A “Scent-free” environmental request for sessions, please and thank you …
Please note that The Lantern is a SCENT-FREE building. We are encouraged to please keep all sessions as scent free as reasonably possible because of increasing allergies to all kinds of scents and fragrances, including many personal care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners, hand sanitizers, etc.
September 15, 2023
Coming HOME to our Body … making Friends!
Fall T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong classes start up next week … see details in September 6th post below …
My sister sent me this image a few days ago and said how it reminded her of me! This surely catches the spirit of both our T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong practices! So precious that I am choosing to share it … what a lovely place to do it! Thank you, Pat!
Come, Relax and En-JOY!
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~ Hafiz
September 13, 2023
Saturday Retreat at Virginia Water this Weekend, September 16th
CANCELLED
Due to Low Registrations
Hi again to each and to all…
Our T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreat Day planned for Virginia Water this Saturday, September 16th , has been cancelled due to low registrations. Perhaps a little early after the summer and a lot else happening as well. I shall keep you posted as to another possible date later in the fall. You can also keep up to date by checking this NEWS page.
As always, if you wish to have your name removed from my mailing list, please simply let me know. If you know others who might like to be included, please ask them to e-mail me at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca or call me at 709-727-7863.
🌞🙏🦋🌷🌺
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
September 11, 2023
Saturday Retreat at Virginia Water this Weekend –
Pending sufficient Pre-Registrations
Plans are in place for a Retreat Day this coming Saturday, September 16th, at Virginia Water
Contemplative Centre on Virginia Lake, located at 47 Parsonage Drive, off Logy Bay Road, near NTV.
It will go ahead as long as we have a sufficient number of participants.
Both new and returning participants welcome!
Morning 9:30 – 12:30 for T’ai Chi Chih and afternoon 1:30 – 4:30 for Wisdom Healing Qigong.
All welcome regardless of previous experience. Can come for either half day or full day.
A great introduction or a great opportunity to go deeper into your practice.
Preregistration is required for the Retreat Days.
Please contact me at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca or by phone at 709-727-7863
to register by Wednesday of this week, September 13th .
Welcome to bring your own brown bag lunch and have lunch together 12:30 – 1:30.
Suggested Donation: $40 for longer full day … or $20 for a half day …
or give what you can, as your circumstances allow … we can chat as needed.
Please never let $$$ be an issue … you can always “pay forward” by doing a kindness for someone else. We are all so connected that what we do for one of us we do for all of us.
If you can only come for half a day,
please still do come and take from the day what life and time allow!
Give your self a treat …
a little “time-out” just for YOU!
“Come, taste and see”!
All you need is a sense of adventure,
and, always, a “beginners mind”
As one student summed it up, “Doing it just feels good!”
Be Safe … Be Well … Be Kind … as always …
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Wherever you feel stress, challenge, or limitation,
is the same place where the seeds of new inspiration
and new possibilities live.”
~ Master Mingtong Gu, Wisdom Healing Qigong
September 6, 2023
Fall 2023 T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Update
Feels good to be going back to our T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong classes at The Lantern again for the Fall. Any way in which you can share our Fall 2023 start-up information would be greatly appreciated.
Click the link for Fall 2023 Flyer – T’ai Chi Chih/Wisdom Healing Qigong
Click HERE for more detail …
The same info can also be found on the specific T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong pages throughout my site. Meanwhile, what I share in my mail-outs from time to time can also generally be found here on this NEWS page. You can continue to keep up to date here at any time. The flyer is also being posted on my Facebook page …. See my Contact page for the Facebook links.
Pre-registration for classes is ENCOURAGED. Drop-ins are welcome for the curious who would like a taste before deciding. Because it is far more that a regular exercise class, coming faithfully to the weekly sessions and building a practice at home between sessions is strongly encouraged to get the maximum benefit. Preregistration for Retreat Days is REQUIRED. Prepare to be amazed!
As Justin Stone, the Originator of T’ai Chi Chih, has so often said ….
“Practice when you feel like it and practice when you don’t feel like it.
The rewards will be worth it.”
Hope to see some of you soon, as always, as your life and time and all else allow.
Be Safe … Be Well … Be Kind … as always …
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Wherever you feel stress, challenge, or limitation,
is the same place where the seeds of new inspiration
and new possibilities live.”
