Qigong under the Oaks
Schedule
Wed Oct 09 2024 at 09:30 am to 10:30 am
UTC-07:00Location
Pomona College Farm | Claremont, CA
Qigong is an ancient Chinese energy healing practice. Translated as "Life Force Cultivation," it involves gentle, meditative movement and breathwork. Qigong promotes overall wellness, boosts immune functioning, and engenders a sense of well being and wholeness. Tai Chi as a martial art is based on the same ancient principles as Qigong. In our practice, we integrate meditative Tai Chi moves to improve balance and concentration.The location is the Pomona College Organic Farm. It can be a little bit tricky to find. The given address is 295 E 1st St., Pomona, CA 91711. One entrance (for bicyclists and pedestrians) is off Amherst Avenue through a large, colorful gate that is opposite a parking garage. If you're coming by car, turn north from 1st St. onto Columbia Ave., then turn immediately into the parking garage. If you walk east through the garage, you will come to Amherst Avenue and the gate.
If you're coming from elsewhere on the campuses of the Claremont Colleges, find the Greek Theatre. Behind it (south and east of the stage area), there are footpaths that lead to an unpaved road. Follow it to the south (you will see signs) to the farm entrance. You will find yourself facing a statue of the goddess Pomona. We are immediately to her left under a large oak tree, in the middle of a circle of log stools.
I can send a map with longititude and latitude for your GPS, if that would help. Write me at [email protected].
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About the teacher:
Lee Conger, Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (certified teacher), has been leading sessions weekly since 2011 in various Los Angeles-area venues, including the Ortiz Taylor House: Historic Cultural Monument #1144, the "Urban Wilderness Qigong Grotto" (on a secluded, undeveloped hillside in Silver Lake), Metabolic Studio (and their outdoor spaces: Anabolic Monument and Under Spring), the Micheltorena Elementary School Community Garden as offerings via the Silver Lake Time Bank and Trade School Los Angelesat , and Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (where he worked as a psychotherapist 1998-2020). Since moving to Claremont in October, 2023, he has been providing Integral Qigong and Tai Chi weekly at Bethel United Church of Christ, xxx N. Euclid Ave., Ontario, and currently is conversation with organizers at The Hive, The Claremont Colleges, 130 E. 7th St., Claremont, CA 91711 about getting started there. Watch for news!
Lee's teachers have included Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD (co-founder of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, Santa Barbara), Margaret Flynn, Susan Quon, Marvin Smalheiser (the late founder in 1977 of Tai Chi Magazine), and his own students to whom he is grateful for their encouragement and generous gifts of presence, commitment, Qi, and Metta.
