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Hello Hello dear Women!

As women, we often nurture and tend all others and forget ourselves. My next series of Daoist and Qigong practices is for nurturing the unique physical, energetic and emotional needs of a person in a female body. I hope you will join me. 

This 5 week series, Daoist Rejuvenation for Women is on Oct 5, 12, 26, Nov 2 & 9th at 10am EST via zoom. All classes will be recorded and available for you to download for future use.

Why I teach this series!!!

In short, because we women, we are underserved in addressing and understanding our unique energetic, emotional and physiology being.  Western medicine and even healing modalities such as yoga and qigong are largely taught by men using male appropriate practices.

• Women represent 75% of autoimmune disease
• 50% of women experience urinary incontinence and various forms of prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunction
• Almost every western woman experiences distress in Menstruation and Menopause. Classical chinese medicine does not see this as a foregone conclusion if we are in balance.  But many of us are not.

I personally have full on osteoporosis, a long standing low back dysfunction, a prolapsed uterus.  I recently divorced realizing deep unhappiness and confusion about lack sexual attraction to my husband from the beginning, because like many women, I was not in touch with my own body and boundaries. 

I wish to share the classical Daoist practices that are helping me.

We have lost touch with the wisdom of our bodies.  We experience societal shame, traumas, and reductionist views of our body and mind.  The result is we are often numb, or entire area's of our body are invisible to us, and we do not understand the import how of our emotional landscape can stagnate and create ill-health and accumulate in cysts and tumors

Or we are taught about our female-ness, our sexuality, and nutrition and health by MEN.

Or more and more--- our feminine sexuality is being objectified into more and more masculinized and goal-oriented sexual experience. 

A few years ago I did intensive sexual shadow healing work in South Africa.  And when i came through the other side, I wondered where the wisdom about women was in qigong.  I have been on a 6 year continuing journey to find this wisdom for us and our healing.  

I want to acknowledge the many teachers I've had, but in particular, I highly recommend my current teacher Damo Mitchell and his wife for their deep dive into internal cultivation.  That is the place to go if you want to devote yourself deeply to internal Neigong arts.   My realm is helping us understand and open our bodies, hearts and minds.  That is what we will do in this series: 

1. Open the body and joints and strengthen the core
2. We will do some beautiful and nurturing facial massage, Daoist breast and womb health practices (clothed)
3. Classic Circling the 3 Moons qigong flow which tonifies and regulates all three energetic centers, the upper Dan Tian (Wisdom center), middle Dan tian of the heart and breasts, and lower Dan Tian of the womb.  Women in China often meet in the park and just do this practice.
4. A seated practice to help with the process of stilling the mind so that Qi can settle and build.

As always, I offer my classes as pay-as-you can so that any woman, regardless of income can have access to health and wellness support. Suggested exchange is on the above link. Please, do not let money be the reason you don't join whatever you can pay is perfect. All that is required is your interest and commitment to jump in and learn some practices and lifestyle guidance for health.

Please share this with a friend as you see fit.

I look forward to you joining me on this Fall qigong series.

Cheers

Jan

Minimum suggested Donation: $75 CAN  ($15/class)

• In Canada: interac to itsjanbull@gmail.com
• OUTSIDE Canada:Paypal-  https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/janbullqigong  or via Zelle to itsjanbull@gmail.com

I look forward to seeing you 

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