Wednesday Qigong under the Oaks (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.

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. But from that spot on E 1st St, you will only be able to peer at the farm through the chainlink fence. For directions, email me at MindBodyLosAngeles@gmail.com

Sessions are freely offered. I accept donations with gratitude.

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, 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, 536 N. Euclid Ave., Ontario, at the Pomona College Organic Farm, and at Pilgrim Place in "The Castle," 733 Plymouth Rd., Claremont. 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