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.
March 4, 2023 Mini Personal and Class Update
I am happy to say that I received a wonderfully positive report from the Orthopedic specialist Monday following my X-Ray on my upper arm and shoulder. The fracture has healed really well. I left her office with my trusty sling in my bag, arms out both sleeves, and my jacket all zippered up again, much to my relief and delight. She set no restrictions except to follow my own good judgment as I allow the healing to continue to deepen and the bone and muscle to continue to strengthen again after 6 weeks in the sling. After my earlier morning post today, I did a “road test” later Saturday afternoon with my brother coming along, and did super well. Gradually easing back accordingly. I continue to be amazed and grateful.
I am still anticipating returning to classes at The Lantern mid-April as we begin our Spring session, and possibly some Saturday retreat time at Virginia Water in the Spring as well. More details to follow with time.
I continue to be grateful beyond words for the faithful, loving outpouring of prayerful healing energy from each of you and so many others, to now and going forward. Indeed, healing takes a whole village! My on-going physio over the next weeks and my faithful T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong movement and visualization practices will also continue to serve me well.
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.
Haola!
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
February 14, 2023
Today is World Sound Healing Day!
Welcome to join us on Chi-TV for a Wisdom Healing Qigong
5-Organ Sound Healing Practice which I have been invited to lead …
Please see the December 27th post below for the links for joining us from the Kiva today …
Attached here is a Reflection I had written that I will likely be sharing as part of our Chi-TV meditation during the practice …
February – The Warmth of Love Amidst Winter’s Teasing – SL – Feb 2019 with 2023 edits
Valentine’s blessings in abundance to all …
Sheila
“Let love alone be the measure.”
~ Raphael Consedine, PBVM
February 5, 2023
Thank you again for all the wonderful e-mails and the streaming of such abundant loving, healing energy and kind offers following my Winter class cancellation posts and mail-outs since my recent Humpty Dumpty episode in which I broke my upper right arm. Happy to report I am doing well. Lots of help and loving support these days. Gratitude overflowing! Will be wearing my sling to keep my upper arm and shoulder immobilized until February 27th , when I am scheduled for another X-ray and orthopedic appointment. Happily I get the occasional brief rest from the sling each day to help keep the energy and blood circulation free-flowing. Lots and lots of T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong happening and lots of blessings being steadily streamed my way. Still a bit of a strange dream! Getting really good with my left hand!
Oops! With all else happening, and lots of rest and recuperation time needed, I had missed sending the January 15th post via e-mail a little earlier, though it was essentially all posted here on my site News page and Facebook pages. See my Contact page for my Facebook links.
UPDATE:
Earliest next new T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong classes starting mid-April after Easter … maybe retreat days early April… as life allows.
Please simply keep checking my News page and Facebook pages for further updates.
Haola!
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
January 17, 2023
Earliest next new classes starting after Easter …maybe retreat days early to mid-March
Thank you to so many for all the wonderful e-mails and the streaming of such abundant loving, healing energy following my latest class Winter class cancellation posts and mail-outs since my recent Humpty Dumpty episode.
I saw the orthopedic specialist yesterday(Monday) afternoon and my sling will be on until February 27th , with a big caution to keep my shoulder immobilized until then, when I see her again for another X-ray, with an occasional very brief rest from the sling each day to help keep the energy and blood circulation free-flowing. Yes, I do feel like my arm is on the mend with lots and lots of T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong happening and lots of blessings being steadily streamed my way.
I now anticipate starting next new regular classes with the Spring session at the earliest, beginning the week of April 17th and going for 9 weeks until the week of June 12th. I will update what I have on my site News page to reflect that. May do some Virginia Water Saturday retreats mid-March and/or early April as life allows. Please simply keep checking there for further updates.
Haola!
