Courses
All courses/classes and workshops are paced and designed at a gentle level to suit people new to Tai Chi and Qigong as well as those deepening their practice. Please read the Safety Statement at the bottom of this page. Thank you all for your efforts, interest, engagement and enthusiasm.
RETREATS & OPEN DAYS
Retreats & Open days are held a number of times throughout the year in various venues to offer opportunities to experience these slow meditative movement practices for yourself. In the course of a morning or afternoon, we can learn how they can help to refresh, strengthen and renew our energy. We will explore how we can use these practices to help build a sense of steadiness in the midst of change and challenge, and as a resource to help us move towards processing our experiences with more ease. The flowing movements can be inspiring, beautiful, but also grounding and centering.
Qigong/Tai Chi Retreat to celebrate World Tai Chi & Qigong Day
Venue: Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45K124
Date: Saturday 26th April 2025
Time: 10am - 1.30pm.
Cost: €60
Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
Contact me: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com
Booking Essential. Email: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com
Open Session in association with Cork Lifelong Learning
*** Fully Booked ***
Venue: Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45K124
Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025
Time: 11.30am - 12.40pm.
Cost: Free
Booking Essential.
Chair/Seated Qigong & Contemplative Meditation
Glounthaune 8th May 2025
Contemplation is an immediate and in some sense passive intuition of the inmost reality, of our spiritual self. Thomas Merton.
Chair/Seated Qigong offers opportunities for the body to release tension, to expand and experience energy flow. Qigong movements help to regulate the Nervous System, relax the body and greatly enhance meditation and peace of mind. An embodied awareness supports understanding, compassion and insight. Having the supportive conditions of a dedicated place to practice can greatly help to develop and strengthen your own personal practice.
A Meditation practice helps to foster calmness and clarity, and can open us to a deep sense of wellbeing. It also helps to cultivate and nourish the spiritual component of our lives.
Contemplation is our experience of the divine. (Fr. Thomas Keating, Contemplative Outreach)
Working with the meditative aspects of Qigong, this ongoing meditation course is designed to nourish the inner places of stillness, contemplation and wisdom. When we quiet the body and mind, great peace, rest and healing can take place.
We will be guided by teachings from the Mystics of all traditions, chair/seated Qigong, silent Meditation as well as practices to cultivate deeper listening, stillness and presence. By navigating the landscape of stillness, we learn to recognise and stabilise as our true nature. Surrendering to this true nature is humility.
Attributes such as simplicity, patience, reverence and compassionate action are great antidotes to the personal and societal challenges that come to us. A connection to Stillness allows these innate qualities within us to emerge and thrive.
A gentle, experiential and somatic class.
This Course may suit those drawn to Contemplation, spirituality, the Wisdom teachings, as well as those recovering from injury/illness or who prefer a chair/seated practice.
Glounthaune - New 5-week Course:
Venue: Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45K124
Date: Thursdays from 8th May 2025
Time: 10.45am - 11.50pm
Cost: €75 for the 5-week Course.
Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
Contact me: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com
Booking Essential.
Cancellation Policy - Please notify me at least one week before the beginning of the course, so your place can be offered to someone else.
Dungarvan Qigong - 8 Silk Brocades - Monday 28th April 2025
A 6-week course commencing Monday 28th April 2025.
(Note: No class on Bank Holiday Mondays)
This course includes an exploration of Tai Chi and Qigong embodiment principles, and we will learn the very popular 8 Silk Brocades Qigong sequence/Form.
This is a very strengthening and grounding sequence of movements designed to benefit health and overall wellbeing. Each movement targets a specific meridian or energy pathway, helping to remove stagnation, improve circulation and felt sense of strength. Due to the meditative and slow nature of the movements, they are also of wonderful value to help focus the mind, improve clarity and ease stress and anxiety.
We will explore the health benefits from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, explore the history and cultural background to this form, and why it has been used in Covid-19 recovery in many parts of the world.
As with all courses, we take a slow, meditative approach with inner listening to the body and its feedback. We will continue to build on mindful awareness as we practice.
Note: The Course venue is upstairs at the Fusion Centre.
Dungarvan - Fusion Centre
Venue: The Fusion Centre, Cois Tra, Ringnasilloge, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford.
Date: Mondays, 28th April 2025 (Note: No class on Bank Holiday Mondays)
Time: 12.30- 1.40pm
Cost: €85 for the 6-week Course.
Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
Contact me: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com.
Booking Essential.
Cancellation Policy - Please notify me at least one week before the beginning of the course, so your place can be offered to someone else.
Glounthaune Cork - Qigong - Thursday 8th May 2025
8 Silk Brocades Qigong
8 Silk Brocades Qigong
Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45 K124
A 6-week course commencing Thursday 8th May 2025.
This course includes an exploration of Tai Chi and Qigong embodiment principles, and we will learn the very popular 8 Silk Brocades Qigong sequence/Form.
This is a very strengthening and grounding sequence of movements designed to benefit health and overall wellbeing. Each movement targets a specific meridian or energy pathway, helping to remove stagnation, improve circulation and felt sense of strength. Due to the meditative and slow nature of the movements, they are also of wonderful value to help focus the mind, improve clarity and ease stress and anxiety.
