THE EARTH ELEMENT: NOURISH, STABILIZE, SUPPORT
Finding Ground through Archetypal Qigong and Movement
A 4-session series via ZOOM
THIS SERIES HAS BEEN POSTPONED. Please join “Surrender and Protection” on August 5th and/or 17th, which is largely an Earth Element class.
The Earth Element, in Chinese Medicine, rules both late Summer and the transition between all seasons, as well as the Equinoxes and Solstices of our year. It is the balancing, rooting, grounding qualities of Earth that we need most during transitions- where energy is either gained or lost – in order to integrate the power of where we have just come from, and where we are moving to.
We are in a grand state of transition on our planet. The timing of this workshop will fall in the warm bounty of the late Summer in the northern hemisphere.
The call to nourish, stabilize and support – to plant our feet firmly in the rich bounty and intelligence of this Earth, to feel the all encompassing, holding, boundary and gravitational pull of our Great Mother is medicine.
Join me for a series that will nourish your Earth element and cultivate patience, ground, rooting and support.
On the medicine of Archetypal Qigong:
The expression and exploration of Archetypal Qigong is a somatic participation in medicinal gestures that offer us maps, mirrors and potent energetic medicine; Through them, we literally move our way into a conversation with the wisdom, resource and deep memory of the archetypal world -expressed patterns and stories that hold keys to our potential, integration, and creative power.
In these forms, we not only cultivate energy, right cycles, sensitivity and reverent embodiment, but we commune with the unseen, archetypal and mythic worlds that fund our mundane lives into meaning and alignment. We “go to the forms” so that we may hear the voices that we need to hear, so that we may experience parts of ourselves and our own powers (i.e. humility, risk, warriorship, surrender, letting go, blessing, grace, focus, hope, erotic capacity …) outside of a dependence on circumstance. These forms move us into a direct relationship with the depth of our human capacities and gifts, without leaving us to wait for the randomness and unpredictability of circumstances to show us who we are. We find who we are through the practice and walk that person out into the world to meet life. In that sacred courtship, we change the very futures that move toward us. We become a destination for the life that is trying to find us.