In Chinese shamanic traditions, XuanWu, the Mystical Warrior, is the totem of a combined turtle and snake, is the spirit of north and of YuanQi 元氣, your life source. Regular practice of this gentle and powerful Qigong form will bolster your YuanQi and optimize your karma. Students of all levels are welcome!

Experience Shamanism from a Taoist Perspective: A Journey into Nature’s SpiritDo you Love Nature?Do you love animals?Do you find peace walking in the woods, meadows, and mountains?Are you captivated by birds and wildlife of all kinds?Do you love the sound of rapids in the water and waterfalls?Imagine deepening your connection to all of the above—experiencing a profound spiritual bond with the natural world.In our upcoming workshop, “Shamanism from a Taoist Point of View,” you’ll discover how to connect to the energies and soul of Nature. Learn to tap into the energetic vibrations that flow through the earth, animals, and the wilderness around you. Whether you’re a seasoned nature lover or someone seeking a deeper connection, this workshop offers a transformative experience, blending the ancient wisdom of Taoism with the spiritual practices of Shamanism.Rediscover inner joy by regenerating your sense of gratitude and connection to the world around you. Join us on this journey to awaken your senses, elevate your spirit, and forge a meaningful relationship with the natural world.

In this intensive, 3 Day workshop, students access and practice a powerful, direct energy healing method known as Fa Kung. This is a "no-touch" method of healing directly with Qi. We cover all aspects of the training, including Qigong for the Healers and for the ongoing self-care of our "patients." Sigung Richard Clear has taught this program twice a year for nearly 30 years. This course is appropriate for complete novices and advanced Qigong practitioners alike. In the course of 3 Days, students learn how to sense, interpret, and balance the Qi of others to produce direct healing effects.

In this class series, we will go through the eight hexagrams of the Zhen Palace (following the Eight Palaces hexagram arrangement). For background information, you may like to follow my associated writing series on the Eight Palaces arrangement, published on Substack. During this course, we will focus one hexagram per class. I will discuss the hexagram’s symbolic meaning and spiritual cultivation principles and guide participants through its related internal alchemy practice from the Hidden Immortal Lineage Taiji form.

Come be part of a joyful gathering to play Qigong with a focus on “Personal Energy Prepping” with Francesco. 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm 14 December in Sonoma, California, Sonoma Community Center In times of stress, challenge and uncertainty, practicing empowering exercises that help us build our Heart resonance, ground us, and help us release what doesn’t serve our highest good is key. Francesco will guide us in gentle but effective moves, both seated and standing, that prepare us energetically to be strong, healthy, and at peace in body, mind, and spirit in a world of uncertainty. Based on principles that Francesco shares in the acclaimed online Personal Energy Prepping Course, we will enjoy two hours of Qi activation movements and concepts that focus on Heart resonance centering, grounding, and healing in beautiful Sonoma, California. Event Host, Certified Qigong Instructor Robert Young.

Welcome to a new approach to self empowerment… Beyond Qigong What would it be like if you could learn to apply the energy principles of Qigong to transform your Emotions, your Minds, and your Fields to embrace life to its fullest? It would be like EMF Training. Developed by Francesco Garri Garripoli after decades of personal training and study, this unique program offers you insights into the three key areas of our lives that create blocks and prevent us from living in peace and in our true power. Combining his teaching in “Emotion Alchemy”, “Three Minds”, and “The Third Field”, this three-day workshop provides real-world tools that you can use in real time. In this way, you will have techniques that weave together Qigong and visualization which you can put to use immediately to activate the Qi Effect and begin to see how you can shift from your conditioned responses into being guided by Heart resonance for real and lasting transformation, taking your from just surviving to truly thriving. “Life always presents us with challenges, and we are asked to respond… How we respond reflects where we are mentally, emotionally, and energetically… My task is to help people learn how best to understand their mind, emotions, and energy in empowering and transformative ways.” Francesco Garri Garripoli This live, in-person, three-day workshop will take place in Palm Coast, Florida 18 – 20 January 2025 Phase One engages techniques related to the principles of unlocking our Three Minds. We explore the true nature of Mind, and shift our paradigm of a “single” Mind and begin to understand the differences between the two “conditioned” Minds and the Heart-centered “unconditioned” Mind. This is foundational, and with this understanding, we can begin to work with our emotions is new ways that are freeing and amazingly transformative. Phase Two goes into the depths of Emotion Alchemy, a technique that helps us identify excessive Yang Emotions of the conditioned minds and transform them and emotional scar tissue into empowered Yin Transformation at the Intuitive Heart Resonance. Phase Three takes you into the realm of energy fields, specifically, the 3rd Field. This powerful key shifts how we relate to others in our lives. Though this principle is quite challenging for many to grasp, when we understand it, how we interact with others changes… and changes for the better. You will learn effective techniques that will help you identify epigenetic influences and shift out of disempowering relationships with yourself and others and start to be proactive in shifting the energy of every connection you have with everyone – past, present, and future – into interactions that flow with ease and positivity, protecting and empowering you in the process. As we learn more and more about the power of intention and techniques to harness, ground, and align the energies around and within our bodies with practices such as Qigong, Yoga, and Reiki, it is clear that certain aspects of our lives are still not fully addressed. This three-day workshop begins where these practices leave off and takes you on a deep dive into the realms of emotion, mind, and energy fields to provide you with unique and empowering tools to take you to the next level of your growth and strength in Heart resonance.

