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Women's Nourishing Qigong, mountain summer sunrise

Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 2 – Spring Series 2024

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems. In Level 2, we’ll work with our Middle Dan Tian, developing our Heart wisdom, inner knowing and confidence. We will build our Central Channel, increasing our abilities to learn from Life, and will learn 4 methods of Body Breathing for healing, inner transformation and entering the Silence of Mind. (They’re super cool!!) This practice also strengthens our immune system, balances the Yin and Yang energies in the body and naturally cultivates our health, inner peace, vitality and happiness!! Beginning and returning students welcome! Mondays • 10:30am, starting April 1, 2024

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ Winter into Spring Nourishment

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

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ Fall 2023 Series

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

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Absorbing Aliveness & Nourishing Our Hearts – Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class

Summertime is Amazing! And one simple way to fully enjoy the awesomeness of this time of year is to absorb the aliveness, beauty and magic of the Yang Qi of Summer. How do you do this? Practice Qigong! 🙂 Join my Women’s Nourishing Qigong summer series class and fill up on the goodness of Summer! Beginning and returning students welcome! Mondays • 10:30am, starting June 19, 2023

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 2 – Spring Series

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems. In Level 2, we’ll work with our Middle Dan Tian, developing our Heart wisdom, inner knowing and confidence. We will build our Central Channel, increasing our abilities to learn from Life, and will learn 4 methods of Body Breathing for healing, inner transformation and entering the Silence of Mind. (They’re super cool!!) This practice also strengthens our immune system, balances the Yin and Yang energies in the body and naturally cultivates our health, inner peace, vitality and happiness!! Beginning and returning students welcome! Mondays • 10:30am, starting March 13, 2023

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Big Trees

Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ Big Tree & Self Healing Qigong

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

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ Fall 2022 Series

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

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beautiful pink cosmos flower

Absorbing Aliveness & the Yang Qi of Summer – Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class

Summertime is Amazing! And one simple way to fully enjoy the awesomeness of this time of year is to absorb the aliveness, beauty and magic of the Yang Qi of Summer. How do you do this? Practice Qigong! 🙂 Join my Women’s Nourishing Qigong summer series class and fill up on the goodness of Summer! Beginning and returning students welcome! Wednesdays • 4pm, starting June 15, 2022

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Magic pink rhododendron flowers in the mountains. Summer sunrise

Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 2 – Spring Series

ZY Qigong is one of the world’s most ancient and complete healing and self-development systems. In Level 2, we’ll work with our Middle Dan Tian, developing our Heart wisdom, inner knowing and confidence. We will build our Central Channel, increasing our abilities to learn from Life, and will learn 4 methods of Body Breathing for healing, inner transformation and entering the Silence of Mind. (They’re super cool!!) This practice also strengthens our immune system, balances the Yin and Yang energies in the body and naturally cultivates our health, inner peace, vitality and happiness!! Beginning and returning students welcome! Mondays • 10:15am, starting April 4, 2022

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mountain by mt rainier

Qi Immersion

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

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Panorama of the winter sunrise in mountains

Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ Big Tree

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

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Mt Blanc with sun rising and field of magenta colored flowers

Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 2 ~ 中原氣功

ZY Qigong Level 2 works with our Middle Dan Tian, developing our Heart wisdom, inner knowing and confidence. We will build our Central Channel, increasing our abilities to learn from Life, and will learn 4 methods of Body Breathing for healing, inner transformation and entering the Silence of Mind. (They’re super cool!!) And so much more! One of the many benefits of Qigong, in addition to good health, is the natural cultivation of our inner happiness and peace! 🙂 Join us and start your week with Joy, Connection and Nourishment! Yay! Mondays • 11a-12:30p

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 1 ~ 中原氣功

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 • 11a-12:15p, starting Jan 25, 2021

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Qigong & Mother Earth ~ Learning Directly from Nature – Women of Wisdom Conference, 3/14

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.

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Nourishing Life ~ Cultivating Vitality Longevity & Immunity During Challenging Times

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.

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 1 & 2 ~ 中原氣功

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 we will also learn meditations to strengthen and nourish our lungs and promote healing during this COVIS-19 pandemic. Wednesdays • 4-5:15 p.m.

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Women’s Nourishing Qigong Class ~ ZY Qigong Level 1 ~ 中原氣功

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 we will also learn meditations to strengthen and nourish our lungs and promote healing during this COVIS-19 pandemic. Wednesdays • 4-5:15 p.m.

