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Qigong
Cultivating Vitality, Stillness, and Inner Radiance

Move gently. Breathe deeply. Awaken your inner joy.

There is a quiet river of vitality flowing beneath the surface of your daily life. Qigong helps you find your way back to it.

Qigong Therapy is a gentle mind–body practice rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and now supported by modern research. Through slow, intentional movement, breathwork, and focused awareness, Qigong helps regulate the nervous system, improve circulation, and restore internal balance.

  • Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression (shown in numerous clinical studies)

  • Lowers blood pressure and improves heart rate variability

  • Enhances balance, flexibility, and immune function

  • Regulates the nervous system and supports trauma recovery

Best for: chronic stress, fatigue, emotional imbalance, pain, hormonal shifts, trauma recovery, and anyone seeking calm, focus, and renewed vitality through movement and breath.

Benefits of Qigong Practice

Practicing Qigong regularly invites a deep remembering of the body’s natural intelligence. It restores the quiet balance that modern life often disrupts. With time, Qigong becomes both a healing ritual and a way of being.

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Nervous System Regulation

  • Calms stress, anxiety, and overwhelm

  • Activates the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) state

  • Strengthens vagal tone and emotional regulation

  • Balances left and right brain hemispheres through dual-tasking movement

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Emotional Resilience

• Transforms stagnant emotions into vitality and clarity
• Gently releases stored tension and trauma from the body
• Cultivates a sense of inner safety and self-trust
• Invites joy, compassion, and emotional spaciousness

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Physical Vitality

• Enhances energy flow (qi) through meridians and organs
• Supports immune function and overall vitality
• Improves balance, coordination, and flexibility
• Increases circulation and breath capacity
• Nourishes joints and connective tissues with gentle, mindful motion

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Mental Clarity & Presence

• Quiets racing thoughts and mental fog
• Strengthens focus and embodied attention
• Cultivates a meditative awareness in motion
• Trains the mind to stay present with sensation and breath

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QiGong
The Science and Spirit of Nervous System Regulation

In today’s overstimulated world, the nervous system often lives in a state of hypervigilance—caught in cycles of stress, fatigue, and emotional reactivity. Qigong offers a gentle, yet powerful antidote.

Through its unique integration of movement, breath, and focused awareness, Qigong naturally regulates the Central Nervous System, shifting the body out of stress response (fight or flight) and into a state of restoration (rest and digest).

This transition is not simply metaphorical—it is physiological.

Qigong is inherently a dual-tasking practice: as we engage in slow, coordinated movements, we also maintain breath awareness, spatial orientation, and internal focus. This blending of physical and cognitive engagement helps synchronize both hemispheres of the brain, activating the prefrontal cortex while soothing the limbic system. In doing so, Qigong strengthens the neural pathways that support emotional regulation, presence, and resilience.

From a Taoist perspective, this is the balancing of yin and yang within—the harmonizing of internal fire and water, action and rest. Movement becomes medicine. Breath becomes a bridge. Awareness becomes sanctuary.

Each time you return to the practice, you are retraining the nervous system to find safety in stillness, and strength in softness.

Qigong: Cultivating Vitality, Stillness, and Inner Radiance

  • Calms the nervous system, easing stress and anxiety

  • Restores energy and strengthens the body’s natural immunity

  • Enhances flexibility, balance, and circulation

  • Deepens mindfulness through breath and fluid movement

  • Transforms stagnant emotions into resilience, vitality, and joy.

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Release Tension and Stored Trauma

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Cultivate Groundedness and Emotional Balance

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Increase Body Awareness and Connection 

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QiGong Class Schedule 2025

Class Details

  • Location: Plum Natural Wellness, Forest City, NC

  • Time: Saturdays (every two weeks), 10:30–11:30 AM

  • Cost: $15 per class

  • All levels welcome

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