NEW! Ongoing Chi Kung Classes Open to Public
Wellness Chi Kung Class. See Chi Kung videos
March 20 to June 7 (Tues & Thurs, 10 to 11 am and/or 5:30 to 6:30 pm)
Learn:
* movements for lubricating and mobilizing joints and prevention of repetitive stress injury
* acupressure points for stress release and energy enhancement
* Chi Palm techniques for clearing and transmitting healing energy
* breathing techniques for balancing hormones and more efficient internal organ functioning
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Required Reading: Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist by Elise and Kaleo Ching (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Tan Tien breathing (pp 43-48); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287); Meridians and Acupoints: Lung/Large Intestine (p 115); Kidney/Bladder (pp 122-123); Liver/Gallbladder (pp 130-131); Heart/Small Intestine; Pericardium/Triple Warmer(pp 138-139); Spleen/Pancreas/Stomach (pp 146-47). At local bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon
Fee: $60
Acalanes Adult Education Center
1963 Tice Valley Blvd
Walnut Creek, CA, 94595
Contact Acalanes Adult Education 925.280.3980 or Kaleo

Healing Buddha Palms Class Open to Public
April 5, 6 (Thursday, Friday, 9am to 5:30pm)
Healing Buddha Palms Chi Kung is a Taoist practice that is an especially powerful tool for healers and Chi Kung practitioners to build and conserve their own Chi and to channel Chi from both the Earth and the Universe. This practice stimulates our twelve internal organs and their meridians, the eight Extraordinary Channels which are our reservoirs of Chi.
Recommended Reading: Healing Buddha Palms, by Elise and Kaleo Ching and Gilles Marin (2011)
In this manual and its corresponding DVD, Gilles Marin and Elise & Kaleo Ching guide you through the subtle yet powerful Buddha Palms sequence. The book provides in depth step-by-step instruction with color photos and relations to meridian points. It also includes introductory information and 7 guided meditations. At Chi Nei Tsang Institute or Amazon
Acupressure Institute
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley, CA
Contact Tiffany at 510.845.1059 or Kaleo

Chi Kung and Your Soul's Intention - Holistic Health Practicum
April (dates to be announced) (weekend, 10am to 4pm)
What is your soul's intention for your life's journey? Chi Kung, guided imagery, and art invite you to discover and shape your answer to this question. Chi Kung opens you to the wisdom in the 3 energy centers of mind, heart, and body. Guided imagery takes you into inner realms to explore the history and direction of your soul's intention. Then through mixed media art and collage, you:
* create the map of the path your intention has taken
* create your magical vessel where your intention continues to incubate and grow
Recommended Reading: Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist by Elise and Kaleo Ching (Blue Snake Books, 2007).
John F. Kennedy University
Holistic Health Education
100 Ellinwood Way
Pleasant Hill, CA
Contact Patty Morris at (925) 969-3522

The Tangled Garden of Wisdom and Grief
Instructor: Stephen Jenkinson
Exploring Your Personal Rapport with Death and Rebirth through Maskmaking
Instructors: Kaleo and Elise Ching
May 4 - 8 (week-long)
As mortal beings in a changing world we all experience loss, death, and rebirth daily. In this course you will enter into an integrative process that includes exercises in chi awareness, art, meditation, and guided imagery to enhance vital energy and access your inner artist, as you embark on the journey to create your own individual "Death-Rebirth" mask. Kaleo describes this process as a pilgrimage, explaining that, "Working with the energy of the hands invites ancient, archetypal material from the unconscious to emerge. Through enhanced awareness, hands discover their own language, which pours straight from the heart." The course invites you to look at the dying process, and its lessons for bringing clarity and enrichment to your own experience of living.
Prior to the course, to aid you in preparing for the journey, you will receive a manual written by Elise and Kaleo that will help you begin your soul search to bring forth your thoughts and intentions about your own life and death. Then during the course itself, through the powerful combination of bringing together your individual discoveries in the context of the shared creative adventure with the group, supported by the various exercises in Chi Kung and guided journeying, and inspired by the mask-making process itself, your revelations will find expression in the creation of your own personal Death-Rebirth mask. A materials fee of $20 for the mask making materials also includes Kaleo and Elise's manual, The Pilgrimage of Dying, which you will receive upon registration to help you prepare for the workshop. The manual invites you to write your Spiritual Autobiography and to collage a mandala of Sacred Awareness. It asks you to delve into yourself and your experience to know how you want to grow and deepen through contemplation of the nitty-gritty issues around death and through creating your Death-Rebirth Mask during our time together.
Recommended Reading:Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals by Elise and Kaleo Ching, North Atlantic Books, 2006 Amazon
Wisdom University
Loyola House, Guelph, Canada

