Qi Movement & Meditation Arts - Wellness Seminars - Training Programs
Qi Movement & Meditation Arts
The practice of Qigong, the skill of cultivating Qi, comprises a variety of movement arts & meditation practices with a wide range of applications & levels tailored to fit your needs. These practices of energetic self-management provide a balanced physical exercise regimen or quietude program that integrates mind, breath and spirit.
Qigong - Eight Treasures
7 Thursdays, 7:30-8:30am - online
+ Live - Saturday 2-5pm review intensives
CEU: RME - ASCA
The old masters' 32 movements for energy up-liftment, the Eight Treasures is a fundamental whole body workout that dissolves blockages in the mind & muscles, clears stress, strengthens the bones & joints, restores our root energy and harmonious heart. Taught in three levels.
Stress management WITH TAOIST MEDITATION - ONLINE
7 Saturdays, 8:00-9:00am CET, via zoom
CEU: RME - ASCA 7hrs
Bring quietude and regeneration into your life. An easily accessible modern distillation of ancient natural meditation practice with great practical application for your health and well-being; symbiosis with nature, creating your self-harmonization space, vibrational healing, dynamic meditation.
Dao-in - Chinese Yoga
CEU: RME - ASCA
An ancient predecessor of all later Qigong practice, Dao-In is a system of energy adjustment practices that include sitting, lying, twisting and stretching exercise, self-massage and meditation. It counterbalances very well a life of intellectual work and is excellent to support and complement any practice of sitting meditation.
LIVE - 2024 COLLEGE OF TAO RETREAT
APRIL 23-28, 2024, BLACK MOUNTAIN, NC 287711
2024 marks the beginning of a new energetic cycle. It is time to courageously heal ourselves and heal the world. Join us in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA for five-day immersion in Taoist practice supporting profound transformation and healing. Sign up now as the event is coming up in just a few weeks.
Cosmic Tour Ba Gua
CEU: RME - ASCA
Discover the dynamic momentum of circular walking and unite with different aspects of natural energy through this very energising, joyful spiralling dance that freely extends to the circular movement of the stars and planets. Outstanding for healing, rehabilitation, and disease prevention. Great for outdoor practice.
Harmony Tai Chi (HTC)
HTC 58 steps 7 Tuesdays, 6-7pm - online
+ Live GVA - 1 Sun review, 11am-1pm (tentative schedule)
HTC Fundamentals
Live - Chi Rivers GVA, Sat, to be programmed
CEU: RME - ASCA
Harmony Style Tai Chi is a Taoist distillation of the popular Yang, Chen and Wu styles of Tai Chi Chuan and embodies the same natural principles found in the Tao Teh Ching. Among its many benefits, the gently circular movement of Tai Chi deeply activates Qi and blood circulation in all joints, enhances balance and gathers energy. Four levels + Sword or Staff. Pre-requisite: Eight Treasures Qigong or equivalent.
Crane Style Qigong
CEU: RME - ASCA
This powerful Qigong teaches us how to activate and harmonise our subtle internal energy with the environment through a movement meditation form focusing on breathing & internal Qi circulation. This gentle style will benefit practitioners at any level, excellent for stress-release, Qi refinement, increasing lung capacity and self-healing power.
Wellness Seminars
Our experienced teachers offer experiential, interactive and fun programs that practically apply an ancient natural approach to living. Espoused by traditional Chinese medicine and practiced by the sages of Tao, this not only helps prevent the occurrence of disease, but starts you on the way to a long, happy, harmonious and successful life. Topics range from healthy cooking, the Five Healths of life, Qi movement and meditation arts or organising one’s environment for optimum support.
INFINICHI LIFE COACHING -
the FIVE HEALTHS
CEU: RME - ASCA
For anyone in transition or interested in optimum health. A comprehensive approach to living a meaningful life, this series covers the physical, mind, relationship, career, and finance aspects of life and provides a step-by-step process for self-discovery and purpose defining that includes applied Qigong & meditation practices, bringing the concepts of the Five Elements to life in a highly interactive, enjoyable and thought-provoking experience.
fENG SHUI school
New teaching platform launch date:
May ‘24
Online home study & pro certification
CEU: RME - ASCA
Co-founded with the College of Tao, the Feng Shui School offers a home-study course with an extensive curriculum elucidating this ancient art.
Interested in the dynamics of health with the environment or to add to your professional skill set? Learn a modern distillation of Feng Shui to support your goals. Align your or your client’s environment with the positive subconscious mind, remove blockages in the home or office and enhance all aspects of life using simple, in-depth principles of balance drawn from Chinese medicine and the I Ching.
TaSTE OF WELLNESS
COOKING SEMINARS
Currently postponed
CEU: RME - ASCA
Join us to explore healthy recipes and cooking tips based on East / West health science, and plain good taste. This course applies Chinese nutritional science, a well developed foundation of traditional medicine for thousands of years. Focus is on fresh, seasonal & local whole foods, an abundance of vegetables, whole grains, legumes and gluten-free alternatives, virgin unrefined oils and natural, unrefined sweeteners.
Training Programs
Chi Rivers is an accredited school of complementary medicine with ASCA and most of our offerings can be applied to Continuing Education credits in Switzerland. In addition, we work with the College of Tao and its Institutes to provide Professional Certification programs in Qi movement and Qi healing, Feng Shui, integral nutrition and other subjects.