Qigong Course: Earth Creates Metal

21st - 25th October 2024

@Zoom Online: 7:30 am - 7:55 am (BST / UK)
- 25 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £30 for the week

- For all levels

- Recordings available for 2 months

From late summer to autumn, the seasons cool, trees begin to release their leaves and we enter the time of the metal element. With it comes the ability to take courage, and to let go and release what no longer serves us.

In this course we’ll explore:

- Metal form qigong to release, simplify, and let go

- Techniques to manage loss, depression, grief

- Meridian cleansing for lungs and large intestines organs

- Reflections on how to find courage, set boundaries and breathe more deeply and freely in life

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Qigong Course: Fire becomes Earth

12th - 16th August 2024

@Zoom Online: 7:30 am - 7:55 am (BST / UK)
- 25 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £30 for the week

- For all levels

- Recordings available for 2 months

From summer to late summer, we can harness the season of softening yang energy. The centre point of the year helps ground us, nourish us, and enjoy the fruits of our labours.

In this course we’ll explore:

- Earth form qigong to centre and ground

- Techniques to reduce worry and cultivate self trust

- Meridian cleansing for stomach and spleen organs

- Reflections on how to create confidence, trust in the unknown, and to enjoy where you are at today

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Qigong Course: Water nourishes Wood

11th - 15th March 2024

@Zoom Online: 7:30 am - 7:55 am (GMT)
- 25 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £30 for the week

- For all levels

- Recordings available for 2 months

The transition to springtime brings creativity, growth, new plans and freshness to life. The Wood element governs our ability to grow sustainably, respond skilfully to frustration and anger, and fuel our zest for life.

In this course we’ll explore:

- Energising, spiralling, twisting movements

- Water and Wood element forms including Deer forms

- Reflections on how to cultivate steady growth and creativity

Booking here

Qigong Course: Earth becomes Metal

The late summer to autumn transition

23rd - 27th October

@Zoom Online: 7:30 am - 7:55 am (GMT)
- 25 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £30 for the week

- For all levels

- Recordings available for 2 months

The earth element of late summer helps us begin to slow down, find ground, nourish, feel centred, and reduce worry and overthinking. Autumn’s metal element then allows us to cut back, simplify, let go, process loss and move forwards simply and cleanly in life.

In this course we’ll explore:

- Graceful, feel-good earth and metal movements

- Breath work, lungs are the organ of metal / autumn

- Reflections on how to simplify and create space in life

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Qigong Course: Fire becomes Earth

The summer to late summer transition

21st - 25th August

@Zoom Online: 7:30 am - 7:55 am (GMT)
- 25 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £30 for the week

- For all levels

- Recordings available

The fire element of summer helps us connect to joy, playfulness, friendship, passion and activity. Earth (late summer, August - September), helps us begin to slow down, find ground, nourish, feel centred, and reduce worry and overthinking. How we transition this season is essential for setting up a restful and supportive autumn and winter.

In this course we’ll explore:

- Graceful, meditative fire and earth movements

- Strategies to navigate the energetics seasonal shift

- Meditations to reduce overthinking and worry

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NEW YEAR MEDITATION AND QIGONG COURSE:

2nd - 6th January

@Zoom Online
- 7:30 am - 8:00 am (GMT)
- 30 minutes, every morning (Monday to Friday)
- £25 for the week

- For beginners or experienced practitioners

- Recordings available

Start the new year with mindfulness, presence, self-compassion and feel good movement. In this 5 day course we will explore:

- Graceful, meditative movements from qigong and tai chi

- Using movement as a gateway to mindfulness

- Breath work

- Simple seated meditation techniques to calm and focus the mind

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5 DAY QIGONG COURSE:

SPRING AND THE WOOD ELEMENT

21st - 25th March

@Zoom Online
- 7:30 am - 7:55 am (GMT)
- 25 minutes, every morning
- £25 for the week

- For beginners or experienced practitioners

- Recordings available

Spring: the time of renewal and regeneration. Leaves bud, trees blossom, and with it more light. In Chinese Medicine this a period or rising yang energy. In this course you’ll learn:

- A wood themed flowing sequence (lots of twists and side bends!)

- How to live in harmony with this season’s energy

- How to balance Wood’s major organs: liver / gall bladder

- How to work with Wood’s emotion, anger, in a healthy way, transforming it into creativity and personal growth

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NEW YEAR: 7 DAY MEDITATION CHALLENGE

3RD - 9TH JANUARY

@Zoom Online
- Monday - Sunday 1 week challenge!

- 07:30 - 07:55 (London / GMT)
- £25 (free with Membership Plus+)

- Suitable for beginners and all levels

Join me in January for a 7 day commitment to meditate together every morning for 25 minutes.

You'll learn simple techniques to practice with and scientifically proven methods to build a sustainable, enjoyable habit for the long run.

You will learn

- A simple, non-confusing and proven method to become more calm, centred, and focused

- The science of habit, how to create and stick to it

- How to build your practice in an easy way, that super-charges your whole life, for the long run

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5 DAY QIGONG: ENERGY LEVELS AND THE CHINESE BODY CLOCK

FEBRUARY 7TH - 11TH

@Zoom Online
- 7:30 am - 7:55 am (GMT)
- 25 minutes, every morning
- £25 for the week

- For beginners or experienced practitioners

- Recordings available

In this course we will draw from both the ancient Chinese Body Clock and current scientific perspectives on sleep cycles and circadian rhythms to:

- understand our unique energy signature

- evaluate our energy levels through the day and week

- find rest within the work, avoiding burn out

- plan our schedule in line with our natural energy dips and peaks following the Chinese Body Clock and your circadian rhythm / chronotype (I will give you tools to analyse these across the week).

Don’t worry if these ideas / words are new to you - we’ll cover it all to help you develop a better understanding of your own natural energy rhythms and how to work with them.

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SOHO SUPER SUNDAY! IN PERSON CLASSES

Upcoming dates

December (12:00 - 14:00) Book now

This is a Live, in person 2 hour class that focuses on feeling great, enjoyment, playfulness, community and connection.

This is a complete practice, which flows seamlessly through many different modalities and techniques:

- Opening breath work

- Gentle qigong and tai chi

- Dynamic vinyasa yoga flow

- Yin and restorative yoga

- Closing meditation

Afterwards you're invited to come for lunch followed by tea or coffee and a cake somewhere nearby!

This private class takes place at MoreYoga Soho, on Marshall Street: https://g.page/MoreYoga-Soho?share

Class cost is £20, but free/included for those with Membership Plus. Sign up here

QIGONG EVENT: HAMPSTEAD HEATH

SUNDAY 3RD OCTOBER

Join us for a group outdoor practice under the open sky and amongst the wise old trees of Hampstead Heath

Suitable for beginners / all levels

- 11am BST

- No need for a mat or props

- 1 hour practice

- Group outdoor practice in the fresh air

- Connect with nature the way the practice was intended

- A balanced sequence of breath and movement

- Designed to create a sense of freedom and deep connection to the Earth

- All go for a coffee / tea / something to eat after! :)

- £15 or free with membership Plus+

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*Exact location confirmed closer to the time

** If bad weather, we will reschedule the outdoor event