Learn Healing Practices For The Kidneys, Brain and Bones.

When I was on my quest to heal my chronic pain, I'll never forget my qigong teacher telling me:

"We are ultimately responsible for our own healing."

That stopped me in my tracks.

Wait, you mean I have to heal myself???

That's when I stopped my endless search for a healer who could relieve my pain, and I took it on myself.

I started to meditate on healing and took on the practices of energy work through the physical practices of yoga and qigong.

Combining yoga and qigong provides a seasonal format to work with the energetic layers of our being.

Each season, the energy from the sun (our energetic Wifi signal) has a slightly different frequency, depending on how the sun is positioned to the Earth.

The energy of the winter water element is ‘consuming and packing’.

We observe this in the natural world, as the animals hibernate in the winter and slow down, needing to conserve. They ‘pack’ the energy for the cold dark days, and we humans energetically mirror this behavior. It’s easier to sit and be still in the winter, as we can meditate and gain clarity.

Are you ready to take on your own healing?

This weekend we will work on healing practices that tend to our joint pain, endocrine system, bone density, and brain health.

Through the five elemental paradigm of Chinese medicine, we work with the energy frequency and vibration of the season, which relates to the organs, the emotions, the bodily tissue, the sense organs, and internal systems.

In the winter, we focus on the kidneys, bladder, bones, ears, brain, and endocrine system, which all belong energetically to the water element.

According to Chinese medicine, we have six energetic kidneys. The brain is energetically the second set of kidneys, the third set being the reproductive organs.

So we pay attention to our memory recall, our reproductive issues, problems with the ears that could appear as tinnitus or vertigo, as well as any physical issues in our kidneys and bladder and bone density, which all show up this season.

Bone density is easier to increase in the winter.

The practices of tapping, leading, and packing the chi to increase the production of blood cells are shown actually to increase bone density.

This has been studied, tested, and proven by Dr. Wolfe, a physician who discovered that if we put pressure or a stress load on the bones, they respond by getting stronger. This is known as Wolfe’s law. It also stimulates our blood factory, the immune system of white and red blood cells.

By vibrating and creating impact, we increase bone density. Tapping on the bones is a strategic way of creating trauma which creates osteoblast to lay down bone. Both bone tapping and micro bending our bones in yoga and qigong poses contract the muscles into the bones and slightly bend the bones, which creates a workload and increases our bone density.

As we get older, if we don’t move much, not only do we rust, but our bones turn to chalk. We use three primary tools to increase bone density: tapping, shaking, and holding stances for longer times.

Brain Health

The endocrine system also belongs to water. If the water doesn’t move regularly, the endocrine system slowly breaks down. A healthy constitution keeps the energy of water above to create a cool, moist mind so we are not subject to being hot-headed with inflammation.

Heat in the head produces obsessive thinking and stimulates the gamma and beta waves in the mind of fast-moving thoughts, which heats up and expands the brain. We need to bathe the brain with cerebral spinal fluid, especially while we sleep.

Too often, this doesn’t happen when we’re stressed.

We heal this maladaptive behavior with meditation, breathwork, qigong, and yoga, which will balance our systems.

This weekend we will be practicing these methods that are highly effective in the water time of year:

• Lower abdominal breathing creates fire below and packs the kidneys.

• Leading the chi with our minds and breath from the extremities of our fingers and toes up our limbs, wrapping and packing to contract into the bones.

• Tapping on the meridians, bones, and organs to stimulate qi flow and bone marrow production.

Join us for the winter longevity practices this weekend on Saturday, January 13 for a Qigong workshop in the late morning to activate kidney qi and the Meridian Flow workshop in the afternoon to fortify the kidneys, brain, endocrine system, and bone density.

Sunday, January 14 for the Wisdom of Yin, exploring the Tao te Ching.

And remember, we are ultimately responsible for our own healing.

Learn these practices - and join a group of yogis on the path of living long and WELL through the Master's Path or 300-hour Teacher Training.

This practice has been so helpful to those suffering from auto-immune issues, chronic pain and anxiety.

Let's build some kidney qi and age gracefully with solid bones, a sharp mind and ample energy!

I hope to move and breathe with you this weekend.

Blessings~

Maggie