Workshops
Giving yourself a whole day (or afternoon in the case of Healing Chi Kung) gives you longer to sink into yourself and connect with your Chi before weaving with other healing methods.
Chi Kung essentially supports us, we access ourselves more fully and learn how to live in self-harmony. We so often put ourselves last on the list to be considered especially if we have a demanding family or job, or both! Finding time to truly resource can in itself be a challenge. These workshops offer you the opportunity to give you back to you (others will benefit too!)
New Forest Chi Kung offers a variety of weekend workshops to give you the opportunity to expand your practice and experience.
Detoxing through moving from the Dan Tien
Saturday 20th February 10.00am – 4.30pm
With Thalbert Allen
£60 in advance, £65 on the day
Venue: Boldre Memorial Hall SO41 8PE
Tel: 07901 933779
see map
Dan Tien focus works around your belly area, freeing up tension and encouraging
a true connection with your centre. This helps clear the meridians and
establishes a healthy flow of energy, with more stability and balance
in your movements. Energetically letting go of what your system no longer
needs is a great relief. It is also motivational, as space is created
for your new ideas to attract and take root in clearer ground. Using this
connection with the Dan Tien is hugely beneficial as everything begins
here, the Dan Tien moves all.
Thalbert is a professional Shiatsu practitioner, Cranial Sacral therapist
and a director of the College of elemental Chi Kung, London. He teaches
Tai Chi and Chi Kung, in the UK, Italy and America, having studied with
a variety of teachers and has a background in martial arts. Thalbert's
main aim is to demystify the work and make it fun.
Thalbert will be assisted by Clara Apollo, a graduate of the College's teacher training programme. See www.elementalchikung.com
Introduction to Elemental Chi Kung
Sat 13th March 1.00-5.00pm; £20 in advance, £25 on
day
Venue: MerKaBarn, Aldsworth PO10 8QS
Tel: 07901 933779
see map
Clara is bringing Elemental Chi Kung out of the New Forest and over to
the Potsmouth area. Chi Kung compliments and enhances many other exercise
programmes and treatments, like; acupuncture, homeopathy, shiatsu, chiropractic,
osteopathy and physiotherapy. Anyone who has practised Yoga, meditation
and Tai Chi will find Chi Kung easily synergises with these.
Other afternoon dates planned are Sunday 30 May and the 25 July.
The Foundation Course for Teacher Training will also be held from this venue, see professional training.
Healing Chi Kung
Sun 21st March 1.00-5.00pm; £25 in advance, £30 on day
Venue: Woodgreen Village Hall, SP6 2AT
Tel: 07901 933779
see map
By releasing tension from your body and anxieties from your mind you get
a clearer stream of Chi around the meridians encouraging you to harmonise
your health. In this state you are in a more resourced place to help others
to find their healing potential. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder of the modern
Reiki healing tradition, used to practise Kikou, a Japanese version of
Chi Kung. He was fascinated by how practitioners of this discipline would
emit Ki(Chi) to promote healing in patients. However, this would eventually
deplete them if they did not keep up their personal practice. Reiki and
contemporary Chi healing does not deplete us, it can indeed energise us
all, everybody wins. We understand more about the technology of Chi Kung
and trust the connection we have to the Earth as a fundamental resource
to ourselves, 'plugging into the planet' is a necessity to maintain natural
levels of energy. The Reiki connection tunes in with universal Divine
love source energy, and flows through our meridians and chakras encouraging
healing harmony for all.
When you give a healing treatment, Reiki or Chi travels towards the client with whom there is an energetic agreement. We are facilitators to thos natural process so the clearer our channels are, the more efficient the transference of healing energy becomes. Using Chi Kung to prepare for healing, Reiki or otherwise, resources you first, preparing you to move with confidence and grace around your client. This freedom helps you to tune into different layers of their aura, where diseases often originate. Treatments need not take as long to be effective.
Reiki and Chi Kung share a powerful meditation, the Micro-cosmic orbit which is essential for Chi circulation inspiring the extraordinary meridians and for Reiki Masters to use in the attunement process.
Chi Kung offers you the tools for becoming a more effective healing practitioner.
During the afternoon you will learn:
• Chi Kung warm up exercises, to free up the joints and get your
Chi moving
• standing postures which access a foundation of centered support
for ease of Chi flow and physical postions
• to balance your chakras
• to gain awareness of the flow of Chi in and around your system
• Chi Kung moving meditations to connect you with Divine Source
dynamically
• and experience a shared seated aura/energy field healing session
You do not need to be a Reiki practitioner to attend this workshop.
Clara hosts a Reiki share, generally on a Monday evening once a month in the Bransgore area.
World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Sat 24th April 2010 10.00am – 4.30pm
£25 in advance
Venue: Woodgreen Village Hall, SP6 2AT
Tel: 07901 933779
see map
Join Clara and Mark Lythgoe www.southernchikung.com
to celebrate this global phenomenon.
This day is open to anyone who is interested in moving and gathering Chi,
whether you have been practising for decades, years or months!
To find out more about this wonderful worldwide gathering visit www.worldtaichiday.org
Elemental Chi Kung 'Summer'
Sat 31st July 10.00-5.00pm
£45 in advance/£50 on the day
Venue: New Forest Area
Tel: 07901 933779
An opportunity to experience the synergy of Fire, Water and Earth elemental Chi Kung. The plan is to hold most of this out of doors, in private grounds, under the shade of huge old trees in the middle of the New Forest. If the weather is unsuitable then a venue which looks out onto nature will be used.
Chi Kung and Tai Chi are often practised outside in China, the U.S. and in other temporate climates around the world. In this country, it is the summer which allows us to explore the outside space and to immerse ourselves in engaging with the abundance of natural Chi from the Earth and its elemental aspects.
With Fire being the element of the summertime, we can move with the rhythmn of our breath, expore bird inspired forms and connect with our passions to express uniqueness and creativity. Using the Water element to balance the fiery energies, a deeper sense of our innate power to naturally flow can be cultivated.
It is useful to have had some experience of Tai Chi or Chi Kung to fully benefit from this workshop.
If any of these workshops appeal to a group of you they could be brought be to your area. Please contact info@newforestchikung.co.uk