~ Master Mingtong Gu, Wisdom Healing Qigong
September 2, 2023
Free Weekly Wisdom Healing Qigong Tuesday Chi-TV Zoom/You Tube Sessions
~~~~ HOW TO JOIN ~~~~
(Please see my September 1st post for more details re Chi-TV sessions.)
NOTE: I will be the teacher leading the sessions
on Tuesday, September 5th and 12th … and again on October 3rd …
See below for where to find the replays …
There are 3 easy ways to join the live Wisdom Healing Qigong Chi-TV Practice/Dance/Meditation sessions:
1. You can click here to join via YouTube
2. If you prefer to watch the live video on the Chi Center page, the link is ChiCenter.com/WatchNow,
3. If you want to participate via live Zoom, with or without your webcam, here is the Zoom Link
The most recent Chi-TV Tuesday replays
and other recordings to en-JOY as life and time allow,
can be found on the Chi Center You Tube Channel under the LIVE menu
or sometimes by clicking the VIDEO menu.
All WELCOME to join us … whether familiar with Wisdom Healing Qigong or brand new.
Streaming more WELL wishes your way … 🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
September 1, 2023
Reminder!
Free Ongoing Wisdom Healing Qigong Chi-TV practice sessions
still being offered Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 NL time ... details below …
See September 2nd post for various ways to join in …
Chi-TV began as part of a daily on-line initiative by Master Mingtong Gu for Global Healing and Transformation in April 2020 as Covid-19 spread rapidly around the globe. It is now offered one day a week only on Tuesdays.
Chi-TV sessions are generally a 1-hour teacher-led practice that begins with a 10-15 Meditation, followed by a 30-40 minute movement practice, then 5 minutes or so of free dance movement to help integrate the energy we have gotten moving, and ending with closing integration meditation.
Practices can be done seated or standing, or can be enjoyed, with wonderful benefits while simply sitting down or lying down and resting and visualizing the practice, always as your body allows.Seated options are wonderful for anyone with physical limitations or for maybe on a day you might not be quite feeling up to a full standing practice. Always doing as your body allows, modifying your practice as you need at any given moment.
The most recent recordings for en-JOY-ing as a replay at any time, as your life and time allow, can be found on the Chi Center You Tube Channel under the LIVE menu button.
On the Wisdom Healing Qigong page here on my web site you will also find You Tube and Facebook links to Chi-TV sessions I have led over the past 4 years. The September 19, 2020 practice of Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down and the October 3, 2020 practice of Awaken Vitality are actually two seated practices which I have led and which I hope to restore on my site.
On that same You Tube page as above, under LIVE as well as VIDEOS , can be found numerous others of Master Mingtong’s recordings, as well as an abundance of healing stories from others doing the practice.
Enjoy, as always, as your life and time allow …
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Streaming more WELL wishes your way …
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
August 31, 2023
Mother Nature cancelling today’s outdoor practice …
☔🌹🙏🌷🌧️
We would again need more than the towering
umbrella-like trees on Government House lawn
to shelter us from the pouring rain today!
Would have been lovely to end our summer Lunch Hour Wellness Sessions with one final practice together! Shall perhaps see you again next summer!
Renewed heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of us to
Her Honour, Lieutenant Governor, Judy Foote,
for her delightful inspiration in initiating these wonderful sessions,
now in our 5th year … and to her faithful, supportive staff.
Lovely to have Her Honour sometimes join us as well.
Thank you, too, to all of you who were able to join us,
as life and time allowed, as always!
Meanwhile, for today, or any ordinary day, you are welcome to practice along virtually
in the quiet of your own home using one of the two links below … or both …
as we connect with one another and others around the world in the Chi Field
from wherever you are !
You can join us and en-JOY the following this community practice link with Master Mingtong for a full Awakening Vitality practice … 35 minutes …
Or you might enJOY following an hour-long Chi-TV Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down session which I had led through the Chi Center during Covid in February 2021.
Begins with a meditation, followed by the practice,
then some free dance movement and a closing meditation.
Come, Relax, and en-JOY!
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
August 29, 2023
Yes!
We are a GO again today, Tuesday, from noon to 1:00
for T’ai Chi Chih on the Lawn at Government House!
This will be our last T’ai Chi Chih Lunch Hour Wellness Session for the summer.
Hoping the weather cooperates on Thursday as well for our final Wisdom Healing Qigong Wellness Session.
All welcome! Always welcome to bring along a chair!
Maybe invite a friend or family member along as well ...
Come, Relax, and en-JOY!
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
August 24, 2023
Yes!
