Class 2: Deer Kissing Eyes: Finding your Medicine Animal—Through Vision Questing and Shamanic Animal Form Qigong Practices.

Description

Hua Tau, the Chinese Shaman Chinese Dr, developed the Animal frolics, (the crane, tiger, bear, monkey and deer) for patient’s self-healing practices to complement acupuncture treatments. A basic element of Shamanism is to discover the healing lessons in animals’ movements and to find one’s medicine animal. In this class you’ll hear the story of Dr Michael’s 40-night vision quest where a deer visited him in a lucid dream. Hopefully this will inspire you to search inward for identifying your medicine animal.

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.

Some juicy tidbits you’ll learn about:

• Traditionally Deer practice helps the practitioner to develop agility, gentleness, readiness, stillness and finding balance between your civilized and wild self. In addition, you’ll learn how deer qigong opens “listening channels” which can be helpful to embody non-reactivity when listening to others’ criticisms.

• The Tiger Form is associated with fierceness, confidence, and the ability to handle challenges. You’ll learn how to find the spirit of the Tiger for your own self-actualization.

• You’ll discover how the shamanic idea of “human beings as shape shifters” helps in the healing of trauma.

• You’ll be introduced to techniques for integrating animal forms into daily life, and healing practices of Hua Tau’s Animal Frolics are demonstrated.

• Correction: Hau Tau’s birthdate: estimates for his birth year range from c. 108 AD to c. 140 AD. A common estimate for his lifespan is 140-208 AD.

After an initial lecture, the Bodymind Healing Qigong set is practiced to experience the topic of the day and discover other meaningful tributaries in the Qigong wilderness. To see the PDF description of the 9 sets of Bodymind Healing Qigong Extended Short Form set CLICK HERE.