In Daoist Medicine, fear damages the kidneys, which direct our immune, endocrine, reproductive, and fluid systems. The antidote to fear is wisdom.
Join me for a potent workshop looking into the depths and subtlety of how fear can contract your system, and how you can turn towards that coiled energy and transform it into wisdom.
Saturday, Dec 3rd
12-3pm Eastern
Live, online.
We’ll begin with the body, using qigong to open energy blocks through the kidney system and tapping into the wisdom of this ancient remedy dance. We’ll draw on various sets to support kidney nourishing. This can help with physical ailments such as insomnia, anxiety, weak low back/knees, poor digestion, too hot/too cold symptoms, and overall immune strength. Releasing fear is important to do approaching the heart of winter (solstice), but also after a freeze response in body. Most of us have been affected by the collective panic of the pandemic, climate catastrophe, lived environmental disasters, and/or the politics and wars we are living through. It is quite a lot to ask our systems to digest, and a bit of physical tending can go a long way in helping us metabolize this time.
We’ll also utilize writing and story to support an expanded sense of what’s possible from here. Using writing prompts connecting us directly to our personal place on the planet, we’ll write as yet another way to metabolize what we’ve been through, turning it into wisdom.
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No writing or qigong experience is needed.
This workshop is held online, with a recording of the qigong portion available to all participants. We’ll take breaks, and generally orient away from the screen and into our personal spaces. You’ll need enough room to stand with arms spread and lie down, as well as something to write with.
Cost: sliding scale $60 / $45 / $30
If you live with privilege (due to race, age, or wealth), by paying on the highest tier you are supporting equity in embodiment and radical self-care practices. If you are unable to pay anything, please reach out for alternative ways to reciprocate and to receive a complimentary scholarship of any amount.