Qi Cultivation as Community Care
Gather for Qi Cultivation as Community Care at the Alpine Recreation Center in Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, USA!
A gentle embodiment practice incorporating Daoist meditations, Self-Healing QiGong, and Yang Style TaiChi. We will move in one of these modalities based on community choice.
This donation-based event is a sweet care practice of right relationship. Donations will be split between the Chinatown Community for Equitable Development and the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy. No one turned away for lack of funds.
We gather on the fourth Saturday of each month from September 2023 until February 2024, except for December when we will meet on the third Saturday.
Instructor Bio:
My father taught me Yang Style Tai Chi growing up, and I have continued to seek out the modalities of our ancestors. At Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have completed Self-Healing Qigong, Harmony Tai Chi, Qigong for Weight Management, Chen-style Sword Form, Eight Treasures Qigong levels 1 and 2a, Crane Style Qigong, InfiniChi levels 1, 2a and 2b; and Qigong Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention. I have completed over 710 hours of practice and theory in Daoist healing, and 600 hours of training in Daoist meditation. I am a certified Self-Healing Qi Gong instructor through the College of Tao and completed teacher training in Qigong Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention. I currently study Yang style taijiquan with my father, Dr. William Tsung-Liang Lee, who has practiced the Chen Man-Ching form for over 30 years. I have taken classes with Amira Kusala, Ed Sullivan, Dr. Bita Yadidi, Dr. John Barber, and Curtis Callison. In 2015, I began studying Wun Hop Kuen Do, Filipino stick fighting, and street fighting from Sifu Earl White. I have studied capoeira from Renato Mendonça and Mestre Amen Santo since the early 2010’s.
I have taught qigong at Forest Grove UCC, Pacific University, Brasil Brasil Cultural Center, Pieter Performance Space, freeskewl and the Asian Mental Health Project. I offered a somatic wayfinding workshop as part of virtual care lab and NAVEL’s micro-residency with The Bentway and From Later. I offered “Embodying Freedom: Abolishing the Prisons in Our Cells” at the Arts for a New Future: Justice Arts Coalition’s 2021 National Convening and “Ancestral Energy Healing: Axé + Qi” via Civic Wellbeing Partners. I have completed Levels 1 and 2 of the College of Tao's International Taoist Meditation Institute under Dr. Mao-Shing Ni and Olivia Rosewood. I am a teacher with the QTPoC Mental Health Project’s Rest for Resistance monthly meditation and annual Rest Fest.