ONLINE: Qigong (chee-goong: energy training) refers to exercises designed to enhance personal vitality for healing, wellness, resilience, emotional balance, and spiritual progress. During this short course, we focus on easy-to-follow movements matched with breathing and visualizations to assist in sensing and cultivating qi (life energy). We will strengthen the flow of energy through the organ channels of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by practicing various traditional sets. Each class begins with warmups for limbering, relaxing, and deepening the breath, and simple methods to sense energy within and around us. We will practice both stationary and walking exercises, and focus on two or three sets in each class, building expertise in gathering, storing, protecting, and enhancing "life essence." | Active Skill Learning.
Max enrollment: 200.
Class sessions are recorded.
Jay Dunbar (M.A., Duke, English literature; Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill, education) has studied qigong since 1975 with masters Liang Shou-Yu, Yang Jwing-Ming, Shi Zhengzhong, Paul Gallagher, Lisa O’Shea, and Rose Oliver, among others. He has produced a DVD on the rare "18 immortals qigong" set, and has taught in the Triangle since 1979 and for OLLI since 2003. Jay is director of the Magic Tortoise Taijiquan School (magictortoise.com).