Dec 12 Sound Healing in Sacramento

Sound Healing Afternoon Workshop
December 12, 2011  1-4 pm
Judy's South Natomas home

Ive been in Pittsburgh PA helping out with a new granddaughter for the past month and it has been a very special kind of Qigong retreat for me as I attach deeply to both the pure sweet energy of a newborn and the vivacious tenacious energy of a 2.5 year old.

One of the treats that has come, is the benefits of practicing the Sound Healing with the children.  Especially Estelle whose tiny digestive system is often uncomfortable with gas and bubbles, and the ways of the new world outside the womb brings its adjustment challenges.  She quiets right away when I bring the vibrations of the sounds linked deeply with my love into her absorbent energy field.  Lately she has had some kind of issue with her eyes (tear ducts) and the Heart Sounds quiet her quickly and the irritation seems to have passed rapidly.  When she is fussy after eating, or hungry and mommy is busy, the digestive system sounds quiet her most every time.   The other day Peter threw a two year old tantrum at nap time and I finally just held him took him to the rocker and began with the sounds, he was asleep in my arms before I finished, relaxed and peaceful.  All the chanting has kept me at ease and comfortable while being away from home.  A contrast to previous visits here I got homesick and longed for my normal energy fixes of my garden, prison work and Qi teaching.

This Sound Healing technology is a powerful tool for personal transformation, emotional well being and energetic harmonization.  It moves below the level of the dramas and traumas provoking our emotional reactions and harmonizes the energy field eager to find its naturally healthy patterns.  This has been a deep focus of my Qigong studies this year.  In September I finished a 6 month project of organizing the Mingtong's teachings into a double CD set with 36 page color pamphlet.  This is now giving people the opportunity to learn this practice without attending a workshop (although I always recommend that).  You can purchase from the Chi Center or from me for $30.

All this to say that I'll be teaching an introduction to the Sound Healing Sunday afternoon December 12 from 1-4 at my home.  Sliding scale $20-$60. Free Sound Healing Booklet with CD's for the first 10 registrations.  I'm eager to share this to help you to balance the challenges and the gifts of the holiday season and give you an incredible practice to bless your new year!  This afternoon together will be all you need to get started.

I'm eager to hear from any of you who would like to study QiGong with me this winter.  Please let me know your interest and availability and I will seek to put together some classes to meet your needs.

Chifully, Judy
Haola Blessings upon your Holidays and 2011!


PS  Please consider this starting point workshop with Mingtong Gu, it is the pre-requisite for advanced workshops.
The Healer Within Workshop and Public Benefit Event
with Mingtong GuFree Pubic Benefit Friday January 28th 7-9pm
Opening dinner 6pm Friday January 28th
Saturday Jan 29th and Sunday Jan 30th weekend workshop (includes Friday dinner and event).
Location: EarthRise Retreat Center, Petaluma, CA
For more Wisdom Healing Qigong information and events please see their website at chicenter.com.

fullness of our being

This is what I was seeking words for in class this weekend (it is from the Daily OM):
May 10, 2010
The Paradox of Spirit
Language of the Soul The self is not small or big but is both at the same time. Our spirit is like a drop in the ocean of spiritual energy.
Each of us has a spiritual self that animates our bodies and infuses our thoughts and feelings. Our language is limited to the world we know for descriptions of something that perhaps cannot be fully comprehended by the human mind. Therefore, only metaphors approach the expressions that give us a true sense of our spiritual nature. The paradox lies in opposing concepts, all of which are true at the same time. And in harmonizing the opposites, we begin to know the wonders of the spirit.

The self is not small or big but is both at the same time. Our spirit is like a drop in the ocean of spiritual energy. Although our spirit seems like a small, disconnected part of a larger whole, it is still made of the same things and can become part of the vast ocean once again. Our individual spirit seems to inhabit our bodies like a passenger in a vehicle but at the same time is not bound by our bodies. Spirits can reach across the miles to touch the heart of a loved one or expand to become one with the universe. We may feel small and perhaps insignificantly young when we look up at the stars, but we are made of the same basic elements. Perhaps looking at the stars is merely a reflection of what is going on within each atom and cell of our being. We are a universe within a universe. Our spirits are ever renewing, yet ageless and eternal. So the self is not new or old but both at once.

So our spiritual self is not small or big, new or old. We may experience life as good and bad, right and wrong, happy and sad, but this is the experience of the material world of dualities, not the truth of our spiritual nature. By going within to touch the eternal and changeless energy at our center, we can go beyond the contrasting metaphors to the experience of oneness. And in that connection we can know big and small, new and old, movement and stillness. By accepting the paradox of spirit, we open ourselves to the fullness of our own being.

Spinal QiGong workshop Handouts

Thanks for the lovely afternoon in the healing chifield of Yoga Hive.  Here are the links about the movements we learned today.  If anything doesn't work or is confusing please let me know and I'll fix it.   I'll be in town until Dec 1 and if you would like to pursue any further Qigong, please call me on my cell at 916-600-8241.  Let Kimberly know what you thought and if you want to encourage us to do something the next time I visit. I hope I have remembered everything. Haola!

