1. Improves General Fitness

• Low impact, strength and conditioning movements, improving flexibility and mobility, increasing ability to tolerate and recover from exercise, improving general lung and heart health.

2. Soft Tissue Health

• Increases your body's ability to repair tissue and recovery from soft tissue injuries.
• Improves connective tissue pliability, range of motion and range of extension.
• Integrated muscle strength, improves balance and stability, core control, improves mobility and walking ability, balances, tones and strengthens all muscle groups.
• Releases muscular tension:  reducing pain, loosening joints, reducing chronic pain and fatigue levels.

3. Skeletal / Postural Health

• Improves posture, body awareness / proprioception, coordination, motor controls.
• Improves balance and stability, reduces fear of falling, improves confidence in movement, aiding fall prevention.
• Improves joint health and bone density.
• Lessening joint pain, postural pain and chronic pain.

4. Strengthens Immunity

• Boosts and strengthens the immune system.
• All body systems function better.
• Improves oxygen intake, assists lymph system function / detox and toxin removal, improves digestive system function, increases metabolism, reduces cortisol levels, lessens inflammation levels.

5. Heart Health

• Boosts circulation, slows heart rate, lowers blood pressure.

6. Brain Health

• Improves memory, clarity, focus, attention span, concentration levels, left and right brain activation, right brain development.

7. Sleep

• Improves sleep patterns, deeper sleep, longer sleep and better quality of sleep.

8. Wellbeing

• Levels emotions, improves mood, builds confidence, fosters self compassion, emotional regulation, helps symptoms of and reduces anxiety and depression, boosts serotonin, endorphins and dopamine, balances the endocrine / hormonal system.
• Improves tolerance to stress, recovery from stress, mental adaptiveness.
• As a somatic practice, exploration of the mind body connection, develops right brain felt sense, embodied awareness, releasing trauma, state shifting, deep relaxation of the nervous system, down regulation, stress reduction.
• Fosters creativity, joy, playfulness, openness, spontaneity, and a child-like heart.

9. Quality of Life

• Improve longevity and aliveness.
• Supporting physical, mental and spiritual quality of life.
• Health preservation supporting the aging process.
• Become proactive in self care and self regulation, develop health autonomy.

10. Reunion

• Qigong as a somatic practice uses sense awareness; feeling into the muscles, membranes, tissue, bones, viscera, nervous system and mojo, as a gateway to discover your true self.
• A movement, awareness and breathwork method to stay below the stories that bind us, to feel into the emotions, feelings, and trauma in a safe, sacred and compassionate way.
• Without labelling, blaming, justifying, identifying, just simply feeling and releasing.
• A reunion with your true authentic self.

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