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
January 15, 2023 Lantern Winter T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Classes
deferred until March or April
Apology for the delay in getting this to you … some initially disappointing news re Winter Lantern classes …yet trusting its unfolding …a Haola moment as we would say in Wisdom Healing Qigong …
I am deferring the start of my Winter Lantern classes until maybe the first week of the week of MARCH or even cancelling until start of the Spring session after Easter which would be mid-April, all as life and time allow, as always. Would follow same basic schedule, just with different start and stop dates.
I feel a little like Humpty Dumpty … in that we both had a great fall 🙂😒… unlike Humpty Dumpty in that I am being put together again and Humpty was not so lucky! I hooked my boot in something and tripped when out posting my Class flyers on Thursday. Heavy winter boots made it far more difficult to quickly and easily catch myself as I ordinarily have done! Fell and broke my upper right arm near my shoulder. Great care on site and afterwards in ER and since. So very grateful! Did LOTS of visualizing with Wisdom Healing Qigong/T’ai Chi Chih the whole time! Even more since. Have my arm in a sling. Too high up my arm for a cast. Glad for that. Less awkward. May allow some gentle movement for deeper healing. Suggested 6-week healing time! Showing signs of improvement already. Will soon be ambidextrous!
Please keep checking this NEWS page on my site here at www.sheilaleonard.ca for further updates. Computer time naturally far less these days for e-mail. etc.
Meanwhile, lots of video and audio material on the T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing pages here on my site and on You Tube to enjoy along the way. Many of you already have received links by e-mail as well from other sessions. Maybe some Zoom sessions as life might allow later on.
With you in spirit 🙂🙏 …
Please keep streaming healing energy my way as we keep streaming it to one another and throughout world as well..
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
January 11, 2023 Lantern Winter 2023 T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Classes
Winter 2023 classes at The Lantern, 35 Barnes Road here in St. John’s, beginning January 22nd and going until March 23rd. Session will be 9 weeks instead of the usual 8 weeks to better accommodate more practice and integration time. Can preregister by e-mail sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca or phone 709-727-7863. Drop-ins also welcome. Masking as feels appropriate for you personally. Social distancing is strongly recommended.
Click here for the Winter 2023 Class flyer for more details.
All sessions will be a GO pending sufficient registrations.
Come, relax and en-JOY!
Be SAFE, Be WELL, Be KIND! 🙏😊❤🎄
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 27, 2022 (Also see Chi-TV post below for today …)
Hoping to post my Lantern Winter 2023 class info and Flyer by early January.
Tentative starting date is the week of either January 15th or 22nd …
At this point we will be essentially following the same schedule as in my Fall 2022 flyer .
Will keep you posted as that plan unfolds …
Also exploring the possibility of Retreat Saturday times at Virginia water for January …
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 at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca me or call me at 709-727-7863.
Blessings of LOVE and PEACE and JOY and RELAXATION for the Christmas Season … or whichever celebration you may be en-JOY-ing at this time of year … and then more of the same wishes wish for 2023!
Be SAFE, Be WELL, Be KIND! 🙏😊❤🎄
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 27, 2022
Chi-TV Practices Links for December 20th and 27th sessions which I led …
Here are the You Tube links for those two Chi-TV practices …
December 20th Chi-TV Lift Chi Up Pour Chi Down practice link
December 27th Chi-TV Awaken Vitality practice link …
Also available on my Facebook page … for viewing and/or sharing …
https://www.facebook.com/sheilaleonard67 or
https://www.facebook.com/SheilaLeonardTCCandWHQ
Relax and en-JOY!
Next best thing to being together in person for practice during the Christmas break!
See the December 26th post below for 3 easy ways to join LIVE Chi-TV sessions. or to watch replays.
See the December 20th post below for more information in general about Chi-TV.
More blessings of LOVE and PEACE and JOY and RELAXATION for the Christmas Season … or whichever celebration you may be en-JOY-ing at this time of year … and then more of the same wishes wish for 2023!
Be SAFE, Be WELL, Be KIND! 🙏😊❤🎄
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 26, 2022
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
Replays can be found by clicking the tube Tube link in #1 here or going to www.chicenter.com/youtube at any time.
