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in for a Chi-Moving experience!
Weekly
Course Descriptions
Feminine
Treasures
Cultivating Female Sexual Energy
Enhance the quality of your life and relationships with
Healing Love practices. Tap into your powerful, creative, sexual energy,
the Fountain of Youth. Effective methods fuel longevity, vitality and
self-healing. Chi Self-Massage of the breast and lower abdomen are self-nurturing
and are known to help prevent cancer. Internal resistance training,
using a real or imaginary jade egg, tonifies the "Chi Muscles"
in the pelvic floor, the support for all your organs. Prevent excessive
energy loss and discomfort from menstruation. Enhance your hormones,
beauty and inner strength, before and after menopause. Embrace your
power!
Treat yourself to healing gestures of love. Nurture your feminine essence
with Ovarian and Kidney breathing, self massage and sensual movement.
We will practice breast massage as a meditation for growing compassion.
We will play with a real or imaginary jade egg inside the vagina to
exercise the PC muscles and pull up energy through the chakras. These
practices will allow you to deepen your connection with your feelings,
body and energy.
Generate more loving, creative energy for your life!
The
practices are known to help with:
*reducing PMS, menstrual difficulties and breast sensitivity
*preventing breast and ovarian cancer
*strenghtening the pelvic floor to prevent incontinance
*balancing the hormones and boosting youthfulness
Please
bring a skirt or sarong and jade egg (for sale).
"It
is wonderful to practice with Minke as she is able to draw on her incredible
experience and connect you to all the secret parts of yourself through
breathing and movement. The exercices are wonderful, sensual and supportive
of me. I am committed to really getting to know and use them for a long
time." Laila, Life Skills Empowerment Coach
"Thank
you so much for bringing the Healing Love Workshop to Victoria, and
also for your nurturing and energizing presence! These practices are
a truly wonderful gift; I feel so beautiful and empowered. It has revealed
to me an aspect of myself that I have been neglecting, but didn't realize
it. I'm excited about making these practices a part of my life, and
am looking forward to attending many more of your workshops." Ursula,
Bellydancer
"Dear
Minke, That was quite a workshop--My experience of your teaching is
that it is deeply penetrating in a graceful, easy, natural yet powerful
way. I was left with an inspiration to continue the practices. The exercises,
as well as the music you chose, brought both tender tears of heart connection
,as well as exhilaration, joy, laughter and ecstacy from an awareness
of the vastness of the Universal Chi and my connection to it. Thank
you for being the gift that you are and sharing it." Love, Julia
Tao
Yoga
Tao Yoga mobilizes energy in the meridians
through conscious breathing in supple movement. Enhance your physical
experience of yoga with inner work. Circulate rejuvenating energy through
flowing yogic movements and unique, high-tech Shamanistic breathwork.
Tao Yoga develops a rubbery, energetic body by growing elasticity in
the tendons and dynamically balancing stretch and strength. Heighten
awareness of holistic connections like the psoas muscle, "the muscle
of the soul" and the diaphragm, "the muscle of the spirit".
The exercises stem from Tao Yin, Yoga, Dance, Feldenkrais and energetic
training. This organic practice is well-loved for the sense of integration
of body, breath and energy awareness.
"Minke's
Tao Yoga class was one of the most healing things I"ve ever done
for myself. The movement was all about joy and it felt as though every
cell in my body released tension, toxins, and pain. I am grateful that
I found this wonderful teacher! Thank you!"
Andrea Tower
"My
pranayama has been powerfully boosted by opening the channels and growing
the virtues."
- Jennifer Herzog, Yoga Instructor
"The
whole class was like one long massage, deeply penetrating and pleasurable."
- Andy Gilson, Computer Consultant.
"I
am used to working in specific linear alignment and it was great to
work outside of that and to experience the fluid movement and flow of
your class, I found it to be a compliment to my work in Pilates"
- Tara Crawford, certified pilates instructor.
"I
enjoyed my first class with you. your calm and kind spirit is very inviting
and nurturing. Thank you for reminding me to smile!"
- Lori, Yoga Instructor
Chi
Kung
Oriental Breath Therapy directs energy
through gentle, harmonizing movements. Iron Shirt Chi Kung is an effective
way to retain rejuvenating energy. Align your posture, test your rooting,
breathe strength into your body in conductive postures. Regrowing the
tendons gives the body spring! Tan Tien Chi Kung develops internal chi
pressure in the lower abdomen, which grounds and uplifts the body/mind
through playful animal forms. Walking meditations improve awareness,
chi and blood circultation.
Wu
Wei Chi Kung,
Bone Breathing & Healing Sounds
The class is a powerful combination of
Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Bone Breathing, Wu Wei Chi Kung and Healing Sounds.