We are a GO again today, Thursday, noon to 1:00
for Wisdom Healing Qigong
on the Lawn at Government House!
This will be our second last week for the summer.
So very glad it is a GO.
The weather is a little cooler yet quite lovely for a practice. No bad weather, just bad clothing!🌞
Mother Nature is doing her best holding the rain off!
We can always use the walkway rather than the grass, which has worked well other times as needed.
All welcome! Also welcome to bring along a chair.
Maybe invite a friend or family member along as well …
P.S. A very special thank you to Sharon Hayden and Wanda Winsor who had led last week’s sessions for us while I took some family time. Always so grateful to them for their lovely practice, their generous spirit and their positive energy …
and I saw some wonderful photos on Her Honour’s Facebook page!
As always, Come, Relax, and en-JOY!
🌺🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
August 22, 2023
T’ai Chi Chih on Government House Lawn shall need to wait for another week!
YES! We need this rain as well …
☔🌹🙏🌷🌧️🌺🌞
Meanwhile, welcome to visit my web site for a follow-along practice with me via a video link .., for a shorter silent practice or a longer practice that is a mix of teaching an practice … can do as much or as little as your life allows.
Click here to practice along with me … or simply sit and watch and visualize doing the practice with me … or a mix of both, always making any personal modifications as you feel appropriate according to your needs.(72 minutes)
Click here to en-JOY my personal recording of a 47 minute “silent” practice in which I simply say the name of the next move as we go along, and then “last one” or “one more” as we bring each movement to what we call our “graceful conclusion”.
Let’s see what next weeks holds in store!
*** Next week will be our last session for the summer.
NOTE:
*** Fall sessions begin at The Lantern the week of September 17th … Tuesdays for T’ai Chi Chih and Thursdays for Wisdom Healing Qigong. More details to be posted on this NEWS page the end of August.
Come, Relax, and En-JOY!
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
July 4, 2023
T’ai Chi Chih on Government House Lawn shall need to wait for another week!
☔🌹🙏🌷🌧️🌺🌞
YES! We need this rain as well …
Meanwhile, welcome to visit my web site for a follow-along practice with me via a video link .., for a shorter silent practice or a longer practice that is a mix of teaching an practice … can do as much ot as little as yoiur life and time allow.
Click here to practice along with me … or simply sit and watch and visualize doing the practice with me … or a mix of both, always making any personal modifications as you feel appropriate according to your needs.(72 minutes)
Click here to en-JOY my personal recording of a 47 minute “silent” practice in which I simply say the name of the next move as we go along, and then “last one” or “one more” as we bring each movement to what we call our “graceful conclusion”.
Let’s see what next weeks holds in store!
Come, Relax, and En-JOY!
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
June 24, 2023
Welcome back to our Free Summer Lunch Hour Wellness Sessions
Noon to 1:00 on Government House Lawn for 2023
Tuesday ~ T’ai Chi Chih … and Thursday ~ Wisdom Healing Qigong
from the first week of July to the last week of August.
(Note: Other teachers will be leading Yoga practice on Wednesdays!)
My renewed gratitude to Her Honour, Lieutenant Governor Judy Foote, for continuing to extend this awesome invitation and for such a warm welcome each time. Thank you also to all who joined us over the past four summers, including our Lieutenant Governor herself when she is available, as well as some of her staff. It is, as always, a joy and privilege to offer these sessions and to share these two amazing and powerful and amazingly simple practices with you all.
Hopefully shall see many of you again this summer. Welcome to invite others to come along with you. Can bring along a chair if you wish since all of the practices can be done seated as well as standing. A wonderful experience awaits with equally wonderful benefits, physically, mentally and emotionally and spiritually, amidst life’s continuing daily challenges and delights.
Here are our 2023 posters … with thanks to Nicole at Government House.
For another view, here are our 2022 posters for now …
BE WELL, BE SAFE, BE CALM, BE KIND!
Wishing you a Happy Canada Day and a lovely summer
🍁🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
May 26, 2023 (Note: Cancelled due to low registrations. Watch for another on September 16th.)
SATURDAY RETREAT AT VIRGINIA WATER CONTEMPLATIVE CENTRE on June 10th
Please share this info any way that feels appropriate. Thank You 🌞🦋🙏.
We had a wonderful T’ai Chi Chih/Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreat Day on Saturday, May 6th at Virginia Water. Plans are now in place for a 2nd Retreat Day on Saturday, June 10th , again, at Virginia Water Contemplative Centre on Virginia Lake, located at 47 Parsonage Drive, off Logy Bay Road, (near NTV). Morning 9:30 – 12:30 will be T’ai Chi Chih and afternoon 1:30 – 4:30 will be Wisdom Healing Qigong.
