Nourishing Our Deepest Wisdom: A Winter and Water Phase Qigong Workshop

This workshop was originally streamed live on Zoom in December 2021.

In Chinese medicine and qigong, winter is when Mother Nature lies fallow. It is a time of year when energy is conserved rather than expended. It is a time of stillness, silence, reflection, and deep listening. With this ability to slow down and listen, we draw on an immense power that is soft yet strong, like water that carves canyons and wears down jagged rock into smooth, polished stone. When our water element is sufficiently supported and balanced, we can tap into this soft strength, as well as nurture our capacity for the wisdom that arises when we slow down, listen inwardly, and embrace the fluid, changing nature of all things.

In this workshop we will explore the qualities of water and its associated season of winter through qigong practices that support and strengthen our water organs of the kidneys and urinary bladder. A short talk will be followed by an active qigong forms and a breathing, meditation and visualisation practice to finish.

Open to all levels of practitioners.

Trailer Music: “Soothing Memories", composed by Music Of Wisdom - Licensed from meditationmusiclibrary.com.”