Penetrate your deepest form and then release into formless flow. This
dynamic stirs spontaneous healing. Laugh with your bones! Surrender
to the wisdom of your spirit with "Wu Wei", "effortless
effort". Healing sounds allow us to let go of stress.
Iron
Shirt Chi Kung builds
your protective "iron shirt" by packing chi into your channels,
tendons and connective tissues. Powerful
gestures build a strong core and good posture in life.
Bone Breathing uses warm energy to clean the plaque in the bones. Penetrating
breathing builds up the blood in the bone marrow. Sexual energy is stored
in the bones to replenish inner reserves of life force.
Wu Wei Chi Kung allows
chi energy to move you spontaneously. It
is meditative movement, which liberates your energy and opens your body.
Unwind internal knots. Tap into inspired movement.
The Six Healing Sounds relieve the organs of trapped heat and imbalanced
emotional energies. It clears the space for virtues to grow inside.
This is an excellent practice to "chill out" and sleep better.
Tai
Chi Chi Kung
The 13 movement form creates orientation
in the four directions and balances Yin and Yang flows. This gem of
Tai Chi applies the inner structure and flow of Chi Kung into spatial
movement. Experience being centered and moving with natural grace and
ease. The gestures can be applied to any form.
Meditative
practice accelerates your inner growth...
* Set a bright tune for your day
and week.
* Embrace your life and all the mundane concerns with the perspective
of your majestic spirit.
* Transform "negative" emotions into positivity by smiling
inwardly to all your internal organs.
* Circulate refined and upgraded energy in the Microcosmic Orbit and
other channels.
* Massage your body from head to toe. Feels deightful!
Workshops
& Events Descriptions
Retreats
New
Year's Retreat 2010 more
info
December 28 - January 2, 5 nights.
$890. all inclusive. Preregister by Dec. 1, $860
Inner Alchemy, Unite the masculine and Feminine energies within to grow
your life body.
Supercharge your creativity and meditation.
Cozy, peaceful place on Quadra Island.
Summer
Retreat 2010 more
info
Pictures from past summer retreats
Practice
Tao Yoga, Chi Kung and Meditation
for an amazing awakening and rejuvenating
experience.
Give yourself time to deeply explore your inner life.
Connect and absorb nature’s splendor and pure energy.
Learn tools to get your personal Energy Body tuned up so you can vibrate
with the Source.
Accelerate your growth!
Tao
Basics - Sat. July
24 - 30
Tao Yoga of Love - Sat. July 31
- Aug. 6
Fusion of the Five Elements I & II-
Sat. Aug. 7- 13
Soul Alchemy, Fusion III -
Sat. Aug. 14 - 20
Bird
Cove is
a sacred place for integral transformation, on Read Is., near Cortes
Is., BC.
Silent Ground has served a broad community of practitioners for over
20 years.
Tuition, room & meals inclusive: $750- $890/ 6 nights
with
Universal Tao Instructors,
Minke de Vos & David Gyurkovics
"The practices are sitting differently this time around and there
is a greater sense and feeling of core penetration...so they won't slip
away this time." Wayne, Writer
Private
Instruction with Minke de Vos
Tao
Sexual Healing
Safe and supportive ways help
you to develop your sexual, Kundalini and spiritual energy.
Self-healing for PMS, hormon balance, sexual frustration, relationship
disharmony and various dysfunctions.
Learn individualized practices to continue at home to enrich your daily
life and relationships.
For or individuals or couples. These sessions contain no nudity or sexually
explicit activities.
Qigong Coaching
Effective ways to manage your energy
and balance emotions.
We will explore the leading edge of your unique creative expression,
grounded in body awareness.
Performers develop integrity of presence and quality of of their personal
life.
Private Instruction
$80/hour
A session is 1 - 2 hours
Please register for
private sessions by email minke@silentground.com
or
call 604-669-2505.
Private Coaching with David Gyurkovics
Yogic
Breathing
Learn to breathe deeper in your
daily life. Learn to create a state of relaxation and even bliss at
will. Integrate breathing into all of your activities every day. If
you would like to learn to do this you will need to do some homework
but it might be the most satisfying homework you have ever done! The
more serious your interest the more I can help you.
$60/hour
Tao Acumassage
Treatment includes the Akabane test,
a low-tech diagnosis and therapy, which uses heat applied to the ends
or beginnings of the acupuncture channels on the fingers and toes. It
is highly accurate and effective in diagnosis and treatment of left/right
energy imbalances. Internal Organ massage around the navel is effective
for releasing blockages. Acupressure opens the body and emotions to
greater harmony.
$90/ 1.5 hour
David
is currently available for private sessions to assist you with breathing,
energy flow in the body, meditation and Taoist sexual practices.
$60/hour
Please register for private coaching by email retreats@silentground.com
or
call 604-669-2505
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