Class 7: Qigong in Everyday Life (with a little help from your Deer Teacher)

Description

How does one make everyday life into Qigong practice? As the deer walks in the boundary area of being civilized and wild, so we can bring our wild primordial nature into our everyday civilized lives. Discovering your personal meaningful meanings to Qigong practices: What do you Stand for? What meanings can you discover in the posture of “just Standing,” and in other Qigong movements.

Note: In this class there is no introductory lecture. The Deer practices are done late in the class.

Other elements of today’s class:

• Learn how a Qigong practice of Dispersing Stagnant Chi can be transformed into a morning ritual Prayer of the Wounded Healer.

• You’ll hear the story of how a deer “counted coup” on me while I was backpacking in the wilderness, and how this led to my interest in Deer Bagua. You’ll be introduced to Deer Bagua circle walking.

• How does the spiral symbol of the Greek Aesclepian caduceus become embodied in Qigong practices.

• Discover a practice to help friends who have not experienced chi, to experience it: Using Ocean Wave Breathing and discovering the Golden Ball of the Heart.

• Bodymind Healing Psychotherapy and Bodymind Healing Qigong are two sides of a healing coin. Be introduced to the importance of transcending and transmuting traditions in your mind-body healing.

• Deer antlers are chi extenders .Learn how the deer antler mudra opens deep powers of the bodymind.

• How does Tiger Qigong enliven everyday life.

• Imagery and healing. What does Qigong add to imagery traditions? Using the imagery/somatic dialectic for your internal organs, forming a relationship to the world of plants, Turtle Qigong for the neck, Tiger Qigong for confidence, etc.

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.