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• Day(s): Mondays
• Date(s): Please Email me with interest - Exact dates TBA
• Time(s): 9:45-10:45AM
• Number of Classes: 6
• Location: Qi Elements
• Class Code: N/A
• Fees: $66 with registration. $15 per class drop in without registration
• Supplies: Please bring a yoga mat and a thin blanket or large towel to each class. Blocks and straps are optional.
• Description: Yoga Exploration

Yoga Exploration will be taught with an emphasis on relaxation and increasing flexibility by exploring Yoga with the addition of Qigong practice. Modifications are available for physical considerations. The goal is to relax, have fun, and increase and maintain health through breathing and the gentle movements of Yoga.

For current yoga practitioners, experience an expansion that the incorporation of Qigong allows. For current practitioners of other forms of movement, realize the compliment and increased flexibility that yoga moves provide. For movement-challenged individuals, Yoga can provide pain relief, relax stiff muscles, and ease sore joints. Yoga with it’s controlled movements, pressures, stretches, and deep breathing relaxation, is also an excellent range-of-motion exercise.


Please register in advance by using this link to REGISTER.

Please include your full name, phone number and email address in your registration email. Please bring your payment to the first class.
Email Kris Brinker for more information.

Please see my entire class list for Tai Chi (Taiji), Chi Kung (Qigong), and Yoga classes offered in or near Chantilly Virginia, Centreville Virginia, Burke Virginia, Fairfax Virginia, Reston Virginia, Herndon Virginia, and Springfield Virginia.

“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.

• Day(s): Tuesdays
• Date(s): November 24, 2009 - February 16, 2010
• Time(s): 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
• Number of Classes: 13
• Location: Ekoji Buddist temple
• Class Code: N/A
• Fees: $143 with registration. $15 per class drop in without registration.
  Temple members $117/$13.
• Supplies: Please bring a yoga mat and a thin blanket or large towel to each class. Blocks and straps are optional.
• Description: Yoga Exploration

Yoga Exploration will be taught with an emphasis on relaxation and increasing flexibility by exploring Yoga with the addition of Qigong practice. Modifications are available for physical considerations. The goal is to relax, have fun, and increase and maintain health through breathing and the gentle movements of Yoga.

For current yoga practitioners, experience an expansion that the incorporation of Qigong allows. For current practitioners of other forms of movement, realize the compliment and increased flexibility that yoga moves provide. For movement-challenged individuals, Yoga can provide pain relief, relax stiff muscles, and ease sore joints. Yoga with it’s controlled movements, pressures, stretches, and deep breathing relaxation, is also an excellent range-of-motion exercise.


Please register in advance by using this link to REGISTER.

Please include your full name, phone number and email address in your registration email. Please bring your payment to the first class.
Email Kris Brinker for more information.

Please see my entire class list for Tai Chi (Taiji), Chi Kung (Qigong), and Yoga classes offered in or near Chantilly Virginia, Centreville Virginia, Burke Virginia, Fairfax Virginia, Reston Virginia, Herndon Virginia, and Springfield Virginia.

• Day(s): Saturday
• Date(s): Sept 19 & 26, Oct 10 & 24, Nov 7 & 21, 2009
• Time(s): 2:30pm - 4:00pm
• Number of Classes: 6
• Location: 443 Carlisle Drive, Herndon, VA
• Class Code: N/A
• Fees: $110
• Description: Awakening the Soul Qigong is practiced while seated on a chair or stool. The form combines moving and non-moving postures as well as contemplations to help deepen the practice. The relaxed pace and ease of movement provide a sense of peace, offering rest for our weary minds and a break from the ‘busy-ness’ of daily life.  Practitioners may also experience a greater sense of compassion for themselves and others as the form helps to open the heart, gently unraveling knots, blocks, and fears. Awakening the Soul Qigong is one of several forms that make up the Sheng Zhen Qigong style of qigong. To register for this class send a check payable to “CTS” to Sharon Crowell, 443 Carlisle Drive, Herndon, VA 20170. Contact Sharon for more information at 703-623-8340.

• Day(s): Thursday
• Date(s): Starts Sept. 17 for twelve classes
• Time(s): 8-9pm
• Number of Classes: 12 of 55 minutes each
• Location: Lee Recreation Center
• Class Code: 4561290101
• Fees: $108
• Description:
  • This is a new class within the Fairfax County Recreation system and focuses on the integration of body, mind, and sprit fundamental to all Taiji forms. The Taiji classics state that without a foundation of Qigong and meditation your Taiji form will remain empty and external. Using Master Yang Yang’s techniques we will explore and practice Qigong, and meditation (Zhang Zhuan, sitting, reclining). The combination of these creates the alignment, balance, coordination, central equilibrium and relaxation in movement necessary to begin moving with a partner in sensing hands (push hands). The emphasis is on nurturing the body, mind, and spirit in a balanced manner. Practitioners of other body movement arts (Qigong, Yoga and others) will also experience the benefits from movement using proper body mechanics principles. Prior practice of a style of Taiji or Qigong is recommended however not required.
  • This course is instructed by John Allen and Jan Nogle.
  • This class is offered through the Fairfax County Park Authority at Lee District Recreation Center.  At 6601 Telegraph Road, Franconia, Virginia (703-922-9841). To register call 703-449-8639 (automated), 703-222-4664 (live) or on line at FCPA (Fairfax county Parks Authority) and click on “Parktakes on-line”.