Dawn’s classes are relaxing and energizing. Finding the practice of qigong to be transformational and evolutionary in her life, she loves to share her joy of practice through teaching. She finds that through the practice of qigong we can be in peaceable community with others and in communion with the One(ness).
Dawn began practicing and studying yoga in her early twenties. This practice peaked her interest in transformation through mindful breath and movement. She began formal study of acupuncture and qigong 1997 at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute’s (now the TAI SOPHIA Institute). There, Chan Zhang was Dawn’s first qigong teacher. She studies extensively with Master Li Jun Feng. Master Li has certified Dawn to teach Sheng Zhen Qigong and she has been teaching since 2001. She has studied with various other wonderful teachers including Kimberly Rigsbee, Ken Cohen, Francesco Garripoli, Master Wu Zhongxian, and Li Jing. She is Lifetime Member of the National Qigong Association. Dawn teaches acupuncture and qigong at the WON Institute of Graduate Studies in Glenside, PA. She maintains practice in Narberth, PA where she lives with her husband and two children. She is inspired by and enjoys playing with the movement of qi while snowboarding, gardening, and cooking.
In March 2002, Pamela took her first qigong workshop, in Annapolis, Maryland. At the time, she had a vague idea of what qigong was, and she had no idea how to pronounce it correctly. The workshop was led by Master Li Junfeng, the founder of Sheng Zhen qigong. At the end of that weekend, Pamela says, the main thing she remembers is thinking, “Having a practice like this is a nice way to live.”
Pamela began studying with Master Li as often as she could. She took a couple of weekend workshops each year, and she began taking yearly 10-day teacher training workshops with him in 2003. She’s also studied Sheng Zhen qigong forms for the liver, kidney and heart during three separate 5-day workshops in Santa Fe.
In Baltimore, where she lives, Pamela has been organizing Master Li’s weekend qigong workshops since 2006.
Along the way, she has taken qigong and t’ai chi from other wonderful and talented masters, but Sheng Zhen is the system that has her heart.
Pamela began teaching Sheng Zhen qigong classes in 2004. She teaches primarily in Baltimore and has one weekly class in Annapolis. She’s always interested in expanding her teaching practice.
Pamela is also a freelance health writer. Her focus is on health writing and medical marketing.
“Conversations and Healing” is the next topic presented by Dr. Wayne Jonas at the Alexandria Friends Meeting (Quakers) at Woodlawn. The historic meetinghouse is located at 8990 Woodlawn Rd. , Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060. Directions can be found at woodlawnfriends.org/home/location/ The fifty-minute presentation will start at 10 a.m.
Dr. Jonas is the Samueli Institute’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has had a long and distinguished career as a student, practitioner, and researcher of conventional medicine as well as complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practices. His experience includes service as an administrator; international conference chairman, speaker, panel moderator, peer reviewer and author of books and scientific articles on conventional and CAM topics. In addition to his position as President and CEO of the Samueli Institute, he is currently an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where he co-founded a CAM curriculum. Dr. Jonas served as Director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 until 1999 and prior to that was Director of the Medical Research Fellowship at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. In addition to his conventional medical education, he is trained in family medicine and clinical pastoral care, diet and nutritional therapy, mind/body methods, spiritual healing, electro-acupuncture diagnostics, homeopathy and bioenergy therapy. His current research interests include projects on Information Biology(TM), the placebo effect, cancer, the biological effects of low level toxin exposures (hormesis), homeopathy, spiritual and “energy” healing, and the quality of research on outcomes. Dr. Jonas is a graduate of Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
This class is the followup to the Aikido Level 1 class, and is by invitation of the instructor only. If you have questions, please contact the instructor. Registration for this class is not available online; you must contact the venue at 703-866-0566 or register in person using the class code stated below.
- Day(s): Saturday
- Date(s): January 9 - March 20
- Time(s): 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Number of Classes: 10
- Location: South Run Rec Center
- Class Code: 1671451002
- Fees: $ for FxCo residents, $ for non-residents
- Note: This is a ten-class session. There will be no class on February 27th.
Japanese concept of circular motion to neutralize an attacker’s power by moving with it. Defense against grabbing, choking and striking attacks will be covered. Emphasis is on techniques that are effective without causing serious or permanent injury to the attacker.
- Day(s): Saturday
- Date(s): January 9 - March 20
- Time(s): 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Number of Classes: 10
- Location: South Run Rec Center
- Class Code: 1671451001
- Fees: $124.00 for FxCo residents, $139.00 for non-residents
- Note: This is a ten-class session. There will be no class on February 27th.
- You can register online or contact the venue.
