January & February 2010 class offerings

Monday evenings:  One House of Peace


Jan 11:  Using Qigong to power your Intentions
Activate Your Hearts Desires.  QiGong Visualization techniques engage all dimensions of our self very deliberately with the Essential Essence (Tao) from which all that is created arises. Learn simple and very powerful practices to activate the potential of your hearts desires.  These mesh with most every spiritual perspective. Focus will be on sitting practices, with discussion of standing, squatting and laying down variations. 
6:15 - 8pm Class limited to first 15 pre-registered.  $25

Jan 18: Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down
On-going study of this essential practice of Wisdom Healing (Zhening) QiGong.  Discussion of the powerful visualization technique for activating personal healing, with next-level suggestions for continuing students.   New students welcome to follow along as the form is not difficult.  Min. 4 Max 10.  Pre-registration required.  $25  6:15 - 8pm

Feb 1:  Cultivating Vitality: Six favorite Qigong practices that are very easy to do and add into your existing spiritual practices.  Circulate your life force energy, massage your vital organs and boost your immune function while experiencing an expanded sense of self and deep inner peace. Compliments sitting meditation practices and is very beneficial for those at desk jobs all day or recovering from or coping with illness.
6:15 - 8:00 Min. 4 Max 10 Pre-register please. $25

Feb 8: Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down
On-going study of this essential practice of Wisdom Healing (Zhening) QiGong.  Discussion of techniques to deepen your practice with next-level suggestions for continuing students.   New students welcome to follow along as the form is not difficult.  Min. 4 Max 10.  Pre-registration required.  $25  6:15 - 8pm

March 1 6:15 - 8pm  Healing Session - Wisdom Qigong Style. I (Judy Tretheway) will have just returned from assisting Mingtong Gu at a 10 day healing intensive. I'll be sharing healing practices for individuals, partners and facilitating a group healing.  Come and enjoy giving and receiving.  6:15 - 8pm  $25  Min. 4 Max 10.

Space is limited at One House of Peace.  Secure your spot with pre-registration, mail your check to Judy Tretheway, 520 Garden Hwy, Sacramento, CA 95833.  Feel free to e-mail to inquiry about openings at last minute.

Tuesday evenings:  Sacramento Friends Meeting House  
8890 57th Street (enter from H)
Best taken as a series $75, available as separate classes $30/each

This is an experiment with longer evening classes, There will be a variety of material during the evening to engage many ways that we learn and grow in our relationship with the Life Force Energy (Qi/Chi).  Great for those who never seem to have weekends free to travel to workshops.  Pre-register, Minimum class size 6.  Maximum 25.

The Focus will be on materials from Roger Jahnke's the Healer Within and the Healing Promise of Qi, recommended reading. (Amazon Used books). Practices taught will include breath techniques, self-applied massage, guided meditations, standing meditation, and flowing movements.

January 12, 6-8:30 pm:   
Empowering self healing - Guo Lin Walking.  Cultivating our relationship with the Healer Within each of us and discovering the Healing Promise of Qi.  Tonight we will be learning a powerful walking qigong, (Guo Lin Walking) with dramatic healing potential, and explore practices from Vitality Method (Bu Zheng QiGong).

January 19, 6-8:30 pm: 
Cultivating the Healer Within - Vitality Method  Tonight's focus will be the enhanced Vitality Method (Bu Zheng QiGong), gentle movements cultivating spinal and immune health, self - massage techniques for self-directed health care and relaxation, breath practices for lowering blood pressure and cultivating awareness will all be included.    We will have a chance review the walking qigong (Guo Lin Walking) learned last week, and introduce Tai Chi Easy.

February 9, 6-8:30:  
The Healing Promise of Qi - Tai Chi Easy  Tonight we will focus on Tai Chi Easy movements, learning them as individual Qigong movements and experimenting with linking them together as a flowing form.  Review of walking qigong and vitality method.

March 9, 6:00 - 8:00pm  Healing Session - Wisdom Qigong Style. I (Judy Tretheway) will have just returned from assisting Mingtong Gu at a 10 day healing intensive. I'll be sharing healing practices for individuals, partners and facilitating a group healing.  Come and enjoy giving and receiving. Accessible to all physical conditions.

4 Friday mornings Judy's South Natomas home
Fridays Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5 & Feb 12  from 10 - 11:30 am. $60 for four sessions.
Many have requested a day-time class to focus on vitality building. Circulate your life force energy, massage your vital organs and boost your immune function while experiencing an expanded sense of self and deep inner peace. These sessions will draw from the Wisdom Healing (Zhening) Qigong tradition and/or the Tai Chi Easy/Vitality Method materials depending upon the needs and interests of the participants.  Learning healing practices together we will bring forth fresh energy into our lives and communities.  Minimum class size 4, maximum 10.  Directions given with registration.

Noteworthy:
Jan 30-31 Healer Within weekend workshop with Mingtong Gu in San Rafeal. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from Judy's teacher, this weekend is a pre-requisite for advanced workshops with Mingtong Gu.

Tai Chi Easy facilitator training coming soon. Plans are in the works to bring Roger Jahnke the Sacramento area for this great opportunity to bring the healing powers of QiGong into your communities of interest.  A 25 hour training program (You Tube video).  Let me know of your interest!

Contact Information
Email JudyTre (at) gmail (dot) com
Phone:  916-921-2172
Checks payable to Judy Tretheway, 520 Garden Hwy, Sacramento, CA 95833.

Top Reasons to Practice Integral Qigong and Tai Chi

from one of my favorite teachers... Roger Jahnke and the Institute of Integral Tai Chi and QiGong

CultivatIng the Qi through Qigong and Tai Chi triggers the numerous health benefits:

• Qigong and Tai Chi initiate the “relaxation response”, which is fostered when the mind is freed from its many distractions. This decreases the sympathetic function of the autonomic nervous system, which reduces heart rate and blood pressure, dilates the blood capillaries, and optimizes the delivery of oxygen and nutrition to the tissues.
• Qigong and Tai Chi alter the neurochemistry profile toward accelerated inner healing function. Neurotransmitters, also called information molecules, bond with receptor sites in the immune, nervous, digestive, endocrine and other systems to excite or inhibit function to moderate pain, enhance organ capacity, reduce anxiety or depression, and neutralize addictive cravings.
• Qigong and Tai Chi enhance the efficiency of the immune system through increased rate and flow of the lymphatic fluid and activation of immune cells. Resistance to disease and infection is acceler ated by the elimination of toxic metabolic by-products from the interstitial spaces in the tissues, organs, and glands through the lymphatic system.
• Qigong and Tai Chi increases the efficiency of cell metabolism and tissue regeneration through increased circulation of oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the brain, organs, and tissues.
• Qigong and Tai Chi coordinate and balance right/left brain hemisphere dominance promoting deeper sleep, reduced anxiety, and mental clarity.
• Qigong and Tai Chi induce alpha and, in some cases, theta brain waves which reduce heart rate and blood pressure, facilitating relaxation, and mental focus; this optimizes the body’s self-regulative mechanisms by decreasing the activity of the sympathetic nervous system.
• Qigong and Tai Chi moderate the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and pineal glands, as well as the cerebrospinal fluid system of the brain and spinal cord, which manages pain and mood as well as optimizing immune function.

Private sessions and small groups by appointment

I welcome the opportunity to explore Qigong with folks one-on-one or in small groups.  The intention is always so strong and the Qi-Field opens up for us all to cultivate in deeper ways.  Appointments available in my South Natomas home (Sacramento, CA) or at yours (travel time compensation is expected).  Hourly private class rate:  $40 - $75.  Call 916-921-2172.