We started with visualizing the spine with the luminosity of a fetus still in the womb, with all that creative potential still alive within your spine today.

We practiced a variation of the Inner Smile smiling into the spine.  Notes about Inner Smile.  Free Internet book on the Inner Smile.  Visual images for Inner Smile practice with organs.

Standing we reviewed the Standing Meditation posture and then set the chi field. 
Then we proceeded with Opening to Six Directions.  This is an easy flow to learn and practice on your own.  Next we open the spine in its three primary ways of moving, forward and back (Description, visual standing, visuals seated and lying down), side to side and rotating (Ringing the Gong). 
Break
Rotating from the Center
Spinal Bone Marrow
Playing with the Chi Ball
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Cranes Neck and Dragons Head:  Description, Visuals and Text page 1, page 2.
Bend Body Stretch Spine
Turn Hips and open gua to gather chi at Dantien
These three movements come from the Wisdom Healing QiGong Body Mind Method.  If you wish to study this further purchase the DVD from the chi center.com
I see the DVD is currently sold out.  I do have at least one at home I can sell and mail if you ask.
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Spontaneous Guided Meditation sinking the chi into the bone marrow, with inner smile.

Here is some general material you may enjoy:
Blog posts of a general nature:
What is a chi field:  http://chifully.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/05/18/what-is-a-chi-field.html
The essence of Qigong: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/05/26/the-essence-of-qigong.html

Blogs: 
Qigong Prison Ministry: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/
This was my first blog and contains many levels of my qigong experiences, prison work is the focus, and it also has reflections, testimonials, links to research and much more.  Use the categories on the left side bar to navigate through years of materials.
Chifully: http://chifully.blogspot.com/  
I created this blog to focus more on my teaching "on the streets" (outside of prison) and it contains links to support materials, testimonials from other students, links to research, You Tube demonstrations of the same movements I teach, and more.

Reading List
Free Internet Inner Smile Book
Top Ten Reasons to Practice
Philosophy of the Healer being Within
Visualization

Sequences collections of my favorite moves
Vitality sequence
Seven Precious Gestures
Treasures of Qigong

Enjoy, Haola (Alli s well, so be it!)
Judy Tretheway

Class Handouts

As I have come to Pittsburgh without my files of handouts, I am pulling together materials for the students this weekend and linking them all here.  Enjoy.

Blog posts of a general nature:
What is a chi field:  http://chifully.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/05/18/what-is-a-chi-field.html
The essence of Qigong: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/archive/2010/05/26/the-essence-of-qigong.html

Blogs: 
Qigong Prison Ministry: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/
This was my first blog and contains many levels of my qigong experiences, prison work is the focus, and it also has reflections, testimonials, links to research and much more.  Use the categories on the left side bar to navigate through years of materials.
Chifully: http://chifully.blogspot.com/  
I created this blog to focus more on my teaching "on the streets" (outside of prison) and it contains links to support materials, testimonials from other students, links to research, You Tube demonstrations of the same movements I teach, and more.

More information about today's practices:
Standing Meditation (Basic Movements)
Oceanic Breathing / La Chi
Gathering Breath
Six Direction sequence

Shaking the Cosmos (Basic Movements)
Clench and Release (Basic Movements)   standing, sitting lying
Ringing the Gong  (Basic Movements)
Rotating at the Center
Waiting at the Temple Gate  (see Seven Precious Gestures below)

Inner Smile materials & Visuals
Tracing the Energy Channels

Reading List
Free Internet Inner Smile Book
Top Ten Reasons to Practice
Philosophy of the Healer being Within
Visualization

Sequences collections of my favorite moves
Vitality sequence
Seven Precious Gestures
Treasures of Qigong

Introduction to QiGong for Pittsburgh PA

This weekend, Saturday, November 13 and 14 I will be sharing some of my favorite Qigong practices to my new friends at the Yoga Hive on Penn Ave.  

Qi Gong  (also spelled Chi, procounced Chee) Gong (also spelled Kung)

Qi= life force energy

Gong = cultivation

Qi gong is the cultivation of our life force energy

It is a large body of practices that have been practiced for 5,000 years in China leading to long life and vitality.  Qi gong is also a system of healing and a spiritual approach to life based on the free flow of creative energy circulating in all dimensions of life.  It brings opposites into balance creating harmony.

Qi gong practice we will share on Saturday include: .

Meditation:  Setting the Qi Field, and the Inner Smile

Breath:  Ocean Breathing, and the Double Inhale practice.

Sitting:  Activating the Three Centers

Standing:  Standing like a Tree and  Shaking the Cosmos

Moving:  Opening to Six Directions, Tracing the Energy Channels, Gathering Chi, and other favorites

Chanting:  Haola (manifestation of perfection)

Qi gong practices we will share on Sunday will focus on opening the body and especially the spinal column to receive more creative energy or Qi / chi.  These spinal movements will complement any Yoga practice engaging a different and complimentary dynamic.  These practices will build your awareness of the circulation of energy on all dimensions of your being as we focus on the physical.