Emptiness to Fullness
Qigong: The Heart
A medical Qigong workshop (Zhineng) to support you in cultivating and nourishing your Heart, so that you navigate through the ups and downs of these accelerated times with grace, honoring its wisdom.
Date: Saturday, November 22, from 5:30 to 8pm
(2 hours of Qigong + 30 minute Tea Ceremony and reflections)
PRICE: $111 + GST
the heart
According to Taoist Alchemy, each of our organs, beyond its bodily function, is also linked to our spiritual development, virtues and our connection with the universal forces. In Qigong practice Heart is connected to the Mind and Spirit. It is the Spiritual Center of our Being. It is connected to highly refined Intuition, Compassion, Perception and one's own Inherent Healing Capacity. A strong heart's spirit helps us forge our Spiritual Path and step into our own sovereignty.
In Taoist Alchemy, the Heart is the sovereign ruler of consciousness. When clear, it reflects truth as still water reflects the moon. However, as we experience life, five distortions or disturbances (Xin Wu Xie) burden and disturb one’s Heart unabling us to perceive the truth clearly. These are: jealousy, pride, impatience, over excitement and hatred.
workshop
The intention of this workshop is to reawaken the original “Spirit” of the Heart, which may have become depleted, creating imbalances in its natural or spiritual vitality. The workshop will focus on self-cultivation of our heart, resolving and releasing the 5 disturbances of the Heart, practicing Wu Wei to experience Emptiness and La Chi to collect Qi into our different Elixir Fields for Fullness. Through breathing, meditation, movement, healing sounds, tapping, self- massaging, poetry and story, we will engage, in Qigong and its infinite wisdom.
About Qigong
Qigong is an ancient 5000-year-old Chinese self-healing and self-unfoldment practice that has been validated by modern scientific research showing that it can not only heal and prevent physical diseases but also harmonize and heal the mind. Healing the mind restores the harmony of the mind-heart connection for one’s overall wellbeing and spiritual development. Qigong is vast and infinite. The way we approach Qigong is by remaining open to its infinite and every possibility. When the mind starts to heal and mind-heart connection returns to nature, a possibility of awakening of our own inner “Buddha” is discovered.
Simply put, as Qigong starts working as one’s own inner medicine, one is able to step into the positive paradigm of developing one’s own innate and hidden human potential.
No prior Qigong experience is required for this workshop. Please note this is a substance free practice.
Note: Qigong is safe for most people, supporting balance and wellbeing at every level when practiced with care under an experienced practitioner If you live with unique medical conditions and doubt your ability to practice Qigong, please consult your physician for advice to ensure this practice is safe for you.
SCHEDULE
- Arrival & Introduction - Intention setting
- Opening the Practice
a. Poetry and storytelling
b. Introduction
- Instruction and Prep work
- Practice
- Mantra for Compassion and Sound Healing for Heart
- Listening Silence
- Tea Ceremony
- Closing the Practice
- Reflections
Open to all | No experience needed | Space is limited to 11 participants
holding the space
Syra Khan is the founder and facilitator of The Listening Circle and a devoted Qigong practitioner. Her path has been shaped by years of cultivating listening, stillness, movement and Taoist Alchemy. She is a unique space-holder and a ceremony artist weaving Qigong movement, poetry, songs and ancient Taoist wisdom into her teachings. Drawing from her connection to the spirit world and many ancestral lineages, Syra creates sacred spaces that bridge the mystical and mundane. Her sacred healing spaces honor truth, sovereignty, clarity and authenticity- reminding participants that healing is not something to seek but to remember. Her path continues to unfold in surprising ways through the ongoing practice of Qigong revealing that it is not just a path of wellness, but of profound spiritual remembering and creative awakening.