We will explore the health benefits from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, explore the history and cultural background to this form, and why it has been used in Covid-19 recovery in many parts of the world.
As with all courses, we take a slow, meditative approach with inner listening to the body and its feedback. We will continue to build on mindful awareness as we practice.
Glounthaune 6-Week Qigong Course
Venue: Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45K124
Date: Thursdays, beginning 8th May 2025
Time: 9.30am
Cost: €85 for the 6-week Course. Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
Contact me: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com
Booking Essential.
Cancellation Policy - Please notify me at least one week before the beginning of the course, so your place can be offered to someone else.
Online Qigong - Friday 2nd May 2025
8 Silk Brocades Qigong
8 Silk Brocades Qigong
A 6-week online course commencing Friday 2nd May 2025.
This course includes an exploration of Tai Chi and Qigong embodiment principles, and we will learn the very popular 8 Silk Brocades Qigong sequence/Form.
This is a very strengthening and grounding sequence of movements designed to benefit health and overall wellbeing. Each movement targets a specific meridian or energy pathway, helping to remove stagnation, improve circulation and felt sense of strength. Due to the meditative and slow nature of the movements, they are also of wonderful value to help focus the mind, improve clarity and ease stress and anxiety.
We will explore the health benefits from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, explore the history and cultural background to this form, and why it has been used in Covid-19 recovery in many parts of the world.
As with all courses, we take a slow, meditative approach with inner listening to the body and its feedback. We will continue to build on mindful awareness as we practice.
Online 6-Week Qigong Course:
Venue: Online via Zoom.
A copy of the live recording will be available to registered participants after each session.
Dates: Fridays, beginning 2nd May 2025.
Time: 9.30am-10.45am
Cost: €85 for the 6-week Course.
(Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty. Please contact me at taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com)
Booking Essential.
Cancellation Policy - Please notify me at least one week before the beginning of the course, so your place can be offered to someone else.
Glounthaune Cork - Tai Chi - Thursday 8th May 2025
Tai Chi Continuation Course
Glounthaune Community Centre
6-Week Course commencing Thursday 8th May 2025.
We began 2025 with a return to the basic principles of Tai Chi, and the opening sequence of the Short Form. In this course, we will continue with this beautiful sequence, and explore Tai Chi further along with its underlying energy work.
This Course offers the invitation to deepen into Qigong and Tai Chi practice. We will be supported by quotes and wisdom from Daoist philosophy.
This weekly class will work on the Tai Chi Short Form, as well as deepening the Qigong somatic experience in each movement. Each week we will explore and add on new postures, thereby developing and expanding our movements into the longer Tai Chi sequence.
The class will feature partner work, and learning the energetic and martial applications of movements. It is designed to bring forward Qigong and embodiment principles and incorporate these experientially into our movements.
Glounthaune - Tai Chi - 6 Week Course
Venue: Glounthaune Community Centre, Glounthaune, Cork. T45K124
Date: Thursdays, beginning 8th May 2025
Time: 12noon
Cost: €85 for the 6-week Course. Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
Contact me: taichi.qigong.haven@gmail.com
Booking Essential.
Cancellation Policy - Please notify me at least one week before the beginning of the course, so your place can be offered to someone else.
Youghal Qigong - 13th March 2025
Primordial Qigong & Dao
Hunyuan Primordial Qigong & Daoist Philosophy
Church of the Holy Family Hall, Youghal, P36EC65
A 5-week course commencing 13th March 2025.
*** This 5-week Course is organised by YARA - Youghal Active Retirement Association.***
Limited spaces are available for non-YARA members.
Please email: info@youghalactive.ie for more details and to book a place.
https://www.youghalactive.ie/
Tel: 087 2061934
The Hunyuan Primordial Qigong Form is a beautifully gentle sequence of 12 circular movements, designed to nourish the 3 main energy reservoirs/Dantian and explore the themes of origin, centre, form and formlessness. The slow meditative movements are perfectly suited for a more restful winter practice, and to cultivate inner wisdom.
For this series, we will take time to explore some ancient Daoist texts and how the principles of ancient Chinese cosmology and Daoist philosophy are reflected and embodied through this Qigong form.
With Qigong, we especially welcome the benefits to the Nervous System, the Body, Mind, Heart and Spirit. Wellbeing is felt as a sense of being grounded and centered, with a more embodied experience of the movements. These slow flowing practices can remind us of the reasons why they are often called Meditation in Movement. Through regular practice, this mindful, more embodied way of being becomes more effortless, habitual, and comfortable.
Suitable for all.
Booking Essential with YARA.
Youghal 5-Week Course:
Venue: Church of the Holy Family Hall, Youghal. P36EC65
Dates: Thursdays from 13th March
Time: 4pm
Cost: Contact YARA
Safety Statement: Before you begin these practices at home, in class or by following the videos, please note that Tai Chi, Qigong and Meditation are gentle practices of wellbeing and exercise, and will generally suit most people. Nonetheless, always move gently and well within your capabilities. Please inform and get advice from your doctor of your intention to train in these practices if you currently have any medical or mental health condition/illness. These movements can also be practiced seated.
Dana/Donation: Dana/Donation welcome if experiencing any financial difficulty.
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