All welcome regardless of previous experience. Can come for either half day or full day. A delightful introduction or a wonderful opportunity to go deeper into your practice. Or simply a lovely day JUST FOR YOU! 🦋 Welcome to bring your own brown bag lunch and have lunch together from 12:30 – 1:30. If coming just for the morning, welcome to stay on for lunch with the group, or if just for the afternoon, welcome to come early and have lunch with us.
Preregistration is required for the Retreat Day, so that I know we have sufficient participants to make the day a GO. You can contact me at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca or by phone at 709-727-7863 to pre-register. Please specify if for morning or afternoon, or if for all day. Suggested donation for the full day is $40.00 … or $20.00 for each half day, when you arrive. Please never let $$ keep you from joining us! If the suggested amount is out of range for you, simply let me know and give what you can, in which case you can simply “pay the rest forward” in deliberate acts of kindness …
I generally set a minimum requirement of 10 – 12 people pre-registered for each of the two sessions … which would be lovely 🌞 and especially in case a few people need to cancel at the last minute for some reason. Then we would still have enough people to make it a delightful day since the group energy is such an important part of the day. Please let me know a.s.a.p. so I can confirm with Holly at the Centre.
As always, if you wish to have your name removed from my mailing list, please simply let me know. If you know others who might like to be included, please ask them to e-mail me at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca or call me at 709-727-7863.
Come, Relax, and EnJOY!
ALL WELCOME!
🙏🌺🌞🌷🦋
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and go out and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
May 20, 2023
Free Weekly Chi-TV Zoom/You Tube Sessions with Wisdom Healing Qigong
and how to join …
(Please see my May 18th post for more details re Chi-TV sessions.)
There are 3 easy ways to join the live Wisdom Healing Qigong Chi-TV Practice/Dance/Meditation sessions:
1. You can click here to join via YouTube
2. If you prefer to watch the live video on the Chi Center page, the link is ChiCenter.com/WatchNow,
3. If you want to participate via live Zoom, with or without your webcam, here is the Zoom Link
The most recent Chi-TV and other recordings for en-JOY-ing as a replay at any time, as your life and time allow, can be found on the Chi Center You Tube Channel under the LIVE menu button.
All WELCOME to join us … whether familiar with Wisdom Healing Qigong or brand new.
Streaming more WELL wishes your way … 🙏🙂🙂🙏
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
May 18, 2023
Reminder!
Free Ongoing Wisdom Healing Qigong Chi-TV practice sessions
still being offered Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30 NL time
Chi-TV began as part of a daily on-line initiative by Master Mingtong Gu for Global Healing and Transformation in April 2020 as Covid-19 spread rapidly around the globe. It is now offered one day a week only on Tuesdays.
Chi-TV sessions are generally a 1-hour teacher-led practice that begins with a 10-15 Meditation, followed by a 30-40 minute movement practice, then 5 minutes or so of free dance movement to help integrate the energy we have gotten moving, and ending with closing integration meditation.
Practices can be done seated or standing, or can be enjoyed, with wonderful benefits while simply sitting down or lying down and resting and visualizing the practice, always as your body allows.Seated options are wonderful for anyone with physical limitations or for maybe on a day you might not be quite feeling up to a full standing practice. Always doing as your body allows, modifying your practice as you need at any given moment.
The most recent recordings for en-JOY-ing as a replay at any time, as your life and time allow, can be found on the Chi Center You Tube Channel under the LIVE menu button.
On the Wisdom Healing Qigong page here on my web site you will also find You Tube and Facebook links to Chi-TV sessions I have led over the past 4 years. The September 19, 2020 practice of Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down and the October 3, 2020 practice of Awaken Vitality are actually two seated practices which I have led and which I hope to restore on my site.
On that same You Tube page as above, under LIVE as well as VIDEOS , can be found numerous others of Master Mingtong’s recordings, as well as an abundance of healing stories from others doing the practice.
Enjoy, as always, as your life and time allow …
Streaming more WELL wishes your way … 🙏🙂🎄🎄🙂🙏
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
October 4, 2022 Note re Parking for at The Lantern
Pl;ease see the Lantern Parking note on the right hand side of the page here on my site. Parking can be a challenge. Take heart! There are a number of options to ease the parking situation.
