*~Past Classes & Courses~* – Tiger Heart Tao

For description of the courses scroll down on this page. For more information on Women’s Sexual Energy practices, visit the “Ovarian Kung Fu” page… For more information on Inner Alchemy, visit that page as well. Here is a summary of the recent and next Group Classes:

June – August

Classes have moved online and will continue there for now.

***“Summer Course:* *Cultivating your Relationship to your Qi Energy”***

Next Free Introductory Class: June 28: 6:00-7:30pm (Virtual/Online).

Registration is required for the class, please use this link:
https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/free-intro-summer-sunday-course

7-Week Course: Sundays: July 12-August 23: 6:00-7:30pm (Virtual/Online)

Course fee: $175
If you know you will miss any class(es), fee can be prorated. Email me for prorated registration. If you miss a class (and send notice) that class fee can be credited to a future course.

To Register for the course:
https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/summer-course-jul-12-aug-23

Since we are unsure when it will feel comfortable and safe to gather in the classroom, we will hold this class and the course on Zoom. This also allows anyone joining from outside New York to attend the course.

We will continue working with our Qi Energy. We will review the basics (so if you didn’t attend a previous “Abundant Balance” course, you won’t be lost). We will repeat and go deeper with all the energy circulations, groundings and cultivations… and take them farther.

These practices are key to the Taoist path. They are used to center and balance yourself daily and to cultivate inner alchemy. Plus they are beautiful and enjoyable.

–Getting and staying “Grounded” –connected to the Earth, to your center… and cultivating natural, strong boundaries.
–Cultivating a connection to your life force energy so you can support and vitalize yourself before bigger imbalances grow.
            –releasing stagnation and murky qi (sitting in front of a pc all day?)
            –gathering fresh, vitalizing qi using breath, visualizing and movement
            –refining and balancing qi so it can better balance and strengthen you.
–Avoid losing Qi or getting overwhelmed… Enjoy every day!
–Learning traditional ‘time-tested’ practices and tools that change the way you relate to your body, your relationships, and the spaces you inhabit.

SHAKING brings you to your center and connects you to the earth as you release old Qi, stress and negativity, “clearing space” for fresh life force. The MICROCOSMIC ORBIT moves you deep into your inner landscape. By guiding your Qi along internal pathways, you grow your energetic resources, balance your Yin and Yang energies as you settle and center your mind and heart. The fluid movements and nature imagery of KUAN YIN QIGONG move Qi throughout your body, feed your spirit and transform your connection to the natural world and night skies. These main practices will be supplemented by others, such as THE GOLDEN BALL, 8 BROCADES and STAR STEPPING or MOON MEDITATION.

To Register:
https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/sun-may-10-jun-21-abundant-balance-course

Get in touch with any questions or concerns by sending an email to Miranda at this website… sorry for the lack of a contact form, but the spam has gotten out of control.

April-June 2020

Free Introductory Class: Sunday May 3 6:00-7:30pm
7 Week Course is May 10 – June 21 6:00-7:30pm

“Abundant Balance: Working with your Qi ~ Life Force Energy”

We are all grappling with the stress of uncertainty and the changes we have already made to our daily life as well as the uncertainty of how our lives will be in the near and further future. …And some of us are also grappling with mild to extreme health challenges.

Our usual “go to” practices for staying centered and vitalized may not be available or enough right now. Anyway, getting away, grabbing dinner with friends or getting a massage help, but they fix us after we’re aggravated, overwhelmed or exhausted. What if we had a strong center, abundant Qi energy and a clear and loving mind – all the time? What if we had a portfolio of practices that worked with our energies daily – instead of waiting until we “run out of steam”?

The practices we’ll learn in “Abundant Balance” are from traditional Chinese Medicine and have been around for centuries. So, it’s kind of amazing how accessible they are and how deeply they can transform our contemporary lives –both inner and outer.

April – May

Special Quarantine Classes to Ease Stress during Sheltering at Home

These classes have ended. Stay tuned for less frequent, but equally supportive offerings… We are all grappling with the stress of uncertainty and the changes we’ve already made to our daily life… and some of us are grappling with mild to extreme health challenges. During this time, community is key. Tao methods of Qigong, Visualizations and Sound Making are powerful ways to shift Stress, Distress and support our Health. Beginners are more than welcome at any/all of these classes.

