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Mimi Kuo-Deemer – Qigong Balance Series
Mimi Kuo-Deemer – Qigong Balance Series: A series dedicated to Qigong practices designed by Mimi Kuo-Deemer to promote physical, mental, and emotional balance. The series includes guided sessions focusing on gentle movements, breathing exercises, and mindfulness techniques aimed at harmonizing the body’s energy flow and enhancing overall well-being.
Mimi She has been a yoga student since 1995 and a dance lover since 1978. Her mother sent her to ballet school to train her for walking.-Toes. Mimi It mainly teaches alignment and breath.-Cross-based vinyasa yoga, which is based on Vinyasa.-Pollinated with elements of Buddhist and Daoist teachings.
She advocates meditation as the solution to almost all of life’s major questions. And she never underestimates how yoga can bring strength and clarity when things get tough. Donna Farhi and Erich Schiffmann, her two primary teachers in yoga, continue to humble her by pointing out that yoga is the art and practice of listening, learning, and embodying a deeply spiritual tradition.
In 2002 Mimi co-founded Yoga Yard, Beijing’s first and leading yoga studio, which she co-For seven years, she was director. She currently resides in London and teaches workshops, classes and retreats both in the UK as well as internationally. She is also the author of the DVD “Vinyasa Yoga: A Steady Mindful Practice”.
Yoga for Sacroiliac Stability
Qigong Anxiety
A Qigong Class with gentle movements that help to calm, ground, and ease anxiety In Qigong According to Chinese medicine, anxiety is caused by stagnant, stuck or chaotic qi (or life energy) flowing through our organs. In this class we’ll do practices to support our qi to flow in more natural, balanced ways. This will help to reduce anxiety-provoking thoughts like worry, fear, and restlessness. All you’ll need is some comfortable clothes and some space to stand.
Qigong Balance Series 3: Emotional Balance
Qigong Balance Series 2: Energetic Balance
Qigong Balance Series 1: Structural Balance
The first class in this series explores your body’s structural capacity to balance. The movements are slow, gentle and mindful. This qigong class can be used as a daily practice throughout the years to maintain our strength and balance. Yoga and qigong poses that target the feet and legs.-You will be able to stand more comfortably and easily on one leg with lateral connectivity. This is a good series for those who don’t wish to weight bear on their arms, hands and wrists. There are no props needed, not even mats!
Buddha’s Teachings – Yoga for Equanimity
This gently flowing yoga and Qi Gong class explores the fourth of the brahmavihārās, or boundless states, known as upekkha, or equanimity. This fourth abode can be misunderstood as equanimity could easily be interpreted as indifference or not caring. The Buddha’s teachings suggest this is far from the truth. Upekkha, as he described it, is an unshakeable balance between heart and mind that is grounded in insight. Equanimity can be achieved by cultivating calmness and being even-minded. This state allows us to trust, respond and meet life with a level of compassion that allows us to care deeply about the things that really matter. We are open to joy, pain and sorrow. We learn to accept life as it is, without expecting more, and to be steady, trusting, and open to any dark corners in our lives.
Buddha’s Teachings – Yoga for Sympathetic Joy
This yoga class is about Mudita, which refers to the third aspect in the Buddha’s teachings that awaken the heart. Mudita refers to finding joy in the success and happiness of others. It is the third of four boundless states, or brahmavihārās. This well-Round class places a special emphasis on hips and hamstrings. This is an area where many of us feel tight from either a sedantary life or strengthening exercises. Being happy for others when they are happy are we are not, or they achieve things that we haven’t not the easiest practice. In our world, aggression, comparison, envy, and judgment are all common. It takes a lot of effort to make someone happy when they are shining and happy. It is a great feeling to be able to summon sympathy joy. We can remove the weeds that entice envy, pettiness and comparison by cultivating mudita. We become less self-centered and selfish.-You will become more compassionate, generous, and tolerant if you are centered. Our actions can create a chain.-Reaction is where a happy and generous heart radiates out to the world. You’ll only need a mat.
