Chi Kung (Qigong)

Chi Kung is a practice to nurture Chi, your life force. It cultivates harmony on all levels, physical, energetic, psychological, spiritual. It works simultaneously on all facets of your being, from the organs and their energetic meridians, to the lymphatic, respiratory, reproductive, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, digestive, nervous, and craniosacral systems. It helps you to release stress, boost your immune system, develop strength and flexibility, and enhance centeredness and groundedness. It shows you how to cultivate, conserve, circulate, and transmit Chi for helping to heal self and others. It draws on the power of forces from the cosmos and deep wisdom of your own inner being.

Classes and private lessons: Tiger's Breath Chi Kung (short and long form); Microcosmic Orbit; Five Element Chi Kung (with Inner Sounds); Buddha Palms; Zhan Zhuang meditation; Chi Kung for Bodyworkers; Spirlaing Lotus Chi Kung (helps prevent repetitive stress syndrome) calendar

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Chi Kung (Qigong) for Bodyworkers and Healers

Learn Chi Kung body mechanics to maximize and deepen your healing practice, use your body and energy wisely and efficiently, and help prevent injury and burnout. Learn the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbits to activate and balance your chakras and connect to the forces of Heaven and Earth. Learn techniques to harvest and build your Chi and to promote cleansing and protection. Learn to transmit energy in healing and bodywork.

Hawaiian Lomilomi (basics) and Meridian-Lomi Massage classes

Hawaiian Lomilomi massage nourishes the body in a soothing and dynamic way. It's the rhythm of the ocean, deep and penetrating, gentle and swaying. It is the voice of na makani (the wind) humming through the body. It embraces aloha (loving kindness), pule (prayer), mana'o (intention), kaona (deeper meanings), and mana (divine energy). It affects the physical, energetic, emotional, and spiritual bodies.

In the Hawaiian Lomilomi Basics class, learn a full body oil massage sequence. In the Meridian-Lomi class, learn joint mobilization and deep "to the bones" kneading, carving, and gliding strokes, as well as some Chi transmission techniques and acupoints for added depth in your massages. In both of these classes, learn a Hawaiian pule (prayer) for healing and Tiger's Breath Chi Kung introductory sequence to make your body a vessel that is grounded, protected and vibrant with universal Chi.

Chi Kung (Qigong) for the Spirit

Learn Chi Kung breathing techniques to release stress, strengthen your immune system, massage your internal organs, and enhance your circulation of blood and Chi. Learn Spiraling Lotus Chi Kung to activate the Belt and Penetrating Vessels and acess ancestral and spiritual realms. Learn Dreaming Chi Kung for inducing sleep and activating your dream center. Experience guided imagery that leads you in an exploration of the realms of your subconscious and taps the deep wisdom of the collective unconscious. Journaling, drawing, and collage embody your discoveries through creative self-expression.

(See "The Muse: Residing in the Tan Tien" and "Personal Process with Chi Kung Principles" for excerpts from the book used in the class.)

Five Element Chi Kung and Alchemical Creativity

Adventure into the realms of the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Kaleo and Elise. Enter the landscapes of metal (lungs), water (kidney), wood (liver), fire (pericardium/heart), and earth (spleen), meet their guardians, and tone their inner sounds to bring cleansing and healing. Learn their Chi Kung movements to stimulate their organs, meridians, and bodily tissues. Fathom the personal meanings of elemental influences and applications to your emotional well-being, to your creative self-expression, and to your dreams and visions for your life journey.

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Faces of Your Soul: Maskmaking

Maskmaking is an embrace. With caring, you give and receive a facial massage as you apply and sculpt plaster gauze facial molds with a partner. The maskmaking techniques used create realistic facial sculptures. Guided imagery leads you gently into the realms of the spirit world to connect with your inner guides (ancestor, totem animal, guardian angel, inner healer). Your guide then inspires you to paint, decorate, and transform your personal mask from the mold of your own face. Your mask can be a legacy, a life companion, a gauge of your personal growth, a guardian for your altar.

(See "Faces of Your Soul: Maskmaking" for an excerpt from the book used in the class.)

Body Totem

Enter sacred time and space where creativity and sacred anatomy are bridged in a journey of self-healing. Learn the Chi Kung Microcosmic Orbit for bringing harmony to the chakras (energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual centers). Experience guided imagery to enter safely into your inner terrain and discover an area in your body in need of physical or emotional healing. Learn gentle, supportive massage for working with a partner in sculpting plaster gauze molds of the chosen body areas. Learn mixed media painting, sculpting, and decorating techniques to bring creative transformation to your healing process. You may find yourself using herbs and natural materials, photos, furs, feathers, silk, your own baby teeth, your son's umbilical cord, whatever invites you deeper on your healing journey. What emerges is your sacred Body Totem.

Ancestors and Spirit Guides

Experience Chi Kung and guided imagery to enter into the realms of your ancestors and spirit guides. Journey with your ancestors through ancient lands. Explore their traditions, language, secrets. Meet your mentors from the spirit world and tap their special wisdom. Connect with your ancestral and spiritual sources and honor them through creative expression. Learn mixed media art and sculpture techniques, and use them to give form to ancient ways and wisdom. Create an ancestral altar, a gestation vessel, a cloak of special powers, an autobiographical map of your journey, a collage of the council of your guides, a sculpture of your ancestral tree.

(See "Chi Kung and the Spirit" for an excerpt from the book used in the class.)

Totem Animal

Guided imagery leads you into the safe but sacred mysteries of the lower world to meet your totem animal. Chi Kung brings animal awareness, sensitivity, and grace into your body. Animal's breath and guidance flow through your being and shape-shift into sacred art. Create mixed media drawings with your totem animal; massage and sculpt its heart and body; build its nest or den with basketry techniques; paint your body as you dance your animal.

(See "Totem Animal" for an excerpt from the book used in the class.)

For all art classes: a supply fee appropriate to the workshop includes a feast of art materials.

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