8 week series
Fridays, June 26 - August 14
11:30am-12:45pm Eastern
Online, live instruction with recordings available.
Last 15 minutes of class is Q&A.
Join this Friday class community and invite the poetic, physical ritual we call qigong. It is equal parts orienting, organizing, and eye-opening.
This class we’ll focus on the 8 brocades and the 8 extraordinary vessels, seeing how the practice informs the energetic pathways in the body. It is a memorable sequence of 8 simple movements, easy to repeat and invite into a daily practice. The 8 extraordinary vessels contain the multitudes of our emotions, working with them helps us see ourselves among the emotional weeds of daily life.
All are welcome...pregnant, ancient, new, tired, sick, or well.
Cost: sliding scale $130 / $100 / $80
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. The highest tier is priced below the average yoga class, and this offering includes a recording to support ongoing practice (without the expense-both financial and environmental-of the plastic mat.) If you are unable to pay anything, please reach out for alternative ways to reciprocate and to receive a complimentary scholarship of any amount.
what students are saying:
“(this class has) become a mainstay, especially in these times, but also in helping to heal some old wounds. Its also quite wonderful to wash my bone marrow!” -Kate
“This continues to be a wonderfully timely and healing practice for me in my life right now. This class in particular gave me an experience of flow and integration, calmness with energy that is hard to put into words! I have no doubt about the benefits of this meditative movement for my mind/body/spirit. It is an added gift to have the recording!” - Tina
“Your classes do so much for my spirit in these challenging and lonely times. And at the end when we welcomed all 4 directions of the compass, I felt the 4 winds gently wrapping me in their cloaks, comforting, supporting my spirit as we all stand and face this uncertain future.” - Cindy
“just want you to know how much i have been enjoying the classes on friday morning. it is like my whole body gets to breathe with the world - what a beautiful opportunity at this time.” -Rachel
“What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter.
Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.
The Giant pine tree
Grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of ten thousand miles
Starts from beneath your feet.”
-Tao te Ching