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The retreat will be something you do at home but will be guided by regular live online sessions and guided explorations and meditations that you do in your own time.
All live sessions will be recorded so that if you have to miss one you can catch up.
We suggest that as far as is possible all of you follow the timetable because there is a magic in doing practice together at the same time even if you are separated in space.
In the timetable below:
- the RED items are live
- the BLUE items are audio-recorded explorations and meditations for you to do without having to look at the screen
- the GREEN items are videos and documents containing written / pictorial information for you to read.
FRIDAY
10am-11am: Online welcome and check-in. Explanation of Inner Qigong. Practice of Bottle Breathing
Friday 11am: Pictorial exploration of the lungs and the circulation of blood
Friday 11:30am – 12:00: Audio recording: Lobes of Lung Meditation (learning to breath into all the lobes of the lungs and to experience the circulation of the blood)
Friday 12-2: Lunch Break (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
Friday 2-3:30 First Family Qigong
Friday 4:00-5:00 Recording of a lecture about the First Family Qigong + another practice session
Friday 5:30-6:30 Somatic Exploration: Breathing into the Lower Organs and Developing the Voice of the Large Intestine.
Friday 6:30-8:30 Dinner Break.(zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
Friday 8:30-9:30 Short meditation with introduction of the Nine Purification Breaths + sharing circle
SATURDAY
8am-9am: Introduction to Developmental Movements of the First Family + review of First Family Qigong
9am-10:30am Breakfast (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
10:30-11 Somatic Exploration. Feeling the bones, feeling the spine
11-12 Second Family Qigong
12-2 pm Lunch Break (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
2pm-3pm Recorded Presentation on the Second Family + recorded Practice
3:30 – 4pm Question and Answer session
4pm – 5:30 Voicework and Second Family Qigong
5:30 – 6:30 Recorded Somatic Exploration: Exploring the sacrum, the sacral centre and spontaneous movements
6:30-8:30 Dinner (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
8:30-9:30 Short meditation with the Nine Purification Breaths and Channel Breathing + sharing circle
SUNDAY
8am-9am: Introduction to Developmental Movements of the Second Family+ review of Second Family Qigong
9am-10:30am Breakfast (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
10:30-11am Somatic Exploration: Experiencing the fascia and eccentric contraction of muscles
11am – 12 noon: Third Family Qigong : The Seaweed Qigong and Spiral Connections
12-2 pm Lunch Break (zoom will be open for those that want to eat and talk together)
2-2:30 Recorded Presentation about Third Family Meridians
2:30 – 3:30 Third Family Qigong: Working with the Solar Plexus and the Energy Ball
3:30 – 4:00Tea Break (zoom will be open)
4:00 -5:30 Breakout Rooms in pairs for deeper sharing
5:30-6:30 Combining the three families
6:30 – 7pm Finishing Circle