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Qi Gong For Emotional Resilience

A Five-Week LIVE Virtual Class

Tuesday April 21- May 19

 5:30-6:45 PM EST

First Class is FREE, and the series is sliding scale $20-$100

25% of proceeds will go to Mutual Aid Organizations

Has the pandemic made it harder for you to stay emotionally balanced in the midst of all the challenge and uncertainty? For many of us, the extreme and unforeseen impacts of the pandemic have left us feeling overwhelmed, anxious, hopeless, disconnected, or shut down. During traumatic and prolonged stress, our individual and collective nervous systems end up in heightened states of fight, flight, freeze, submission and disassociation.  This can make it hard to even get through the day, let alone show up the way we long to during this pivotal moment in history.

This Class will focus on:

  • Learning qi gong movements to invite more energy, balance, and ease in the body

  • Learning somatic techniques for balancing the nervous system and releasing activation energy that gets built up during chronic stress

  • Understanding the unique way that each of our nervous systems respond to threat and stress

  • Practicing emotional resilience skills

  • Creating a virtual community that is supportive, heartfelt, and playful

A few words on resilience...

"True resilience allows us to meet challenge in a way that leverages our human capacity for cooperation, connection, and courage instead of collapsing into the unhealthy aspects of our fight, flight, and freeze response. True resilience builds our individual and collective capacity to have more power, choice, and agency and to create stronger community."

-Geoff Cox

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Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, movements, breathing techniques, and focused intention. It is a low-impact form of exercise that can be practiced by people of all fitness levels. It is also a fun way to get a good workout while developing power, stability, coordination, flexibility, and ease in both body and mind.

 

There is a new science of emotional resilience that comes out of a deepening understanding our neurobiology, relational neuroscience, and somatics. In this class I blend the ancient practice of qi gong with science-based practices for settling the nervous system and skillfully working with our survival energies (fight, flight, freeze, submit, and disassociate).

Class 1

Qi Gong & Nervous System Fundamentals

Practice centering and settling with movement, Breath, and Focus

Class 2

Safety, Connection, & Dignity in the Body 

Practice centering and settling with movement, Breath, and Focus

Class 3

Brave Space: The Wisdom within the Freeze Response

Understand our biological impulse toward freezing and disassociation and learn safe ways to come out of the freeze response and back into the body

Class 4

Fierce Love: The Wisdom within the Fight Response

Discover how to use qi gong practices to meet challenges with a greater sense of strength, courage, intention, and healthy boundaries

Class 5

Finding Flow: The Wisdom within the Flight Response

Learn how to use qi gong practices to meet anxiety, distraction, and overwhelm with flexibility, clarity, and groundedness

About Geoff

In addition to being a Qi Gong teacher, Geoff is a licensed acupuncturist, somatic trauma bodyworker, meditation teacher and developmental coach. For the past 15 years, Geoff has trained extensively in Qi Gong primarily through the study and practice of Ba Gua Zhang, as well as Tai Chi, Medical Qi Gong, and Zapchen Somatics. He is passionate about teaching Qi Gong as pathway for healing trauma and increasing individual and collective resilience.  Learn more about Geoff here.

 "Geoff's humble, genuine, and playful way of being masterfully engages students and empowers them to grow in self-awareness and self-love. As an instructor myself, I have learned a great deal from him about holding space, trusting the process, and finding more joy in teaching and learning."

- Polina Mischenko

Choose Your Registration Option

The standard price of the course is $100.  In an effort to make the class more accessible during these economically uncertain times, I am offering a sliding scale where you can choose what to pay based on your life circumstances. Those paying at the higher end support my ability to offer free and low-cost services to those who are less able to afford them.

25% of proceeds will go to Mutual Aid Organizations

First Class Only

FREE

Best option for trying the class out before signing up for the whole series

  • Access to LIVE Class 1

  • Option to sign up for full series after completing the first class

5-Class Series

$20-100

Best option if you are ready to sign up for the whole series. You choose where on the sliding scale fits with your financial reality.

  • 5 Live Classes

  • 1 Hour Q&A where I answer any questions folks have about qi gong, emotional resilience, and somatic practices to the best of my ability

  • Access to recordings of the classes and Q&A for six months

Series + 1-on-1 Coaching

Variable

Best option for the most personalized and in-depth learning

  • 5 Live Classes

  • Access to recordings of the classes for six months

  • Personalized qi gong instruction

  • Feedback on qi gong form

  • 1-on-1 coaching sessions

  • Unlimited Q&A related to qi gong and emotional resilience betwee classes

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