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Hibernating Bear Livestream

What will you learn? Join our Hibernating Bear livestream programme and delve into a healthy dose of self care, including:

Gentle loosening exercises to warm the body.
The warm up exercises are a diagnostic to show where the body/mind are on that day, the lesson is then guided by that position.
Relaxing deep breathing and soft movement techniques to calm the mind.
Stress and the relaxation response.
Standing or seated meditation practice.
Standing or seated Qigong movements.
Chen style Tai Chi and Qigong exercises and drills that train both sides of the body, demonstrating the importance of physical symmetry.
What makes Tai Chi and Qigong sophisticated forms of healthy movement exercises, why they are different to other exercises?
Learn how posture, breathing and awareness apply to your daily life.
Develop body sensitivity to understand the different types of pain within the body, to use pain as a diagnostic.
Learn how to progressively build up to a regular exercise routine and the importance of frequency.
The importance of not pushing passed your body’s tolerance, to avoid extremes and train moderately at 60-70-80% (ebb and flow).
Learn to stop fighting the body and how to truly relax the muscle and soft tissue structure.
Protecting the weak points and strengthening problem areas.
Learning about stability, balance and fall prevention in a slow, safe and controlled way.
How to maximise the lymph system to detox and flush out toxins.
Expansion and compression of the joint system for improved health, exploring the major joints and the spine.
How to self manage life with chronic pain and chronic fatigue.
Developing embodied awareness.
Conscious relaxation and progressive relaxation techniques.
Flow state and state shifting techniques.
Acceptance through the absence of resistance, the meaning of true physical relaxation.
Working through challenges and struggle in the learning process with kindness.
Movement and stillness compassion exercises.
Introduction to easy to learn meditation and mindfulness practices.

Hibernating Bear Livestream – For students looking to/for…

Be flexible and adaptive in your Tai Chi and Qigong practice, to be able to sit or stand.
Aid recovery from injury or illness.
Help ease the symptoms of living with chronic or degenerative health conditions.
A more gentle and relaxed approach to exercise.
To gain confidence before attending a public class.
To get back into exercise after being sedentary.
Would like to learn in the privacy of the home.
A class where all ages and all abilities are welcome.

What will you learn?

The Hibernating Bear programme is not tuition where you will learn a Tai Chi routine or a qigong set. The focus is on Tai Chi movements, drills and exercises for health and wellbeing. The choreography is not important, how you are moving and interacting with the movements is! You could learn any Tai Chi and Qigong movement and apply the Hibernating Bear ethos to them.

Dip in and out of the videos as you wish. There’s no set format within the course. Learning is progressive via the principles and techniques, not the choreography. Make the programme your own!

The Hibernating Bear Programme

Do you live with chronic illness and want to try a different approach to building resilience in mind and body? The Hibernating Bear system draws from traditional Tai Chi, Qigong and meditation practices to help support chronic pain, chronic fatigue and those living with a different health baseline than the norm. Each video lesson can be broken down into sections to support your health baseline. Study the videos at your own pace and time, from the comfort of home.