Come, Relax, and En-JOY!
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
April 3, 2022
REPLAY link for FREE 3-PART Livestream series as noted in March 28th posting below.
Click HERE or on the image below in the March 28th posting now to access the REPLAYS for the Free 3-part Wisdom Healing Qigong Livestream “Healing the Patterns of War, Disease and Oppression” with Master Mingtong Gu from The Chi Center. Follow same link for all three parts. Each session is approximately 2 hours.
For more information see the March 23rd and 28th postings below …
March 28, 2022
FREE 3-Part Livestream with Master Mingtong Gu from The Chi CDEnter
“Healing the Patterns of War, Disease and Oppression”
Click here to read the original Chi Center e-mail in PDF form for more information about the FREE 3-Part Livestream with Master Mingtong Gu referred to in the March 23rd posting below, happening on Tuesdays starting tomorrow on Chi-TV: March 29th, April 5th and April 12th …
Replays will be available … to receive them you can follow the sign-up link in the letter.
April 3rd UPDATE: See REPLAY LINK in April 4th posting above.
Otherwise you can simply join live using the Chi-TV links noted below in the March 20th posting below.
Come, Relax and En-JOY!
Continued blessings for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~ Hafiz
March 21, 2022
Invitation: Consciously and Collectively Healing the Energy Patterns of War and Conflict
On March 10th Master Mingtong had shared in an e-mail the fruits of his meditation that week amidst the rising tensions and continuing atrocities surrounding the war being waged in Ukraine. That same day he offered a special Sound Healing Session on-line from the Chi Centre for those involved in weekly Chi Center Programs. He has since made the recordings available for sharing freely so that together we might combine our collective global energies so that the highest good of all of humanity may prevail and peace and freedom may be restored. He also reflects on how so integral to that global restoration is our healing and transforming of the Energy patterns of war and conflict within ourselves, as well as in all of our relationships, as that effect ripples out into the world in which we live our day to day lives.
Here is the PDF copy Master Mingtong Gu’s Meditation (Letter) on Healing the Energy Patterns of War and Conflict Healing the Patterns of War and Conflict – Letter from Master Mingtong Gu – March 10, 2022
Here also is the 20 minute audio link for the Chi Center You Tube Recording of Sarah (from the Chi Center) reading Master Mingtong’s Letter at the beginning of a Sound Healing practice from a special Chi Centre session for the people of Ukraine and of the whole world. Here is the 84 minute audio link for the Chi Centre You Tube Note that Master Mingtong allows silent spaces throughout the audio Sound Healing Practice from the Center with Master Mingtong …
I invite you engage with these as your life and time allow … and as your heart may lead you … that the power of love, which is the essential quality of the Source Energy of the Universe, may prevail over the love of power, personally, collectively, globally, for the highest good of all humanity.
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❣❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Let love alone be the measure.”
~ Raphael Consedine, PBVM
February 1, 2022
Hi to each and to all …
The Chi Center has recently begun offering a set of 3 Wisdom Healing Qigong self-study courses at $49 each/US … This is study and practice material that is yours to keep for a lifetime. Can pace yourself however you wish … and can keep going back to it.
To read more click this link www.chicenter.com/selfstudyqigong
They are a wonderful introduction if you are new. They are a wonderful refresher that will take you deeper into your practice if you are already familiar with Wisdom Healing Qigong. All of the details, including course content for the 6 modules in each course, can be found on the site. The courses continue to be available though less actively being promoted after the initial big promo recently.
More Energy More Health has focuses more on Awaken Vitality and Sound Healing to open Energy flow and release emotional stress.
More Energy More Fulfillment focuses more on Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down and Sound Healing to tap deeper into pure Energy.
More Energy More Love and Joy focuses more on Sound Healing and Pure Consciousness to help transform old patterns.
Wonderful things await if this is something you might be interested in and able to avail of… always as life and time allow …
Meanwhile, our Beyond Beginners T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Zoom classes continue … always welcome …
Will be in touch re possibilities for interest in Beginners classes over the next couple of weeks for anyone brand new or anyone who has done some classes but would like more of a foundation before venturing into Beyond Beginners classes.
Loads more WELL wishes …
🙏🙂
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Wherever you feel stress, challenge, or limitation,
is the same place where the seeds of new inspiration
and new possibilities live.”
~ Master Mingtong Gu, Wisdom Healing Qigong
November 2, 2021
Free Chi Center Newsletter Sign-ups
Wisdom Healing Qigong
You can go to www.chicenter.com to sign up for the free newsletter to keep posted on what is available.
