Paul Cavel  Qi Gong + Tai Chi

 14 - 28 Aug 2010

Paul's Bigroaphy:
http://www.relaxationmeditation.co.uk/paul-cavel.html
 
Release Your Nervous System for Relaxation & Optimising Cardiovascular Health (15-20 August):
http://www.relaxationmeditation.co.uk/retreats-a-seminars/91-the-vitality-series-france-summer-retreat.html
 
Circles & Spheres in Qigong: Deepening Your Internals by Unifying the Spine, Kwa & Yao (22-27 August):
http://www.relaxationmeditation.co.uk/retreats-a-seminars/92-circles-and-spheres-in-qigong.html

THE VITALITY SERIES
Release Your Nervous System for Relaxation & Optimising Cardiovascular Health
15-20 August (Sunday to Friday)
Cubjac, Dordogne/South of France
Heart disease is the number one killer in the Western world. Stress and anxiety are silent accomplices causing or exacerbating symptoms of high-blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and many more illnesses, injuries and diseases of the modern age.
Contemporary living is stressful by design, but there is so much you can do to live peacefully and successfully without adhering to strict dietary or extreme workout regimes.
This retreat is specifically designed to build your personal toolkit for neutralising and preventing stress, anxiety and heart disease. You will learn dozens of exercises and techniques that directly work with the cardiovascular and nervous systems to heal injuries and illness, and foster incredible health and vitality from deep within your body, mind and spirit.
Those who have never trained with Paul before will start building a foundation from day one. He will not only demonstrate and teach you physical mechanics, but explain the energetics and physiological basis for creating long-lasting positive change.
More advanced practitioners will focus on components for developing internal power (known as neigong) and integrate them in their qigong or internal martial arts practice. Paul will also offer personal corrections to tune-up and refine your moving practice to the depth of your ability.
Five interconnected aspects of training will help you develop internal power:
Breathing
Standing postures
The nervous system
The vascular system
Energy Exercises
These exercises not only heal injuries and illness, but also take a healthy person to their highest level of capacity. Paul will teach two groups to ensure novices build a proper foundation whilst more advanced practitioners focus on deep internals.
Highlights for both groups will include how to:
Optimise the vascular system for circulating blood.
Release pressure from the heart.
Gently but firmly massage the heart.
Increase the effectiveness of venous return.
Release the nerves for deep relaxation.
Release excess energy and blood out of the head and brain.
Create a smooth a continuous nerve flow.
If you don’t have your health you don’t have anything. Whether you have practised energy work for many years or are new to the powerful yet gentle way of the Water method, you can reduce vascular and nervous tension and strengthen your heart for lifelong vitality.

CIRCLES & SPHERES IN QIGONG
Deepening Your Internals by Unifying the Spine, Kwa & Yao
22-27 August (Sunday to Friday)
Cubjac, Dordogne/South of France
This is a unique course designed to develop two distinct yet integrated tracks of study.
Tai Chi Circling Hands
The first track is suitable for novices and advanced practitioners alike. Tai Chi Circling Hands is an excellent simple set of cyclical motions that provide the bulk of the physical and energetic benefits of more complex forms of qigong or tai chi. Circling Hands sets the framework for learning, implementing and embodying the 16 components of internal power (known as neigong) without complicated choreography. Circling Hands naturally upgrades and improves your bagua or tai chi form by helping you embodying the essential elements of circularity and flow.
This group will focus on:
Horizontal turning and twisting work  as applied in Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body qigong
Vertical bending and stretching
Pulsing as applied in Marriage of Heaven and Earth qigong
Fusing all three together into the spherical motion present in all high-level qigong, bagua and tai chi movements.
Read more about Tai Chi Circling Hands.
Gods Playing in the Clouds Qigong
For more experienced students, you will separate and combine more advanced neigong work within Gods qigong as it has been traditionally practised for millennia. Within Gods you integrate all 16 strands of neigong into one complete form. Paul will focus more on upgrading and refining your internals than the form itself. Knowledge of the external movements of Gods is therefore helpful, but not required. (Prerequisites: Solid foundation in Energy Gates and Heaven and earth qigong.)
Both groups will practise:
Natural breathing (and reverse breathing for the Gods group).
Activating and integrating the spine, kwa and yao.
Initiating movement from the three leaders.
Opening and closing all the joints, cavities and soft tissue.
Turning and twisting soft tissue (spiralling will be included for the Gods group).
Manipulating the macrocosmic orbit and the etheric field.
Balancing the sphere and opening up the central equilibrium.
Note: This year Paul will not offer a retreat dedicated to bagua and/or tai chi, but will teach applications each week.