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Daoist Qigong Levels 1 & 2 with Sophie Léger
Jardin Gilberte Paquette, 6th floor, at the Bruyère Hospital, 43 Bruyère Street, Ottawa
Saturday, September 25th and Sunday, September 26th at 09:00

In Level 1 students will be in instructed in various techniques of outer and inner qigong. Outer qigong is concerned with strengthening the muscular-skeletal system - joints, muscles, tendons, bones, and spinal column. Techniques of tendon changing, marrow washing, self-massage, and calisthenics will be taught. Inner qigong is concerned with nourishing the internal organs and cultivating qi, or internal energy. Students will learn Chen Xiyi's sleeping and walking qigong and Wang Xiangzhai's standing qigong.

In Level 2 the focus will be on tendon changing and self-massage. The Twelve Devas Tendon-Changing system and the Nine Self-massage system will be taught in entirety.

Sophie Léger is a meditation instructor and served as Director of the Montreal Shambhala Meditation Centre from 1995 until 2000. She was also chair of the Karmê Chöling Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2007. Sophie is currently training with Eva Wong as one of four teachers who will be assisting Ms. Wong in making her Qigong lineages available to Western students.

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Suggested donation: $120 (50% less if repeating)

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