ONLINE Qigong with Daverick Leggett 2023
These online Qigong courses have proved to be one of the most effective, easy and rewarding ways of developing and maintaining a strong Qigong practice. Online Qigong brings the practice into your own home and supports you to incorporate Qigong into your daily life. The classes are open to everyone whether beginners or seasoned practitioners. All welcome!
The autumn season begins Tuesday October 3rd.
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These classes work on a subscription model which enable you to do as many classes as you like each week. The fee for this is £15 per week. The material we cover changes as the season progresses and you are updated by weekly email. This season all classes will be recorded and made available the same day so that, if you miss a session, you can catch up in your own time.
Here’s how it works:
• you enrol, once only. The system sets up an automated weekly payment and automatically adds your name to a participant list
• you can cancel or pause your payment at any time with ease
• you will be sent a new link by email each week
• this single link works for all classes
JOIN HERE
A Typical Timetable
Mondays 5-5.40pm Qigong
Tuesdays 7.30-8am Meditation, 5-5.40pm Qigong
Wednesdays 7.30-8am Meditation, 5-5.40pm Qigong
Thursdays 7.30-8am Meditation, 5-6pm Qigong
Fridays 7.30-8am Meditation
About the classes
Meditation. The meditation can be practised on the floor or on a chair. All meditation practices will share the same essential ground, the various ways in which we settle body, breath and mind. The exact nature of the practice changes over time, with each new practice being taught slowly and staying with the same method for many weeks.
Hua Gong Forms. These are the fundamental self healing practices of Hua Gong, consisting of flowing movements which open the channels, activate the Qi and animate the body, heart and mind. They are rich and potent enough to serve as a lifelong practice, supporting our health at all levels and helping us heal.
Qi Ball. The Qi ball practices are universal to all Qigong styles. Working with the ball includes a variety of still postures and movement sequences. As well as significant health benefits, it is one of the best ways to develop our “Qi capacity”- our ability to contain strong experience – and our ability to directly feel the Qi.
Shen Form. In Qigong we talk about Jing, Qi and Shen. The Jing refers to the more physical level, Qi to the energetic and Shen to light or consciousness. The Shen form is a simple sequence of gestures whose effect is to help contain the Shen, to help keep the light in and around the body and prevent us from “leaking”. Psychologically we can experience this as the mind being well rooted in the body and a feeling of “coming back to ourselves”.
Five Animal forms. The Five Animal practices are more physical than most Huagong practices. They are also the most playful. In all cases they are energising and strengthening. The animal forms imitate the movements of deer, tiger, bird, bear and monkey in a stylised way and the practice steers a course between form and spontaneity. Like all Huagong, the essence of the practice is to connect, in this case to the spirit/energy of the animal.
Five Organ Qigong. This is a set of movements for the Yin organs (Kidney, Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung). Once we have learned this set, we focus more closely on each organ in turn, learning other complementary exercises, hand gestures and meditations.