Healing is a need for everyone – at some point, in some way.

Sometimes, we need support from others, and most of the time we need to find it within ourselves to commit to our own healing.

Healing asks us to relax deeply; however we get there, and then go inward and feel what has changed. What is wounded, and where can we find the adaptability to learn and grow – again?

Healing also asks us to allow ourselves to finally feel what we need.

This is felt on many levels, including your Qi field, your intuition, and other internal systems of embodied awareness.

Therapeutic Qi Gong involves learning and practicing a system of embodied and energetic Self – Healing

This includes gentle exercises, meditation techniques, personalized breathwork practices, animistic shape-shifting practices, and Self-Healing Qi Gong skills.

This course is meant for those in need of a Self Healing practice, and those who guide others as a Healer.

Certificate available upon completion of the course!

(CEU credits for some professions)

**What is Therapeutic Qi Gong?**

There are thousands of forms of Qi Gong, all focusing on Vitality, Healing, Fitness, Fertility, Spirituality, Meditation, and Longevity.

Some focus on restoring the physical body, some endeavor to experience the many expressions of Qi, and some aspire to remove all obstacles between a practitioner and the experience of Dao (Creation).

A therapeutic relationship with Qi Gong implies a healing process and the ability to encounter and transform physical, energetic, and Spiritual wounds.

This year long profoundly experiential journey is designed to move each of us through the natural sequence of Healing. This sequence begins with coming down from a panic attack, becoming aware of Qi and your breath, learning the stages of releasing stored memories and trauma, while energetically restoring your inner organs and meridians, and occasionally conversing with your Ancestors about subconscious family grudges.

This course is meant for those in need of a Self Healing practice, and those who guide others as a Healer.

The most important aspects of life are felt!

We seek excitement and pleasure because they mean we are adapting to life, finding solutions, restoring what is fractured, celebrating moments, and feeling our birthright of playful confidence.

The process of healing asks us all to come back home to our lives. This means feeling through, and energetically transforming wounds, embodied patterns, emotional turmoil, and a low-grade kind of shock. All of the energy caught up in latent patterns is now free to be felt as aliveness and a source of whole-body regeneration.

It does not take long for one’s Qi to become strong and one’s Spirit to become more radiant.

LIVE weekly classes will focus on going through a year long embodied healing process, while learning, reviewing, and expanding your personal Qi Gong, Dao Yin, Breathwork, Nei Yang Gong, and Chan/Zen Meditation practice.

Our journey follows this traditional process:

Self-Regulation and Down-Regulation (Calming the Spirit)
The Healing Power of Qi and Listening (Ting Jin)
State Shift and State Break (An Ancestral Need)
Becoming the Five Phases
Breathwork Foundations
Progressive Relaxation and Inner Nourishing Skills (Nei Yang Gong)
Restore Your Core on the Floor
Physical Rehabilitation and Tissue Rejuvenation
The Art and Science of Breathwork and Play
Five Animal Qi Gong – Classic and Contemporary Expressions
Internal Organ Healing (Fa Qi)
Toning, Silence, and the Six Healing Sounds
Clearing Ancestral Wounds from your Six Dan Tian (As Innate Minds)

Dates:

Live Introductory Webinar

Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 (6 PM- PST)

Qi Gong Classes Begin

Tuesday, June 16th (6 PM – PST)

Weekly LIVE classes ~ Tuesday evenings @ 6 PM

The Six LIVE WEBINARS and demonstrations will be on Saturday mornings – 9 AM – PST

Recordings of the Live classes are usually available for streaming or download within 24 hours.

Self Regulation and Down Regulation

The first step to health and happiness is learning how to choose your state of being, especially how to come down from shock, dissociating, or having a panic attack.

Once you can settle your Qi and Calm your Spirit, you can learn to influence your Jing/Essence, health, vitality, and longevity.

The journey of bringing balance and tranquility into your life will always have new lessons and profound moments if stillness.

This balance asks that you learn to guide your Qi, your entire Central Nervous System (CNS), and instinctual stress patterns through the hardwired and necessary stages of the Relaxation Response.

Or, said another way, find calm, rest, reset, relax, release tension, hold space, and focus entirely on your embodied (somatic) state of being, your breath, and your coherence of Mind.

For thousands of years, Qi Gong practitioners have benefited from these ancient Animistic practices that have evolved to support you through times of imbalance and healing.

Qi Function, Qi Wounds, and Qi Healing

Therapeutic Qi Gong involves learning to feel into, and directly interact with your Qi systems, Qi expressions, circulation, communication, and other qualities of Aliveness. This is a practice called De Qi – sensing into and assessing your Qi.

Healing with Qi Gong can happen in many ways.

Working with subtle energies and qualities of aliveness needs to be tangible and needs to connect to the influences around you and moving through you. This can be learned by imitating certain aspects of the Seasons (Yin and Yang), and the natural world (Five elements), by playing with all of the energies moving through all life (De Qi), and by learning some essential healing skills.

There are many simultaneous expressions and experiences of Qi as a function of Life.

There are also several forms and experiences of Qi Wounds.

With those understandings, the Healing practices of Qi Gong will be much more effective and unique to your needs.

State Shift is your Birthright!

Therapeutic Qi Gong invites you to let go, shake it off, and get out of your head.

