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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.

• Day(s): Saturday
• Date(s): July 17, 2010
• Time(s): 9:30am - 5:30pm
• Number of Classes: 1
• Location: AKS School of Massage, 462 Herndon Pkwy, Herndon, VA
• Class Code: N/A
• Fees: Register by 7/3/10 - $90.00.  After 7/3/10 $100. Repeat students inquire.
• Description: This one day workshop will explore nine simple qigong movements - based on the teachings of Roger Jahnke - that help reduce stress, relax your body and mind, heighten your sense of well-being, and strengthen and support your immune system.  This class will be taught by Pauline Reid and Liz Cournoyer.  For more information, or to register, contact Pauline Reid at reidpr@hotmail or 703-625-8431.  See the attached flyer.

• Day(s): Wednesday
• Date(s): April 21 to May 26
• Time(s): 6pm to 7pm
• Number of Classes: 6
• Location: Life Expression Wellness Center, 298 Rock Glen Rd., Sugarloaf, PA
• Class Code:
• Fees:$60
• Description:  To register or for more information call Kimberly Rigsbee at 570-231-9427

• Day(s): Tuesdays
• Date(s): April 20 to May 25th
• Time(s): 6:00PM to 7:00PM
• Number of Classes: 6
• Location: Centre for Health and Wellness, 589 E. 7th St., Bloomsburg, PA
• Class Code: n/a
• Fees: $60 for 6 classes
• Description: To register for “Jesus Standing Qigong” send a check made out to Kimberly Rigsbee to the Centre for Health and Wellness, 589 E. 7th St., Bloomsburg, PA 17815, ATTN: Kimberly Rigsbee.

CURRENTLY OFFERED CLASSES

Tai Chi 1 / Burke Fairfax Springfield VA Area /
Mon, Apr 26 – July 12, 2010 7PM-8PM
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Tai Chi 2/3 / Burke Fairfax Springfield VA Area /
Mon, Apr 26 – July 12, 2010 8PM-9PM
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Tai Chi 1 / Burke Fairfax Springfield VA Area /
Tues, Apr 27 – June 29, 2010 10:30AM-11:30AM
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Tai Chi Exploration
Thursdays April 8 - May 27, 2010 2pm - 3pm AND 3pm - 4pm
Burke United Methodist Church - Senior Center Program
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Tai Chi /Qigong /Yoga Exploration
Burke Fairfax Springfield VA Area
Wednesdays April 28 - June 30, 2010 5:00PM-6:30PM
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Tai Chi Exploration - Private Classes - Contact Me
Near Fairfax Centreville Chantilly
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Coming this fall - Classes in the Manassas Gainesville VA area! Please inquire with interest!

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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.