Transformational Healing for Mind, Body, & Spirit
Qigong Group Classes & Private Sessions
What is Qigong?
Qigong (pronounced chee gong)
Is one of the branches of Chinese medicine and has been practiced for over 5000 years. It is a series of movements with three important components, mindfulness, breath and posture. You don't need props, mats, special clothes or to be in shape, start where you are!
- “Qi” refers to the life force energy that exists in all things
- "Gong” refers to the work or the skill
- Qigong is a means of cultivating, working with and developing your Qi, or life force energy
- The concept of Qi is at the heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been around for over 5000 years
- The practice of Qigong will bring balance, awareness and peace to your mind, body and spirit
Classes & Workshops
Introduction to Qigong Foundation Workshop
Five Elements-What is my type?
Ongoing Weekly Qigong Practice Series
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“Nature Does Not Hurry, Yet Everything Is Accomplished.” Lao Tzu .
Forest Therapy Guide
What is a Forest Therapy Guide?
A Forest Therapy Guide facilitates safe & gentle walks, providing invitations for sensory opening activities along the way. Each walk begins with establishing contact with the present moment and place. Next comes a series of connective invitations, often improvised in the moment and adapted to the needs of participants. These may be followed by wander time and/or sit spot. The walks end with a ceremony of sharing tea made from foraged local plants.
Forest therapy walks are not hikes in the traditional sense. An entire walk is typically 2 to 3 hours in duration and often covers no more than a quarter mile distance. In that short distance most people experience contact with nature in a much deeper way than they ever have prior to the walk. On Forest Therapy walks, people have a wide range of experiences, some of which they feel are significant, even profound. Guides are trained in the skills and perspectives needed to be supportive witnesses of these experiences.
What Happens on a Forest Therapy Walk?
During a guided forest therapy walk, people experience the therapeutic power of the forest. The forest itself is the therapist, I am the guide. I help people slow down, notice where they are and what is around them, and make contact with the forest and with themselves through attention to their senses. This is how guides open the doorways through which the forest can accomplish its healing work. Each walk is unique to each person and no two walks are alike!