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
December 20, 2022
Reminder!
Free Ongoing Wisdom Healing Qigong Chi-TV practice sessions
still being offered Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30
See the December 19th post below for 3 easy ways
to continue to join us for the live Chi -TV practices …
Chi-TV began as part of an initiative by Master Mingtong Gu for Global Healing and Transformation in April 2020 as Covid-19 spread rapidly around the globe, no one dreaming where it would amazingly take us now in 2022 … and soon into 2023!
Chi-TV sessions are generally a 1-hour teacher-led practice that begins with a 15-minute Chi Field Setting Meditation and then a 1/2 hour movement practice followed by 5 minutes of free dance movement to help integrate the energy we have gotten moving and then a 10-15-minute closing integration meditation session. 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.
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. Most of the previously posted Chi Center You Tube Channel Chi-TV recordings since 2020 have recently been taken off-line by the Chi Center.
NOTE: Many of the previous sessions back to 2020 which I had led had been posted here on my site on my Wisdom Healing Qigong page for easy relay access. Hoping to update my page in the next while. with just my more recent postings. Apology for any disappointment or confusion if you are checking them out for now, thinking they are all still there.🙏😒🙂
I also now have the option to put maybe 4 or 5 of ones I had led earlier back on my site. Just need time to go through them and choose. 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. Seated options are wonderful for anyone with physical limitations or for maybe on a day you might be not quite feeling up to a full standing practice. Always doing as your body allows, modifying your practice as you need at any given moment.
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
November 23, 2022
Saturday, December 3rd Retreats at Virginia Water
(NOTE: Were cancelled due to low registrations.
Watch for possible other opportunities in January.)
Click HERE for details re the Saturday Retreat Day, December 3rd, at our Virginia Water Contemplative Centre, 47 Parsonage Drive, St. John’s, on Virginia Lake. Morning 9:30 – 12:30 will be T’ai Chi Chih and afternoon 1:30 – 4:30 will be Wisdom Healing Qigong …
Preregistration required …
Simply Come, Relax and En–JOY!
With renewed thanks and WELL wishes…
Be Safe. Be Well. Be Warm. Be Kind.🙏🍁🙂
Continued blessings for each new day as it unfolds,
Sheila
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~ Hafiz
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
September 22, 2022
Fall 2022 T’ai Chi Chih and Wisdom Healing Qigong Sessions
Click Here for Fall 2022 Flyer
Click Here for Full E-mail Update sent out today to those on mailing lists.
I would appreciate your continuing to share this information any way you can with anyone whom you think might be interested and could benefit. Again, welcome, regardless of whether you have any previous experience with either T’ai Chi Chih or Wisdom Healing Qigong. Easy to learn, easy to do, seated or standing or a mix of both.
Please note that any particular session will go ahead as long as there are sufficient registrations. For all Lantern sessions, preregistration is recommended, with priority given to those preregistered. Drop-ins welcome as space allows. For Virginia Water preregistration is required to assure sufficient #s to be a GO since only one day. Registration can be by e-mail at sheilaleonard@nf.sympatico.ca preferably, or by phone at 727-7863.
If you or others you know others might like to be added to my mailing list, please simply send me an e-mail request.
Loads of WELL wishes to you and your families as September moves along …🙏🌷🌼😉
Come … Relax … En-JOY!
Continued blessings 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 16, 2022
A THANK YOU …
Tuesday and Thursday Summer Wellness Sessions
on Government House Lawn, late June to mid-September
My personal thanks to all who joined us over the summer for our Tuesday and Thursday Wellness Sessions on Government House Lawn. It was delightful to have such a wonderful, enthusiastic response.
It was, as always, a joy and privilege to share the sessions with you all. Hopefully see you again next summer for more outdoor Wellness Sessions.
Be WELL, Be SAFE, Be CALM, Be KIND!
🙏🌼😉🌻🌈
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”.
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