Event description

Develop sensitivity to qi in yourself and others with Bill Ryan at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading.

Do you feel your qi? Can you feel others’ qi? Do you feel different qualities of qi? Can you feel individual meridian lines or acupuncture points? Do you feel the field of qi that surrounds your body? Can you tell the differences between sensations of your physical body, your qi, and your emotions? Do you feel shifts in qi, e.g. when it increases or decreases?

Bill will help you explore these and other questions. In doing so, you’ll learn:
>  exercises to develop sensitivity to your own qi
>  exercises to develop your sensitivity to another person’s qi
>  various experiences that people have when they try to feel qi
>  a framework for thinking about qi that will help you organize and interpret your experiences

Anyone with an interest in qi is welcome.

If you are an acupuncturist, this workshop can help you become more subtle, accurate, and powerful in your needling techniques, and help you better connect with and interpret your patients’ experiences.

If you are a qi gong practitioner, this workshop can help you to feel qi better,  move more qi, and interpret more clearly whatever sensations you do feel.

Many of the qi sensitivity exercises will be drawn from the art of qi gong. Bill will teach you a qi gong practice so that during and after the workshop you’ll have a ‘vessel’ within which to develop your sensitivity further.

Bill Ryan has studied qi gong, tai chi, and related energy arts for 28 years with Daoist Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis (energyarts.com). Bill is the most senior of Bruce’s nine senior instructors in Europe and the US.
In 1992 Bill founded Brookline Tai Chi near Boston (brooklinetaichi.com). The school grew to be one of the biggest in the US, with a peak enrollment of over 450 students.
In 2005 Bill left Brookline Tai Chi and founded Moving Tiger through which he teaches Dragon & Tiger qi gong (movingtiger.com). He also practices qi gong tui na, a bodywork system in which the practitioner directly moves qi in and out of another person’s body in order to balance their energy.
Bill has taught over 15,000 group and private classes. He holds a masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

Course fee

£150 Refunds cannot be made unless at least two weeks notice is given.

Parking and rail travel

Parking is available at the Oracle shopping centre nearby. There is no car parking available at the College. We are a short walk from Reading railway station, at 19 Castle Street. Click here for directions and a map.

Course administration

0118 950 8880