Join me on Zoom to celebrate the winter solstice, one of the most powerful times for inner transformation and healing. In this session we practice using the mudra associated with Fu 復 hexagram 24. Fu is the first of the twelve tidal hexagrams and represents the energetic pattern of rebirth and the Rat animal sign. The symbol of the hexagram is made with one Yang line at the bottom and five Yin lines on top, which represents Yang Qi, or new life energy, returning back in a natural cycle. It is the symbol for rebirth and rejuvenation.

If you have dreamed to do a silent meditation retreat deep in the jungle, with a Buddhist monk, guided Qigong sessions, delicious food, massage, kayak meditation and daily swims in a pristine lake, this is the retreat for you! Join Marisa Cranfill and Venerable Pandit Bhikkhu for a nine-day Sammatha-Vipassana meditation retreat at Jungle Yoga in Khao Sok National Park.

This is a live, in-person, two-day Qigong workshop 11 & 12 2025 in beautiful Tallahassee, Florida. Learn the core of this powerful and effective 800 year-old Wuji Hundun Qigong form that has been handed down by Master Duan Zhi Liang to Francesco Garri Garripoli when he lived and studied in the Master’s clinic in Beijing, China in the early 1990’s. This was an amazing opportunity to meet this famous Qigong Master who had never left China and was little know outside the country. These two days are the first days of a five-day deep-dive & Instructor Certification Course, so it’s a great opportunity to explore this powerful Qigong form. If you wish to become a Certified Instructor in Wuji Hundun Qigong, please explore our five-day, live, in-person course with Francesco which is the only, internationally recognized Certification training. Learn more about the prerequisites required to qualify you to take this course for Instructor Certification. A few places in the training are held for those who wish to attend for personal development and not for Instructor Certification, and at a discounted rate.

This is a live, in-person, five-day, Qigong Instructor Certification Training Course being offered by Francesco from 11 – 15 January 2025 which includes a three-month follow-up Self-Assessment 1:1 mentoring and coaching with Francesco. Learn this powerful and effective, 800 year-old shamanic Wuji Hundun Qigong form that has been handed down by Master Duan Zhi Liang to Francesco Garri Garripoli when he lived and studied in the Master’s clinic in Beijing, China in the early 1990’s. This was an amazing opportunity to meet this famous Qigong Master who had never yet left China and was little know outside the country. If you would like to take this course for personal development and not for Certification – and at a discounted rate

