Wednesdays, 6 May - 10 June 9:30am - 10:45am (Sydney time) During these strange and uncertain times, it is more important than ever that we stay connected - connected to each other and that which soothes, nourishes and strengthens us. I invite you to join me for this six week trauma informed yoga and meditation series. Whether you are living with stress, anxiety, depression or trauma, this program is designed to help. It combines both meditation and subtle yoga poses. I'll be offering tools to help you find peace, emotional regulation and connection, with a dash of delight thrown in for good measure. Course details: 6 week course What you need - a device that connects to the internet (phone, tablet or computer), a yoga mat (a blanket will suffice), a blanket, towel and strap (if you don't have a yoga strap you can use a belt or sturdy scarf) Conducted LIVE online via Zoom - the course will be recorded so that if you miss a class, you can access it online (please note that you will not be recorded, just me!) Included is the live streamed weekly class, an email stacked with resources, a recording of the class and closing meditation Investment: $75 (in cases of financial hardship, please reach out and we can arrange something!

Postponed - A Workshop for women & men with Ghata Engels

This is an invitation for everyone who wants to meet me and my work to come and journey with me into the higher energetic realms. It is also an opportunity for everyone to connect with the light within. We will start with a guided meditation that opens a space for healing and exploration of the realms of light. There will be time to ask personal questions. I will be tuning in and using my guidance to receive answers and support individual healing. I am also open to talk a little about my journey if anyone is interested. This afternoon is also an introduction to the Spirit of Light Training and Practitioner Training. Come along to bathe in love and light and open to your own potential.

PLACES ARE LIMITED AND BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL Sunday, 26 April 2020 1.00pm to 5.00pm at Living Yoga Sangha Studio, 1st Floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Cost: $15 pay prior to event or $20 at the door Free for SOL-Training graduates

FOR INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS Contact Ghata Engels on 0403 399 904, email ghataspirit@gmail.com Payment by direct deposit to Studio Services, CommBank, BSB No: 062-578, Account No: 10179413

Ghata I Engels is an internationally renowned and respected energy worker and facilitator. Since 1992, Ghata has worked globally in teaching and leading personal development trainings and is the founder and director of SOL Spirit of Light Training and Practitioner Training. Her students see her as an incredibly intuitive and supportive teacher who is truly authentic in her care, love and commitment to leading by example. Her level of openness and authenticity is unique which attracts men and women from all walks of life.

Saturday class is practiced only on the floor, no standing poses and we stretch for longer. It's a melt-a-licious practice.

Longer holding stretches open our energetic pathways (meridians) and enhance the flow of life energy (chi) nourishing internal organs. Our focused attention to breathing slows the mental activity.

All welcome to join, beginner, experienced, happy, sad, doesn't matter. We watch the changing of the mind, body, sensations, feelings, thoughts and rest so deeply in the presence and aliveness that is always there.

No need to book, just turn up $20 or class pass

Death is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight.

This workshop is a unique experience in confronting your own mortality before 'real' death in order to gain insight & clarity on personal priorities & how best to live the life you have left.

This is a deeply immersive and reflective practice to discover how your ideas & beliefs about death are affecting you right now. The contemplation of life, death and the inherent mystery in each moment is too important to be left to our final days. For more information https://www.facebook.com/events/614168079438672/?active_tab=discussion

6 Week Program | Wednesday Evenings | April 2020

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” Earl Grollman

We will be learning, in the face of a death, to explore the intense feelings of grief and loss. The pain, guilt and disorientation it leaves is often very challenging. In this 6 week group we will address these issues in a supportive and gentle way. You will be inspired and guided in ways to work with these issues and explore the deeper meanings.

When: 6 Wednesday evenings from 1st April until 6th May 6.30 - 8.30pm Cost: $300 for 6 week programme Location: Living Yoga Sanga Suite 1, 1/63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby

Lois Worlidge (Moti) BA(Psych), GDipGriefPallCounsel, MSW(ProfQual) has worked for the last 5 years as a part of the Palliative Care team at Robina Hospital as a Palliative care social worker.

