Workshops
Giving yourself a whole day or just an afternoon gives you longer to sink into your Chi Kung experience and giving time to integrate and meditate. Chi Kung synergises well with many other healing methods.
Chi Kung methods encourage you to tune in with all that supports you. From here, 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.
World Tai Chi Qigong Day
Sat 24th April 2010 10.00am – 1.30pm
Venue: Woodgreen Village Hall, SP6 2AT
see map
Reflections from the day.
Words from the organisers began our Chi Kung day at Woodgreen...
'This global wave of goodwill provides a vision of hope and healing to a world hungry for such visions.
Each year to view the photos of people from different cultures, religions and every corner of the earth...
breathing together...in this global Tai Chi and Qigong movement...profound. When you look through the photographs and videos you see that look on people's faces, a look that conveys
a feeling that all of us who've experienced the well-being that Chi or life energy, expands through our
mind and body and when we make the space to breathe . . . and to let, calm, and wellness expand through us. When you see that look in all these diverse faces, from so many different lands, you can't help but deeply
realize that we are indeed one world...and...one breath. We are all connected by the field of life energy
that physicists are now discovering permeates all existence. By immersing ourselves in the field of life energy again and again, we become more and more grounded in
the absolute reality that...we are all connected...all part of the web of life. And, by cultivating
and growing the realization personally and globally, we may help in a subtle quiet way to usher in a more
elegant future that nurtures us all in ways we cannot yet even imagine'.
Bill Douglas and Angela Wong Douglas - Co-founders of the World Tai Chi Qigong Day
New Forest Chi Kung and Mark Lythgoe's Southern Chi Kung www.southernchikung.com
joined forces for this auspicious day.
We set aside a morning to practice our Chi Kung together as part of the global network of Chi players.
We gathered our collective students and began by welcoming everybody and reading out the statement above to
get us in the global chi vibe. We dropped into our Wu Chi, the stance of primal energy and Mark lead an energetic
joint opening section taking us from our centred awareness to visit and mobilise all the major joints of the body,
returning back to centred awareness once again to observe and be. It felt like play to swing our arms and shake
ourselves about. Then when the settling back into Wu Chi came it was deeper and even more connected to the Earth.
The Chi glee was beginning to glow when we paused for a cup of tea and chats.
The following hour saw us grow golden Chi spheres from our Dantiens through the power of intention and the breath.
Expanding gradually out from within, our Chi grew and grew out into the room, bathing us with its sparkling power
and delight. From continuing to connect deeply down to meet our planet to receive endless resource, we stepped into
our massive golden globe gifts and made personal requests firstly for ourselves, then for people we know who need
healing vitality, in our immediate world and then all around the world. Imagining each and every one of us earthly
inhabitants sparkling in a golden sphere of nourishing Chi, sitting atop the Earth, surrounding our Mother planet
with delicious gold. We included a wish for miracles of healing and beautiful surprises to occur for us all.
Outside we walked on the true planet surface, our soles communing with Mother Earth. In gratitude we walked on,
in meditation we 'talked' in silence, as we communed with her, our hands placed directly on the Earth, she knew,
we know we are all one breath...
To find out more about this wonderful worldwide gathering visit www.worldtaichiday.org
World Sound and Movement Festival
17/18th July
9.30-3.00pm / 10.00-5.00
see www.kidsalchemy.org.uk
Venue: Gun Wharf Quays, PO1 3TZ
see map
The World Sound and Movement Festival brings together workshop facilitators,
musicians, artists and exhibitors to offer you a weekend of fun, laughter and
community, all hosted at two venues on the waterside at Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth.
You could try any of the workshops or enjoy any one of live stage performances and meditations?
Or just relax, kick back and indulge yourself in our exciting exhibitor marketplace.
We are offering a fun weekend for all the family and accompanied children are welcome to
join us for all the workshops and performances.
Clara and Mark (from Southern Chi Kung) with several students will be doing a demonstration/audience participation on the Sunday from 12.30-1.30pm.
Fire and Water
Sunday 15th August 1.00 – 7.30pm
With Thalbert Allen
£55 'early bird' by 15th July, £60 up to 3 days in advance,
£65 on the day, £40 concs.
Venue: Boldre Memorial Hall SO41 8PE
Tel: 01425 673656
see map
This one day workshop will explore the relationship between the elements
of Fire & Water. Working with the contrasting properties of expansion
and contraction, experience the yin yang dance of the elements. Fire represents
the season of summer and the phenomenon of heat rising and expanding.
Body heat is conveyed through our blood and powered by the pumping of our heart. The organs of the Fire element are the heart and small intestine. When your Fire is fully expressed you can experience joy, calm and emotional stability, enabling your naturally creative flow to blossom through you. To express graceful and expansive movements, calms and quells any potential for overheating. Accessing the true unique power at your centre.
Water always has the potential to change, especially when it is heated up...or cooled down. When your Water element is balanced and healthy, it can effect all the yin and yang forces in your body. Finding a settling in to your deeper sense of stability and vitality, fosters a sense of knowing who you really are at your core are and how you wish to manifest your life.
Meditations will be explored to access stillness deep in your centre. When the mind stills, stuff sorts out!
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 and founder of New Forest Chi Kung. See www.elementalchikung.com
Late Summer Earth Elemental Chi Kung
Sunday 5th September 10.30-5.00pm
£40 by 29th August, £50 thereafter
Venue: New Forest Area
Tel: 01425 673656
An opportunity to experience power of Earth element Chi Kung. The plan is to hold 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 the Earth element being fundamental to all Chi Kung practice we have an ideal occasion in Late Summer to experience its full bounty. This is the season that TCM allocate to the Earth and is the perfect time to reinstae the potency of your Earth connection as we head towards the Autumn. The warmth of the Fire element has penetrted deep into the Earths crust and the sun has ripened the crops for harvest. the other elements at all times of the year.
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
