Can Everyone Do Qigong?

Qigong incorporates gentle movements, meditation and breathing exercises that anyone can do. No matter your age, fitness level, or health condition, there are qigong practices you will be able to incorporate into your life to enhance your wellbeing. Pay Attention to Your Abilities During qigong practice, you are encouraged and empowered to modify practices according…

The Distinctive Fifth Season: Earth Phase

We recognize the Five Element or Five Phase theory as part of the wisdom that informs our qigong view of life and nature. The Five Phase theory posits that everything in the universe, including our health, is governed by five elements, which incorporate their corresponding organs and seasons: wood/liver/spring, fire/heart/summer, earth/spleen-pancreas/second summer, metal/lungs/autumn and water/kidneys/winter.…

Spring Qi Rising

Reprinted from Feb 2020 newsletter As we delight in the approach of spring, we notice that there is a special energy associated only with this season of renewal. This is an invigorating time with energy rising throughout nature and within us; think baby birds, seedlings thrusting up through the earth and our own spring cleaning, innovation and…