Winter is a time of deep rest and nourishing our roots. Let’s do both with an ancient Taoist alchemical practice that is pure magic – Refine Qi. 

Refine Qi, Yang Qi Gong 養氣功 – Nourishing/Transforming Qi qigong is a method both of generating Qi inside our body and refining the quality of Qi we’ve gathered from Nature. It is a foundational practice taught in Level 1 of Zhong Yuan Qigong and is used in all subsequent levels. 

Qigong gives us tools and a pathway of inner cultivation birthing joy, good health, wellbeing, peace, and wisdom and the development of our Soul. Let us dive into the nourishment and transformation of Qigong with Yang Qi Gong – Refine Qi – True inner Alchemy.Join us on this 5-week journey. Mondays • 10:30am, starting Jan 13, 2025

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems, a practice combining movement, breath, and the meditative mind to store and focus energy for personal transformation and healing. This practice also builds our immune system and naturally cultivates our health, vitality and happiness!! Mondays • 10:30am, starting Sept 25, 2023

This is a Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class focusing on Winter into Spring Nourishment and nourishing our roots through a variety of Qigong practices. Some of the practices include Ba Duan Jin – the Eight Brocades – which strengthens the body and opens the meridians, Big Tree (Da Shu Gong 大樹功) – which gathers large amounts of Qi from the Earth and Sky, and a sampler from the Hun Yuan Gong/Taiji system, which builds and nourishes the deepest foundational layers of the body Qi. Join us on this 6-week journey. Mondays • 10:30am, starting Jan 22, 2024

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems, a practice combining movement, breath, and the meditative mind to store and focus energy for personal transformation and healing. This practice also builds our immune system and naturally cultivates our health, vitality and happiness!! Mondays • 10:30am, starting Sept 25, 2023

Do you love Trees? Come learn one of the most powerful practices to gather immense amounts of Qi from the Earth and Sky. To do this, we learn from our Trees, and like a tree, become a conduit for Heaven and Earth. We will also dive into the simple yet powerful Self Healing Qigong practice. Self Healing Qigong is a nourishing dynamic practice that stems from the principle that we are all our best health keepers. ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems, and is steeped in Daoism, Buddhism and Shamanism. Join us on this 5-week journey. Mondays • 10:15am, starting Jan 9, 2023

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems, a practice combining movement, breath, and the meditative mind to store and focus energy for personal transformation and healing. This practice also builds our immune system and naturally cultivates our health, vitality and happiness!! Mondays • 10:30am, starting Sept 26, 2022

Ready to immerse yourself in the awesomeness of Qi?! Qi is the energy/information that flows, ripples and shines throughout our Earth and Cosmos. When our Qi is abundant, vital and flowing, we are Radiant. We are healthy and living with a spring in our step, a sparkle in our eye and a fire of purpose, joy, love and wisdom in our hearts. In this 8-week class, we’ll learn how Qi flows, its pathways, how to build its vitality and abundance and key ways to use Qi to cultivate our health, soul and our beautiful life. Specifically we’ll learn our energetic anatomy, the basics of Human Yuan Gong -Primordial Original Qigong which builds and nourishes the deepest layers of the body, and the revered and powerful Eight Sections Brocade Qigong. This strengthens the body while opening all of the Qi meridians. Join us on this 8-week journey. Mondays • 10:30am, starting Jan 31, 2022

Do you love Trees? Come learn one of the most powerful practices to gather immense amounts of Qi from the Earth and Sky. To do this, we learn from our Trees, and like a tree, become a conduit for Heaven and Earth. ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems, and is steeped in Daoism, Buddhism and Shamanism. Join us on this 4-week journey. Mondays • 10:15am, starting Jan 3, 2022

What is it about Nature that calls to our souls? Why do so many enlightened sages throughout time come from the mountains? Nature reflects back to us our inner stillness, wildness and true nature. Qigong, an ancient yet evolving Chinese form of breath, meditation and movement, provides tools to touch deeply into and receive the inner silence and alchemy of Nature. And it is from this inner silence that all life, creativity, aliveness, inspiration, understanding, wisdom, gratitude and Joy arise ~ naturally, without effort. In this session, we will gain simple yet powerful exercises to return to stillness and learn directly from one of our greatest bearers of Light, our Beloved Mother Earth. Sunday 3/14/21 from 10a-12p.

