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SPACE; A Practice for Conscious Response
SPACE is a simple, embodied practice for interrupting reactivity and reclaiming conscious choice in everyday moments.
When agitation arises, it isn’t a problem to fix – it’s information. A signal inviting you to pause, come back to awareness, and respond from presence rather than habit.
Through a gentle sequence of Stop, Perceive, Anchor, Consider, and Engage, SPACE creates a small but powerful window where the nervous system can settle, awareness can return, and wiser action becomes possible. Over time, this practice strengthens your capacity to meet life with clarity, maturity, and conscious participation.
Maybe It’s Not ‘In Your Head’
You cannot mindset your way out of nutrient depletion, thyroid dysfunction, or iron deficiency.
True healing requires honoring every layer of the human system – physical, emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual. When we include the body instead of bypassing it, clarity, vitality, and emotional stability become possible again.
Qigong Isn’t Just Taught in Yoga Studios
Qigong isn’t limited to yoga studios and gyms. Discover where Qigong is actually being taught today - in hospitals, schools, senior centers, prisons, and community settings across the US and Canada.
This article looks at how Qigong integrates into modern society and why its relevance continues to grow in real-world settings.
🙋🏻♀️ A Broken Arm, Losing Control, & Feeling the Power of Surrender
People often hear the word surrender and imagine passivity, collapse, or giving up. But true surrender isn’t resignation. It isn’t defeat. And it isn’t pretending everything is fine.
Surrender is what remains when every illusion of control falls away and you come face-to-face with what is actually true.
You are not meant to carry the planet
As you regulate your own nervous system, as you stabilize your body, as you inquire into your thoughts and communicate more clearly, and as you take aligned action rather than reactive action, the field around you shifts.
And that IS the world changing - in the only place it ever can - right here, right Now, through you, AS You.
Qigong vs. Yoga: Which Is Better for Your Health?
People ask me all the time which is better, Qigong or Yoga. I’m certified in both, and the honest answer is that it depends. Research, including NIH-published studies, shows that both support health and stress reduction. The real difference shows up over time, in how the body responds, what the nervous system needs, and what’s sustainable for long-term wellbeing.
4 Reasons Why I Love Practicing Qigong
Discover what qigong is and why it’s such a powerful moving meditation. Learn how qigong supports energy flow, joint health, stress relief, and mind-body balance through gentle, accessible practice.
Best Online Platforms for Learning Qigong at Home
Discover the best online Qigong platforms for beginners and adults experiencing low energy, fatigue, anxiety or depression. Learn why live Zoom classes and gentle daily practice matter in your journey back to optimum health.
Why is Qigong so powerful?
Qigong is powerful because it restores energy, regulates the nervous system, and reconnects body, breath, and awareness – creating lasting healing through gentle, embodied presence rather than force.
Qigong Basics for Beginners: What It Is, Why It Works, and How to Practice at Home
A clear introduction to Qigong and Taoist Yoga for beginners, including how it works, key benefits, safety basics, and why these practices are easier to learn than most people think.
How to Become a Qigong Instructor?
Curious about Qigong teacher training certification? See what makes Great Energy’s certification unique for yoga teachers, coaches, and bodyworkers.
What Is Qigong?
Qigong brings movement, breath, and presence together to restore vitality and calm. Learn what it means, where it comes from, and how this ancient art can change your energy - and your life.
Listening to Your Body’s Wisdom
But healing begins the moment we slow down enough to notice. When you pause and ask, What are you trying to tell me?, your body often answers. Maybe it’s asking for rest. Maybe for movement, or nourishment, or tears that never had time to fall.
What Is Qigong? Benefits, Practices, and How to Get Started
Qigong is a powerful mind-body practice that uses movement, breath, and meditation to support healing, balance, and energy flow.
Great Energy Qigong offers a modern, trauma-informed approach designed for Western students seeking nervous system regulation and vitality.
Your Greatest Act of ‘Rebellion’
This is the real, integrated spiritual path.
Where movement, food, rest, breath, boundaries, supplements, and stillness are all part of your Devotion.
So if you’re walking this path – not to be better, but to become more fully you – you’re not just healing.
You’re rebelling.
Healing Qigong - Your Energy, Your Power
Healing Qigong is for those of us who’ve done the talk therapy, the yoga, the breathwork... and still feel like something deeper wants to shift.
It’s for the ones holding space for others, and wondering how to hold space for themselves.
And it’s for anyone ready to reclaim joy, clarity, and power through the wisdom of their own body.
Have you ever tried to think your way to calm?
Peace is a felt experience.
Freedom is a nervous system event.
And transformation lives in the body.
In our Healing Qigong path, we return to wisdom that’s older than thought.
We use breath, movement, and awareness to regulate the nervous system, calm the mind, and bring the body back online.
Qigong and the Great Mystery
Qigong is not about rigid seriousness – it’s about playful exploration, curiosity, and cultivating healing energy over time.
Life is energy. And when we learn to work with it, we open to the mystery.
For Midlife, Autoimmune, & Chronic Fatigue Recovery - How Healing Qigong Is a Missing Link
Healing Qigong is not a miracle cure.
It’s a missing piece – the bridge between your physical symptoms, emotional history, and energy body.
And without this bridge in place, nothing else holds like the nutritional support, supplements, and medications you may be receiving.
For Yoga Teachers, Reiki Pracitioners and Acupuncturists - Essential Nervous System Repair with Qigong
Many yoga teachers and lightworkers are missing physical practices that match their frequency.
Qigong grounds the mystical into the material.
It lets you feel the field – not just see or sense it.
This is how we become bridges between Heaven and Earth.