Mani Windsor has a rich 40 year history in working with people in a group setting as a teacher, facilitator and care-taker.

For Bookings Phone: Lois 0468 335 807 | Mani 0418 285 009 Bookings Essential

Are you tired of going round and round talking about the same issues with your clients? Or meeting the same blocks and rigidity in their body after it looked like it had shifted last session?

Wouldn't it be great to have a way to resolve these patterns via an ancient and intelligent system inbuilt into every one of your clients? And in a way that increases mindfulness, self awareness and presence in them as well? (Therefore improves their quality of life!)

Introducing ...

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM and this mini Somatic Therapy Training <<

In this training you'll learn:

An overview of the physiology/nervous system, and how the brain lays down repetitive patterns, behaviours and feelings states that can be worked with via the map of the nervous system, The nervous systems role in physical and ego survival (and how this links with internal emotional, mental and spiritual layers and external behaviours of a person) Signs and signals the body, behaviour and language give you about where a client is in their fight/flight/freeze responses around an issue, Tools to work with and resolve different nervous system states, Tools for helping your clients move into embodied empowerment Tools for settling your own nervous system in your own life or when hearing distressing content from a client.

Im also excited to tailor this workshop to the needs of the participants.. and you'll get a chance to tell me what you'd love to learn before we meet.

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WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

Counsellors or therapists in training wanting to have a deeper understanding of the role of the body, Psychologists and psychotherapists Bodyworkers Anybody wanting to have a deeper understanding of how the instinctual brain impacts their clients lives.

If that's you... Do you want to learn how to use your clients' body intelligence to heal and resolve stuck-ness, trauma, depression or anxiety?

Want to support them into more natural thriving based on their ancient biology and yours?

Have you always been fascinated by somatic approaches to the body and to therapy?

This training will be focussed on giving you some tangible skills you can take into your practice or your life. It is not intended as a self-development series.

If you are not working therapeutically, but would love to learn this content, please contact me on 0421079644 to discuss attending.

"This is a professional, well thought out course offering comprehensive insights into the workings of the body and our felt-senses. It offers thought provoking insights and practical tools for therapist to assist clients in harnessing greater self-awareness and releasing the grip of trauma in the body. Thank you so much Amanda for an enlightening and highly enjoyable afternoon!!" Dee De Haas

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WHO RUNS THIS WORKSHOP?

Hi, Im Amanda and I've been working "somatically" for 16+ years.. I started out as a bodyworker and moved to somatic therapy and coaching when I realised I really wanted to be able work with the patterns in the mind and emotions that were creating the tension or collapse I was meeting on my massage table.

I am Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Lead Essence Coach with the Essence School (amongst many other things!) and am deeply in love with my work. I find working somatically is very soulful.. the body is a place of such wisdom, depth and intelligence.

I look forward to sharing what I know with you.

Please note, this is not a substitute for training with Somatic Experiencing (SE) Australia and I am not certified to give trainings in SE methods.

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WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS TRAINING?

Im a strong advocate for INTEGRATION of what we learn and experience.. so this workshop is a mini-series, with Pre-Workshop videos, the 4 hour workshop itself and a follow up Q+A call 2 weeks later (after you've had a chance to practice the skills in the world/your session room) to integrate what you've learnt.

PRE-WORKSHOP VIDEOS:

These videos will be sent to you give you an outline of the nervous system role and structure and speak to what to watch out for when you're working with Groups and with someone with a less stable nervous system. You'll also get a slide show/video on "Why It's Important To Pay Attention to Your Body when Making Changes" (that you can share with your clients) to get them on board with listening to their body!

4 HOUR WORKSHOP:

Including all the content above.

1.5 HOUR FOLLOW UP CALL:

This call will be held on Zoom after 1.5 weeks. This so you have time to take the tools and practice them with yourself or in sessions, and bring questions for support or brainstorming afterwards.

