Qi-Gong Workshops 2024
🏷 €105 (includes 1 organic & vegetarian lunch)
📅 April 13th, 2024
🕰 [SUN: 10-12, lunch, 14-17]
✍️ to register: write info@abundancewithin.org or
☎️ to register: 0456 26 41 50
🗣 Instructions are in English and simple Dutch
what you'll learn
You will learn and perfect your Qigong/Taiji posture, connect to your center Dan Tian, develop and strengthen your structure and roots, discover and improve the open energy flow, clarify the yin and yang phases of the movements, and tune in to the natural unhindered way of Qi.
We will pair up to practice and physically experience the connection to our center and the ground, and to help each other feel the openness of joints. We will enjoy the feeling of our unobstructed life energy!
your instructor
Zuzanna Jikō Grzywacz began training taijiquan and qigong in 2005. She since had the chance and privilege to practice with Masters Yang Jwing Ming, Howard Choy and Master Sam Chin.
She also practiced for 6 years under the guidance of Piotr Ziemba (former head of TaijiQuan and QiGong Federation for Europe and member of Chen Xiao Wang World Taijiquan Association) and served as his teaching assistant.
these workshops are for you, too
This workshop is dedicated to both beginners and those who have practiced qigong for years. Your structure, roots, and connection between all energetic and physical centers of your body are the foundation of correct Qigong.
We will explore this thoroughly and carefully during our workshop.
when, and how to register
The next workshop is planned for
April 13th 2024
Simply register by writing info@abundancewithin.org or call/message us on +32 456 26 41 50
program & pricing
Sunday 10:00 – 12:00 |meal&rest| 14:00 – 17:00
The early bird cost (if you register by March 15th) is 95€ for the whole day, which includes one vegetarian organic meal.
The registration cost after March 15th is €105.
You can simply pay cash or via Payconiq upon arrival for the weekend.
The exact program (subject to slight changes):
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Warm-up and stretching
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Principles of Tao
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Yin and Yang elements of our body and their function
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Structure and root exercises
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Waking up the Qi
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Yang Style QiGong movements
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Breathing exercises – reverse (Taoist) breathing, abdominal breathing, DanTian breathing
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Energy expansion Peng and how to use it in QiGong
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Energy absorption Lu and how to use it in QiGong
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Peng Lu Ji An (Expand, Absorb, Squeeze and Push)
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Coordinating and harmonizing the neigong and waigong – the internal and the external
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Spirals and spheres
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Chen Style QiGong movement
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Vase and a Tree Holding Form
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Awareness of the bones, joints, tendons, and fascia.
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Standing QiGong practice
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Front, side, and back awareness
About Qi-Gong
what is Qi-Gong?
Qi means “life energy”, gong means "work" or “activity”. It is an ancient Chinese system that includes movement, breathing, and state of mind used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial arts training.
Everyone can find something that they will love about practicing Qigong. It can take on a dynamic or martial form and it can also be a very gentle and subtle internal exercise.
Profound benefits of Qigong, such as its influence on our nervous system, digestion, respiratory system, and blood circulation have already been proven scientifically long ago.
It involves using exercises to optimize energy within the body, mind, and spirit, with the goal of improving and maintaining health and well-being.
Qigong has both psychological and physical components and involves the regulation of the mind, breath, and body’s movement and posture.
In most forms of qigong:
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Breath is slow, long, and deep. Breath patterns may switch from abdominal breathing to breathing combined with speech sounds.
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Movements are typically gentle and smooth, aimed for relaxation.
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Mind regulation includes focusing one’s attention and visualization.
Dynamic (active) Qigong techniques primarily focus on body movements, especially movements of the whole body or arms and legs. Meditative (passive) Qigong techniques can be practiced in any posture that can be maintained over time and involve breath and mind exercises, with almost no body movement.