Hawaiian Lomilomi Demonstration (free) Open to Public
June 15 (Friday, 6:30 - 9:30pm)
Learn:
* Hawaiian Lomilomi gliding strokes and techniques
* "E Ola Mau", a Hawaiian healing prayer, and introduction to Hawaiian culture
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Recommended Reading: Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist by Elise and Kaleo Ching (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Tan Tien breathing (pp 43-48); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287). At local bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon
Acupressure Institute
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley CA
Contact Tiffany at 510.845.1059 or Kaleo

NEW! Ongoing Chi Kung Classes Open to Public
Wellness Chi Kung Class. See Chi Kung videos
June 19 to July 26 (Tues & Thurs, 10 to 11 am and/or 5:30 to 6:30 pm)
Learn:
* movements for lubricating and mobilizing joints and prevention of repetitive stress injury
* acupressure points for stress release and energy enhancement
* Chi Palm techniques for clearing and transmitting healing energy
* breathing techniques for balancing hormones and more efficient internal organ functioning
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Required Reading: Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist by Elise and Kaleo Ching (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Tan Tien breathing (pp 43-48); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287); Meridians and Acupoints: Lung/Large Intestine (p 115); Kidney/Bladder (pp 122-123); Liver/Gallbladder (pp 130-131); Heart/Small Intestine; Pericardium/Triple Warmer(pp 138-139); Spleen/Pancreas/Stomach (pp 146-47). At local bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon
Fee: $60
Acalanes Adult Education Center
1963 Tice Valley Blvd
Walnut Creek, CA, 94595
Contact Acalanes Adult Education 925.280.3980 or Kaleo

Faces of Your Soul Maskmaking Class
Summer Session July (to be announced) (2 weekends, 10am to 6pm)
John F. Kennedy University Art Annex
2956 San Pablo Ave. (at Ashby)
Berkeley, CA
Contact Sherri Hansell 510.647.2044
John F. Kennedy University
JFK Students Required Reading: Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals by Elise and Kaleo Ching (North Atlantic Books, 2006). How to make your mask mold (pp 115-140); Spirit Guides (pp 9-49); Faces of Your Soul (pp 141-172); Warrior-Healer (pp 151-154); Healing Herbs (pp 206-210). At local bookstores or Amazon
View Faces of Your Soul masks on flickr

Acu-Oil Massage Class Open to Public
July 31, August 1 (9am to 4pm)
* Learn beginning and basic oil massage techniques
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Recommended Reading: Chi and Creativity, by Elise and Kaleo Ching, (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Tan Tien breathing (pp 43-48); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287); Meridians and Acupoints: Lung/Large Intestine (p 115); Kidney/Bladder (pp 122-123); Liver/Gallbladder (pp 130-131); Heart/Small Intestine; Pericardium/Triple Warmer(pp 138-139); Spleen/Pancreas/Stomach (pp 146-47)
At local bookstores or Amazon
Acupressure Institute
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley CA
Contact Tiffany at 510.845.1059 or Kaleo

Hawaiian Lomilomi (basic) Class
August 8, 9 (10am to 5pm)
Hawaiian Lomilomi (massage) employs gentle, kneading, carving, and gliding srokes. It's the rhythm of the ocean, deep and penetrating, gentle and swaying, cleansing and nourishing in a soothing and dynamic way. It embraces aloha and affects the physical, energetic, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Students get a Basic Hawaiian Lomilomi manual. Lomilomi video
Learn:
* basic Hawaiian Lomilomi strokes for a full body oil massage
* "E Ola Mau", a Hawaiian healing prayer, and introduction to Hawaiian culture
* techniques to improve the efficiency of your massage and prevent injury to self
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Recommended Reading: Chi and Creativity, by Elise and Kaleo Ching, (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287). At local bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon
Acupressure Institute
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley CA
Contact Tiffany at 510.845.1059 or Kaleo

Chi Kung for Bodyworkers Class Open to Public
August 25, 26 (weekend, 9am to 5:30pm)
Learn:
* to deepen your acupressure/massage practices, use your body more efficiently, and help prevent injury and burnout
* the Micro/Macrocosmic Orbits to engage and balance your chakras and connect to the forces of Heaven and Earth
* techniques to harvest and build your Chi and promote protection
* Chi Palm techniques for clearing and transmitting healing energy
* Tiger's Breath Chi Kung to ground and open physically, cleanse and harvest energetically, and engage the chakras
Required Reading: Chi and Creativity, by Elise and Kaleo Ching, (Blue Snake Books, 2007). Introduction (pp 1-22); Chi Benefits (pp 23-27); Chi Awareness Guidelines (pp 29-40); Tan Tien breathing (pp 43-48); Chi Palm techniques (pp 51-69; Zhan Zhuang (pp 187-192); Microcosmic Orbit/Chakras (pp 224-230); Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (pp 259-287). At local bookstores, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon
Acupressure Institute
1533 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar)
Berkeley, CA
Contact Tiffany at 510.845.1059 or Kaleo

For bodywork or hypnotherapy, private Chi Kung lessons, or to arrange a Faces of Your Soul maskmaking wkshp, contact Kaleo

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