Meditations

The Gentle Spirit

Healing Arts for Inner Peace

The Gentle Spirit

Mountain

Class Schedule

Qigong:

Mondays, 9-10:30 AM and 5:30-7:00PM

Thursdays, 9-10:30 AM

Dao Yin Yoga:

Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00PM

$15/class if pre-registered for a session

$20/class for walk-ins

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Workshop Schedule

FEBRUARY

~Internal Martial Arts~

Saturday, February 27th

9:00AM - 5:00PM

(1.5 hour break for lunch)

*Improve Focus*

*Strengthen Internal Organ Function*

*Qigong Exercises to bring awareness to your body's movement*

*Partner exercises to learn how to work with another person*

*Learn how to shake off residual tension in the body*

*Standing practices to build inner strength*

We will be using techniques from Xinyi, Taiji, Qigong,Yoga and Muay Thai to help bring about an internal awareness that will support any existing practice or as a foundation for further studies. The practices can also be used as a complete self-healing system.

$100

You must pre-register for this workshop.

Space is limited.

MARCH

Yijing, Taiji and Qigong Cultivation

with

Master Zhongxian Wu

March 27-28, 2010

10:00AM - 5:00PM

$250 (for early registration)

Limited space available.

For more information

about this workshop, please visit

www.masterwu.net

~Ease Into Transition Program~

with

Camille Llewellyn

This program will incorporate yoga, meditation and group discussion to allow you to develop your own way of easing through the transitions and changes in your life.

You will learn to explore your own unique experience to create new ways to meet your current situation, create choices and discover who you truly are and begin living purposefully rather than by self imposed rules.

6 week programs to choose from:

March 31th – May 5th, 6:45 – 8:15 PM and an all day retreat Sunday April 18.

March 25th – April 29th, 3:30 - 5 PM and an all day retreat Sunday April 18.

Tuition: $160 (Includes home practice manual and practice CDs)

The program is based on the book “Turn Stress into Bliss” by Michael Lee, founder of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. Camille Llewellyn, will be your guide and she is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist and Group Facilitator which enables her to offer this international program.

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Qigong (chee gung)

In its simplest form, the Chinese character for qi, in qigong, can mean air, breath, or "life force". "Gong" means work, so qigong is therefore the practice of "working" with ones "life force". It is mostly known as an internal Chinese meditative practice which often uses slow graceful movements and controlled breathing techniques to promote the circulation of qi within the human body, and enhance a practitioner's overall health, but there are also many forms of qigong that are done with little or no movement at all, in standing, sitting and supine positions.

Qigong is beneficial:

1) To gain strength, improve health or reverse a disease

2) To gain skill working with qi

3) To become more connected with the "Dao, God, True Source, Great Spirit", for a more meaningful connection with nature and the universe.

Taiji

Taiji is a martial arts Qigong form. It is graceful, relaxed, slow, and fluid, like a slow-motion dance. Unlike some qigong methods that exercise specific systems or parts of the body-- nervous system, endocrine system, heart, kidneys-- Taiji Quan is a whole body, whole mind exercise. It brings the practitioner into physical mental and spiritual awareness and helps to develop a connection between the Microcosm (Human Being) and the Macrocosm (Universe).

Dao Yin Yoga

Dating back thousands of years, Dao Yin Yoga is an ancient system of gentle movements and meditative postures that nurture and invigorate personal energy; attuning it to the universal vitality. Our Dao Yin Program is comprised of seated, standing and lying postures. You will learn the meanings and backgrounds of Dao Yin Yoga practices using the meridians and five elements principles. This practice will help you learn the physical elements of tendon structure and will prepare the iliopsoas muscle and diaphragm. You will also learn the foundation of conscious breathing, mudras, and meditation practices.

Jennifer and Jay Bartholomew are classically trained in yoga and qigong for over 20 years. Since 2008 they have been studying Classical Chinese Wisdom traditions with their teacher Master Zhongxian Wu deepening their knowledge of Taiji and Qigong from the classical texts - Yijing, Daodejing and Huangdi Neijing. It is their wish to not only preserve the valuable aspects of these ancient Chinese practices, but to share them with those who would like to promote peace, balance and harmony in their life.