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Qigong:
Nourishing Practices
for Spring

On-Demand Course

Available Now!

Learn to flow with the changing nature of your life.

Every year, after the quiet dormancy of winter, nature bursts forth, unleashing an exquisite creation of colour, vibrancy and growth. We’ve been yearning for warmer days, yet spring weather is temperamental; birdsong and bright days can suddenly give way to arctic-like winds or heavy rains. Nature uses this time to test our patience and fortitude.

How can we meet this seasonal shift with resourcefulness, patience, and strength? From the perspective of qigong and mindfulness, we can practice embodied presence, and skillfully attune and attend to nature’s energies around and within us. We are nature, manifest in human form.

Qigong is an ancient Chinese art of energy cultivation with roots in Buddhist and Daoist traditions. During this 4-part online course, we’ll explore nourishing qigong practices that align us with our elemental constitution of Wood and its corresponding season of spring.

Through recordings of weekly Q&A and movement lessons with Mimi, as well as independent practice, you’ll learn to use qigong to navigate life’s shifting seasons with greater ease.

Practices are suitable and adapted for a variety of physical abilities and levels of experience. Options to do qigong standing as well as seated are shared.

This course was previously run live. It is now offered as a self–paced programme that you can work through as your daily life allows.

From this dynamic course, you will take away:

  • Knowledge of key qigong movement principles and breathing techniques
  • Understanding of how qigong can nourish and support us, by regulating and supporting a healthy flow of life in our bodies
  • A physical home qigong practice for you to maintain or continue to develop

Module 1 — Rising Yang and the Energy of Spring

In this first module, we will look at the energy of spring, and how to feel rooted and grounded through standing meditation and gentle movement forms related to the Wood element. 

A short talk introducing our themes will be followed by a guided qigong practice.

Module 2 — Root to Rise

We’ve now planted deep roots. In our second module we’ll progress by exploring how we can use qigong to support and nourish our personal growth, creation and expansion – mentally, physically, and energetically.

We’ll learn how to cultivate a healthy range of movement and mobility, particularly in our joints, ligaments and tendons.

Module 3 — Wood’s Organs of the Liver and Gall Bladder

As our practice builds in our third module, we’ll explore the organs associated with spring and Wood.

The liver is considered the architect and the gall bladder the engineer that implements the liver’s visions, plans and dreams.

We can call on our Wood organs to support our qigong practice and lived experience.

Module 4 — Wood’s Virtue and Emotion

Finally, we’ll explore the emotion of Wood, which is anger, and its virtue, which is humaneness, or ren 仁, in Chinese.

Misdirected anger can be like a howling wind, whereas healthy anger expresses itself as ren, a fair and just vision for ourselves and others, and a desire to treat all with kind action and love.

We’ll integrate these concepts into our newfound qigong practice.

Praise for Mimi's Teachings

“I can’t express enough gratitude to Mimi. In her classes, I’ve rediscovered a spiritual centre, a springboard out of hopelessness.” – Naomi Kenan

“Mimi’s classes are keeping me together when everything goes apart. I feel much more calm and more energetic from them, and they’ve given me strength to go further, even if it’s a bad day ahead. It’s hard to describe exactly what they’re doing, it’s just beyond words. But it leaves a visible print in my actions and my life.” – Ozana Celan

“I have never felt better physically or better equipped to calmly and steadily handle life since starting classes with Mimi. Her manner is clear, calming and fun. It is also deeply knowledgeable. I scribble lots of notes each week when listening to the recordings so that I can go back and slowly absorb things later. I feel that I have a lifetime of nuance and deepening.” – Chris Jones

On-Demand Course Details

Qigong Practice

Through recordings of live sessions with Mimi, learn about this ancient Chinese art, and develop a nourishing, inspired home movement practice – a wonderful complement to sitting meditation.

Nature Attunement

Learn to align yourself with nature’s energies and elements around and within you through qigong philosophy, which can help you to stay balanced amidst life changes.

Lifetime Access

Video recordings are permanently available for you to come back to as many times as you like in the future.

30 Day Refund Guarantee

If you're unsatisfied with the course for any reason, please contact us within 30 days of purchase for a full refund.

About Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Mimi Kuo-Deemer is an author and teacher of meditation, qigong, and internal martial arts (6th generation Baguazhang). She champions a balance of playfulness and precision, and never underestimates the value of wise, goofy people. A long-time dharma student of Sangha Live’s founding teacher, Martin Aylward, she also co-leads retreats with him at the Moulin de Chaves. 

Born in upstate New York, Mimi has lived most of her adult life overseas, in Beijing, London, and now Oxfordshire, where she lives with her husband and their dog, three cats, 8 chickens and 60,000 bees. She enjoys writing – her two books include Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis (2018), and Xiu Yang: The Ancient Chinese Art of Self-Cultivation for a Healthier, Happier, More Balanced Life (2019) – and creating online qigong practice videos and DVDs.

Her teachings draw inspiration from nature, the Dao, and the wisdom of Buddha Dharma. She particularly enjoys discovering and sharing ways we can nourish and support our vitality for our own welfare, and the welfare of all life. Click here to learn more about Mimi Kuo-Deemer.