Friday Qigong + Tai Chi Easy™ (FREELY OFFERED)

About this event

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.

Schedule 9:00-9:30AM Shibashi Qigong, peer-led (most Fridays) 9:30-10:00AM Tai Chi Easy™ (Lee Conger teaches every week)

The 1st Friday of every month, Lee Conger (Certified Teacher of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi) leads the 9:00-9:30AM Qigong session, drawing on any number of practices he has acquired since 2011. He continues 9:30-10:00AM with Tai Chi Easy™.

The location is "The Castle," 733 Plymouth Rd., Claremont, CA 91711. For directions, email me at MindBodyLosAngeles@gmail.com

The painting of "The Castle" is by Pilgrim Place resident Eleanor Scott Meyers .

Sessions are freely offered.

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 No. 1144, "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 Angeles, and at 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, 536 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario, at the Pomona College Organic Farm, and at Pilgrim Place. In March, 2024, he was invited to inaugurate the Mississippi Center for Health and Wellness in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. In December, 2024, he presented at The Hive of The Claremont Colleges and is currently firming up dates at the McAlister Center for Religious Activities of the Claremont Colleges. 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.

From Mind-Body Inland Empire