Free Weekly Class: Tuesday Evenings at 7:00pm

Two Morning Qigong Classes (by Donation): Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30-9:30am
Weekly Group EFT Tapping (by Donation): Thursdays 7:00-8:00pm

One-hour classes are normally $20. During this time, when so many have lost income, I’m offering a free weekly class in beautiful practices that help work with emotions and energy.

work with EFT, I’m offering private sessions for half my usual fee. $54/hr instead of $108. Here is a link to more information about EFT:

https://tiger-heart-tao.com/eft-emotional-freedom-tapping/

And here is a link to set up a session in my calendar.

https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/special-offer-eft-tapping-session

If you don’t have the EFT Instruction Sheet for group tapping or just for your home practice, here is a link to download it:

https://mirandamaher.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/eft-instruction-sheet-2-.pdf

Past Classes & Courses

JANUARY 5/JANUARY 12: SUNDAY Group Course:

“Emotional Wisdom: Working with the 5 Elements & your Emotional Energies”
Free Intro: January 5 6:00-7:30pm
Course: January 12 – February 16, also 6:00-7:30pm

–Scroll Down for full Course Description–

Any questions at all, contact: Miranda at this website

Location:

327 7th Street, 2nd Floor (Center for Anti-violence Ed.)
Park Slope Brooklyn
Near: 4th Ave & 9th Street F/R/G

DECEMBER 15, 22 and 29/Three Stand-Alone Classes:

During the holidays when schedules are crazy, we’re holding 3 individual classes. Feel free to register for any or all of them.

The variety of Qigong and Inner practices on the Taoist path can be confusing or even off-putting. Join us for three full and varied practices… Each comprehensive and transformative if enjoyed over time. You will also receive handouts and a practice guide to continue your explorations at home.

December 15 – Starting with the Body and moving Inward. Starting with big, physical movements, we will care for our body and release stress and tension; then move more smoothly and mindfully before using breath and awareness to connect with our quieter parts. https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/tao-practice-dec-15

December 29 – Starting with Sound and Moving toward Quiet. Once again, we’ll begin “big” with Qigong bringing sound vibration that releases physical stagnation and stuck emotions, moving to quieter sounding to internal sounds to quiet better felt. https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/tao-practice-dec-29

December 22 – Welcoming Winter Practice
First Winter’s Evening: 90 Minute Practice to Welcome Winter and Care for our Kidneys. Winter Solstice is on December 21st this year. On December 22 we’ll enjoy a 90 minute practice that supports our Water Element, our Kidneys, sleep and quiet: Aspects of the Tao Winter season. We’ll close class with a very special Moon Meditation from Shivani Goodman.https://calendly.com/mirandamaher/winter-solstice-winter-practice

Weekly Group Class Format:

A Free Class to Introduce the Course: (Inner Alchemy courses do not have free intro) Courses are run on an 8 week cycle. Before the course begins, there is a free class to experience the practices… and to learn some important Qigong/Taoist ideas. Registration is needed for these classes.

Courses, Not Drop-In: After the Free Intro, the course will run on the next 7 weeks. We will learn the main practices a step at a time, as we also build skills needed for any Tao Practice. To register, use the links on this page, or you can contact me directly. Pre-payment is needed to register for the course (there are links for that here as well).

This is important: —If there are fewer than 3-4 people registered, the class will not be held, and only those registered will be contacted about any scheduling changes.

Another important thing —If you know you will miss a class or classes at the time of registration, we can pro-rate the tuition for you. Any classes missed after that, we cannot offer refunds, but you are welcome to attend a “make up class” — in the next course or the course taught on another day of the week.

Focused Content for Each Course: Each Course will share a complete practice, based on a facet of the Tao Path. Both movement or body-centric practices and meditative “inner” practices will be included, as well as enough theory or information to give context to your practice. If you only take the one course, you will leave with a solid understanding and enough experience to “own” that practice. And if you continue into the next course, you will continue to build and deepen your understanding and your practice.

Core Lineage: Mantak Chia’s Universal Tao: Every course centers on Universal Tao practice. Along with these accessible, transformational practices, you will learn practices that take the ideas, movements and skills of Universal Tao deeper… as well as body-mind and movement practices that make you feel good, release stress and strengthen your Tao learning. If you’re pursuing Universal Tao certification, all these courses are relevant.