Buddha’s Teachings – Yoga for Compassion
This class focuses on developing a strong, resilient heart that awakens compassion. It is the second of four boundless states, or brahmavihārās. Compassion means to be with another’s suffering. It is the opposite to cruelty. It is often confused with pity. Compassion comes from a desire to be of service to those in distress. It doesn’t have to be physical pain, starvation or loss. Compassion can also be about wanting something else than it is. The Buddha described this as creating clinging and pushing away experience. To cultivate compassion, one must first extend compassion to ourselves. You can start by being yourself-When we have compassion, it creates a platform for compassion towards all people and all creatures in the world. This is a great way to live.-Round yoga class emphasizes heart opening and includes qigong moves.
Buddha’s Teachings – Yoga for Loving Kindness
This practice is centered around metta which means love, goodwill and care.-kindness. It is the first of four boundless states, known as the brahmavihārās. The brahmavihārās are the Buddha’s primary teachings on how we cultivate an awakened heart. In this yoga class, we’ll do some heart-You can explore metta through gentle movements and focused practices (including Qi Gong-inspired ones) that are gentle and focussed. It is the desire to achieve true happiness, both for yourself and for others. In Buddhist teachings, metta is the foundations to our heart’s love and strength as it is what guided the Buddha along his path to care for a world that was in so much pain. We can cultivate metta and support our ability to care for ourselves and the world.
Meditation: Intimacy with Being Here
This is mindfulness.-based meditation, we will cultivate the intimacy of being here – continually present and awake. That sounds good. The problem is, we’re usually anywhere BUT here. We often get caught up in stories or are constrained by our own problems. This is what Buddha called the I, ME and MINE condition. This state can be changed if our minds are trained to recognize it. This is when experience opens up. We can hear the sounds around us, our bodies moving, and feel what they are feeling. It is possible to suddenly feel alive again in the intimacy of the things around us.
Yoga 3D
Yoga is a way to see clearly. In Sankrit this is known as vidya – seeing through the avidya and maya – the misunderstandings, ignorance, delusions and illusions of the world to the truth of what is within and all around us. To support this process, I’ve developed a concept and practice called Yoga 3D. The Three D’s stand for Decelerate (slow down when you’re going unnecessarily fast); Deaggrevate (soften what is tight, tense or makes you aggrevated) and Disentangle (simply and disentangle from anything unnecessary complex). We’ll theme these ideas through an active flow!
Qigong Restorative Yoga and Yoga: Finding Ease
Qigong Restorative Yoga and Yoga: Finding Balance
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This is the second in the three-class system.-Part series Qigong Restorative Yoga. This class will begin with a qigong elemental exercise that will balance your Chinese Five Elements of Fire, Wood, Earth, Metal, and Water. The final part of the class will be quieting restorative practices. You’ll want to have a yoga bolster or sofa cushion and a blanket.
Qigong Restorative Yoga and Yoga: Finding Harmony
Finding Harmony is the first class in the series. Qigong Restorative Yoga. It emphasizes harmony of breath, body movement, and balance of yin/yang. In our lives with conflicting priorities and needs it can be difficult for us to find harmony. The class begins with active qigong, then we move on to restorative yoga. A yoga bolster and two blankets are ideal. Alternately, you could also use a sofa pillow and two pillows.
Swimming Dragon Qigong
This Qigong Swimming dragon version, which uses the Chinese Five Elements and builds strength and balance. It is based upon the work Gerald Sharp, and is one of MimiQigong sequences that are most loved by’s.
Gentle Yoga for Nourishment and Support Series: (5) Effortless Ease
This is the final class in this series of yoga/qi.-We use gong moves to support, nourish and revitalise our body and mind. Our practice is designed for effortless ease. This is known in Chinese as wuwei or effortless effort. It is something we don’t have to strive for but something that happens naturally through practice and steady cultivation. We will therefore take the concepts of rooting, rising and aligning and balance them to see what it is possible to work with the fluid flow and ease of effortless.
