Mondays, Sept 13, 20, 27, Oct 4, 11, 18, 25
Nei Yang Gong Qi Gong Classes

Chen School of Taiji Chuan
425 N. 36th St. Seattle, WA 98103
6pm-7pm
Cost: $98 for series/$16 drop-in

This Qi Gong form is specifically for circulating and harmonizing energy as well as strengthening the musculoskeletal system. It is particularly helpful for reducing stress, creating an internal 'knowing' of calmness, reducing high blood pressure, digestive problems, insomnia, and reducing back and neck pain.

In Daoist Medicine, this form is particular for harmonizing kidney (water) and heart (fire) energy by way of practicing an emptying of the mind (or upper body) while filling the Qi storage center in the lower body (lower dantien). There is a calming of the ‘monkey mind’ through focused awareness, followed by maintenance of this newly found awareness which then allows for an exchange of easier and softer new internal sensations. This easier way of being then creates an opening for connections, insight, and wisdom to arise as you continue your practice.

The movements in this form are simple and it is a perfect form for a beginner to start a Qi Gong practice with! The series will be cumulative for learning the form so it is best if you attend the large majority of the classes in order to learn the entire form. If you just want a weekly practice, you may also attend some or all of the classes for the community of shared Qi awareness practice.

You do not need any prior Qi Gong practice to participate. There is an optional book for reference that may be purchased for $13.

 

Friday, Oct 1
Interconnecting Spiraling

Soma Yoga
1423 NW 70th Seattle, WA 98117
6pm-9pm
Cost: $45

The world we live in and the world that lives in us are both undergoing a radical shift in consciousness. Truly knowing your inner world and manifesting your own unique inner true nature is necessary to fully complete the consciousness shift for all of us. You will come to know yourself more clearly through experiential mindfulness awareness movement and stillness practices based in Meditation, Qi Gong, Feldenkrais and Nature based Shamanism. Through this workshop you will taste your rich inner world by exploring spiraling movement and stillness within the space between intent and action. Connecting all to natures' rhythms allows the essence of your inner true nature to shine through and under it all. Knowing this interwoven spiral relationship will be important to navigate through this radical shift in consciousness that we are currently in.

In this workshop we will explore movement and sitting practices that are all done in order to connect with a 'living' dynamic and vibrant 3-D spiral or double helix sense within both stillness and movement. This spiral vortex is the interconnecting embodiment between humans as a species and Mother Nature/Source. It shows up everywhere in Nature from the seashell to our own DNA molecules through to the spiral vortex of our galaxy. It is also the basis for how we perceive ALL of our moving--thoughts, emotions and physical action. Connecting to this sense in an embodied and dynamic living way allows the wisdom inherent in that interconnectedness to become accessible to you within all that you do and All That Is. This spiral constantly moves through dark and light, or grounding/expanding sensations and ease manifests as a dynamic harmonious living 'balancing'.

You do not need any prior Feldenkrais, Qi Gong or Meditation experience to participate. Just bring an open heart, and a clear intent to connect to your own wise, inner spiral knowing!

Mondays, Nov 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, Dec 6, 13
Feldenkrais ATM Series--Lengthen to Turn, Turn to Lengthen

Chen School of Taiji Chuan
425 N. 36th St. Seattle, WA 98103
6pm-7pm
Cost: $98 for series/$16 drop-in

I am returning to teach a weekly ATM class after a few years’ hiatus from teaching weekly! I will be alternating Qi Gong and ATM class series now pretty regularly on Monday evenings. I have started first with a Qi Gong series and am now excited to follow this with an offering for an ATM series.

Our world needs us to WAKE UP! The process of waking up includes making a conscious choice to participate in accessing and communicating with your own internal sensations in order to live and act fully, passionately, authentically, and more consciously in and with our world.  In this ATM series, we will explore how you can widen and expand, lengthen and grow, deepen and embrace and more fluidly elongate as you navigate the ‘twists and turns’ of yours and our collective lives that are presenting now so often in challenging ways.

We will explore through the powerful process of ATM a way of deeply connecting to how you can find more ease, grace, comfort, and authentic passion in your own natural power of being. You do not need any prior Feldenkrais ATM experience to participate. You can easily drop in for a class here and there or attend the entire series. The class is not cumulative however attending the whole series will create a certain deeper container of richness that can be accessed as a wider understanding.

 

Sunday, Nov 7th
Embracing the Shifting Moment

M'Illumino Studio
6921 Roosevelt Wy NE Seattle, WA 98115
9am-4pm (One hour on own for lunch)
Cost: $85

This powerful day of experiential practices is being created to aid the challenging, necessary and powerful birthing process that our species is undergoing. This experiential day is being facilitated in direct relationship to the next big energy wave shift that is in the Mayan Calendar. This energy shift occurs on Nov 3, 2010.

This new quantum energy field will support, strongly encourage, and help create the conditions for our final potential delivery as a co-creative Unity Consciousness Being who embraces in an alchemical union the polarities of dark and light. This means you! The Consciousness of All That Is has been and continues to send us clear and dire messages within the manifestation of Mother Earth changes to strongly invite us to recognize and return to a knowing of our interconnectedness to All That Is.

This wave shift is moving from a period of ‘dark’ to ‘light’ and will likely be very active and full of continued significant challenges. Dark and light energy polarities are analogous to Being and Doing polarities as well as action and stillness polarities. We will be continually presented with challenging opportunities to wake up and know our own unique harmonious balancing between Doing and Being in this next phase of the Mayan Calendar. Our potential outcome as individuals and as a collective species is to become a compassionately wise co-creator in Unity with our Source Consciousness and co-create all of our actions and non-actions from that place. This is the only way to assure our continued existence as a species.

This new energy shift will ONLY support a movement toward our knowing our inseparable nature with our Source nature (our interconnectedness with All That Is). We will explore internal awareness practices based on Feldenkrais, Qi Gong Meditation and Nature-bases Shamanism as individuals and as a group collective. These practices will allow you to use and open to a more refined use of your multi-modal ‘sense’ of co-creation. This will manifest within your grounded, still “Do-er’ entwining gracefully with your active, allowing “Be-er” as a recognized sense within yourself.

This will require an opening to our known opportunities and challenges as well as those in each of ours and our collective Shadow. This will be a powerful day of inner and outer exploration giving you experiential tools to navigate this energy shift with!