Tuesdays, November 4–25 | 11:00 AM –12:00 PM EST | Online
Open to all levels of experience

The shift into late autumn invites stillness. The outer world quiets, and our attention naturally begins to move toward the inner landscape—toward the subtle sensations and emotions that shape how energy flows through us. It’s a time to listen. A time to sense the unseen.

This series, Sensing Qi, offers a space to explore that inner current—to learn how thought, feeling, and movement interact to create harmony or stagnation within the body.

What does qi feel like?
We often speak of energy, but few of us pause long enough to feel it moving within.
Qi, the vital force of life, is constantly flowing—responding to our thoughts, emotions, and physical states. Sometimes it moves freely, bright and buoyant. Other times it slows, tightens, or hides beneath layers of tension or emotion.

In this five-week class, we’ll explore what it means to truly sense qi—not as a concept, but as a living experience within the body. You’ll learn to listen to energy through the lenses of emotion, thought, and movement. Together, we’ll explore how each influences the others, and how awareness itself begins to shift the flow of qi.

The longest night of the year reminds us to pause, listen, feel our potential. 

Let's do it together. 

Thanking the yin of dark contemplative quietness and welcoming back the yang uplift and light.

We'll begin with a centering meditation exploring the gifts yin energy brings: quiet, cool, conservation, potential and noticing how they transform slowly into the growth of yang, spring, gentle curiosity and wonder.

We'll embrace the warmth of community, welcoming the light and planting seeds of intention for the journey ahead.

Date: Sunday, December 21st
Time: 10 am ET
Location: Zoom
Cost: Free

I look forward to creating this peaceful, sacred space with you.

This class is live and virtual. It will not be recorded.

Fascia, Acupressure, Taiji, and the 5 Elements

Our bodies hold a living map—woven through fascia, energy pathways, and the rhythms of nature. In this class, we’ll explore that map through mindful movement, gentle acupressure, and taiji-inspired forms that awaken connection and flow.

Each session invites you to sense the interplay between the Five Elements and your inner terrain—how Earth steadies, Water restores, Wood expands, Fire connects, and Metal refines. You’ll learn how fascia, breath, and awareness can harmonize these forces within the body.

Through guided movement and reflection, we’ll listen to Essence—the quiet intelligence at the center of all experience—and the ways our physical, emotional, and mental “advisors” translate the world around us. The result is a practice that supports both grounding and spaciousness, helping you move with greater ease, clarity, and resilience in daily life.

The work we do to transform our lives cannot be done alone. We are rich resources that can learn, rely on, and share with each other. This is what the SWL Community is all about.

This is a free-access online place to explore mindful movement and the ancient philosophies that support it.

We all try to use language that is rooted in the culture of the practices we do daily, but we explain those in terms that our Western upbringing has in common. 

This liminal space is special.

Western Mindfulness tends to focus on stress reduction (e.g., Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, MBSR), science-based approach, and therapy, with a focus on practical and goal-oriented results.

Eastern Mindfulness is rooted in spiritual traditions connected to deeper spiritual development and involves meditation as a path toward wisdom and insight, focuses on the interconnectedness of life, and looks to a holistic balance of mind, emotions, body, and spirit.

What we see when we create a ven diagram of these is that we all want the kind of internal harmony that emanates outward toward others. Both approaches have great gifts.

Simply put, a compassionate, non-judgmental space reduces anxiety and stress on its own. It creates community, safety, and connection.

I hope you join me here.

I remember back when I closed my brick-and-mortar studio. It was one of the most difficult decisions I ever had to make.

My mother was suffering from dementia and her husband had terminal cancer. I didn't think I had the capacity to continue building a business and caring for someone with whom I had had a difficult past.

I loved the studio with it's suspended wood floor (heated in the winter!) giant light-filled windows, flower and herb garden, but mostly the incredible students I had learned so much from.

I couldn't fully let it go, so I chose to move my classes to an online/virtual space. It was a lot of work and I had great help.

Two months later, COVID arrived.

I look back on those hard days and decisions and realize how grateful I am for the path that emerged.

Students continued to learn as I taught virtually and joined my in-depth online courses through membership to continue their learning.

Having 24/7 access was vital to them. The non-judgmental approach felt like they were still in the studio. Being able to review and relive the in-depth information was priceless.

If their comments sound like what you're looking for try the membership for free for 30 days. You won't be charged unless you stay with us.

With a monthly membership you'll have 24/7 access to Taiji For Balance - Levels 1 and 2; Baduanjin Qigong; Meditation, Select Workshops Recordings, and future courses. 

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