Qigong Events & Workshops
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[Speaker Series at Marin General | Celebration of Lughnasa | The Ritual Cycle]
2010 Integrative Health Speakers Series at Marin General Hospital
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from leaders in the fields of oncology, mind-body medicine and integrative therapies so you can create your own health plan
Tuesday, July 27
Integrative Oncology: How Medicine and Healing can work together for you
With Marty Rossman, MDWednesday, August 25
Integrative Oncology: How to talk about it with your Oncologist
With David Gullion, MDTuesday, September 21
Chi Gong: Cultivating Energy for Life
With Denise Aubin and Vicki Dello JoioTuesday, October 19
Fitness: How it fits into your personal plan for survivorship
With Regan Fedric and Francine Halberg, MDWednesday, November 10
Nutrition for survivorship: foods as the building blocks for health
With Sharon Meyer, CNWednesday, December 8
The Power of the Imagination
With Kathleen Colloton, RN and Susan Ezra, RNAll presentations are at the
Marin Cancer Institute
1350 S. Eliseo in Greenbae
5:30-7:00pm
All are welcome
PLEASE RSVP at 925-7787
Celebration of Lughnasa
The last festival of the Celtic year, marks the end of the period of summer growth and the beginning of the autumn harvest.
Lughnasa was celebrated to guarantee peace and an abundance of food for the winter.
Please join Denise Aubin and Nancy Binzen for a Celebration of Lughnasa. We will begin our celebration with Qigong, a moving meditation aligning with earth and sky preparing our body, mind and spirits to enter into ritual space.
For our Lughnasa ritual, we will be working with the Nature Spirits; without them there would be no harvest. We'll begin by honoring the Spirits and asking for their help. Then, we'll dialogue with them through divination to gain greater clarity on the gifts each of us is harvesting to "feed the people." We'll end with a time of gratitude and quiet reflection for this abundance in our lives.
When: Sunday, August 1st
Where: Corte Madera Park, Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera (Please call for exact location within the park)
Cost: $20.00 (Paid in advance by July 28th, $25.00 after July 28th)
Please bring:
- A journal and pen
- A back jack/beach chair/towel for sitting on the grass.
- Finger foods to share.
About the Workshop Leaders:
Nancy Binzen holds a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) in Wisdom Studies. In her work, she draws on more than a quarter of a century of travel and study with traditional teachers worldwide, including Huichol, Peruvian, Mazatec, Native American, Druid, Aboriginal Australian, Maori, Hawaiian, and African elders. In 1999, she was initiated by Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé in the Dagara ritual tradition of Burkina Faso, and is coauthor of Tuning In: Simple Rituals for Everyday Living.
Denise Aubin has been a teacher and healer for more than 25 years. She received her degree from the International Institute of Medical Qigong and is a certified Medical Qigong Therapist. Denise has a private practice in Marin, and leads classes in Qigong at College of Marin and other venues in the County.
To reserve your space: Contact Denise at denise@danceofqigong.com or
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The Ritual Cycle
Over the course of this year we'll honor and celebrate the turning of the wheel of life with eight ritual evenings. Four of them – Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice, Fall Equinox, Winter Solstice – rotate through the cardinal points (East, South, West, North). The other four – the cross-quarters Imbolc, Beltaine, Lughnasa, Samain - follow the indigenous Celtic, agrarian calendar, and fall midway between each of the Solstices and Equinoxes.
January 31: Imbolc, sacred to Brigit, a triune Goddess of fertility, poetry and healing.
March 21: Vernal Equinox, the balance of night and day/dark and light.
May 2: Beltaine, beginning of Celtic summer.
June 19: Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, and the direction of the South - the place of dreams and Ancestors.
August 1: Lughnasa, the time of the first harvest, the most joyful of all the Celtic celebrations.
September 19: Fall Equinox, day and night are balanced; dark is ascendant. We begin to move into the Looks-Within place of the West.
October 31: Samain, the time when the veil between the worlds is the thinnest and magic is afoot.
December 19: Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, and the direction of the North. We honor our Medicine Teachers and Wisdom Elders.
(NOTE: All events are on Sunday evenings from 5-8 p.m.)