The season winter is correlated with the element water. Just as the turtle swims smoothly through the depths exerting no wasted energy, you will learn to flow through life in an easier way. Qi Gong is a practice---a conscious cultivation of wisdom derived from very specific study of the natural harmony of your movements with the movements of Nature. Choose to cultivate a healing practice now! No prior Qi Gong experience is necessary. Optional Study Book: $13.

 


Sun, Mar 18, 2012

Compute for Comfort: A Feldenkrais ATM® Workshop

Cost: $45

1-4pm


The Structual Medicine Studio
2821 NW Market St. Suite H Seattle,WA 98107

 

This workshop returns by popular demand in a new location! Anyone is free to attend! Whether you spend hours, days or minutes in front of a computer, you have probably already experienced at least some of the challenges of doing so. In this workshop we will explore ATM® Lessons allowing you to learn to sit in a more neutral and easy way.

By learning to widen your focus and access your awareness, you can notice when changes are necessary and be able to increase your comfort, dynamic alignment, and efficiency. Learn to decrease effort and discomfort from repetitive habits of sitting.


We will be exploring ATM lessons in a variety of positions—not just in sitting. This workshop can benefit first-time FELDENKRAIS participants or those who have attended ATM classes before. Please dress in layers and bring an extra towel.

Contact Kristen at Seattle Center for Structural Medicine at 206-706-0063 to pre-register.




First Friday of each Month (March 2, Apr 6, May 4 Upcoming)
Interconnection Meditations

Carrie will not be in attendance at the March Meditation--Derryl will be leading.

Chen School of Taiji

425 N. 36th St.
Seattle, WA 98103

No Charge

The intent of these monthly meditations is to help support the conditions for Unity Consciousness and Planetary Healing.  Each month, we will lead the free Meditation from 7:30pm-9pm with an intent to foster one of the Universal and Pure qualities of Unity Consciousness or Waking Up to Knowing Our Interconnectedness.

You do not need any prior Meditation experience. The evening will be very organic and will just unfold depending on the presence of who is there and the personal, community and world energy at the time. The evening will contain a silent sitting and some friendly sharing over tea upon completion. There is no charge for the event. Just bring an open, clear heartmind and a zafu or sitting cushion if you have one. Connect with community and consider joining in.

 

 

Sunday, April 1, 2012


The Walking Way: Stepping Into Awareness CD Release Workshop

Cost: $40

3pm-6pm

East West Bookshop 6500 Roosevelt Wy NE Seattle, WA 98115

15% DISCOUNT OFFERED ON THE WALKING WAY AT THIS WORKSHOP ONLY!

Experience deep awareness from a brand-new, utterly unique audio series The Walking Way—Stepping Into Awareness. Created by Greenwood resident and integrated healing practitioner Carrie Lafferty, this six-CD series is the first Western undertaking to combine the known effects of Feldenkrais (increasing comfort, efficiency and adaptability) with the wisdom of Qi Gong (creating vitality and resilience).

The Feldenkrais Method® is a system of somatic education that uses movement itself to reconnect---gradually, intrinsically—with how you move. Guided movement explorations (Awareness Through Movement (ATM)®) are repeated lightly while you walk slowly, observantly.

Gong means to study or to cultivate. Qi is the vital life force inherent in all living things. Qi links everything together. The Qi Gong Meditations in The Walking Way are designed to identify the inherent Qi of Nature’s five basic elements: water, fire, wood, metal and earth, and to find those same qualities within you.

The Walking Way unveils the mutually informing wisdom between efficient walking and Nature’s eternal truths. Action harmonizes to intent, giving rise to wisdom, efficiency, and ease. This workshop will be a CD release introduction to the series. Hope to see you there!

 

 

 

 

Sun, Feb 19, 2012
Awakening to Interconnection: Embodied Spiral Wisdom

Part of the Women of Wisdom Annual Conference

1:30pm-4:30pm

Cost: See http://www.womenofwisdom.org for details

North Seattle Community College 9600 College Way Seattle, WA 98103

 

The world we live in and the world that lives in us are both undergoing a radical shift in consciousness. We are becoming conscious of our vibrant and dynamic spiral interconnection to all. The spiral lives everywhere: from seashell, to galaxy, to our DNA, and as our inner moving world of sensation.

We will access our spiral wisdom through awareness of movement and stillness practices based in Meditation, Qi Gong, Feldenkrais and Nature Based Shamanism. Experience simple, yet powerful practices to access and embody your unique internal spiral connection, which keeps interconnectedness wisdom alive and evolving for life!