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Mindful Movement & Conscious Breathing: Chi Kung (Qi Gong) for health, harmony, balance and well-being. Discover how Chi Kung may safely and effectively improve and safeguard your resilience, health, physical balance and emotional and physical well-being for mind, body and spirit, with a relaxed yet awake and embodied state.
Practised for thousands of years in the East and very similar to Tai Chi, it is a journey and discovery in awareness of embodied movement and coordinating breathing with slow mindful movements that enhance the flow of chi (breath, energy and vitality / life-force) in the body, mind and spirit, to open the joints and connective tissues so energy can flow more easily and blocked or stagnated energy is released.
Classes will include loosening and opening exercises, strengthening the body, improving posture and balance.
Excellent for balance, well-being, vitality and falls prevention and regaining confidence after a prior fall.
Most of the movements can also be practised seated on a chair.
Each class will explore some gentle warm up, stretching movements and practise learning a specific set of sequences (called the form) for each of the seasons and the associated elements; earth, metal, water, wood and fire.
Your tutors have many years experience. Dan has 40 years’ experience in martial arts traditional complementary healing and eastern meditation and is a qualified Chi Kung teacher, mindfulness-based self-compassion teacher, Zen monk, and has a masters in neuroscience of mindfulness and executive coaching as well as having been an acupuncturist for the past 35 years .
Bring water to drink, wear loose comfortable clothing and clean soft indoor shoes or slippers (or use socks) as footwear.
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Last Updated: 15th November, 2024
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