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Qigong Meditation for Strengthening Our Lungs & Promoting Healing During COVID-19

In this 2-week series, we will do three specific meditations given by my Qigong Grandmaster, Xu Mingtang. These Qiqong meditations will: bring healing and bright white light to our Earth; bring healing and bright light to our lungs and the lungs of our human family, and help dissolve phlegm in the lungs of those who need it. These practices are simple and extremely powerful, and are derived from the branch of Chinese Medicine called Image Medicine, Yi Xiang 意像. Fridays, 4/3 & 4/10 from 10-11 a.m. PDT

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The Power of Play & the Wonder of Wandering ~ Women of Wisdom Conference 2/16

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.

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Wintertime Health ~ Stoking Our Inner Fire

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)

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The Magic of Mugwort (艾葉) & Moxibustion (灸)

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.

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Wild Wandering & Wild Food ~ Plant Medicine Class Incorporating Qigong & Springtime Nourishing Practices

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! 🙂

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Deep Nourishing: Winter Roots ~ Plant Medicine Class Incorporating Tonic Herbs, Super Foods and Qigong

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! 🙂

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Plant Medicine – 1-Day Fall Class on Immunity & Staying Healthy! 🙂 Sat. 11/10

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! :))

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Plant Medicine Immersion … with Qigong! 9-month course starting in Sept

In this Plant Medicine Immersion, students will dive into the world of our green friends and allies and learn about different branches of Herbal Medicine! We will cover different herbal realms such as: Forest Medicine, Exotic Elixirs, Aromatic Medicines, Garden Medicines, and more. In each session, we will learn 5-10 plants, create plant medicines, and…

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The Primal Power of Play ~ Earthgym! – Women of Wisdom Conference, 3/25

Come play and connect with our Earth with simple Earth tools – sticks and stones! Earthgym taps into our childhood passions of using outdoor play to learn from life. It’s a movement way of learning from our habitat. Sticks and stones are powerful, alchemical training tools that can be used to open doorways of transformation, aliveness, creativity & joy.  From these states of being, the Earth’s teachings and immense Qi comes pouring into our biggest musing tool, our body. Join me in this 2.5-hour workshop as part of the online Women of Wisdom Conference on Friday, March 25 from 2:30-5p PT.

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Earthgym: Primal Strength & Play

In this 8-part series, join Earthgym specialist and Qigong teacher Karen Joy Fletcher and Natural Movement teacher and Internal Martial Arts expert Nate Summers on a journey into natural strength, play, and power. We will explore natural strength, training with sticks and stones, wild movement, playfulness, spontaneity, and more! Between the two of us we have over 40 years experience teaching these modalities. And it’s SOOO FUN!! Classes start June 11!

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The Wonder of Wandering ~ Reclaiming a Lost Art

Join me at the first-ever Primal Living Conference this May 14-16th! During this 3-day online conference there will be amazing sessions with visionaries, teachers, skills experts, healers, storytellers, and experts in all sorts of fields including Natural Movement, Deep Nature Connection, Primal Birth, Primal Parenting, BIPOC perspectives, Hunter-gatherer strategies for the 21st century and more. I’ll be presenting The Wonder of Wandering ~ Reclaiming a Lost Art and will be speaking on the Nature & Spirituality panel. Join today! 🙂

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The Art of Movement ~ Rewilding Our Bodies

Yay! I’m excited to be teaching this class with my awesome husband, Nate Summers!! Free, natural, rewilding movement is something we are both passionate about, and between the 2 of us, we have 40 years of teaching experience in this field. We actually began our relationship with several play dates to share our various natural movement practices! (So fun!!) This is going to be a fulfilling, revitalizing, inspiring and FUN class and I’m excited to share it with you all!

Here are the details:
The Art of Movement: Rewilding Our Bodies, 10 Week Video Class, Thursdays 11a.m. PDT, July 9 – September 10.
Classes are 75 mins + extra time for Q&A.

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Qigong with Trees ~ Earthgym! 3-Class Series on Zoom

Feeling restless with the COVID lockdowns? Ready to move your body and fill your tissues with the bubbling Joy, fragrances, beauty and exquisite new life of Spring? If so, you’re in the right place!! Join me in my first-ever online Qigong with Trees ~ Earthgym class. This will be a natural pick-me-up and you can do it from anywhere!! You can join from your backyard, balcony, porch, patio, or even your apartment with your windows open! 🙂 Thursdays, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14 from 4:30-5:15 p.m. PDT.

