Sensing Qi

Tuesdays, February 17- March 27 | 11:00 AM –12:00 PM EST | $80 | Online
Open to all levels of experience

As the season turns inward…

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 course, 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.

A Meeting of East and West

This series bridges Eastern energetic philosophy with a Western understanding of body and mind.
Through the ancient arts of Taiji, Qigong, acupressure, and fascial release, we’ll work with the body’s natural pathways for energy movement.
Through guided meditations, we’ll explore emotional and mental states such as fear, loss, peace, and joy—and observe how each expresses in the body.

Is it light and expanding through the chest?
Heavy and rooted in the belly?
Does it lift like wind or settle like water?

By cultivating this kind of embodied awareness—what Taiji calls ting jing, or “listening energy”—we begin to perceive not just our own qi, but also the subtle energetic exchanges in our surroundings.

What You’ll Gain

• A grounded understanding of qi as both energy and experience

• Tools to sense energy within the body through meditation and movement

• Insight into how thoughts and emotions influence physical flow and vitality

• Practices to harmonize the “Three Advisors”: mental, emotional, and physical awareness

• An introduction to interoception and exteroception—the inner and outer listening that deepens sensitivity to qi