Mindfulness QiGong TaiChi

Learn how to still your thoughts and connect to your innate higher intelligence in the present moment. Open up your energy gates and channels to firm up your essence and harmonise your Yin and Yang. Convert your vitality and life force to nourish your spirit, replenish your will and strengthen your mind to be who you want to be or just reinvent yourself. By connecting to different aspect of yourself, you will strengthen your consciousness and unconsciousness, increase your ability to dismiss unwanted thoughts and feelings and calm your being, to be in oneness.

Mindfulness is a style of meditation that strengthens your ability to control or dismiss unwanted thoughts, feelings and emotions. At times we get caught up in meandering thoughts which lead us to over think or overdo things. Mindfulness teaches you how to switch off the thinking so that your thoughts do not overflow into a spiral of indecisiveness which results in unwanted consequences.

In groupwork sessions we use of guided techniques, to teach you how to quieten down the mind. These techniques can help you hone into your awareness when you are lost in thought and then to know how to reel yourself in, to be aware. This process will help you view challenges, that if a previous unwanted circumstance presented itself again, you can see more choices to react or to act differently.

QiGong (energy work), refers to the cultivation, circulation and storage of chi energy in the body. This style of meditation focuses on the breath to channel energy into the body and convert it into life force. We work with a series of structured exercises to activate your energy gates and pathways to move your vitality along to different parts of your body.

The aim of QiGong is to connect to different aspects of yourself by connecting to your energy and using the life force to nourish your being. We will be using the Shibashi (18 form) set created in 1979 by Professor Lin Houshen from the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is deceivingly simple, yet the subtle internal fluid movements create a soothing sensational flow throughout the body.

Tai Chi (harmonizing Yin and Yang), is a style of QiGong. There are five main styles - Yang, Wu, Chen, Sun and Hao. In 1956, the Chinese Sports Committee commissioned 4 Tai Chi Masters from the main styles, to create a more simplified 24 form for health and wellbeing. It takes in the essential elements of the traditional longer forms, yet still retains its traditional flavour.

In the group sessions we will be using the 24 Tai Chi form which follows the Yang style for healing. In this form we will learn both the sitting and walking versions to gently exercise all the muscles of the body. We use whole body movements, functions and stances to help you develop a skill on how to surf the waves of energy to calm, soothe and relax your being.