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Study Chinese Medicine

EWWE and Dr. Zhao Fuxue of Henan Provine in China, are developing an exchange program so that Dr. Zhao can teach the wisdom of Chinese Medicine to interested and committed students, particularly in the West.  Dr. Zhao has so much to teach even experienced acupuncturists in the West, due to his unique experience as a Chinese Medicine Doctor who learned the old way – reading old texts and studying one on one with old masters.  Dr. Zhao desires to see his lifetime of learning passed on to new generations and new venues.

Karen Fletcher has been studying with him in his clinical practice in Zhengzhou, China.  We envision that instruction will take place in person with Dr. Zhao – in China and the US, as well as virtually.

Contact Karen at karen.dancingqi@gmail.com   for more information.

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Grandmaster Xu Mingtang

 

Grandmaster Mingtang Xu is the living lineage holder of Zhong Yuan (ZY) Qigong.  He was the first to teach ZY Qigong publicly, having discerned that this age was the right time for all people to have access to these practices for health, longevity and enlightenment.  He travels the world teaching the profound methods of ZY Qigong.  He also has a research center in Beijing, called KundaWell.  People are drawn there from all over the world, to learn healing methods, practice qigong and to receive healing treatments.  There are opportunities to study with Mingtang for 1 month, 2 months or longer classes.  Mingtang also offers month-long qigong meditation intensives at Shaolin Monestary every summer.

Please see Kundawell’s website  for more information.

Mingtang comes to the US to lead meditation intensives every year or every other year.  See our calendar for upcoming events and be sure to sign up for our newsletter on the home page so you don’t miss announcments and updates.  Blessings on your journey!!

Mingtang in Swiss Alps

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Workshops with Claire and Jerigtu

International Qigong Instructors, Claire Johnson and Jerigtu live in China, and travel to the US for several months each  year to teach their engaged and powerful perspective on Qigong and healing.

Click on the Calendar tab, or see the Upcoming Events column to your right for more information on when they will be teaching in nearby next!   Also – sign up for our newsletter on the home page so you don’t miss event announcements and updates.

To book healing appointments with Claire or Jerigtu, email Claire at claire.g.j@gmail.com

They also offer workshops in Seattle WA, Oklahoma, Ashland, OR, Portland, OR and other locations.

Claire and Jerigtu live in Inner Mongolia and are currently building a Earth Shaman Center in Inner Mongolia.  They plan to open for a test run in the summer of 2020 for our organizers, and open to our first intensive retreat for students and clients mid July to Aug. 2020. We will send you our new website soon for extensive information and registration.

Claire & Jerigtu

THE HEART APPROACH to ZY Qigong

This All-Levels workshop reflects the evolution of Claire and Jerigtu’s teaching of ZY Qigong.   The approach is heart centered, as opening the heart is one of the most effective entry ways to enter the subtle realm of energy (qi) and information.  This refined awareness assists us in unifying the body and mind, bringing coherency to our emotions, energy, physical being and spiritual being.  Through consistent practice of being –  in this awareness, in the present, in the body, one becomes more fully “Zhen Ren.” or the genuine human being.

 

LEVEL 1 ZY Qigong
Level 1 focuses on relaxation and the physical body.  We practice releasing stagnation and blockages.  And we gather more energy to increase our vitality.

LEVEL 2 ZY Qigong
Level 2 moves into quietude and the energy body. We open the heart and gain compassion and calmness.

YI JIN JING – Classic Tendon Easing Qigong

Learn this classic and powerful qigong form, handed down, teacher to student since the 6th Century AD.  Yi Jin Jing improves circulation, flexibility and strength, and quiets the mind for deeper meditation.

INTRO TO IMAGE MEDICINE

Image Medicine explores the healing possibilities of Qigong, teaching readily accessible methods to see and remove energy blockages, which  promotes health by clearing pain and disease in yourself and others.

What will you get out of these workshops?

