Sponsored by Health Action Inc and the
Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi
Early Registration Extended Until March 12, 2013
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Bethesda, Maryland
PURPOSE OF TRAINING: Participants will learnsimple medical Qigong techniques and easy Tai Chi movements that can be shared with others, particularly wounded and ill military service members, 1:1 and in small groups. These practices can be done in bed, while seated, in a stationary standing position, or combined with Tai Chi Walking.
HELP YOUR CLIENTS: Manage stress and pain, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, mood, balance, and stamina.
WHO SHOULD APPLY: Nurses, mental health providers, mind-body practitioners, support group facilitators, wellness program staff, researchers, teachers, and enthusiastic citizens who want to share Tai Chi Easy™ with people in their lives and communities. Open to both military and civilian participants. No previous Tai Chi experience is necessary.
Location, Dates, and Time
March 15-17, 2013, 8:30 am - 5:15pm
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
8901 Rockville Pike
Bethesda MD, 20889
Friday, March 15 - Shore Conference Room, #1118, Bldg 19 / America Bldg, 1st floor; Saturday and Sunday, March 16 and 17 - 2525 A&B Conference Rooms, Bldg 19 / America Bldg, 2nd floor
In Chinese, the phrase Tai Chi means the “balance and harmony” of natural forces within our world and ourselves. It also means “supreme ultimate,” pointing to the awesome nature of all life and our own lives within the universe. Tai Chi, both moving meditation and martial art, is a widely practiced form of the ancient Chinese self-care practices known as Qigong. Qigong means to cultivate (gong) healing life energies and resources (Qi).
Tai Chi Easy™ is a mind-body practice that combines gentle exercise and meditation to activate self-healing properties that ancient Chinese texts call the “healer within” and the “elixir of life.” Our Tai Chi Easy Practice Leader training is a step-by-step program detailing how to share simple Qigong and Tai Chi in our communities, schools, faith institutions, hospitals, community centers, and social service agencies. Participants learn to lead others in simple Qigong and Tai Chi practices that improve health, enhance longevity, and promote inner peace. Anyone interested in empowerment based health care can learn to share Tai Chi Easy™ with others.
Tai Chi Easy™ promotes health self-reliance and chronic disease self-managed care with a wide array of benefits, including:
- Balance enhancement - falls prevention
- Stress mastery
- Pain management
- Limiting drug use
- Physical activity and meditation
- Energy enhancement
- Natural sleep improvement
- Natural digestive and elimination support
- Anxiety reduction
- All categories of disease management
- Institutional and corporate productivity enhancement and absence reduction
- Recovery from addiction and PTS
- More...
The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) has graduates throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Central America, inspired and committed to bringing Qigong and Tai Chi to a broader audience. Our research initiatives continue to build the Institute’s international credibility.
Whether you are using these trainings as a career shift or as a personal retreat to improve your health, vitality and inner peace, this event will be a profound opportunity to immerse yourself in healing and actualize your personal mission of community service. You will renew your body, mind and spirit just as intended by those ancient Qi masters of China who gave birth to Qi cultivation so long ago.
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