LUCY RATZEL QIGONG
SEMINAR TRIPS BEYOND THE USUAL
ZAGORI - UNESCO World Heritage Site
The NATIONAL PARK in north-western Greece is famous for its Vikos Gorge.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the DEEPEST GORGE IN THE WORLD!
Impressive rock plateaus and rock gardens, springs and deep green-blue rivers.
Short hikes to our natural Qigong platforms prepare us for the Qigong exercises.
We practise QIGONG in real places of power. Surrounded by the power and beauty of nature, our exercises automatically deepen.
The Qigong seminars comprise 4 seminar days and two days off per week.
We always practise in the midst of nature.
Short, easy hikes take us to our practice sites.
In the morning we practise Qigong in silence.
After breakfast, we then drive to our various natural practice platforms in the shade of plane trees, by the river, in the mountains and gorges or at old monasteries.
Here you will also learn background knowledge that is rarely taught in Qigong courses,
that gives you access to the ancient knowledge of healing and transformation.
SEMINAR LEADER:
Lucy Ratzel
Qigong and Chan Mi Gong instructor, certified according to the criteria of DDQT e.V. - Dachverband Qigong/Taiji
Course and seminar leader in Germany and Greece
Her love of travel and nature rounds off her extensive knowledge of the background to Qigong and over 20 years of Qigong practice.
Costas Zissis
The nature and landscape photographer is based in Zagori and takes us to the breathtakingly beautiful places where we practise our exercises.
SEMINAR CONTENT:
Qigong exercise series "Shi Ba Shi"
Tapping exercises
acupressure
small massages
Daoist meditation
Basics of the Chinese art of living
DANCE WORKSHOP with Evita Theochari
Authentic Greek DANCE FESTIVAL in a MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
THE POWERFUL EXERCISES that this seminar offers you:
SHI BA SHI
The "18 harmonious movements of Taiji-Qigong" were developed in 1979 by Qigong master and master healer Prof. Lin Hou Sheng to improve the general health and well-being of the practitioner.
The health-promoting properties of this series of exercises are manifold: They are said to strengthen the heart, kidneys, stimulate the lungs and open the chest, improve blood pressure, relieve depression, anxiety and headaches, and strengthen the knees and legs.
They are simple, flowing movements that calm the mind and move the whole body.
MEDITATION
The "Small Heavenly Circuit" or "Small Energy Circuit" is a guided meditation in which we activate and strengthen the main and secondary energy centers of the body.
DANCE WORKSHOP
The workshop leader EVITA THEOCHARI studied anthropology at the University of Ioannina, specializing in folk art, especially Greek music and dance traditions. She is known as an editor and presenter of a radio program on the musical and dance traditions of Hellenism.
She will show us the most important old circle dances from EPIRUS, the mountainous region in north-western Greece.
In the evening we will go to a traditional mountain festival together and can dance our newly learned dances together with the local people!