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God’s Location: The Cloud of Unknowing in Taoist, Jewish, and Greek Mystical Traditions. It’s been said that God’s location is everywhere and in everything. But how does one get in touch with the felt experience of “G-d,” which is beyond description and words. How does one find the felt experience of G-d in everyday life?…
In this class you’ll be introduced to making the enlightenment of the Buddha at Wesak Full Moon time into an entryway into cross cultural wisdom tradition practices. Wesak Full Moon time (full moon in Scorpio/Taurus) can not only be seen a a time of Buddha enlightenment under the Boddhi tree, but as a pathway to …
Bodymind Healing Qigong 26 sessions online-on-demand, educational, integral healing and training program.
BMHQ is an integral Qigong tradition developed by Dr Michael Mayer from his 40 years of training with various Qigong masters. Though Michael was trained classically in many forms of Qigong, he integrates Qigong with his background in researching, writing and teaching about ancient wisdom traditions. Using story-telling, mythopoetic imagination and classical teachings participants will experience how Qigong and Tai Chi (the best-known system of Qigong) have four dimensions of purpose, self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self-defense and changing one’s life stance psychologically.
Now including bonus videos Wesak Full Moon: A Cross-cultural Initiatory Perspective and God’s Location: The Cloud of Unknowing in Taoist, Jewish, and Greek Mystical Traditions. These videos are free with the purchase of the full 26 video set, or $14.95 separately.
The Summer Solstice is the day of greatest light. In this first class of the 25-video series, we’ll explore the exoteric and esoteric cross-cultural significance and practices related to the Summer Solstice and creation of energy. You’ll learn how to apply the cultivation of imaginal light and energy to your everyday lives.
This is the second class on condensation (gathering) of chi. Here we emphasize the importance of balancing the opposites of consolidation and expansiveness of chi. This balance of opposites is part of the practice that creates the experience of the Golden Ball.
Healing dysregulation, the impairment in regulation of our psycho-physiological energy state, has become one of the most addressed subjects in psychotherapy today. When we are when verbally attacked, overreactive versus responsive, triggered, or suffering trauma we lose connection with our higher, regulated selves. You’ll learn what Qigong adds to modern treatments for dysregulation and working with our fight/flight/freeze mode.
The Winter Solstice is a time for rebirth and renewal, and Qigong practices all year long provide a pathway for renewal of energy and finding the light when you’re feeling in darkness. In this class we explore the significance of the Winter Solstice in various traditions and how Qigong adds to, and can be integrated with, the practices of those traditions— such as the Greek Mystery tradition, the Jewish mystical tradition, and the Celtic tradition. You’ll learn how the practices of these traditions can be applied to rebirthing the light in your life. For example, in the Celtic Yule Log celebration the community writes down personal issues and burns them in community log; in the Lung Qigong practice the student shoots an imaginary arrow with a problematic life issue written on it and imagines shooting the arrow out into space where it burns up. Practicing embodying imagination.
Bodymind Healing Qigong’s quintessential practice is the integration of modern psychological knowledge with the Qigong/Tai Chi tradition.
Tai Chi/Qigong’s wider purpose can be enhanced when we look at the tradition as a cross-cultural rite of renewal. In this light, various cross-cultural traditions are discussed, for example: The Mikvah of Jewish mysticism, the Yule log of the Celtic tradition, the pagan prayer to the night, the Vision Quest of Native Americans, Western alchemy’s dissolutio, and Persephone’s journey to the underworld. Rites of renewal often involve finding a new identity and a new name and “shape shifting” into a new identity. Each Tai Chi/Qigong posture can be seen a creating a rite of renewal for different state specific purposes.
This is the second class on Tai Chi /Qigong as a rite of renewal. We said that every posture in Tai Chi and Qigong can be viewed as a rite of renewal. This week we’ll focus more on the transformative elements of various specific postures. From a postmodern perspective we can suit the meanings of the postures to our specific psycho-spiritual purposes.
Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy (BMHP)and Bodymind Healing Qigong (BMHQ) are part of an integral self-healing system. The two can’t really be separated because physical, energetic, and mental health are intertwined and part of a greater whole, like the Yin-Yang symbol of the Tao.
Cross Quarter holidays refer to the midpoints between the equinoxes and solstices. For example: Candlemas (February 2), Beltane (May 1), Lammas (August 1), and Samhain (October 31). Though they are not as well-known as the equinoxes and solstices, In the Western Mystery tradition they are called Avatar points (points of maximum descent of divine energy). These points are 15 degrees of the fixed astrological signs (15 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. In an integral, postmodern practice of Tai Chi or Qigong one can practice each posture or movement to the eight directions to focus on bringing back into balance earth, fire, water and air in your life .
Building upon the topic of last week’s class, we go further into the value of practicing the internal arts (Taiji, Xing Yi, and Bagua) in alignment with the eight directions. Joining cross cultural and cross temporal traditions we explore the larger purposes that can be derived from this amalgamation.
Does Qigong relax or stimulate us? In response to a student’s question, Dr Michael makes the analogy that Qigong is like an herbal adaptogen. Herbal adaptogens, like Holy Basil (Tulsi), can adapt to the particular need of an individual’s medical condition restoring homeostasis. This class explores how the energy of Qigong postures and movements similarly can give energy when needed or relaxation when one is overstimulated.
In this class you’ll be introduced to the broader cross cultural shamanic purposes of animal form practices to heal and “shape- shift.” You’ll begin to learn the healing practices of various animal frolics and broaden your understanding of the purposes of these qigong practices. The Deer and Tiger forms will be introduced and practiced from this wider perspective.
Learn how to bring intention (Yi) into your chi field. Do we bring intention into the chi field or does it bring it into us?