רונית מלכין - מורה לצ׳י גונג ומטפלת שיאצו

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Cradling the Soul: Fire and Water

The meeting of Fire and Water creates the fundamental conditions for human life. Fire is responsible for our spiritual wellbeing, our search for completion and a return to spiritual wholeness. Water provides the physical form in which to do this safely here on earth.

The Shen (Fire) is the most ethereal, yang energy of the human being. This means that it constantly seeks release from the physical bonds the yin structure of the body imposes on it.

The Kidney (Water) is the very opposite - the root of the physical body, the essence and seat of the will to live: Zhi. Kidney energy provides a vehicle which harnesses and roots the Shen securely in the physical body for the duration of our lives on earth.

Fire and Water may be opposites in a fundamental sense but at the same time one cannot exist without the other. These primal energies provide us with both our two most precious attributes - our deepest drive and our highest intelligence; the connection to our divine being (Shen) and the ability to root down into life in a physical body on earth and stay with it until the end (Zhi).

Cherokee Sundance

This is something very unusual in the world of Qigong and Taiji. Although its movements are clearly recognisable, it comes not from the East but from the West. As its name implies, it is a traditional practice originated by the Cherokee Indians of North America and is usually experienced as prayer in motion.

We will supplement the four-directional movements with a couple of exercises designed to strengthen and vitalise the connexion to our heart wings – both alone and in pairs.

Kidney Qi Returns to Source

The movements of this traditional standing qi gong form are designed to strengthen the deep structures of physical and mental health, thereby increasing longevity. One cannot overstate the importance of Kidney qi in oriental medicine; this qigong form works to bring the kidney qi back to the Source with renewed vitality.

The programme is repetitive and trance-like and therefore related to meditation. However, it has movements that closely resemble Ba Gua, a major internal martial art. Thus one can clearly see the interlinking of meditation, qigong and martial arts in this archetypal programme.

Join me in a celebration of the depths of human experience.