Gentle Yoga for Nourishment and Support Series(4) The Yin/Yang Balance
This class focuses on the idea of rooting and feeling your body aligned with the earth below and the sky above. It will help you achieve a greater balance of yin/yang. This class will help you to develop strength and flexibility in your arms, hands, and lower body. It is the Tai Chi Axis when the energies of yin & yang are in balance within our bodies.
Gentle Yoga for Nourishment and Support Series: (3) Between Heaven & Earth
Building on the last class’s focus on rooting to rise, this yoga qi-Gong class builds strength and flexibility in the upper and lower bodies, as well as strength in the hands and arms. Energy upwards from the stable roots to your spine. We will try to lengthen it, and see how our bodies can become a well-nourished and healthy axis between heaven & earth.
Gentle Yoga for Support and Nourishment Series(2) Rooting for Rise
Chinese have a saying ‘gen shen di gu’It means strong foundations and roots. We will move with the breath to shift our focus to rooting deeply in the earth, and then allowing our bodies the freedom to rise from this solid root toward the sky. After the initial warmup, we’ll continue practicing dynamic standing poses.-To feel more connected to our bodies, we did class #1.
Gentle Yoga for Nourishment and Support Series(1) Breathe and Move
This beginners yoga class will help you move with your breath. You will feel supported, nourished, and revitalized. The first class of this series focuses on finding your breath. This allows the body and the breath to move in simple sequences that condition the respiratory and circulatory systems. This will help you feel more energetic, yet calm, clear, and relaxed. This class is accessible for all levels of students and can also be used to calm nerves and bring you back to your breath.
Yoga, the Jewel of the Lotus Heart.Qigong Mindfulness and Mindfulness
In Tibetan, there’s a mantra known as Om mani padme Om, or Hail the jewel in the lotus heart. The mantra states that by using our practices, we can start to polish the jewel that is within our lotus flowers. We can begin to see radiant light from all directions when this polished jewel starts to shine. This gentle, slow-paced practice will include vinyasa yoga and qigong as well mindfulness practices to help our lotus jewel shine.
Harmonising Effort and Ease – Yoga, Qigong Mindfulness Meditation
Buddha stressed that meditation and living a happy life requires effort. This practice will show you how to use right effort to build strength, especially in your legs. It creates more space for awareness and reduces reactivity. We’ll also explore the idea in qigong of using intention, not force – or yong yi, buyong l – and apply it through a blend of yoga and qigong forms to explore how we can harmonise effort and ease.
Yoga is a way to turn towards awareness Qigong & Mindfulness
This beautiful and gentle fusion of yoga and qigong will help you feel grounded, centred and sharpen your awareness. The class focuses on forward folds and twists. This practice, which begins with mindful movement and a gentle approach, explores how to use twists to improve our emotional, mental, and physical experience of being human. Twists allow us to shift our awareness inward. We also give ourselves room to learn how to respond to all the experiences that come. We can then take the time to improve our resources so that we can meet the demands of our external lives.
Vinyasa on The Soft Side of Life
This works well-A gentle yoga class that focuses on side bends and a complete body stretch. Side bends can be a great way to move your whole body. They not only help to open the lungs or respiratory muscles, but also provide a great therapeutic benefit for the spine, back and core. These areas will be less tightened and freer, so you may feel more comfortable with the precious soft side. The class is gentle but you might find some of the moves difficult!
Meditation on Mindfulness and the Elements
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This simple, beautiful meditation class focuses upon mindfulness of the body through our elemental constitutions, which are earth, fire water, air, space, and consciousness. The Buddha spoke of elemental practices to help train attention and to awaken the fluidity of changing experiences. We can begin to be aware of our body through the elements around us, just as the elements in the natural world are constantly interconnected and change. Enjoy! RumiX.
Morning Practice: Fluidity, Flow
Morning yoga and qigong classes are focused on smooth, circular movements through the body and joints. This will set you up for the day. You will find some beautiful qigong forms, including variations of the swimming dragon, followed by active sun salute variations. Also, fluid movements through standing postures. This awakening flow will awaken all your senses!