This is a live, in-person, one-day workshop in Palm Coast, FL 17 January 2025 taught by NQA Certified Senior Qigong Teacher Francesco Garri Garripoli This workshop emerged out of a challenge that the team at Insight Timer presented to me to introduce Qigong to people who practice Yoga or were interested in learning about this practice as a complement to their existing training as a healer or practitioner. After over 1,000 people took the online Course and it maintained a 5-star rating, I was honored and happy that served an unmet need. Here at CommunityAwake, we’ve added various video components to support the original audio lessons, so the online, self-guided offering has gone deeper with visual demonstrations and exercises presented by Francesco Garripoli. Click here to learn about that Course For those seeking an in-person course with like-Hearted practitioners…this live workshop in Palm Coast is for you! Francesco has been practicing both Qigong and Yoga for over 30 years… and teaching around the world for over 25, so he knows how Qigong has helped to transform his body, mind, and spirit – and complements his Yoga practice. In this Course we do our best to share the basics of what it means to become sensitive to our core energy through breath, gentle movement, and awareness… and then guide you through beautiful concepts that will inspire you to remember the truth of who you are through this empowering practice. Together we’ll explore the ways Qigong and Yoga principles overlap and, through its gentle movements and intention-setting, see where Qigong offers an added dimension focused on healing and transformation. The amazing elder teachers Francesco studied with in China and India inspired him to realize that getting older only meant getting better …on so many levels. This Course will take you through breathing, grounding and centering techniques, and explore ancient concepts such as Energy Meridians, Dan Tians (which are similar in some ways to Chakras), Jing, Qi, and Shen, and the Five Elements model…

The Qigong Healing Program is a progressive 100-hour program where students learn the practical application and theory of Qigong personal practices and energy healing modalities. We cover practices for connecting with "center" (our place of contact with the higher self); increasing frequency, strength, and openness of our energy fields; clearing low frequency energies; healing practices for oneself and others; and many other tools and practices for transformative healing work. The program includes four 3-day weekends throughout the year. The first weekend meets January 31 to February 2, 2025 and may be taken as a stand-alone class. The other weekends are: April 4-6, June 6-8, Aug 15-17. The cost is $450 per weekend.

Event contacts:

Rachel Lee, leerachel857@gmail.com 720-324-0501

Damaris Jarboux, damaris@thecenterplace.com

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Our Medical / Clinical Qigong Therapist certification program is designed to empower you to make a difference in people’s lives. Whether you’re looking to open a clinic or offer holistic therapy sessions, our program has everything you need to succeed. Led by Dr. Cibik, a Dr. of Chinese Medicine and Dr. of Medical QiGong, our program provides a unique blend of Eastern and Western medicine. Dr. Cibik is a Traditional Naturopath who uses nutrition, exercise, and meditation in actively treating patients. He has been known for healing even the most difficult of cases and is the go-to doctor for anyone in the energetic field of medicine that gets ill themselves. He has been certifying Medical Qigong Therapists since 2000, while running an active qigong clinic. Our program is designed to provide you with an immersive experience that’s both engaging and modern. You will be taught how to blend Western medicine tests with energetic understanding to create a holistic treatment protocol. Emergency Energetic response will also be introduced; called Wei Kei in Chinese Medicine for when the health care system is not optimal or available. At Inner Strength, we understand that you want to be well-rounded and work with the latest technology and science. We introduce the topics of our Energetic Blood Work course and Energetic Exercise Science course into the Medical QiGong Therapist certification training – to provide you with a comprehensive basis of both Western medicine and energy medicine. Our program is in person, in Western PA, with 4 quarterly sessions during the year. We have small classes to provide personal attention. We offer accommodations onsite at as additional fee at CHI house, with private bedrooms, and a full kitchen for everyone's use. Western PA is a low cost area to visit, dine in and stay in.

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If you’re a woman yearning to live in harmony with both the natural world and the seasons of your own life, this retreat serves as a sanctuary for your soul. We can learn lessons in life and health from the wisdom of nature, the Tao and The Five Elements. Learn to embrace each season not just as a passage of time, but as a unique opportunity for growth, wisdom, and well-being. You’ll leave rejuvenated, armed with practical tools for a more harmonious everyday life. Consider this your heartfelt invitation to deeply connect with the ever-changing rhythms of life and nature. Retreat includes morning sunrise Qigong on the beach overlooking the Sea of Cortez, optional yoga, hiking, excursion, exploration, and self/group connection. Led by Instructor Sue Crites

Join us for an immersive five-day retreat at Casa Tara, a haven of peace on the shores of the Sea of Cortez. This Spring Forest Qigong Level 3 Retreat offers a profound journey into the teachings of Tao and advanced Qi cultivation techniques. Advanced Spring Forest Qigong training to unite the Shen and the physical body as one, with Advanced Qigong Principles, Healing Principles, Qi Development, and Healing Techniques. Prerequisites: Spring Forest Qigong Levels 1 and 2