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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Nov
3

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Nov
6

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Teaching Talkback 2025
Nov
11

Teaching Talkback 2025

Zoom call participants will receive a $25.00 discount code for future offerings.

We’re going to turn the tables! If you’ve attended classes in the last year (or more), you’ve probably heard me talk a lot. In this session, I want to hear from you! Which of my classes or techniques have you found most valuable? What sparks your curiosity for more? Is there something you want from me that I’ve never offered? Things that weren’t useful or interesting? This is your opportunity to influence my offerings for 2026, and I hope to hear your candid feedback!

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Dynamic Stretching Clinic
Nov
15

Dynamic Stretching Clinic

Getting a true stretch is neither passive nor static. In order to stretch tissue we have to feel it, engage it, and inhabit it. When we have engagement in our muscle tissue we have circulation. Our muscles and fascia become pliable, juicy, and resilient. Juicy tissue allows our bones to find their natural alignment. Posture improves and we feel more spacious. We have possibility and freedom of movement. We have fun.

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The Empty Center: Ten Years of Qi Gong and Poetry
Nov
17

The Empty Center: Ten Years of Qi Gong and Poetry

I’m delighted to invite you to a special event at Heart of the Valley Yoga. November 9 marks my tenth anniversary of Qi Gong practice, and I’ve been feeling both celebratory and highly reflective. When I stepped into my first class in 2015, I would never have imagined myself teaching. Over the ensuing years this practice served at first as my life-line, then became a profound source of self-healing. It has grown into a home for my devotion and passion, and currently occupies a central place as both livelihood and greatest love.

Please join me to celebrate with a FREE talk and poetry reading!

Note we’ll begin at 7:00 pm rather than our usual 6:30 pm. You’re welcome to stick around until 8:30 pm for questions, discussion, and mingling.

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Teaching Talkback 2025
Nov
22

Teaching Talkback 2025

Zoom call participants will receive a $25.00 discount code for future offerings.

We’re going to turn the tables! If you’ve attended classes in the last year (or more), you’ve probably heard me talk a lot. In this session, I want to hear from you! Which of my classes or techniques have you found most valuable? What sparks your curiosity for more? Is there something you want from me that I’ve never offered? Things that weren’t useful or interesting? This is your opportunity to influence my offerings for 2026, and I hope to hear your candid feedback!

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Organ Support Series: Kidneys
Dec
13

Organ Support Series: Kidneys

Near the darkest moment of Winter, we have an opportunity to relax into what Chinese medicine considers the mother of all other organs, the Kidneys. These two small but crucial organs located in the mid-back not only filter fluid and remove wastes, but provide a home for deeply felt sensations related to identity and fear. They connect us to our biological ancestors, the origins of our life force, and simultaneously hold the key to our ability to dissolve into the deep trust of a good night’s sleep.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
30

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
27

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
23

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
20

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Movement Fundamentals II: Before Walking
Oct
18

Movement Fundamentals II: Before Walking

This the time of year when it’s natural to shed, to return to our core. In going deeper inside, we can also travel back in time. Our deepest torso muscles began developing their strength in infancy, and it is these muscles that must continue to hold us upright as adults.

In our current world, with our focus constantly externalized, many of us have abandoned our core. Living without a sense of our own center results in pervasive discomfort and dissatisfaction in our bodies or lives, along with reduced internal organ function and a host of associated health problems. In this continuation of Movement Fundamentals, we’ll begin reclaiming the strength of our axis through the exploration of movement without limbs.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
16

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
13

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
9

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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October Full Moon Sutra Walk
Oct
7

October Full Moon Sutra Walk

Join us for a monthly full moon walk near Corvallis, Oregon. We will practice quiet hiking, sensory awareness, and group recitation of a nearly 800-year-old prose poem that asks us to understand mountains and waters from a more-than-human perspective. The walk consists of a 1.5 mile loop trail with moderate elevation gain, and will be paced for the needs of the group.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
6

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Oct
2

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Sep
29

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Forms & Foundations
Sep
25

Qi Gong Forms & Foundations

Qi Gong Forms and Foundations covers the basic principles and practices you need to establish Qi Gong as an ally for your life and health. You can join at any point, as the curriculum will repeat throughout the year and anything you miss will return.

Our eight-week foundation series will alternate with eight weeks exploring forms, so you will also have the opportunity to learn traditional Qi Gong sequences. We approach our classes with an emphasis on restoration, exploration, and play. Classes are friendly to beginners and accessible to a range of physical abilities.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Sep
22

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Organ Support Series: Lungs
Sep
20

Organ Support Series: Lungs

Life doesn’t get more simple than this: in-breath . . . out-breath . . . breathe in oxygen . . . exhale carbon dioxide. In this seasonal exploration of the body we’ll connect not just with breath, but the organ that makes it all possible: the Lungs. It’s easy to take life for granted, to lose touch with the basics. The Lungs bring us back to what is most essential, precisely because they require us to participate in the full cycle: filling and letting go, death and rebirth, moment after moment. When you know how to release, you also know how to make space for something new.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Sep
15

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Sep
8

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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September Full Moon Sutra Walk
Sep
7

September Full Moon Sutra Walk

Join us for a monthly full moon walk near Corvallis, Oregon. We will practice quiet hiking, sensory awareness, and group recitation of a nearly 800-year-old prose poem that asks us to understand mountains and waters from a more-than-human perspective. The walk consists of a 1.5 mile loop trail with moderate elevation gain, and will be paced for the needs of the group.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Aug
25

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Dynamic Stretching Clinic
Aug
23

Dynamic Stretching Clinic

RESCHEDULED! Getting a true stretch is neither passive nor static. In order to stretch tissue we have to feel it, engage it, and inhabit it. When we have engagement in our muscle tissue we have circulation. Our muscles and fascia become pliable, juicy, and resilient. Juicy tissue allows our bones to find their natural alignment. Posture improves and we feel more spacious. We have possibility and freedom of movement. We have fun.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Aug
18

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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August Full Moon Sutra Walk
Aug
9

August Full Moon Sutra Walk

Join us for a monthly full moon walk near Corvallis, Oregon. We will practice quiet hiking, sensory awareness, and group recitation of a nearly 800-year-old prose poem that asks us to understand mountains and waters from a more-than-human perspective. The walk consists of a 1.5 mile loop trail with moderate elevation gain, and will be paced for the needs of the group.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Aug
4

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Jul
28

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Qi Gong Foundations
Jul
21

Qi Gong Foundations

Come join us for weekly classes at Heart of the Valley Yoga! Qi Gong is based in Chinese medicine, and understanding this system distills down to one foundational idea: movement creates circulation and circulation enhances health. In Qi Gong Foundations we’ll work with this principle in innovative ways, learning a vocabulary of simple movement patterns that create the basis for many traditional forms. The broader application of Qi Gong is to promote the body’s natural self-healing capacity, and this class is designed to enhance your understanding of movement as medicine.

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Organ Support Series: Spleen
Jul
19

Organ Support Series: Spleen

The Spleen nourishes us. Understood in Chinese medicine as an organ complex incorporating Spleen, Pancreas, and the closely related Stomach, this important triad governs digestion and our ability to hold on to what we need. There is a season for release, this is true. There is also a season for storing up, for stocking the pantry, for feeling full. Heading into late Summer, the brilliance of Spleen time is this opportunity for gathering, abundance, and satisfaction. Cultivating a sense of wholeness and completion, you can better discern what to give away.

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