T’ai Chi Chih
You can go to https://tcccommunity.net/subscribe-to-newsletter to sign up for the free monthly newsletter from Sandy McAlister, our T’ai Chi Chih Guide in Justin Stone’s place, to keep posted on what is available. Sandy always includes a very timely and often seasonal meditation at the beginning of each.
October 15, 2021
Familiar with T’ai Chi Chih and/or Wisdom Healing Qigong
and unable to continue to join us for practices?
I again invite you to do a practice on your own wherever you are, from what you might remember, and/or simply visualize all doing it together, perhaps even outside … can be quite lovely and powerful simply doing the visualization! There is also an abundance of practice links you can follow along with on my web site for both TCC and WHQ.
For T’ai Chi Chih, you can follow along using practice links here on my web site on my T’ai Chi Chih page by going directly to https://sheilaleonard.ca/what-is-tai-chi-chih/ and scrolling down just past the List of Moves to find several options for videos to practice along with … mine and some with other T’ai Chi Chih teachers, indoors and outside.
You can also find some single video practices with Justin Stone himself, the Originator of T’ai Chi Chih, for individual movements at https://justinstonetcc.com/videos/
For Wisdom Healing Qigong, you can Click here to go to my Wisdom Healing Qigong page and scroll almost to the end for a variety of practice links as well as simple videos to learn more about it and how it works. Master Mingtong Gu’s personal story is there also … or click here ~ called “The Journey and the Vision”. Quite amazing … one of the first ones there on the page. There is also a link there for a wonderful introductory practice called 100-Day Gong … much like what we would be doing at the start of a Beginners class … about 20 minutes long … or click here to go directly to the video on You Tube.
You will also find a number of links there to our free WHQ Saturday Chi-TV practice sessions which I had led, and sometimes other teachers lead them. You can use either the You Tube links or my Facebook links … see below in earlier post for more details re Chi-TV.
EnJOY each new day …
Loads more WELL wishes …
😊🌼🙏🌻🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
September 8, 2021
Recipe for Self Care …. and Developing Resilience
Click here for the Recipe for Self Care During These Challenging Times that Master Mingtong shared in today’s Free session as noted below …
Click here also for a larger piece on Developing Resilience which Master Mingtong had also shared in our June 2020 Retreat on-line … also contains the above Recipe.
En-JOY!!!
Loads more WELL wishes …
😊🍁🍁🙏🍁🍁🌈
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
January 26, 2021
Boosting Your Immunity
through Sound Healing with Wisdom Healing Qigong
Hi to each and to all …
Passing along this BONUS offer from Master Mingtong Gu through the Shift Network.
Three gifts you can download to your own computer and EN-JOY for free … includes Newsletter …
Open to everyone … no previous connection needed either with Shift Network or with Wisdom Healing Qigong
Click Here for details.
More WELL wishes to all …
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
December 22, 2020
Zoom – Some Getting Started Notes
If you still need to install Zoom, here again is a link to some Zoom introductory notes to guide you to install or download Zoom for anyone potentially interested and feeling adventuresome …
If you are new or fairly new to Zoom, I would again encourage you to play with it. It is very user-friendly. Gets simpler as you go. Think of it as a fun adventure! I would be happy to offer some help if you wish for anyone who might like to join us on Zoom. Simply drop me an e-mail at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca to set a time when we can do a phone call.
Come, relax and enJOY as life and time allow …
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
August 11, 2020
Two lovely outdoor T’ai Chi Chih You Tube practice links
Passing along these two lovely outdoor T’ai Chi Chih You Tube practice links with Chris Norkus, a T’ai Chi Chih teacher friend from North Carolina.
*** Full practice link with 6 forward repetitions and 3 on side moves – 23 minutes
*** Full practice link with 9 forward repetitions and 3 0n side moves – 37 minutes
Chris does some moves a little differently than what I teach. Essentially the same and the 2 videos are definitely gems I think you will enJOY and find really helpful. Chris certainly embodies the softness and the sense of flowing and floating that are the essence of T’ai Chi Chih. Deeply grateful to have them available and to be ableto share them with you.
En-JOY indeed!
See you as life and time allow.
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
July 30, 2020
Two lovely outdoor T’ai Chi Chih You Tube practice links
Passing this two lovely outdoor T’ai Chi Chih You Tube practice links from the Chi Center as a BONUS gift. It is a link to the full and powerful Sound Healing Practice Master Mingtong Gu led last Saturday, July 25th with a focus on Grief and Healing through Sound Healing During Times of Crisis – Including When Someone We Love Dies. Simply CLICK HERE for the video.