You may experience a deep release of physical pain, and/or energy blockages; an opening up in your soul to rejuvenation, relaxation and quietness; a new sense of presence and spaciousness and happiness.

Qigong is an adventure, an exploration of the internal universe. You may come for self-healing, for peace, to gain energy, to seek answers to life’s questions, or to explore who and what we are. With a small class size and the compassionate, engaged and healing presence of Claire and Jeregtu, you are likely to get what you’ve come for, and possibly, much more.  Even if you have taken Level 1, Level 2 and/or Image Medicine before, there is always something new that unfolds in each experience with Claire and Jerigtu.

Prerequisites:
Level 1 is recommended before taking Level 2 or Image Medicine, but not required, especially for those with prior experience in Energy healing and mediation.

HEALING APPOINTMENTS
To book healing appointments with Claire or Jerigtu, email Claire at claire.g.j@gmail.com

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Qigong with Trees

Mt Rainier Forest Explore your earth gym!

This outdoor class combines Qigong fundamentals with stone-toning, tree-weaving with ropes and staff training…and a lot of FUN! It is a great way to get in shape while exploring our natural Earth Gym, and while learning and building on the powerful energy practices of qigong (氣功).

Class is on Tuesday evenings from 5:30-6:30p.m. Classes will resume in June 2014.

Location: Green Lake Park in Seattle. We meet on the grassy knoll to the right of the Bathhouse Theater on the NW side of the lake.

Instructor: Karen Fletcher

Cost is $10/class, pay instructor at class.

More information at  www.QiDancing.com

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ZY Qigong Level 2 – Series, with Karen and Jean

 Level 2 opens the heartgate  and integrates and relaxes the energy body. We continue to work out physical blockages, but at a deeper level than in Level 1, releasing energy patterns as well.  The energy in the body, just like the physical body, begins to feel  more harmonious and strong. We also build the middle Dantien, the heart chakra, and quiet the mind. In Level 1 we experience the physical body calming down and decoupling from the mind’s agitation. In Level 2, the relaxation of the energy body influences the mind: the mind slows down and becomes peaceful and quiet. This is the calm state, also known as the qigong state.

ZY Qigong Level 2 practice will help you to:

  • Further increase your energy

  • Improve your immune system

  • Balance your emotions

  • Increase personal power, boundaries

  • Gain openness, non-judgment, leading to compassion for self and others, and unconditional love

Location: Greenlake Community Center, Seattle

Instructors:  Jean Clough and Karen Fletcher

 Join our Meet-up group to get updates!

We very much look forward to sharing this wonderful practice with you!

To register, call the Greenlake Community Center at 206-684-0780, or online at Seattle Parks and Recreation registration.

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ZY Qigong Level 1- Series, with Karen and Jean

Experience Qigong, the ancient Chinese art of self-development, self-healing and awakening. With simple exercises, meditations and visualizations, discover your ability to cultivate your health and wellness, and a relaxed and energized state of being.   Level 1 focuses on relaxing the physical body, and on boosting overall energy levels.  The Lower Dantien, or lower energy center (just below the navel) is the Level 1 focal point.

Zhong Yuan Qigong is a complete system of self-development which evolved in the Shaolin area of China, with roots in Shamanism, Buddhism and Taoism. The teachers, Jean and Karen, are both private students of ZY Qigong Grandmaster and lineage holder, Xu Mingtang.

We look forward to sharing the rich wisdom of this art and science with you!

The next Level 1 workshop in fall 2016 at Green Lake Community Center.  This 8 week series goes from 5:15 to 6:45 pm on Wednesdays.  Join our Meet-up group to get updates!

To register, call the Green Lake Community Center at 206-684-0780, or go online at Seattle Parks and Recreation registration. Drop-ins who have taken Level 1 already are welcome (check in at front desk of Community Center).

