Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Chi Friends! You know how much we love inspirational quotes? Here are my top 5 Qigong related quotes to take you through the new year. Don’t forget to breathe:) Don’t Dwell in The Past “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha NOW — The Most Precious Thing “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are...
read moreEat Your Way to a Healthy Immune System
Nutrition Resources to Naturally Boost Your Immune System Use these helpful nutrition resources by Dr. Sear’s to naturally boost your immunity by choosing healthy, whole foods. TOP IMMUNE-BOOSTING FOODS Asparagus Beets Berries Broccoli Curcumin Garlic Ginger Green tea Mushrooms Nuts Olive oil Onions Pomegranate* Rosemary Turmeric partnered with black pepper Wild pacific salmon: omega-s *Pomegranates are in season during flu season – smart! Dr. BILL’S IMMUNE-BOOSTING SMOOTHIE PRESCRIPTION Select choices from each of the five food...
read moreTai Chi and Qigong Increases Brain Function
In observance of the Fall season classes will focus on the Baduanjin Qigong with a little rattle or singing bowl thrown in. As we celebrate the change of seasons with our practices, it is good to know that these practices not only boost our immune system but increase our brain health. Now that’s good to know! Please join me in practicing Medical Qigong Autumn 2023. Find my Qigong classes here. Medical Qigong increase grey matter volume in older adults: a brain imaging study Based on the recent science conference...
read moreOctober Qigong : Eight Brocades or Baduanjin Qigong
Good afternoon Qi Friends! I am grateful that you were all able to stop by today. Today I focused on the Eight Brocades Qigong. It’s a nice practice to help boost your energy, mood and immune system. To prepare for the upcoming cold season it is imperative that we keep our Three Treasures strong. These are energy centers within the body that when fueled bring health and vitality to the mind, body and spirit. The Three Treasures are Jing(considered the root of our vitality), Qi (Life force) and Shen (Spirit or essence). The following...
read moreSeptember Qi Class Notes
Hi Qi Friends! It was good to practice today with you all in the Westlake Community Services Center. Thank you for joining me and being a part of this Qigong/Tai Chi group. Some of you wanted notes on what we do in class so you can practice at home. By practicing these mind, body, spirit practices you are igniting the healer within. The founder of Tai Chi Easy and the Healer Within Dr. Roger Jahnke believes that self care is health care, I agree. Dis-ease is caused by stagnation. During practice we expand and flow in all directions,...
read moreReveal Yourself as Your True Self
This Story/Poem might hit Home for those of you who have said 100% ‘Yes’ to the path of Love, Truth, and Freedom, which is an automatic ‘No’ to the path of comfort and security. It’s a ‘Yes’ to experience yourself AS Freedom. ‘Yes’ to Feel the embodied experience of your Wholeness. ‘Yes’ to Remembering WHAT you really are, beyond personality and identity… It is most certainly a path of stripping away all that you are not, to reveal YourSelf AS your True Essential Nature… incredibly uncomfortable at times the dismantling of...
read moreThe Greatest Healer is Within Us
Qigong Practices in Daily Life Here are several easy guidelines to make these new aspects of your life most effective while keeping your interest and not taking up too much of your time: Do some of these practices every day. Put them at the core of your life. Consider them as central in your day as you do rest, bathing and oral health care. Keep it simple and fun. Start with less and allow more to come as it is appropriate. If this practice becomes a stressful issue in your life, it is more of a problem than it is a solution. Make up your own...
read moreHealing Sounds for Meditation
Were you aware that fear based emotions stimulate the release of toxic chemicals? Love based emotions stimulate the release of healing chemicals. Let’s discuss healing sounds for meditation Emotions are energy. Negative fear based frequencies attract negative energies. While positive frequencies attract positive energy. Thousands of years ago the ancient healers looked to nature and they saw that humans and animals make specific sounds to release emotions in different situations. Certain sounds resonate with particular organs in the...
read moreQigong: What You Need to Know
What is qigong and how does it work? Qigong, pronounced “chi gong,” was developed in China thousands of years ago as part of traditional Chinese medicine. It involves using exercises to optimize energy within the body, mind, and spirit, with the goal of improving and maintaining health and well-being. Qigong has both psychological and physical components and involves the regulation of the mind, breath, and body’s movement and posture. In most forms of qigong: Breath is slow, long, and deep. Breath patterns may switch from abdominal breathing...
read moreTai Chi Principles
The 10 Tai Chi Principles: 1.Straighten the head. Stand straight, relax your neck and suspend the head naturally erect from the crown point without strain or tension. The image to model is “hanging by a string from the top of one’s head” such that the head and neck align by the force of gravity alone. Correct position of chest and back. The chest is kept slightly depressed inward which helps enables one’s breath to sink to the lower belly. The upper back is slightly bowed outward while the pelvis is tucked under. Remain relaxed...
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