I’m excited to be teaching this class with my awesome husband, Nate Summers!! Living our life full of Nourishing Life practices, following the Nourishing Life (Yang Sheng) philosophy and sharing this with others is one of our big passions! And this class gives us the opportunity to walk this journey together with you – renewing and revitalizing our mind, body, and spirit using deep teachings from ancient medical systems including Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Indigenous wisdom, and even ancient European healing traditions. Free webinar – Oct 9th. Classes start Oct. 16th.

I’m excited and honored to have been invited to share in The Qigong Effect! It’s an international online summit with Qigong teachers around the world sharing of the transformational effects of Qigong in building our good health, reducing stress, promoting vitality, creativity, joy and living our soul’s purpose. See recording on my Videos page.

Do you miss play in your life? Play is as essential for our wellbeing as sleep and in a culture that places high value on busy-ness and “productivity”, time for play, wonder and wandering are lost arts. Yet, these things, especially when done outdoors, fill our body with happy feelings, the abundant Qi of Nature, and the sense of awe and enchantment we were born with. They are keys to our creativity, aliveness and our soul’s purpose. Through simple qigong, outdoor play and a culminating quest , a solo “wonder wander” (with its roots in Chinese medicine), we will reclaim the power, vitality and joy innate to us all! Sunday 2/16 from 2:30 – 5:30 p.m.

In this day-long immersion class on 12/7, we will look at how to face the darkness, heaviness, and stillness of the winter season by stoking our inner warmth and fire.  Drawing on nourishing life wisdom from around the world, we will look at foods, herbs, and practices that keep us alive and vital through the darkest time of year.  Why do we crave spices like cinnamon and nutmeg? Why is there a tradition of bringing greenery into the house at this time of year?

We will answer these questions and more as we sample herbal teas, learn to use mugwort as moxibustion to warm and strengthen vital areas of the body, learn about local trees and their medicinal properties, and even practice some fire meditation to strengthen the body inside and out. (Saturday 12/7, 9:30a-4p)

Mugwort is amazing and used in traditions around the world. It can be taken orally to warm the womb and alleviate menstrual pain; placed under one’s pillow for dreams; and used externally in Chinese Medicine to warm the body, stimulate circulation and smooth Qi flow, and expel pathogenic influences. This herb also holds teachings of self-compassion, mindfulness and inner nourishment. Let’s explore the ways of magical mugwort, gathered from our Cascade river valleys, for self-care, prevention and alleviation of common ailments. Join us at the Pacific Women’s Herbal Conference on Vashon Island, Sept 20-22, 2019.

It’s spring – time of lessening yin and and growing yang. So it’s a perfect time get outside, play and nourish our growing qi with wild foods, qigong and the ancient arts of free and easy wandering. That’s why we’re offering our next seasonal Plant Medicine & Qigong class called Wild Wandering & Wild Food on Saturday April 27 from 9:30a-4:00p. Come join us to optimize your and your family’s health in the springtime! 🙂

Come join us for a day of tapping into our own deep energy and learning to harvest and circulate energy from the world around us! Day-long Qigong workshop on Sunday 3/31/19 from 10a – 4p at Two Rivers Yoga Studio in Carnation, WA.

It’s winter – time of extreme yin and nourishing our roots. So it’s a perfect time to learn about plant medicines, including tonics and superfoods, and qigong and meditation practices that do just that!! That’s why we’re offering our next seasonal Plant Medicine class called Deep Nourishing: Winter Roots on Saturday January 19 from 9:30a-4p. Come join us to optimize your and your family’s health in the winter months! 🙂

Let’s learn about plants and how their medicine can keep us healthy and strengthen our immune system!! This is our first of a series of seasonal Plant Medicine and Nourishing Life Classes held on Saturday, November 10th from 9:30-4ish. In this class, entitled Optimum Wellness and Immunity During the Fall, we’ll: learn how to keep ourselves healthy during cold and flu season (Yay!); learn how to make remedies with local forest plants and simple ingredients in our kitchen (so empowering!!); make some herbal infusions, a tincture, and our very own cough medicine to take home! (Fun and good medicine for the whole family!); learn about our immune system from an energetic and holistic point of view based on Chinese Medicine. (way cool!!:)); and gain simple concepts, acupressure points and exercises to increase our vitality and strengthen our immunity to stay healthy (and they’re fun! :))