outdoor movement classes for trying times:
5 Element Qi Gong
Monday, 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Qi Gong is the 5,000 year old study and practice of cultivating and balancing life-force energy through movement, meditation, breath, and mental focus. While there are many different forms of Qi Gong, each is fundamentally intended to bring balance and harmony to the natural flow of energies in our bodies.
Ba Gua Warm Up Exercises with Heidi
Wednesday, 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Ba Gua employs the whole body with movements that balance and harmonize the internal energies (Qi). Balanced unity in motion is at the heart of Ba Gua, characterized by constant change and motion.
Wednesday, 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Ba Gua employs the whole body with movements that balance and harmonize the internal energies (Qi). Balanced unity in motion is at the heart of Ba Gua, characterized by constant change and motion.
6 Harmonies Qi Gong with Barbara
Friday 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
We will explore the Qi Gong form called Six Harmonies: Body harmonizes with Mind, Mind harmonizes with Intent, Intent harmonizes with Chi, Chi harmonizes with Shen, Shen harmonizes with Movement, Movement harmonizes with Emptiness.
Friday 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
We will explore the Qi Gong form called Six Harmonies: Body harmonizes with Mind, Mind harmonizes with Intent, Intent harmonizes with Chi, Chi harmonizes with Shen, Shen harmonizes with Movement, Movement harmonizes with Emptiness.
Weekly class on Grief, Loss and Uncertainty
Grief, Loss and Uncertainty in These Turbulent Times
Please join us for an SE online experiential class. We will start with grounding and orienting, open up a safe holding space for sharing, and finish with somatic tools for coping with grief, loss, and uncertainty in these turbulent times.
Please join us for an SE online experiential class. We will start with grounding and orienting, open up a safe holding space for sharing, and finish with somatic tools for coping with grief, loss, and uncertainty in these turbulent times.
Skill building classes
Somatic Experiencing Clinical Skills Group:
Facilitated by Barbara Collier, this group offers SE-focused support to build your clinical skills, hone your capacity to read nervous systems, and join a growing community of local Somatic Experiencing Practitioners. You don’t have to feel alone in private practice or in your workplace as the only SEP.
This consult group is open to any SEP or SE student currently working with clients - all modalities welcome; psychotherapy, body work, movement, fitness, coach, alternative medicine, allopathic medicine, artist, etc.
Facilitated by Barbara Collier, this group offers SE-focused support to build your clinical skills, hone your capacity to read nervous systems, and join a growing community of local Somatic Experiencing Practitioners. You don’t have to feel alone in private practice or in your workplace as the only SEP.
This consult group is open to any SEP or SE student currently working with clients - all modalities welcome; psychotherapy, body work, movement, fitness, coach, alternative medicine, allopathic medicine, artist, etc.
Somatic Experiencing Touch Skill-Building Group:
Facilitated by Barbara Collier, this group offers hands-on, educational, and theoretical support to further develop your somatic touch skills. Open to practitioners of any modality who have studied with Kathy Kain.
monthly Somatic rhythm and movement practice: Connect to the rhythm of the body.
All of life has qualities of rhythm, flow, and movement. This series of classes is offered to support connection to these qualities in ourselves and support the vitality of embodied movement. Come join us for a monthly sampling of movement practices that support people in developing and exploring ways to access rhythm, flow, and embodied presence inside themselves. Most classes will be held outside, weather permitting.
Ba Gua:
(April class for our somatic movement series)
Heidi Johnson, Movement Education Teacher at the Tucson Waldorf School, will lead us through the warm up practices of the Ba Gua Zhang.
Formally called Ba Gua Zhang - Ba Gua is an internal martial art that was developed more than 4000 years ago in Taoist monasteries primarily for health and meditation. It is considered an internal energy art because the initial training focuses on breath, meditation and movement.
Ba Gua employs the whole body with movements that balance and harmonize the internal energies (Qi). Balanced unity in motion is at the heart of Ba Gua, characterized by constant change and motion.
“Change is at the heart of life. Bagua zhang practice is about learning to flow with change rather than against it. If you can Master the Art of Change, you will become capable of overcoming obstacles in your life and allow happiness and joy to emerge from within your being.” - Bruce Frantzis
This class will focus on internal opening up, coordination, breath, and meditative movement versus martial applications and postures.
(April class for our somatic movement series)
Heidi Johnson, Movement Education Teacher at the Tucson Waldorf School, will lead us through the warm up practices of the Ba Gua Zhang.
Formally called Ba Gua Zhang - Ba Gua is an internal martial art that was developed more than 4000 years ago in Taoist monasteries primarily for health and meditation. It is considered an internal energy art because the initial training focuses on breath, meditation and movement.
Ba Gua employs the whole body with movements that balance and harmonize the internal energies (Qi). Balanced unity in motion is at the heart of Ba Gua, characterized by constant change and motion.
“Change is at the heart of life. Bagua zhang practice is about learning to flow with change rather than against it. If you can Master the Art of Change, you will become capable of overcoming obstacles in your life and allow happiness and joy to emerge from within your being.” - Bruce Frantzis
This class will focus on internal opening up, coordination, breath, and meditative movement versus martial applications and postures.
full moon gatherings
Full Moon Circle:
We take this time every lunar cycle to come together in spirit of connecting to the sacred rhythms of the planet and align with the moon’s potency to usher change. We welcome in what is nourishing, and let go of what is no longer needed. Situated around a fire, each full moon ritual will be facilitated with reflective and interconnected practices to witness and honor change at the individual, interpersonal, community, planetary, and cosmic level. Please feel free to bring anything you would like to contribute to a community altar.
