Classes - Europe Workshops
September and October, 2008, Qigong workshops in Basel and St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a 5-day retreat in Ticino, Switzerland.
See Frank & Elaine Hediger Yap's website, 5Tigers.ch, for more information on the Retreat in Ticino, September 28 to October 4, 2008. [Link to http://5tigers.ch/d/workshops.htm]
Workshops in Basel and St. Gallen to be announced.
Report on the 2007 European Workshops and Retreat:
Our deepest thanks to Petra and Cory Martinet-Rusch, and Frank and Elaine Hediger-Yap, for hosting us in 2007 for the Rubbo Art of Energy Workshops in Switzerland, and the Italian retreat. We had a full schedule, teaching at Petra's Tai Chi class, a free public healing, the Qigong workshops and the Chi Cultivation retreat, and many private healing appointments. We feel truly blessed to have such gifted students devoted to preserving and promoting these powerful, profound internal arts.
The focus of the work that we do, incorporated into the vehicles of Qigong, Tai Chi Chuan, Shao Lin Chuan and meditation, is teaching how to embody the "Bright Smile of Spontaneously Present Joy" for the benefit of oneself and all others, and some of our Swiss students shed tears after the workshops and the retreat, telling us how difficult it can be to be joyful, and to express joy. We are grateful to have the opportunity to allow them to feel their own joy, and look forward to continuing our work there next year.
Teufen, Switzerland:
A free public healing at The Remote House, in beautiful Appenzellerland, northwestern Switzerland. The Restorative Spinal Qigong weekend workshop also at The Remote House in Appenzellerland.
Basel, Switzerland:
Yin Style Bagua Zhang Workshop, the Eight Storing Chi and Developing Sensitivity Exercises, cultivating healing and internal power. Dr. Xie Peiqi's powerful Yin Style Bagua Zhang is also known as "needleless medicine." The Yin Style Bagua Zhang is a challenging form of qigong, and those students fortunate to learn it and practice it daily will develop unbelievable healing power. Healing Hands Qigong day-long workshops at the Institut fuer Komplementaermedizin und Psychologie, for sight-impaired and blind professional massage therapists and massage therapy students.
Centro d'Ompio, Lago d'Orta, Northern Italy
Rubbo Art of Energy Retreat. In the beautiful Piemonte region of Italy. Centro d'Ompio is an international center for seminars and retreats, located on a hill overlooking the shores of Lago d'Orta. The Center covers an area of 100,000 square meters, with gardens, terraces and meeting rooms and hosts many spiritual, movement and healing retreats. Guang Ping Yang Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Ball Meditation, Tai Chi Staff, Shao Lin Chuan, and Mindful Meditation practices.