LOCATION: Living Yoga Sanga, level 1, 63 Stuart St, Mullumbimby

DATE: Saturday March 21st, 1-5.30pm

FOLLOW UP CALL: Tuesday 31st @ 7pm If you cant make this day/time, you can send in your questions or reports before the call and be sent a recording of the call and your answers.

PRICE: $160 Early bird by 8th March Full price $190

ENROLLMENT: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=610684&fbclid=IwAR0HKaa5hzyi4EF5LO1w8ezeiIoJpArE0WSAwppSEwO-0TMOLWw1ZM_0rpM

To enrol for the Early Bird, please do so by the end of the day, Saturday March 8th.

Refund Policy: Please note, there are no refunds within a week of the event and a $50 admin fee on any refunds before that date.

There is pre-workshop content, so the earlier you enrol, the sooner you get to begin!

Any questions, feel free to message me here on FB or send a text via 0421079644

Many blessings!

Amanda

"I loved cementing and growing my love for the wisdom of the body. Finding new ways to listen, and understanding how to guide someone gently though trauma and unreleased emotion, so that the body can release naturally and we can begin to befriend the whole spectrum of feelings" - Jody

Saturday class is practiced only on the floor, no standing poses and we stretch for longer. It's a melt-a-licious practice.

Longer holding stretches open our energetic pathways (meridians) and enhance the flow of life energy (chi) nourishing internal organs. Our focused attention to breathing slows the mental activity.

All welcome to join, beginner, experienced, happy, sad, doesn't matter. We watch the changing of the mind, body, sensations, feelings, thoughts and rest so deeply in the presence and aliveness that is always there.

No need to book, just turn up $20 or class pass

The Shaking Medicine Teacher Training delivers the information one needs to guide an amazing journey of Shaking Medicine. Teaching this is unlike facilitating any other journey. When a Shaking Medicine teacher is guiding a class well everyone in the class will be doing something completely different, which is quite different than most other gym, yoga, yin, Pilates, dance, Qi Gong and many other modalities including other shaking modalities. It is fun to share in this style and is very empowering to both you and your students. This training gives you the tools to guide an invitational, intuitive and transformational journey.

During this training you will advance your own Shaking Medicine practice with new understandings to weave into your practice, experience the most common as well as new postures for shaking in, understand the foundational history, science and philosophy of Shaking Medicine, learn how to teach and sequence a Shaking Medicine class safely and effectively, receive class plans for teaching and become certified as a Shaking Medicine teacher.

We have learned, developed and evolved a very effective process over the years for bringing people into Shaking Medicine. We will share these skills and insights with you. You will obtain a solid understanding of Shaking Medicine and be fully prepared to teach Shaking Medicine to others. We incorporate the latest insights and knowledge. The training includes a balance of learning styles such as visual, aural, verbal, logical and kinesthetic.

There are options to do this teacher training completely online or in person. The in person part of the training also includes at home elements and online elements.

This practice is growing and evolving quickly and as such this information will be periodically updated.

Check out the full details at www.ShakingMedicine.com/teachertraining

Logistics

Time and Date: March 6-8, 2020 Fri: 6-9 pm Sat: 9am-4pm Sun: 9am-4pm

Location: Living Yoga Sanga 63 Stuart Street Mullumbimby NSW 2482

Contribution: Early Bird $650 (ends midnight Jan. 19th) Early Bird $725 (end midnight Feb. 15th) Full $800

Booking: https://www.shakingmedicine.com/teachertraining

Mats, bolsters and blankets are available. Bring water, water bottle, snacks, cushions, notebooks, and/or anything else you may like to feel comfortable. Mullumbimby has many nice places to eat and grab refreshments.

Feel free to contact us to ask us any questions. info@shakingmedicine.com

Jakob is back - Starts March 2nd 2020.

Monday 5.00 - 7.30pm with Siddhartha’s Intent Australia at Living Yoga Sanga.

