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 moreAliveness of your soul
Move beyond the boundary of your skin to expand energy to connect to the aliveness of your soul through this Qigong practice. Use the power of the energy and Qi that you cultivate in this practice to light up your soul purpose, the part of you that is bigger than just your physical body. Remember, you are more than just your physical body, you are also an energetic being!
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 moreOcean of your heart
This guided yet intuitive flow help to activate your deep energy of the heart to cultivate love, joy, peace, compassion, radiance and light. Open yourself to your heart calling when you dive deep into the ocean of your heart. Music credit: Forgotten by Liam Thomas
Read moreClear energetic charge in the aura
We are energy beings in a physical body. Our energy field called the aura can extend up to 50 feet beyond our bodies, which can shrink or grow depends on our thoughts, breath, interaction with the external environment. Aura records and carries an energetic frequencies of emotions, beliefs, memories and traumas. This powerful Qigong practice was passed down from my Qigong teacher that helps to dissipate the energetic charge in the aura and to strengthen the auric field. We will be purging and clearing the energy within our body followed by aura charging breath that helps to strengthen our auric field and to charge it with a vibrational mantra and finish with dantian integration to hook up the energy. Music credit: Om Mani Padme Hum by Veet Vichara & Premanjali
Read moreEmotion in motion
Emotion is simply frequency of energy that is constantly moving and shifting. We deplete a lot of our energy from holding onto negative emotion. Energy needs to be moved in order for the emotion to release. This flow practice will help you see the emotions as they arise and to clear them so your energy can flow again. Using love to transmute negative emotions.
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 moreMindful flow
Do you find yourself mindful or mindless as you move through the day? This seamless flow will shift you out of your mindless state to a more mindful state on and off the mat. Cultivate present moment awareness and very conscious movement by slowing down and harnessing each moment as it comes.
Read moreClear monkey mind
Do you have a monkey mind? Constant and scattered thoughts, hard to switch off the mind, and cannot focus? This practice is perfect for you to clear the ten million thoughts that goes on in your mind through head tapping and massage, clear stagnant energy in the head, neck and shoulders.
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 moreBody as temple
Do you treat your body like your home? Think of your body like your home that you want to create a beautiful, nurturing and loving space. Through loving, accepting, honouring and respecting your body like a temple, it allows you to feel the peace and comfort to be in your own home and to allow your body to do more for you. Let's practice loving your body and treat it as a temple that you respect deeply.
Read moreShake it out
Just as the Chinese saying goes "Don't pour clean water into a dirty cup", this practice helps to clear your body which is your vessel, container and temple. Anything that makes you feel heavy, drag you down or hard to get moving needs to be shaken out. This Qigong includes Qi clearing, energy crossover, detoxifying organ healing sounds and flowing movements to get your Qi moving and circulating.
Read moreSilent qigong
When Qigong is done silently, it gives you a meditative experience that drop you into the flow state. Taking you out of your head and into your body. With minimal verbal cues, we will be moving through some warm ups, followed by the five elements which are all familiar movements. If you haven't done any Qigong classes, you may like to go through some of my other classes before you take this one or simply give it a go and follow the flow. Feel yourself in nature as you move with gentle background nature music.
Read moreAmplify simplicity
Need to declutter and find simplicity? Simplicity can give you more joy to life when you eliminate all the unnecessary things you really don't need. By amplifying simplicity, it clears the thinking mind and to declutter all the demands and stressors that can suffocate your life. This simple yet powerful practice connects your mind to the breath to keep you in the present moment.
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 moreStrengthen underuse pattern
Are you aware of your blind spots in the body that are underuse? The fascial web wraps around the sides of the body can weaken from underuse which limits the range of motion, poor balance and may trigger pain in the shoulders and lumbar spine. Often results to disliking poses like side plank, half moon or movements that require lateral strength and stability. When you strengthen the lateral side of the body, you keep your back, shoulders and hips happy and avoid unnecessary deterioration. This practice focus on building strength on the underuse side of the body (lateral stabiliser - serratus anterior, transverse abdominals, obliques, quadratus lumborum).
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 moreLet's play
Explore your inner child and have some fun in this practice with the intent of letting go of perfection, let loose, have a sense of wonder, just like children do. Get excited and let's play!
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