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Musing the Earth’s Song through Sticks & Stones: Earthgym

Come play and connect with our Earth with simple Earth tools – sticks and stones! Earthgym taps into our childhood passions of using outdoor play to learn from life. It’s a movement way of learning from our habitat. Sticks and stones are powerful, alchemical training tools that awaken and strengthen our bodies and open doorways to aliveness, creativity & joy. From these states of being, the Earth’s immense Qi comes pouring into our biggest musing tool, our body. It’s super fun and a great addition to one’s yoga, martial arts, dance or other movement practices. Join us at the Pacific Women’s Herbal Conference on Vashon Island, Sept 20-22, 2019.

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Earthgym ~ The Power of Sticks & Stones – Saturday 4/13

Come play and connect with our Earth with simple Earth tools – sticks and stones! Earthgym taps into our childhood passions of using outdoor play to learn from life. It’s a movement way of learning from our habitat. Sticks and stones are powerful, alchemical training tools that awaken and strengthen our bodies and open doorways to aliveness, creativity & joy. From these states of being, the Earth’s immense Qi comes pouring into our biggest musing tool, our body. It’s super fun and a great addition to one’s yoga, martial arts, dance or other movement practices. Join us for this 1/2 day workshop on Saturday April 13, 2019 from 2:30 – 5pm at Two Rivers Yoga Studio in Carnation, WA.

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Earthgym ~ Primal, Practical & Playful Ways to Strengthen Our Bodies & Learn from the Earth – Sunday 5/5

Primal, practical, playful and purposeful, Earthgym is a great extension of one’s yoga, martial arts or other movement/meditative practices. As our Earthgym is everywhere, you can use this practice with its simple nature tools in the wild, city parks, and/or your backyard to easily tap into your aliveness, creativity and joyous connection to one of our greatest teachers, Mother Earth. Join us for this full day workshop on Sunday May 5, 2019 from 10a – 4p at Two Rivers Yoga Studio in Carnation, WA.

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The Wonder of Wandering ~ Cascadia NW Festival Workshop

Come join me at Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival at Masonic Park off the Mountain Loop Hwy!!! This is a super duper fun nature and family-friendly event with lots of amazing trees, a river to swim and play in, phenomenal dance music and performances, tea houses, yum yum food carts extraordinaire, creative customs and parades, cozy camping amongst the trees, and lots of AWESOME workshops to attend, including the Wonder of Wandering ~ Imagination Rocks on Sunday 7/29 10-11:30 a.m.! 🙂

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Staffs & Hammers of the Wise Wild Women

Do you love forests?  Do you love to dance?  Do you enjoy the mystery of alchemizing beauty, wisdom and wildness through our bodies?  This is the heart of the practices of Qigong, Earthgym and Ritual!  Learn a nourishing qigong warm-up and open your qi flow to activate your body’s wisdom.  Using talisman tools of Nordic women ancestors—staffs and iron hammers—we discover fundamental movements/katas, developing rhythm, rapport, and repetition, and end by entering into the gateway and alchemy of ritual.  All fitness levels are welcome.  Create a ritual of celebration and transformation to ripple your blessings out across our Lands.

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Join Mick Dodge for a weekend of Earth Gym Alchemy & Hammer Training!

Have you heard the Earth Song? Do you feel it in your bones and tissues, coursing through your blood and rising through the mist of your voice? She sings, inviting us to come home… into her Forests and Mountains, Nature’s training halls of alchemy, mystery, joy and awe. Everyone’s path may be different yet our journeys all begin with our own 2 feet. “Follow your feet and the Earth will teach.” This is our mantra.

Join Mick Dodge, the Barefoot Sensei on May 9th and 10th in Snohomish, WA as he shares his wisdom, humor and skill mused through his muscles through decades of footing his path in the Lands of OM (Olympic Mountains), attuning his song with the Earth’s song.

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Qigong with Trees ~ Earthgym!

Step into your Joy and Vitality! This class is a unique practice combining the fundamental and powerful practices of Qigong 气功 with barefooting, staff dancing and stretching, stone-toning and tree weaving. Trees, rivers, mountains, wildlife, and Nature are naturally Exuberant. Their strength is interwoven with all life and grounded in our Earth’s massive Qi. And…

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