Materials & Home Practice Support: For each course, you will receive a comprehensive practice guide and additional handouts that provide details of certain practices, history or context. When helpful and available, you also receive links to download guided audio of the practices.

Why 7 weeks? After the Free Intro… Seven weeks (7 x 7) is 49 days… an important number in Asian traditional work. It is the period that the spirit stays before moving on into other realms or other lives… It is the period used to truly change a habit: dropping one or taking one up. And it’s said that if you stay with a practice for 49 days, you will work through your resistance and lack of understanding to a place of “ownership” — and can wisely decide whether the practice is aligned with your path.

Courses:

Emotional Wisdom & the 5 Elements:

This course brings creative, sensitive urbanites who sometimes feel overwhelmed, confused, anxious or stuck in their emotions into a more grounded, spacious inner life so you can enjoy your vibrant feelings rather than managing, medicating or running from them. In 7 weekly classes you learn a deeply different way of understanding, experiencing and digesting emotions using body and mind practices that are accessible, enjoyable, yet deep and transformative.

The SIX HEALING SOUNDS uses simple movements and sounds, along with vibrant visualization to deeply connect with the energies of your emotions to honor them and begin shifting and transforming them. The FIVE YIN ORGAN QIGONG clears stale Qi energy (and emotion) and draws in vitality into your body. Along with these powerful practices we will dig into the nature of the Five Elements and how they manifest in the seasons, directions and our relationships. We will also learn short ‘in the moment’ practices to help daily stresses.

Abundant Balance: Cultivating & Circulating Qi Energy:

New York living is fast-paced and exciting… but it can be “A Lot” …Getting away, getting rest or getting a massage all help… But they do the same thing: Fix the aggravation, overwhelm or exhaustion after the fact: After you’re aggravated, overwhelmed or exhausted. What if we had a strong center, had abundant Qi energy and had a clear and loving mind – all the time? The practices we’ll learn in “Abundant Balance” are from traditional Chinese Medicine and have been around for centuries. So it’s kind of amazing how accessible they are and how deeply they can transform contemporary life –both inner and outer living.

–Getting and staying “Grounded” –connected to the Earth, to your center… and cultivating natural, strong boundaries.
–Cultivating a connection to your life force energy so you can support and vitalize yourself before bigger imbalances grow.
–Avoid losing Qi or getting overwhelmed… Enjoy every day!
–Learning traditional ‘time-tested’ energy practices and tools that change the way you relate to your body, your relationships and the spaces you inhabit.

SHAMANIC SHAKING brings you to your center and connects you to the earth as you release old Qi, stress and negativity, “clearing space” for fresh life force. The MICROCOSMIC ORBIT moves you deep into your inner landscape. By guiding your Qi along internal pathways, you grow your energetic resources, balance your Yin and Yang energies as you settle and center your mind and heart. The fluid movements and nature imagery of KUAN YIN QIGONG move Qi throughout your body, feed your spirit and transform your connection to the natural world and night skies.

Strength & Softness: Iron Shirt Qigong & the Inner Smile:

We often speak about “strength” as both a physical and mental asset. And we often wish we had more… By strengthening our Qi energy we can not only cultivate our physical and mental strength, we increase our Qi (life force). Having strong Qi shows up in so many ways: emotional resilience, mental focus, increased physical capacities, an ability to maintain our center and healthy boundaries. The benefits of strengthening Qi are often subtle, but they are powerfully transformative.

In 7 weekly classes (preceded by a Free Intro) you learn a deeply different way of understanding, experiencing and cultivating your strength. Using the breath practices, postures and movements of IRON SHIRT QIGONG, you can shift and grow. Traditionally used by martial artists to create an “Iron Shirt” to deflect impact and aggression, we practice it to increase our immune system and build emotional, mental and energetic strength. This practice is particularly good in fast, stressful and sometimes crowded city life.

To balance the Yang of Iron Shirt, We will use the gentle depth of the INNER SMILE. The Inner Smile is a powerful visualization that brings us “back to ourselves” and to a place of loving calm. It is very simple, so it can be overlooked. But when you cultivate a clear rich practice, it creates an inner space that is truly your “home”. All this will be supplemented with short ‘in the moment’ practices to help with daily stresses or specific issues.

Please get in touch with any questions, or to be added to our email list:

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