Not only do I have a Delightful Dozen/Primordial Qigong Course starting on Monday, Sept 14 2009; there is also a Bellingham Wild Goose Qigong Club First 64 course. This form is a sporty, sophisticated movement pattern that take you all over the floor. It is fun and intricate, with many twists and turns and stretches and stepping and flapping and hand shimmering.
I will be teaching the First 64 on alternating weeks throughout the fall.
My Taiji and Xin Yi teacher Bob Lau is will be teaching Yang Style Taiji (Tai chi) once a week beginning in November. Of the several major styles of Taiji, Yang style is the most well-known, with it’s slow, flowing moves. Several studies have shown Taiji like this to be an excellent training for significantly decreasing falls in seniors and increasing organ health for everyone.
“Hi everyone,
By special request, I will start teaching Yang Style Tai Chi at the Firehouse Performing Arts Center on Mondays, beginning Monday Nov 2, 2009. Class time will be starting at 10:45AM and will be a 1 hour class. The cost of the class will be $45/month.
I hope to see you all there.
Questions: email me [boblautaiji@yahoo.com]or call 360-734-2847
Bob Lau”
p.s. Bob is a down-to-earth personable teacher with a great deal of knowledge and skill in the important healing aspects of the internal martial arts. I recommend him highly.
When: Eight Mondays, September 14 to November 2
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Cost: $80.00 for the course
Where: 1095 East Axton Road
Sign up: email or call Robert
These exercises will leave you feeling calm, together, and at ease; while gently pulsing with lively energy. The gentle movements of the Delightful Dozen are especially useful in bringing a balance to the two sides of your nervous system, which leads to your whole body being more unified. The twelve exercises of this set are a superb set in themselves and they prepare you for the flowing body of the Primordial Qigong form, below.
Primordial Qigong is a complete healing form. Done slowly, like Tai Chi Chuan, it takes about 18 minutes to perform. Primordial Qigong elegantly and effortlessly combines meditative, intricate, flowing movement with Taoist internal alchemy. In Taoist internal alchemy, natural energies are gathered, blended and circulated internally to bring about physical healing, energetic balance, emotional peace, and spiritual growth.
Primordial Qigong is a movement ritual that flows like a silent prayer. Qi is gathered from the four directions, the five elements, the earth, stars, sun, moon and other natural forces. The practitioner is charged up while achieving a balance of Yin and Yang in the body.
Every summer for the past several years I have offered free Qigong classes. The first year I held them in Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham. That was good, but I found it too busy and loud there by the road. And there were some crows that kept throwing down fir cones on our heads from the trees above us. Weird.
Since then I have held the free classes in my front yard amidst the natural scenery and festooned beauty of our gardens.
Axton Gardens
It is time again for the free summer classes. Qigong is such a powerful, yet approachable practice I want anyone interested to come and give it a try!
I envision a day when tens of millions of Americans are using the accessible exercises of Qigong and related arts as a primary part of their healthcare and life empowerment practices.
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On, Saturday, April 25, a total of 20 people came to celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day with me. We gathered and developed a lot of energy together.
"Riding the Waves", rising arms
Teaching in Palm Desert
On my recent trip to Palm Springs (How I craved some warmth and sun) I taught a two-hour workshop on Five Flows Qigong. My friend and colleague Robert Haberkorn, DC, MMQ was kind enough to arrange and host the workshop at his office in the town of Palm Desert. Eight people including Robert were in the workshop. Read the rest of this entry »
Saturday, April 25, is World Tai Chi and Qigong Day. I will offer two free Qigong workshops on that day. These classes are part of a worldwide celebration of Tai chi and Qigong. All around the world, students of these two aligned arts will be practicing in community groups.
No experience is necessary to come. Beginners are welcome. Experienced students are welcome too. We want to build a big field of Qi we can all share in. This workshop will happen whatever the weather: sunshine, rain, or clouds. Read the rest of this entry »
Taught be Robert B. Bates, DC, MMQ
Date: Sunday, April 5, 2009
Time: 10:00 to 2:00
Cost: $60
Location: Robert Bates’ Healing Space
Street: 1095 E. Axton Road
Near: Bellingham, WA 98226
To Sign Up: Contact Robert
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8-Pulling Waist (strange name, I know) is, for Wild Goose Qigong, a simple form. It is a set with a number of fun movements to play with. 8-Pulling Waist consists of 16 moves that take less than two minutes to perform. Some people like to do the form three times in a row for greater effect. Read the rest of this entry »
Come join my Tuesday Five Flows Qigong classes.
Each Tuesday in 2009. Call or email to join.
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Robert Bates’ Healing Studio
1095 E. Axton Road
Bellingham, WA 98226
$40 for the month
(360) 398-7466, or rbbatesdc@comcast.net
In the Five Flows Qigong , I offer you a sensible, easy-to-understand series of foundational Qigong moves. The Five Flows Qigong set teaches principles you can apply to all of your life—principles of movement, posture, breath, and being. These essential principles are taught so you can practice with simplicity, physical ease, and fun.
In addition to regular practice and improving of the First Five Flows Qigong set, we will explore Five Flows Qigong set 2. This is an extension of the principles of Five Flows Qigong, with variations on the movements and slightly more intricate approaches to the movements.