Peaceable Dragon

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Peaceable Dragon will be hosting Northern Virginia’s World Tai Chi and Qigong Day at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, VA.  Activities start at 10 a.m. with demonstrations, mini-classes and a pot-luck lunch at noon.

Daisy Lee will be teaching a series of workshops in Alexandria, Virginia on what promises to be a fresh and beautiful spring weekend.  Learn Organ Cleansing and Strengthening Qigong; Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong; Lotus Rises from the Water and Swimming Dragon Qigong; and Radiant Lotus Fan Dance Tai Chi.  For more information you will find a flier here.

“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.

• Day(s): Monday
• Date(s): January 11 - March 1, 2010
• Time(s): 7:00 p.m. - 7:55 p.m.
• Number of Classes: 6
• Location: Garfield Elementary School, 7101 Old Keene Mill Rd, Springfield VA 22150
• Class Code: 049 128 3001
• Fees: $55
• Description: Learn a standing qigong form.  Develop and enhance your Qi cultivation, based on Sheng Zhen qigong as rendered by Master Li Jun Feng.  Perform gentle, graceful movements to improve body tone while increasing energy and mental acuity.  These qigong movements may be modified to accomodate all physical abilities.
• REGISTRATION:  www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/parktakes.htm  or by phone 703-222-4664.

• Day(s): Thursdays
• Date(s): ongoing
• Time(s): 8:30 - 9:30 am
• Number of Classes:ongoing
• Location: Level Fitness, 77th Street and MacArthus Blvd.
• Class Code: n/a
• Fees: Non-members pay $20 per class or purchase a 6/12 package. Call 301.229.0080
• Description: A friendly muti-level class followed by an informal discussion group until 10am.

• Day(s): Monday
• Date(s): ongoing
• Time(s): 7:45 - 8:45 pm
• Number of Classes: ongoing
• Location: Level Fitness, 77th St. and MacArthur Blvd. in Cabin John, MD
• Class Code: n/a
• Fees:  $20 per class or purchase a 6/12 package - call 301.229.0080
• Description: A peaceful time to stretch the body and create a sens of ease and well-being before bedtime.  Taught with a gentle pace, you will explore heart-opening postures, inversions and candle-light restoratives with an optional 15 minutes of meditation.