Year: 2009

Tai Chi / Qi Gong Weekend with Rene Navarro

At Heights of Wellness, Hartford, CT

Dragon Well Qigong

 A choreography of the most important postures and movements in the vocabulary of qigong and martial arts. Excellent for your health, longevity and peace of mind and you will feel what qi is like. 3 Breaths, Inner Smile and the Six Healing Sounds are included in this workshop.

 

Saturday, March 6, 2010 10am – 5pm

 DaoRen Taiji Qigong 

This is a short Tai Chi form that moves in a small space.  It contains the 8 movements and the 5 directions: the core of classical Tai Chi. The form is relaxing and meditative, and exercises the different parts of the body. Further elucidation of the movements will be made at this seminar.

Sunday, March 7, 2010  10am – 5pm

 

RENE J. NAVARRO, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM)  is an internationally known instructor and teacher. He is a senior instructor in the Healing Tao. He studied Shaolin Temple Boxing under Master Johnny Chiuten and Grandmaster Lao Kim in the Philippines and Classical Yang Family Tai chi chuan with Master Gin Soon Chu in Boston.

 

“Rene is an amazingly powerful and magical being.” A student comment.

For more information about this amazing teacher, please view his website:

www.ReneNavarro.org

 

His email: nava.rene@gmail.com

Workshop held at:

 Heights of Wellness

1477 Park St, Suite 14 (third floor)

Hartford, CT

 

Sponsored by : Quan Yin Healing Arts, Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

Contact:  Karen Borla   860-523-9424

 

Cost: 

Saturday and Sunday:  $230.00

Saturday only:                   $130.00

Sunday only:                 $130.00

 

Registration:

 

Saturday,3/6/10   DragonWell Qigong ________   $130

Sunday,  3/7/10    DaoRen Taijiquan    ________  $130

Saturday and Sunday                             ________ $230 (save $30.00)

 

Early Registration before Feb 6, 2010  one day $120 both days $220

Please check your workshop preferences and mail this form with your check or money order ( made payable to Karen Borla) to:

 

Karen Borla,

Quan Yin Healing Arts Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

45 South Main St.  Suite 206

West Hartford,  CT  06107

 

For questions or information call Karen Borla at 860-523-9425

Rene will be in the Boston area to teach two qigong seminars on Feb 27 and 28 at the New England School of Acupuncture. The courses will be open to the general public, healers, patients and acupuncturists. They have been approved for 7 CEU credits for acupuncturists.

On Saturday 2/27/10 he will be teaching Xing Shen Zhuang Fa. 

Xing Shen Zhuang Fa is a method of cultivating and moving qi through the spine and limbs. It is appropriate for and used by both beginning and advanced practitioners interested in self-cultivation.  It’s goal is to have  the shen ming or light of the spirit to permeate the physical body. Xing Shen Zhuang has been adopted in Chinese hospitals both as a cure and rehabilitative therapy. The practitioner will be able to grow and nurture the qi, move the qi along the arms and legs and especially spine to the brain, and take care of obstructions in the physical and energy body, thus making for a more effective healing.

Talk Story

After traveling through roads I was not familiar with, I found an old couple outside of their house , in the shadow of the mountains of Oahu. Grey haired, first generation Japanese, both walked with a slow, quiet gait in the way of people who were used to an unhurried pace. Their faces looked slightly weathered, the skin like rice paper, from working in the sun, I guess.

They kept a nursery, mostly of orchids and bonsai. I can’t remember the location but it wasn’t far from the Valley of the Temples overlooking the Chinaman’s Hat. The man, bearded, was stooping over a table, pruning a red maple, getting it ready for replanting: he had cleared the roots, cut and twisted several branches, and what remained was the beginning of a bonsai tree. I stood there and watched the painful procedure. The Japanese woman led me past the varied bonsai to the greenhouse at the rear of the premises.

On the way, a glimpse of the interior of their house: in the light of a late afternoon I saw a low Japanese table used for dinner and tea ceremonies sitting in the center of the living room. On the wall, a silk painting with calligraphy. A subtle scent met us at the gate of the greenhouse: the elusive perfume of the orchids that one sometimes encounters on a hike through dense tropical forests. I wasn’t into orchids but here was an array of some of the most beautiful I have seen in one place. The only other private collection that I admired belonged to a young man, a brilliant student and progressive and a vocal critic of the Marcos government. He spent time in jail for his politics. He must have cultivated a thousand. A brave patriot tending to these delicate flowers. Later, he died of a heart attack, possibly as a result of his harsh imprisonment.

I walked around the greenhouse to see and smell. The woman asked me what I did. “I’m an acupuncturist and herbalist, I teach martial arts and meditation,” I said. As we prepared to leave, she said, “Come visit again. Let’s talk story.” It sounded like an invitation to an ancient pastime. People gathered in one place telling stories. Children seated at the feet of the patriarch or matriarch listening to folk tales and legends. “I’ll come back,” I answered. But it wasn’t meant to be. When I was in Hawaii again, I drove to the area a countless times but I could not find the place. We are gifted with a glimpse of beauty and we carry it with us in a kind of nostalgia for a secret place we treasure but when we go back, it is not there where we remembered it to be.