iPause 14.22 Nourishing Our Grief: Qigong for the Metal Phase/Element with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

This sessions is the fifth in the 5-part series building on Mimi Kuo-Deemer's Lecture, Movement as Medicine: Elemental Qigong for Nourishing Body, Mind and Spirit. Feel free to join all or one of the sessions. This final qigong session in the series shares practices associated with the Metal Phase/Element, which relates to the strength, dignity and courage to let go and learn to treasure what is of most value in our lives. Open to all levels, experiences, and abilities. Mimi Kuo-Deemer, MA, is the author of Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis: Nourishing Practices for Body, Mind and Spirit and Xiu Yang: The Ancient Chinese Art of Self-Cultivation. She teaches qigong, internal martial arts (6th generation lineage holder in Baguazhang) and meditation, and once traveled the world as a photojournalist for organizations such as The New York Times, UNDP and UNESCO. Since graduating with Stanford’s class of ’94, she has lived and worked in China and the United States before settling in the British countryside with her husband and their dog, three cats, 6 chickens and 60,000 bees. She champions the balance of playfulness and precision as the best way forward in life, and never underestimates how sitting, breathing, and conscious movement grant the clearest and most compassionate perspective on the joyful yet mysterious, messy, and unpredictable job of being human