EMBRACE DAILY PRACTICES
FOR VIBRANT HEALTH & LONGEVITY
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Explore gentle, meditative movements coordinated with your breath to enhance your health, vitality and inner peace.
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Four Natural Gifts–Learn breath practices, self-applied massage, gentle movements and meditative mind focus.
Shibashi Qigong is a wonderful way to improve health and foster relaxation by synchronizing 18 gentle movements with your breath .
Nine Phases of Qi Cultivation and Mastery is an accessible, nine-gesture, qigong form that activates internal alchemy and healing. Learn to Discover Qi, Gather Qi, Circulate Qi, Purify Qi, Direct Qi, Conserve Qi, Store Qi, Transform Qi, and Dissolve in Qi.
Eight Pieces of Silk Brocade or Ba Duan Jin is a favorite form consisting of eight movements to regulate qi.
Evening Qigong Experience the perfect wind down ritual with Evening Qigong, a calming blend of gentle movements, soothing breathwork and self massage designed to prepare your mind and body for a restful night’s sleep. Please join Charlessa as she guides you through these grounding practices, helping you ease into your evening routine and transition effortlessly into a peaceful, restorative state of relaxation.
The Five Element Flow Qigong Experience the power of Five Element Qigong, a flowing practice designed to restore balance, release stress, and enhance vitality. Over six weeks, you’ll learn five graceful movements, each connected to the elemental energies of Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and their corresponding organ systems—lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, spleen.
Maximize Vitality Develop a daily routine to optimize physiological functioning. Learn an ancient cultivation practice to maximize your vitality. Learn how to reach a state where your body, mind and spirit are “in the flow.” This state of “maximized vitality” fosters and supports your capacity for self-healing, stress relief, improved balance, heart health and mental focus. Practicing qigong daily can trigger these physiological and psychological health benefits. This class uses the same curriculum as a National Institute of Health (NIH) randomized clinical trial that studies the efficacy of a remotely delivered qigong intervention on depressive symptoms of older people living with HIV. Taught by Theda Zawaiza, PhD. No experience necessary.
Seven Precious Gestures Description coming soon!
Primordial Qigong Description coming soon!
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Kripalu Yoga: Treat your mind, body and breath during your day! Our classes offer a holistic and mindful yoga approach; integrating body, mind, and spirit through self-observation; fostering a healthy body relationship, emphasizing breath and movement; allowing inner exploration, tension release; promoting healthy alignment, inner peace and well-being. Join in learning how to let go and enjoy!
Creative Kids Yoga is a playful and innovative approach to exploring yoga through fun yoga activities and creative movement as well as breathing techniques to calm, relax and promote concentration.
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Tai Chi, often referred to as "Meditation in Motion," is a graceful form of exercise that originated in ancient China. Rooted in martial arts, Tai Chi is now primarily practiced for its numerous health benefits and as a means of cultivating inner peace and balance. Our classes emphasize the integration of mind and body, promoting a state of harmony and tranquility. Through slow, deliberate movements and focused breathing, you can experience a deep sense of relaxation and mental clarity.
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Tai Chi Easy™ is a five-gesture form based on Tai Chi principles and traditional movements.
Integral Tai Chi is a nine-gesture form with movements from the traditional family styles.
The Four Energies Tai Chi uses the form known as “Grasp the Sparrow's Tail” which involves four separate moves called Peng, Lu, Ji, An while moving in four directions.
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Join us for a journey of self-reflection and present moment awareness as we dive into techniques like mindfulness, body scans, guided imagery, visualization, and breathing exercises to find clarity, focus, and inner peace.
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Taoist Organ Cleansing uses guided imagery and visualization. This ancient Taoist practice helps to balance, tonify and detoxify our five major organs.
Body Scan with Contract and Release Using synchronized breathing and the power of the mind, we'll gently scan the body, inviting a profound sense of release and deep relaxation.
Special Place Meditation indulging in a guided imagery session, each participant envisions a peaceful stroll to a unique and serene special place.
Object meditation is a practice that involves focusing your mind on an object in front of you to nurture mindfulness and attain a state of tranquility.
Mindfulness Breathing Meditation brings awareness to the present moment and the breath with every inhalation and exhalation.
Healing Sounds and Colors is a practice of harnessing the power of sound and visualizing colors to purify the body of tension and stress, restoring it to a harmonious state of balance.
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Join instructor, Theda Zawaiza, for a powerful 2-hour interactive presentation focused on relief from chronic pain. The Empowered Relief™ pain skills course developed by Stanford University pain scientist, Dr. Beth Darnall, features a powerful combination of breath practice and neuroscience to help you or someone you love in a pain situation.Train your brain away from pain in this single session course. Learn how to activate your own inner resources to Relax, Reframe and Reclaim your time! This course allows you to:
-Learn about pain and what you can do to help yourself.
-Gain pain relief skills you can use right away.
-Receive a free binaural relaxation audio MP3 file.
-Develop a personal plan for pain relief.
-Invite a friend or family member to attend class with you.
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Circle of Life Coaching Coaching is a trusted partnership wherein a trained coach helps a client unlock their potential, achieve specific personal and/or professional goals, and improve performance by asking thought-provoking questions, facilitating self-discovery and building skills. We focus on assisting the client in finding their own solutions. It is a client-driven, future-focused process that fosters growth, enhances self-awareness, and leads to action that can be transformative and make a lasting change in the client’s life.
Create positive, lasting change in your life through an innovative and engaging coaching experience. Over six weeks, the facilitated group will work through six phases of a Circle of Life Coaching process designed to help you discover your strengths, assess your readiness for change, identify your goals, plan action steps to attain them, set-up accountability and act on your plan. This coaching group is offered online.
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Do you want to restore your health? Prevent disease? Enhance your vitality?
Welcome to an extraordinarily simple and fun way for you to take greater control of your wellness. Theda & Charlessa Wellness Essentials is an opportunity to easily and safely learn to improve your health, one breath, thought and movement at a time.
Here is a smart way to have more physical strength and agility; to calm your mind and brighten your outlook. The coordination of breath with gentle movements and mind focus can have amazing health benefits. Feel better, body, mind and spirit, and attend our in-person events or participate online from the comfort of your own home.
Embrace Wellness! With these practices, you can be an active participant in your own personal health. Look forward to your daily practice; relax into the present moment and release the most profound medicine, made within you. Acquaint yourself with the workings of your own healing resources. Bring more health, happiness and joy into your life. Learn how to activate and cultivate human life force energy. Feel the Flow!