Instructors:  Jean Clough and Karen Fletcher

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Qigong Hikes Northwest

Karen Fletcher and Jean Clough lead day hikes in the Puget Sound region, which involve hiking and practicing qigong in our beautiful wild mountains and valleys.

The day trips are open to all and are free.   Hikes range from easy to difficult (we rate the hike for difficulty, so you can as assess if it’s for you).

Join our Meet-up group to get notices of our next planned adventures!  Or check back on our website.

Day Hike this Spring – Sunday April 20th (Easter Sunday).  We will meet at Greenlake Park and Ride @ 8 am and carpool to The Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River Trail. Once there we will shake, warm up, hike, practice walking qigong, big tree, etc.  Practice will depend on weather and participants interest.

 

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Grandmaster Mingtang in AZ

 ZY Qigong practitioners, teachers, and healers, fellow Yoga, Tai chi, and Gung Fu students:

This is a tremendous opportunity to experience Mingtang’s teachings and help raise our spiritual consciousness to a higher level. With cosmic energies at such a high level, meditating with Grandmaster Mingtang in the Sonoran Desert will be absolutely amazing.

Experience learning Level III exercises standing in the desert and feeling the energy from with-in and around you… Continue reading “Grandmaster Mingtang in AZ”

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Grandmaster Xu Mingtang

Grandmaster Mingtang Xu

Mingtang in Swiss AlpsXu Mingtang is the current Grandmaster and lineage holder of Zhong Yuan Qigong, a system that is thousands of years old.  He comes from an ancient Shamanic and Kungfu family closely associated with the Shaolin monastery. One of the foremost teachers and healers in Chinese medicine today, he has taught the ZY Qigong system to more than 40,000 students in at least 17 countries, and he supervises clinics throughout the world.

Xu Mingtang comes from a family of famous surgeons in China’s Henan Province.  Beginning in early childhood, he studied Wushu with his great grandfather and learned Shamanic practices (Wu Yi) from his grandmother.

While still a child, he began training with his first real teacher, an 80-year-old Shaman woman from his village.  There he learned the spiritual healing methods and other practices that are central to the ZY Qigong system.  He studied Traditional Chinese medicine along with his technical studies and his skills were so great that he worked as a hospital diagnostician during his third year of University.

Grandmaster Xu started teaching ZY Qigong outside of China in 1991.  Since 1998, he has led annual international Qigong retreats in Shaolin.  As the current lineage-holder of ZY Qigong, he teaches ZY Qigong and Image Medicine to all levels of students.  Currently, Grandmaster Xu divides his time between his teaching and research at Kundawell Institute in Beijing, and his many healing, teaching and speaking engagements throughout the world.

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Retreat with Mingtang

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Dr. Zhao Fuxue

Dr. Zhao

Dr. ZhaoDr. Zhao is one of China’s top Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctors and Herbalists, and is one of only 80 doctors in all of China who passed the highest level Chinese Medical Tui Na and Massage exam last fall. He, like ZY Qigong’s Grandmaster Mingtang Xu, grew up in Henan Province, learning techniques from his grandfather that have been passed down through his family lineage. One acupressure method, called ‘Dian Xue’ in Chinese (referred to as one of the ‘Shaolin monk methods’) is no longer taught in schools or available in the current medical texts.

In addition, Dr. Zhao has spent a lifetime studying rare texts to learn most effective treatments.  Dr. Zhao is a much sought after healer in China; people travel from far distances to receive his care.  Karen Fletcher has been studying with Dr. Zhao at is clinic in Zhengzhou, China.  And Dr. Zhao has visited the US twice since 2009.  He is eager to share his special knowledge with students of the West, in order that traditional, older Chinese medical knowledge is preserved.  He works with needles, herbs and massage.

Dr. Zhao and EWWE are collaborating to develop a program of educational exchange, so Western acupuncturists and other health professionals can learn directly from Dr. Zhao, both in China and the US, both in person and with virtual lectures.  If interested please contact Karen Fletcher at  karen.dancingqi@gmail.com