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Developing a Meditation Practice - just for the health of it. Meditation is an ancient art, a rich practice with potential benefits for happiness, health, and sleep. Perhaps you already mediate, perhaps for years, or perhaps, like me you've found it difficult to develop. Over the years, people have suggested that I might benefit from a meditation practice.
What is QIGONG? it's history? it's Process? It's Benefits? Take a simple yet in-depth dive into the practice of QIGONG with this insightful gathering of information about QIGONG - and Finding Center.
What is qigong?
Qi is the Chinese name for universal life force (energy). The concept of qi underlies Traditional Chinese Medicine and martial arts. Gong is translated as committed cultivation and the benefits and skills acquired through dedicated practice.
Qigong is the systematic method of cultivating qi through focused inner awareness and intention while practicing specific postures and movements, including techniques in breathing, self-massage, visualization, and meditation.
Our bodies, like all of nature, are in constant change. How we walk, stand, express and think are the soup of our self-creating process.
My posture photos document the structural changes I’ve accomplished over three decades. But like you, I am a work in process.
Could the secrets of longevity be based in simple truths? Can best practices that have endured culture to culture and through time guide us?
A calm and quiet place lies within us,
a place of clarity,
the counterpoise to the crazy information-driven complexity
swirling around us.
From within that center we ...
exhale, and ask…
Following Anna’s death on May 24th, at 100 years of age, the deep grief I feel is blended with gratitude for the life changing gifts I received from my mentor, colleague, and friend over forty-five years. I search for ways to describe her great legacy. Attempting to do so seems a daunting task – capturing nearly eight decades of ground breaking dance, performance arts, choreography, and teaching.