Morning Practice: Wake up with the Elements
Morning flow classes are about connecting to the natural elements. It is a combination of awakening yoga and qigong. Ancient yogis, Buddhists, and Daoist sages believed we were made from the elements of nature. This practice will help you connect to the elemental world around you. It’s very much like a shorter version of my morning practices, integrating yoga and qigong into mindful movements that help me harmonise my inner body with the outer world. This has a bit of everything – abdominals, hip work, backbends, twists, forward folds and arm balances. Enjoy!
Yoga and a breakamp; Qigong Part3: Renew, Revive
The third in our work break series includes deep twists and standing poses to energise and get the blood moving again In qigong, it’s believed that energy flows where intention goes (yi dao, qi dao). This active practice combining yoga and qigong will revive and renew your body’s circulation and prana/qi flow. It’s a great one to do if you’ve been at at the desk and want a more active break, or as a morning practice to do before work. RumiX.
Yoga and a breakamp; Qigong Part 2: Focus + Clarity
This is the second part of our series. It provides a break from work or school. These Yoga and Qigong All practices provide clarity and clarity. It’s great to bring a mental focus and concentration back into the body when we’re too in our heads. It’s important to be precise in our alignment, as well as with intentional practices such as qigong. ‘clearing the cobwebs’ This is one of my favorite quotes!We can continue to live our lives with more present awareness and presence.
Yoga and a breakamp; Qigong Part 1: Exhale + Sooth
Take a brief break from studying or working. Much of our body’s tension is muscular, but actually, what the muscles and our body crave when we feel tight is deep, satisfying breaths.This short practice releases tension by focusing on exhaling fully and uses Burmese qigong, chest and shoulder openings and forward folds to calm and sooth the mind. It is great for taking a break after a hard day of work, or to release tension. Rumi X clothing
Struggle without effort
In doing yoga, we can learn from the Buddha’s wisdom of working with right effort. This practice will look at how we can move through a practice and learn to identify when we’re putting in healthy effort, or when our effort feels a bit more like a struggle! Some strong arm balances will be available, such as this one-legged crow, eka pada galavasana. This is where we can both play our edge and also surrender to the moment. Hope you enjoy it.
Find Your Inner Light
Beautiful flow that opens the heart, warms the back, and quiets the mind. According to the Yoga Sutra, quieting down the busy mind can occur in many ways. These include lengthening your breath, concentrating on objects, and focusing on dreams or deep sleep. The Yoga Sutra suggests that concentration on the ever can help quiet the mind.-The human heart is thought to be the source of this light. This light grows brighter when we do practices – like polishing a jewel that begins to shine and reflects the light all around it. We’ll look at ways to work with sunlight and moonlight in this fluid vinyasa-It is a sequence that can be used to help you awaken the light in your heart.
Metta: Take Care of Yourself and Others
This more nurturing practice features moon salutes rather than sun salutes. It is a slow, soothing flow that nurtures the heart and soul and provides a beautiful and nurturing sequence. This is a great option for those times when your body requires extra support but you still want to continue your movement practice. The human heart circulates blood the most oxygen rich to itself before moving it out to the rest. Humans can also learn how to care for their bodies and experience. This will help us to be more compassionate towards others. “It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.” – Erich Schiffmann
Devotion: Practising Hanumanasana
Hanumanasana is a challenging pose – it’s the “splits” – but named after the monkey king Hanuman, who in one giant leap stretched across the continent of India to help save his Lord Rama’s wife, Sita. It’s a act of devotion. When we practice Hanumanasana, it can feel really challenging, but if we consider what makes us act in the service of our highest self, or our volition in life – like Hanuman’s devotion and love inspired him to take that immortalized leap – the pose can perhaps be understood in a new light. In this practice we’ll look at Hanumanasana and consider the ways in which can embrace its difficulty with skill and insight.
A New Year Revitalizing Sequence
This short sequence will make you feel refreshed and energized. You will find twists, stretches and side planks for strengthening, as well as backbends that open your heart and help to look forward.
Qigong Breathing
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