Our Practice

Compassion Cultivation – Kristina

  • Effort-Rest Balance 

  • Tonglen: giving out happiness

  • Embodied mind training: listening and attunement 

  • Somatic listening: journaling and documenting a practice

Life as practice – Kris / Evgenii

  • Our personal journeys 

  • Morality and ethical conduct

  • The importance/role of a teacher/guide

  • Motivation: achieving something/moving towards a goal

  • Mantra: working with affirmations while in the process

  • The benefits of hard external conditions: discomfort and growth

  • Gratitude, equanimity, and kindness of sentient beings

  • Consistency, precision, balance and having a happy mind 

  • Ikigai: it’s not what we do, it is how we do it

Martial Arts - Kristina / Evgenii

  • Body conditioning

  • Correct kind of tension

  • Principles of punching

  • Stance work & grounding

  • Partner work – kihon/basics 

  • Breathing Kata 

⁠Foundations of Qigong – Evgenii

  • Principles of Body Development within Qigong

  • Anchoring the breath, sinking and mobilising Qi

  • Correct application of attention

  • ⁠Correct internal architecture

  • ⁠Principles of using the kua - hip crease

  • Establishing correct elasticity in the body

  • Jiben Qigong - eight foundational exercises

⁠Harmonisation of the Elements - Evgenii

  • Understanding the Wuxing: interplay between mind and body

  • Wuxing Qigong - five standing elemental-balancing exercises

  • Huichun Qigong - five harmonising seated practices

  • Finding Xiantian Qi - energy undistorted by emotions and mental states

  • Medical use of Qigong

The Art of Resting & Dantian Development - Evgenii

  • Principles of parasympathetic activation - Energetics of Rest

  • ⁠Understanding lower Dantian and its role in neuro-psychic relaxation

  • ⁠Consolidating Yin Qi in the field of lower Dantian

  • ⁠Principles of reverse breathing

  • Energetic foundations for calm abiding (samatha)

Creating Conditions for Flow – Kristina

  • What is flow? 

  • What is the experience of flow? 

  • Autotelic personalities

  • Flow Triggers

  • Using flow to develop confidence and move through self-doubt