Past Seminars at Phoenix Rising Center

Since 1998 Phoenix Rising Center has sponsored Taiqi and Qigong seminars with master teachers from outside our community. The intent of these seminars is to broaden, refine, and inspire the students and will strengthen the learning process that is cultivated in our weekly classes.

Ron Lew is the Grand Master of the TiAiki Tibetan system. He is an accomplished martial artist who has been studying and teaching Qigong, Taiqi, and martial arts for the past forty years. He has visited us several times for both teaching and testing of students who are training in the TiAiki lineage. He shares a unique blend of Tibetan internal energy work as well as Taiqi, and Old Man Kung Fu. He brings much laughter and playfulness into his weekend intensive seminars, while at the same time imparting profound wisdom. Recent offerings have included:

Autumn's Embrace
Explore the seasonality and qualities of autumn through the desert landscape and body wisdom. Guided meditation, Qigong, journaling and playful curiosity.
Facilitator: Catherine Shank with Master Lew

Qigong
Surrender to movement. Explore Qigong movements to experience surrender. In surrender the Qi nourishes your internal and external life experience. No previous experience necessary.
Facilitator: Judith Lee with Master Lew

Joy & Happiness in Movement
Experience joy and happiness through the practice of Qisou and Pushhands. This is a practice of play with a partner to learn how to let go and follow the Qi. It is a dance of sensing, leading and following.
Facilitator: Drew Roots with Master Lew

Ceremony
Celebrate the Tao with drums, music and Tea Ceremony. Let your spirit move with the dance of Universe and elemental changing.
Facilitator: Dhyana Greene with Master Lew

Meditation with movement
Simple movement to quiet the mind, relax the body and open the heart to prepare oneself for deeper meditation. Recommended for those that find meditation difficult and open to all levels of practitioners.
Facilitator: Lisa DeRees with Master Lew

Master Li Jun Feng is the founder of the International Sheng Zhen Society and principle teacher of the Shen Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong. Teacher Li shares a lifetime of training and teaching in martial arts, including fifteen years as head coach of the People’s Republic of China National Wushu Team. He joyfully transmits the wisdom of Shen Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong in his commitment of global service of unconditional love. He offers a dynamic environment for anyone who wishes to learn a Qigong that will heal the body and emotions by opening up to one’s own perfect love found in the heart.

A sample of the offerings during a 2-day seminar:

• Kuan Yin Standing Qigong
• Jesus Sitting Qigong
• Kuan Yin Sitting Qigong
• Sheng Zhen Healing Qigong
• Sheng Zhen Healing Qigong Review
• Muhammad Standing Qigong

Click here to see a previous seminar flyer.

Kim Ivy is the founder of Embrace the Moon Center which has been a dynamic resource offering Taiqi and Qigong in the Seattle Washington area for the past decade. She has trained with many prominent teachers in the martial Arts, Taiqi, Qigong, and Yoga over the past 27 years. She has developed many programs for those with special health concerns including Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Kim’s enthusiasm as a teacher will inspire both curiosity and delight. A sample of what is offered during a seminar is:

• Medical Qigong lecture and demonstration
• Ling Gui forms of: Spirit Turtle, Jade Body, Qigong for Women, Thousand Hands Buddha, The eight Treasures
• Chen style Tai Chi
• Yang style Tai Chi
• Push Hands

Wing Chun Gung Fu Seminar
Wing Chun is a form of Martial Arts created to help a woman defend herself against oppressors. It is a form that cultivates and uses the yin essence of the Snake and Crane animal styles from the Shaolin Temple teachings. This is one of the most widely studied martial arts today and was studied by Bruce Lee himself.

Instructor: Jason Troth is a senior student of Master Robert Cook, who was himself a student of Sifu Chris Chan.

Holy Womb Chakra and Irrational Positivity Workshop
Workshop to purify and strengthen the Womb Chakra to transform our relationships, heal heartbreak and heal physical and emotional problems. Release painful ties to broken relationships. Strengthen and bloom joyful relationships. Attract a soul mate and strenghten life with clarity and peace.

