The third of the five animal frolics is bear, an ancient medical Qigong healing practice that invoke the energy of bear that is gentle, shy, crave comfort, firm and stable. When we imitate the movement, action, characteristic and spirit of the bear, it circulate energy to the spleen and help balance the earth element for late summer and in between seasons. When you have problem with your digestive system including digesting life or emotions, have difficulty with changes, and often worry or have doubt, the bear practice will help harmonise the Qi and transform worry to trust. The yin poses at the end of the practice settles the Qi and help to regulate energy in the spleen and stomach meridians.
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The second of the five animal frolics is deer, an ancient medical Qigong healing practice that invoke the energy of deer that is elegant, serene, gentle, soft and graceful. When we imitate the movement, action, characteristic and spirit of the deer, it circulate energy to the kidney and help balance the water element for winter season. When you are stress, fatigue, fearful, have problems with the ears or weak bones, the deer practice will help harmonise the Qi and transform fear to calm. The yin poses at the end of the practice settles the Qi and help to regulate energy in the bladder and kidney meridians.
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The first of the five animal frolics is tiger, an ancient medical Qigong healing practice that invoke the energy of tiger that is fierce, brave, powerful, strong and focus. When we imitate the movement, action, characteristic and spirit of the tiger, it circulate energy to the liver and help balance the wood element for spring season. When your energy is low, feel tired, pre-mentrual that causes anger, the tiger practice will help harmonise the Qi and transform anger to kindness. The yin pose at the end of the practice settles the Qi and help to regulate energy in the gallbladder meridian.
Read moreActivate spiritual wisdom
Once you feel the aliveness of energy within your body and beyond, you are ready to tune in to the divine guidance and call in your divine and sacred guide who specialise in you for your health and healing. This seated meditation can be done anytime when you need guidance for healing the root of your physical dis-ease. This healing meditation is taught by Tina Zion, a medium and a medical intuitive healer.
Read moreActivate emotional wisdom
Once you have cleared the energetic charge of the emotion, you are ready to activate your emotional wisdom for healing. This dao yin Qigong will initiate your connection with the energy flow within and around the body to prepare you for deep insight and healing meditation as taught by Tina Zion, a medium and a medical intuitive healer.
Read moreActivate mind wisdom
Once you have cleared the mind from the cycle of thoughts to drop you into a mindful and present state of awareness, you are ready to activate your mind wisdom to cultivate the energy and healing that is needed in your body. Using Qigong flow, yin and mantra to elevate the kind of energy you need to create a shift in your mind.
Read moreActivate body wisdom
Once you have cleared out your body to welcome yourself to come home to, you are ready to activate it's innate wisdom to connect with the energy for balance and healing. The physical part of the practice combines Dao Yin, acupressure massage and yin poses to open the hips so you can sit more comfortably. The energetic part of the practice is moving the energy within the meridians so you can be more sensitive to feel energy and use it to dissolve tension in the body for healing.
Read moreFeel all the feels
Do you often live in your head? Moving from the linear thinking mind into the feeling sensory body with this myofascial release combined yin practice to tune you deeper into the sensations for healing. The moment you feel is the moment you heal. Let's tap into the wisdom of the body to heal itself.
Read moreHappy head, neck and shoulder
A quick office friendly practice to bring some circulation and ease tight neck and shoulder, to train your head and neck to find their optimal alignment by rebooting the muscles on the neck and finally to free up tension in the shoulder and upper ribs.
Read moreRelease overuse pattern
Are you aware of your blind spots in the body that are overuse? A very common body blind spot is the lateral side of the body which make sense because we tend to move primarily in the sagittal plane (walking, running, biking, etc) and for women who often carry their babies on one hip or hold a handbag on one shoulder, it can result in an uneven wear and tear in the body. This practice focus on releasing pattern of tension, ache and pain in the overuse side of the body (serratus anterior, obliques, gluteus medius).
Read moreThe beauty of not knowing
A don't know mind is an open mind, an open mind is a clear mind. Learn to use this yin practice to declutter your thoughts, drop in to where the body needs to be and trust the process of unfolding, releasing and surrender to spaciousness for clarity.
Read moreBirth of the five elements
One birth two, two birth three, three birth the five elements. The five elements reside in nature and also within you. In Chinese Medicine, the creation cycle of the five elements bring balance into you and your life through nourishing each element. In this Qigong integrated yin practice, we will be stimulating energy in the meridian that follows its corresponding element. Starting with Metal that feed energy to Water, followed by Wood, Fire and Earth.
Read moreThe gift of being
The great beginning of life begins with nothing, stillness, emptiness. It is through this state of being that allows us open to new potential, inspirations and ideas.
Read moreWisdom of your Qi
Tuning into our higher intuitive wisdom with this special Qigong integrated yin practice to activate energy into the 3rd eye and center of the brain, where the crystal palace reside. Allowing us to connect deeply with our wisdom Qi to open and connect with our inner knowing.
Read moreCrystal healing meditation
Do you like crystals? I love my crystals and believe the power of crystals, as it gives us so much healing energies in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. By visualising crystals within the body will help to cleanse old energy out and invite new healing energy in. Music credit: Jason Stephenson
Read moreSacred elemental relaxation
We are one with nature and nature is within us. Using nature elements of earth, water, fire, air and space to heal yourself and heal nature through this guided visualisation. As you connect with the energy of each element it brings healing back to wholeness.
Read moreBody as water
We are a part of water and water is within us. Water provides fluidity, cleanse and heal emotions and represents the flow of life. Feel the energy of your body with water and take the shape of water as the body adapts and yield. This deep yin practice focus on the hip area that often holds a lot of tension which can become stagnant from long term sitting or lack of movement. Hold a glass of water as a symbol to embody the water energy.
Read moreGround and center
When life gets overwhelm or feel sensory overloaded can disconnect us from ourselves and the world around us. This grounding and nurturing practice uses roll + restore, self-massage and acupressure with yin to ground and center whenever you need a short and powerful practice to help you reconnect with yourself.
Read moreLove energy for emotional freedom
Every emotion hold a different energy vibration and as we know the heart is the emperor of all emotions according to the Chinese medicine. This 5 element yin practice will start with healing the heart emotion energetically to then allow the loving energy to flow into the spleen, lung, kidney and liver to clear and release what doesn't serve you. Finish with a guided intuitive healing mediation to heal challenging emotions, a powerful meditation that I studied from Judith Orloff.
Read moreGut feeling for intuition
Our bodies have an innate sense of feeling/instinct (just like all animals do) which is often called gut feeling, which helps us receive intuitive guidance. When there is fear, it can override intuition. This roll and restore practice will help activate energy in the solar plexus, stomach and psoas while the yin poses will release the stomach and spine as well as open the hips to release fear. We will be using humming and breath to stimulate vagus nerve to activate gut feeling for intuition.
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