Qi Gong originated, long ago, as part of the Indigenous healing practices in Asia. This ancient version of Qi Gong (called Dao Yin) focuses on breathwork, dancing like (as) an animal, ceremonial intention, conscious embodied trauma release, induced trance states, and spiritual recapitulation with Spirits and Ancestors.

When life feels stagnant and stubborn, or collapsed and exhausted, or if you are really ‘on the edge’, you naturally need to shift your state.

We are all descendants of cultures that had practices to help us break out of intense states, down-regulate our nervous system, co-regulate with each other, and shift our state of being – whenever we needed to.

If you cannot change your state of being with conscious practice, you will naturally seek out states of unconsciousness.

Much of today’s mental health, trauma, and addiction crisis would be profoundly relieved by reintroducing as many kinds of ‘Sate Shift’ practices as possible.

If you are feeling really ‘stuck’, you may have to break state first.

This part of the course goes deeper into self-regulation and co-regulation with the Universe (Yin and Yang), the natural world (Five Elements), as well as resetting how you move every joint in your body. Sometimes the best choice is to connect with bigger energetic systems and opportunities, and sometimes the best choice is to come home to your body and inner somatic experience.

Therapeutic movement, increasing mobility, relieving chronic pain, improving blood and Qi circulation, putting in the time and effort, and focusing on embodied healing can make many difference in your life, your state, and your ability to choose what happens with your thoughts and feelings.

The most important skill to develop is choosing where your attention goes!

Breathwork, Animistic Aliveness, and Sacred Space

Entering into Sacred Space asks for a calm and peaceful Spirit and a consolidated and resourceful sense of Jing/Essence, (like having enough in the bank to be at ease).

In this natural state of being, refining how you move and open your body, and your ability to use breathwork to enter higher states of consciousness (Theta States), allow you to become familiar with the first Mystery Gate called the Mirror Pond.

This level of practice can be practiced standing, seated, or with Lying Qi Gong. This practice naturally evolves into Dream Healing Qi Gong.

Therapeutic Breathwork ~ Foundations

Therapeutic Qi Gong involves developing an awareness of Breathwork and Emotional Sincerity. Qi Gong is often translated as Breath (Qi) work (Gong).

It is no surprise how fast Breathwork, as a specific practice, has spread across the world in the last few years. Breathing consciously, with intention and profound sensitivity to your body and emotions can be life-changing.

Qi Gong has gathered many distinct forms of Breathwork over the last few thousand years. Some from Mountain Shamans, some from Ascetic Hermits, some from Traditional Chinese medicine, and some from Daoist and Shaolin (Buddhist) monasteries.

These practices are a treasure chest of Healing.

The Five Animal Frolics

The Five Animal Frolics (Wu Qin Xi 五禽戲) is one of the oldest and most celebrated forms of Qi Gong.

Proponents of this practice often live to be over 100 years old.

The incredible benefits of this form are due to a combination of improved strength and muscle tone, flexibility, and most importantly ‘shapeshifting.’

As our practice becomes more agile, we will also learn some postural, structural, and Rehabilitation oriented Qi Gong practices.

Shapeshifting into animals can be understood literally, as a human turning into a werewolf, or it can be understood as a natural aspect of playfully expanding and expressing one’s consciousness or Spirit (Shen).

How one sees themselves, is often how a person’s healing or illness progresses.

There are many stories of people using their imagination, visualization, and self-expression to heal broken bones, release traumatic memories, and even resolve complex conditions like cancer. Any wholehearted and whole-body expression of Life, human, bear, or tortoise implies a coherent and complete Mind/Body manifestation of Qi. Therapeutic Qi Gong invites the power, humility, and freedom of embodied expression.

Playing and frolicking like an animal is your birthright, it is profoundly healing, and also a lot of fun!

Healing Your Internal Organs

Hands on Healing is a part every culture.

Medical Qi Gong teaches a series of skills called Inner Organ Attunement Therapy (Nei Zang Can Fa). These beautiful and restorative practices can be applied to oneself or to others in need.

The Six Healing Sounds is another ancient form of Healing Qi Gong, focuses on combining whole-body gestures with vocal tones and word-like sounds. This traditional form can be done in a basic stretch and yawning style, or a more intentional meridian opening and spiritual chanting style. One version of this form even explores singing with specific, coherent, and sincere emotional qualities.

Tree Qi Gong – as your Tree Qi Gong develops, you will learn an Animistic version of ‘Becoming a Tree’ that can support the journey of Somatic Re-orientation and inner autonomy.

Releasing Ancestral Grudges

Ancient Daoist wisdom teaches that the path to Spiritual Healing begins by bringing the unconscious into consciousness.

We all have Ancestors, and we all have an Ancestral combination of gifts and challenges.

As you learn about the deeper aspects of Qi Gong and Nei Gong, you will learn from the core instinctual, intuitive, and existential driving forces behind conscious experience.

Healing Ancestral wounds can be taken literally, as a way of correcting a past wrong, or it can be taken contextually, guiding you into an inner journey of self-discovery and reunion.

This form of Nei Gong Healing is a combination of seated meditation, inner contemplation and a conscious form of Spiritual Recapitulation – learning the core truths from your most potent past experiences. Even your Ancestral past.

Regular Nei Gong meditation, accepting unconscious patterns, and recapitulating your most challenging memories, can support you in reorienting your sense of Self and what exists before the need for a Self.