Irrational positivity means that you think in a way that the world will see as irrational, and is in fact irrational because it touches the supernatural word beyond rational thought. Learn to speak the language of your soul. Turn your life into a positive experience by communicating with your soul. Learn to connect with the supernatural. Learn to create the outcomes in life that are best for you.

Instructor: Philip Lipetz, certified senior teacher of Sri Kaleshwar.

Ortho-Bionomy Seminars

Ortho-Bionomy® Seminar
Christina Montes de Oca
Phase IV Spine Workshop.

Ortho-Bionomy® is a gentle structural approach to bodywork that facilitates healing through self correction and self recognition by contact with the nervous system. The seminar will focus upon the spine, and will include neck (cervical), thorax & ribs (thorasic), lumbar spine, and the ilium & sacrum. Assessment through palpation will be followed by techniques and principles that will facilitate the body’s ability to self correct through the proprioceptive reflexes of the Nervous system. This seminar offers tools that will compliment Massage Therapists, bodyworkers, healers, and anyone who desires to expand and deepen their relationship with the innate wisdom of the body to heal through resourcing of itself.

Ortho-Bionomy® Seminar
Christina Montes de Oca
Phase IV Spine & Extremities Workshop.
CE Credits: 14 hours of continuing education credits available

Ortho-Bionomy® is a gentle structural approach to bodywork that facilitates healing through self correction and self recognition by contact with the nervous system. The seminar will focus upon the extremities, including knees, ankles, feet, elbows, wrists, and hands, as well as a simplified way to address the shoulders. Assessment through palpation will be followed by techniques and principles that will facilitate the body's ability to self correct through the proprioceptive reflexes of the Nervous system. This seminar offers tools that will compliment Massage Therapists, bodyworkers, healers, and anyone who desires to expand and deepen their relationship with the innate wisdom of the body to heal through resourcing of itself.

Ortho-Bionomy® Study Groups
Ortho-Bionomy® study groups are ongoing and meet on a bi-monthly or as needed basis. These small classes are designed to review and integrate new material that was taught during the weekend workshops. Specific topics for review can also be requested by the students to deepen their understanding in a specific area. Study groups are 3 hours with a cost of $25.00. Credit for the study group is given for those in the Practitioner Training Program. Contact Catherine Shank to get dates and times of future study groups or to be placed on a mailing list.

Toltec Classes

In The Heart of the Warrior
Catherine Shank and Gabrielle Weaver
In the Heart of the Warrior: Tools of transformation for everyday life. Based on the Toltec teachings of Miguel Ruiz and his best selling book The Four Agreements.

Master Dreaming Intensives
Doug and Victoria Allen
Whether awake or asleep we are dreaming all the time. Our dreaming mind is what creates our perception and experience of life. When our mind dreams with fear-based patterns, unnecessary suffering arises and permeates our world on so many levels. When we tap into the Force of our Love, which is our true nature, we fuel our dream with the very fabric of our integrity. This Dream is one which brings happiness, peace and a deep connection with all of life. This Dreaming Intensive offers tools and techniques to break down fear based dreaming to move you into experiencing life in new and creative ways. Through the process of the intensive you will discover what it takes to become a powerful dreamer, able to handle the ever- changing landscape of life with more clarity, compassion, humor and strength. Master dreamers ultimately find an ease and surrender into the dynamic flow of life.

Shen Zheng Qigong and Toltec Wisdom Teachings
at the pyramids in Teotehuacan
Instructors: Sheng Zhen Qigong taught by Donald Leathers, ND
Toltec teachings by Victoria Allen
For details view the brochure or visit Victoria Allen's website at www.awakenedheartteachings.com

Polish the Three Jewels In Your Heart
with Doug and Victoria Allen

Our heart carries an intelligent force that goes beyond the mind that often limits our choices and our happiness. When we dream into our heart wisdom we open 3 potent pathways that nurture the relationship we have with our self and others.