The video was part of a regular Practice with the Master session which is a registered, paid course continuing until mid-August. In a rare gesture for material from these registered courses, this recording is being made available free for enjoying and sharing as widely and as often as you like. It was an amazingly moving moment and I am so excited to be able to share it with you … and you can do the same and share it with as many others as you wish. Full Sound Healing practices led by Master Mingtong are a treasure and to have this to keep is a double treasure.
EnJOY it again and again ..
Come, Relax and En-JOY!
More WELL wishes to all …
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
June 9, 2020
NEW!
Free Wisdom Healing Qigong Video Teaching Series
with Master Mingtong Gu …
Many people ask …
“Which health and well being challenges can Wisdom Healing Qigong transform and heal?”
Click the above link to watch Master Mingtong Gu’s free video teaching series for addressing health challenges …
May 8, 2020
Special July Workshop at The Lantern postponed indefinitely …
Re the July T’ai Chi Chih Workshop planned with Dan Pienciak, Teacher Trainer, mentor and friend from New Jersey, as outlined in March 2nd item below … the workshop has been indefinitely postponed due to the Pandemic.
The details will remain posted below for now … with new dates to be announced as life and time allow. It may well be postponed until 2021.
January 2, 2020
Some “Practice” Thoughts
An ancient Chinese Proverb reads:
“You cannot appease the appetite by reading the Menu.
You have to eat the food!”
The three most important words:
“Practice, Practice, Practice!”
Only two good times to practice:
Practice when you feel like it. Practice when you don’t feel like it! The rewards are well worth it!
Welcome to “Come, taste and see” …
Continued blessings in abundance for each new day as 2020 unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive and do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”.
~ Howard Thurman
November, 2019
RE: Playtime with Facebook
NOTE: I am playing with Facebook options for sharing about T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong classes, retreats and other special happenings with a wider audience. Wondering if some of you who use Facebook may be able to help … could be as simple as clicking the “Like” button on my page … or passing along the info other ways if you wish …
Both T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong are mindfulness practices, moving meditations rather than just “exercises”, and yet proven to be some of the best “exercises” we can do. Each offers potentially amazing benefits physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually for anyone willing to commit to a faithful practice, as life and time allow, whether seriously committed or simply curious to begin with.
Please see the two Facebook links and details below …
I still have an original personal Facebook account that I had begun playing with several years ago for this same purpose. Time now for another look. Meanwhile, I have deliberately been avoiding doing “Friends” on Facebook. Thank you to any of you who have sent Friend requests. Far too time consuming for me. I use my personal page simply for general posts and I connect with friends and family other ways.
Thanks to some much appreciated help I have just used my original Facebook account to set up a single Facebook “Page” that Googles as Sheila Leonard – T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong. Seems this kind of page can be “tagged” for wider sharing and my original Facebook page cannot.
I am also told that this newest single page can be more easily and effectively shared through “Likes” without the need for doing “Friends”. Looks like maybe the original page can, too, but still learning how that works …
I would greatly appreciate it for anyone who might choose to “Like” the single page, or even both and see where it goes.
Sheila Leonard (T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong) – single page …
https://www.facebook.com/pg/SheilaLeonardTCCandWHQ
Sheila Leonard (original personal page)
https://www.facebook.com/sheilaleonard67
With renewed thanks for so very much …
Continued blessings for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive. And go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”
– Howard Thurman
October 12, 2017
Free Webinar replay from Retreat 2017
plus personal sharing of part of my Healing Story
with Wisdom Healing Qigong
Hi to each and to all,
I completed my Level One Certification as a Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor the first week of October at the Intensive Wisdom Healing Qigong Retreat at The Chi Center in Galisteo, Santa Fe, NM. Looking forward to continuing on this energy healing path in my on-going studies and in my classes as we start up again for the Fall.