We offer an introductory talk on meditation, for both new and experienced practitioners, followed by the actual practice. Meditation establishes peaceful presence and mindfulness, allowing us to awaken to a more open appreciation of our reality. Dharma Study is dedicated to the study of classical Buddhist texts ”In my approach, I aspire to be non-exclusive. The purpose of the Buddhist path is to uncover a common heritage of awakening. Growing up multi-lingual and being at home in several cultures, I am aware how ordinary common experiences and truths can be obscured across languages. I wish to share the heart and spirit of Buddhist insights in contemporary terms, and through the practice of meditation. I do not subscribe to the current trend of sanitising Buddhism for modern consumption, and see all aspects of the various Buddhist traditions as having a valid role in uncovering buddhanature”.
 Jakob Leschly

Cost : $5 suggested donation. Phone: +61 438 858 842 Email: www.si.org.au

This once a month immersion is Saturday class is practiced only on the floor, no standing poses and we stretch for longer. It's a melt-a-licious practice.

Longer holding stretches open our energetic pathways (meridians) and enhance the flow of life energy (chi) nourishing internal organs. Our focused attention to breathing slows the mental activity.

All welcome to join, beginner, experienced, happy, sad, doesn't matter. We watch the changing of the mind, body, sensations, feelings, thoughts and rest so deeply in the presence and aliveness that is always there. No need to book, just turn up - $20 or class pass

Save $25 if you book by 2 February!

We are pleased to offer a trauma sensitive yoga program for mental health and well-being. The 6 week program also features an initial one-on-one with Tabatha. Specifically designed for clients suffering with stress, anxiety, depression or trauma, the program combines both meditation and subtle yoga poses. Restorative yoga is a gentle form of exercise and relaxation aimed to soothe the nervous system and increase calmness both mentally and physically.

This class is likely to be quite different from any yoga class you've attended. In each session you are invited to explore gentle movement, breath awareness and meditation. I consider the needs of the individual body, mind and spirit, whether in a group class or an individual session. You are genuinely encouraged to make the practice your own and to tune into your bodies' wisdom. We will work together to soothe your nervous system and align your breath, body and spirit.

Investment: $195

$25 off if you book by 2 February!

We are pleased to offer a trauma sensitive yoga and meditation program for mental health and well-being. The 6 week program also features an initial one-on-one with Tabatha. Specifically designed for clients suffering with stress, anxiety, depression or trauma, the program combines both meditation and subtle yoga poses.

This class is likely to be quite different from any yoga class you've attended. In each session you are invited to explore gentle movement, breath awareness and meditation. I consider the needs of the individual body, mind and spirit, whether in a group class or an individual session. You are genuinely encouraged to make the practice your own and to tune into your bodies' wisdom. We will work together to heal and soothe your nervous system and align your breath, body and spirit.

Investment: $195

This is an invitation for everyone who wants to meet me and my work to come and journey with me into the higher energetic realms. It is also an opportunity for everyone to connect with the light within. We will start with a guided meditation that opens a space for healing and exploration of the realms of light. There will be time to ask personal questions. I will be tuning in and using my guidance to receive answers and support individual healing. I am also open to talk a little about my journey if anyone is interested. This afternoon is also an introduction to the Spirit of Light Training and Practitioner Training. Come along to bathe in love and light and open to your own potential. PLACES ARE LIMITED AND BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL Sunday, 2 February 2020 1.00pm to 5.00pm at Living Yoga Sangha Studio, 1st Floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Cost: $15 pay prior to event or $20 at the door FREE FOR SOL TRAINING GRADUATES FOR INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS Ghata spiritoflighttraining@gmail.com or 0403 399 904 Payment by direct deposit to Studio Services, CommBank, BSB No: 062-578, Account No: 10179413 Ghata I Engels is an internationally renowned and respected energy worker and facilitator. Since 1992, Ghata has worked globally in teaching and leading personal development trainings and is the founder and director of SOL Spirit of Light Training and Practitioner Training. Her students see her as an incredibly intuitive and supportive teacher who is truly authentic in her care and commitment to leading by example. Her level of openness and authenticity is unique which attracts men and women from all walks of life.

21st December 2:30pm - 4:30pm. Delamay will guide you through a movement meditation and visualisation ritual for planting your seed intentions through movement and affirmation encouraging them to take root and grow. She'll be offering creative Prana Vinyasa yoga sequencing to embody our inner Sun and awaken your inner power, a sustainable fortifying force that requires tending and stoking for continued health and longevity. This sacred activation awakens your core and harnesses strength and presence throughout your entire being.

Accompanied with Lulu & Mischka's musical alchemy during the lunar arts part of the practice, this divine play of conscious movement and intention setting within a healing soundscape will leave you aligned with your inner and out light, clear and connected.

Open to all levels of embodiment. Exchange : $32.74 advance booking (inc booking fee) or $40 Cash payment on the door Bookings on Eventbrite

Saturday class is practiced only on the floor, no standing poses and we stretch for longer. It's a melt-a-licious practice.

Longer holding stretches open our energetic pathways (meridians) and enhance the flow of life energy (chi) nourishing internal organs. Our focused attention to breathing slows the mental activity.

All welcome to join, beginner, experienced, happy, sad, doesn't matter. We watch the changing of the mind, body, sensations, feelings, thoughts and rest so deeply in the presence and aliveness that is always there.

No need to book, just turn up $20 or class pass

Namaste

Saturday 30th November, At Living Yoga Sanga, Mullumbimby

A rare treat to experience a class taught by several teachers of Living Yoga Sanga: our community coming together to support the broader community. A living act of gratitude for those protecting our forests, wildlife, homes.

Sat 30 Nov, 10 - 12noon - With Tabatha Smith, Jodie Lunn, Aesha Kennedy

Free to firefighters, volunteers and those affected by the bushfires. By donation for anybody looking to bliss out and find their inner happy place whilst also raising funds for a good cause. All proceeds will go directly to our local RFS.

LIVING YOGA SANGA 1/63 STUART STREET MULLUMBIMBY www.livingyogasanga.org call us 0422 918 412 or email info@livingyogasanga.org

Each session will focus on a specific element from the (Wushing) Five Elements Theory with its respective set of movement exercises. (Although you will be welcome to join an individual class if you can't make the 5 weeks!)

The Five Elements are a comprehensive template that organizes all natural phenomena into five master groups or patterns in nature. Each of the five groups—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—include categories such as a season, a direction, climate, stage of growth and development, internal organ, body tissue, emotion, aspect of the soul, taste, color, sound . . . the categories are seemingly limitless. The Five Elements reflect a deep understanding of natural law, the Universal order underlying all things in our world.

Qigong is a delightful practice of standing, sitting, and moving meditative methods that improve one’s health and vitality. These five elements Qigong course is primarily concerned with transformation in body, mind and energy (Qi). Experience how still your mind can become and how much present you can be while integrating physical postures, breathing techniques and mental focus. These ancient practices can also provide a way of becoming calmer and more relaxed while working on your coordination, flexibility and strength.

The Five Elements show us how the structures and systems in our bodies are connected to each other; how we are connected to our environment and the natural world; how our world is part of the greater universe. Many people today have lost this deep connection to nature and no longer are able to feel this truth resonate in their being. The Universal principle of connection still exists nonetheless.

These teachings, also rooted on the Traditional Chinese Medicine, focus on our connection to nature and all of creation. Qigong is an internal alchemy practice to help us deeply communicate with the universal elements. It is a way to open energy systems of the body and harmonize the organ systems and focuses on re-establishing harmony within the body.

The course is suitable for students who have never practiced internal martial arts or meditation before, or students who have some experience but want to develop their practice further.

18th November - WOOD The Wood Element focuses on transformation - is all about growth, change and expansion. It teaches flexibility and the willingness to change as represented by a tree's ability to go with the flow of the wind and its bending branches.

25th November – FIRE The Fire Element focuses on energising—the upward flow of energy that energises and amplifies all that it touches.

2nd December - EARTH The Earth Element focuses on integration—the spherical, pulsating flow of energy to intertwine and balance your entire mind-body-energy matrix.

9th December – METAL The Metal Element focuses on expansion—periphery-to-centre and centre-to-periphery flows of energy to create more internal space.

16th December – WATER The Water Element focuses on cleansing—the downward flow of energy to clear blockages and activate the root.

About the instructor: Giselle is a certified Qigong and Tai Chi instructor by different lineage holders and have been studying and teaching Qigong internationally since 2014.

The most recent lineage studied was an intensive 2 months, over 300hrs training in China under Master Yuang Xiu Gang 袁修刚, the 15th Generation of the Wudang San Feng Pai lineage, and also by his disciple Jake Pinnick (Daoist Name: 平懋资根, Ping Mao Zi Gen). The current grandmaster Zhong Yun Long 钟云龙 has defined San Feng Pai as a system of martial arts 武术, health-cultivation practices 养生功, and inner alchemy 内丹.

Giselle also holds over 200hrs of Qigong Instructor training from Energy Arts School taught by Master Bruce Frantzis, disciple of Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh from the Wu Style Tai Chi and the Taoist Water Tradition.

Giselle has also done Inner Alchemy practices course with Master Mantak Chia of the Quanzhen School lineage and founder of the Universal Healing Tao System. Giselle's first teacher was Kailash Kokopelli, whose form was influenced by Osho Divine Healing Exercises lineage.

In addition, Giselle has a degree in Psychology, Human Development and a certificate of Human Anatomy & Physiology. She is a holistic therapist, international mentor, speaker and retreat facilitator.

To register for this course or if you have any questions, please contact Giselle Martins via either email: cosmic.healing@outlook.com or phone: 04 66275593.

Fees: $25 drop in class if paid in advance or $30 on the door (if spaces available).

Payment by bank transfer to Giselle Martins account no: 062-578 1034 2639 with your "first name and Wushing" as reference please. Eg.: Mary Wushing. Please send me a message confirming payment.

Cosmic Healing - http://www.facebook.com/cosmiceaglespace

Monday 25th & Saturday 30th November, At Living Yoga Sanga, Mullumbimby

A rare treat to experience a class taught by several teachers of Living Yoga Sanga: our community coming together to support the broader community. A living act of gratitude for those protecting our forests, wildlife, homes.

Mon 25 Nov, 5 - 6pm - With Giselle Martins - Tibetan Meditation

Sat 30 Nov, 10 - 12noon - With Tabatha Smith, Jodie Lunn, Aesha Kennedy

Free to firefighters, volunteers and those affected by the bushfires. By donation for anybody looking to bliss out and find their inner happy place whilst also raising funds for a good cause. All proceeds will go directly to our local RFS.

LIVING YOGA SANGA 1/63 STUART STREET MULLUMBIMBY www.livingyogasanga.org call us 0422 918 412 or email info@livingyogasanga.org

Starts Saturday 23rd, 25th & 30th November, At Living Yoga Sanga, Mullumbimby

A rare treat to experience a class taught by several teachers of Living Yoga Sanga: our community coming together to support the broader community. A living act of gratitude for those protecting our forests, wildlife, homes.

Sat 23 Nov, 10 - 12noon - With Jodie Lunn, Delamay Devi, Aesha Kennedy

Mon 25 Nov, 5 - 6pm - With Giselle Martins - Tibetan Meditation

Sat 30 Nov, 10 - 12noon - With Tabatha Smith, Jodie Lunn, Aesha Kennedy

Free to firefighters, volunteers and those affected by the bushfires. By donation for anybody looking to bliss out and find their inner happy place whilst also raising funds for a good cause. All proceeds will go directly to our local RFS.

LIVING YOGA SANGA 1/63 STUART STREET MULLUMBIMBY www.livingyogasanga.org call us 0422 918 412 or email info@livingyogasanga.org

Coming back from another intensive 2 months training in China, Wudang Mountains - the home of Tai Chi - Giselle Martins will be hosting a 5-weeks of Internal Martial Arts course on Mondays from 6:30pm to 8pm starting on the 18th November at Living Yoga Sanga in Mullumbimby. Each session will focus on a specific element from the (Wushing) Five Elements Theory with its respective set of movement exercises. (Although you will be welcome to join an individual class if you can't make the 5 weeks!)

The Five Elements are a comprehensive template that organizes all natural phenomena into five master groups or patterns in nature. Each of the five groups—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—include categories such as a season, a direction, climate, stage of growth and development, internal organ, body tissue, emotion, aspect of the soul, taste, color, sound . . . the categories are seemingly limitless. The Five Elements reflect a deep understanding of natural law, the Universal order underlying all things in our world.

Qigong is a delightful practice of standing, sitting, and moving meditative methods that improve one’s health and vitality. These five elements Qigong course is primarily concerned with transformation in body, mind and energy (Qi). Experience how still your mind can become and how much present you can be while integrating physical postures, breathing techniques and mental focus. These ancient practices can also provide a way of becoming calmer and more relaxed while working on your coordination, flexibility and strength.

The Five Elements show us how the structures and systems in our bodies are connected to each other; how we are connected to our environment and the natural world; how our world is part of the greater universe. Many people today have lost this deep connection to nature and no longer are able to feel this truth resonate in their being. The Universal principle of connection still exists nonetheless.

These teachings, also rooted on the Traditional Chinese Medicine, focus on our connection to nature and all of creation. Qigong is an internal alchemy practice to help us deeply communicate with the universal elements. It is a way to open energy systems of the body and harmonize the organ systems and focuses on re-establishing harmony within the body.

The course is suitable for students who have never practiced internal martial arts or meditation before, or students who have some experience but want to develop their practice further.

18th November - WOOD The Wood Element focuses on transformation - is all about growth, change and expansion. It teaches flexibility and the willingness to change as represented by a tree's ability to go with the flow of the wind and its bending branches.

25th November – FIRE The Fire Element focuses on energising—the upward flow of energy that energises and amplifies all that it touches.

2nd December - EARTH The Earth Element focuses on integration—the spherical, pulsating flow of energy to intertwine and balance your entire mind-body-energy matrix.

9th December – METAL The Metal Element focuses on expansion—periphery-to-centre and centre-to-periphery flows of energy to create more internal space.

16th December – WATER The Water Element focuses on cleansing—the downward flow of energy to clear blockages and activate the root.

About the instructor: Giselle is a certified Qigong and Tai Chi instructor by different lineage holders and have been studying and teaching Qigong internationally since 2014.

The most recent lineage studied was an intensive 2 months, over 300hrs training in China under Master Yuang Xiu Gang 袁修刚, the 15th Generation of the Wudang San Feng Pai lineage, and also by his disciple Jake Pinnick (Daoist Name: 平懋资根, Ping Mao Zi Gen). The current grandmaster Zhong Yun Long 钟云龙 has defined San Feng Pai as a system of martial arts 武术, health-cultivation practices 养生功, and inner alchemy 内丹.

Giselle also holds over 200hrs of Qigong Instructor training from Energy Arts School taught by Master Bruce Frantzis, disciple of Grandmaster Liu Hung Chieh from the Wu Style Tai Chi and the Taoist Water Tradition.

Giselle has also done Inner Alchemy practices course with Master Mantak Chia of the Quanzhen School lineage and founder of the Universal Healing Tao System. Giselle's first teacher was Kailash Kokopelli, whose form was influenced by Osho Divine Healing Exercises lineage.

In addition, Giselle has a degree in Psychology, Human Development and a certificate of Human Anatomy & Physiology. She is a holistic therapist, international mentor, speaker and retreat facilitator.

To register for this course or if you have any questions, please contact Giselle Martins via either email: cosmic.healing@outlook.com or phone: 04 66275593.

Fees: $111 for the 5 weeks block or $25 drop in class if paid in advance or $30 on the door (if spaces available).

Payment by bank transfer to Giselle Martins account no: 062-578 1034 2639 with your "first name and Wushing" as reference please. Eg.: Mary Wushing. Please send me a message confirming payment.

Cosmic Healing - http://www.facebook.com/cosmiceaglespace