Part of the Intensive Healing Retreat included a free Livestream webinar of the October 8th Sunday morning Wisdom Healing Qigong teaching session with Mingtong Gu at the Kiva, the sacred gathering space at The Chi Center. At the end of the key presentation I was invited by Master Mingtong Gu to share some of my personal Wisdom Healing Qigong story as a way of offering hope and encouragement to others through the practice. My personal sharing is the last 10 minutes or so. Here is a link to the Sunday morning teaching session with its focus on Transformation and Healing effectively for conditions such as Cancer, Parkinson’s, Lyme Disease, Auto-Immune Conditions, Neurological Disorders, and more. My sharing is the last 10 minutes or so.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEBINAR REPLAY from October 8, 2017
(Sorry, temporarily unavailable fro Chi Center Library)
The link was scheduled to be available for widespread viewing and sharing until Sunday, October 15th . Availability for viewing has been extended … unsure for how long. You are welcome to listen to part or even all of the webinar by way of introduction to the essence of Wisdom Healing Qigong and its benefits for the healing and prevention of disease. The practices are talked about but not actually done in this particular session. Meanwhile, for some other links for anyone who may like to explore it further, you are welcome to visit the Wisdom Healing Qigong menu on this site.
I have such awe and gratitude for so much in my life, including the gift of Wisdom Healing Qigong. It was both a pleasure and a privilege to share some of my own story on-line in the hope that it could somehow offer encouragement to others. It was all the more so, to be asked to do that on a Livestream broadcast that was being transmitted around the world.
Mingtong had finished his talk on a note of Wisdom Healing Qigong being a form of service, a fitting note to pick up on. As a Presentation Sister I began my sharing using a quote from Nano Nagle, our Foundress, “If I can be of service … in any part of the world, I would gladly go.” Traveling via the world wide web perhaps was not quite what Nano had envisioned in the 1700’s! Today she may well have engaged! I felt her very much with me in love and support as I walked toward the front of the room. Her story then. Our story now.
If even one person were to be helped and given more hope for healing through my sharing, then I am more than happy to have said yes to doing it, however daunting the idea at first on being asked.
The following excerpts accompanied the link to the replay …
In Wisdom Healing Qigong, you work with mental and physical manifestations of energy in a way that releases and reduces stress, including biological stresses, that may have built up over years. This dissipation of negative stress allows you to increase the natural positive energy in your mind and body. And as you know, a change of energy creates a change in reality.
The consistent practice of Wisdom Healing Qigong can transform the deep blockages that cause acute, chronic, and seemingly “incurable” health conditions, reviving your vitality, and giving you back your natural joy for life.
And to start using this healing system yourself, all you need is a commitment to learning and practice – the rest comes naturally as your capabilities grow over time.
As Master Mingtong teaches, our body is a living system of energy transformation. And your mind is an integral part of that system, helping guide energy through and around you …
A general note re “donations” for my Lantern sessions …
All weekly sessions are an hour and a half…
Suggested Donation: $10/class … or simply contribute what you can,when you can, if you can …
As your situation allows, you can also simply “pay forward” in kindness. Please never let $ keep you from joining us!
Faithful attendance, and faithful practice between sessions, as your life and time allow, are key for both learning the practices and experiencing the amazing benefits that await you and which so many others have experienced and share enthusiastically about. Weekly attendance also honours yourself as one way of gentle self-care.
Articles/Research re Benefits Body Mind Spirit
Curious about the body mind spirit health benefits of T’ai Chi Chih?
See amazing articles/research re benefits at http://www.taichichih.org/in-the-news
Also see “Reported Benefits” under About T’ai Chi Chih menu bar on this site …
Also see Wisdom Healing Qigong page for more details re its amazing benefits.
Support Materials and other Resources
Support materials such as books, DVDs,CDs, including digital downloads, are available.
A list of resources can be found on both official web sites:
For T’ai Chi Chih site visit www.taichichih.org under Instructional Materials
Or click here to go directly to all resource listings https://justinstonetcc.com/shop/
For Wisdom Healing Qigong site visit www.chicenter.com
Please also see the Resources menu for a wide variety of resources https://chicenter.com/resources/
For both T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong I have a small # of Books/DVD’s available for purchase on site … as well as copies available in a “Lending Library”.
For T’ai Chi Chih hard copies or digital copes can be ordered individually at https://justinstonetcc.com/shop/
For Wisdom Healing Qigong, digital copies can be ordered at https://chicenter.mykajabi.com/store
NOTE: Postage costs re individual orders for hard copies
Postage can be incredibly high from the USA for individual orders. I periodically place an extra pre-paid order just for students if quantities are sufficient. Bulk orders spread the postage out and make it more manageable. If large enough, a bulk order may also qualify for a teacher discount and that could also help offset postage and customs charges.
Mailing List
If you would like to be added to my “interested” mailing list, please e-mail me at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca