Classes & Fees

Fees:

One-on-One	$75/hour
Group	Negotiable. Depends on location, session length, and number of participants.

Classes

• Classes are added regularly. Please send Chaco your e-mail if you wish to be contacted for updates or check this web site regularly.

	Program 1: All Eastern ( Qi Development ) Self Massage Basic Qi/chi Gong Breathing the Physical Breathing the Qi/chi Qi/chi Anatomy Cloud Hands Swings and Curves Circles & Spirals Back Qi Gong Spine Qi Gong Tai Qi Complete Set Sitting Meditation Standing Meditation Moving Meditation Yin Yang Bridge Walk Six Balls One Pillar Bagua Bagua Small Palms Bagua Big Palms Body Drumming Circle Movement Figure-8 Muscle/Tendon Changing (Yi Jin Jing) 4 Corners		Program 2: All Western Cardiovascular, Strength, & Flexibility Core stabilization Stability Balls Medicine Balls Rubber Bands Balance: BOSU Balance Trainer; Foam Rollers; wobble, rocker, & extreme balance boards. Posture and Alignment Program 3: Fusion East + West Any All Eastern integrated with any All Western. Some Examples: BOSU + Tai Qi/Chi Posture & Standing Meditation The Squat System Check Keep the Qi Down Program 4: Rehab REFERRALS Implementing a long term exercise prescription or active rehab program. Implementing your general lifestyle modification program designed to increase the level of physical activity and prevent injuries and disorders. Program 5: Other Contact Bodywork Healing Touch Gravity Moves Down-Ups

Subject Detailed Description

Give yourself a relaxing massage using various palpation techniques for meridians and acupressure points.

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Basic Qi/chi Gong is a set of seven exercises that cover fundamental qi/chi development concepts. Release tension, stress, and pain in your muscles & joints; increase your overall energy level; work the qi/chi connection between your aura and acupuncture meridian lines; absorb & project qi/chi for healing; and improve your breathing capacity and physical balance. You will also learn standing meditation for releasing energy blockages.

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Breathing the Physical covers the biomechanics of breathing into the belly, sides, and entire back, thereby massaging & releasing tension in the organs with every breath. These practices are vital for calming the central nervous system & relieving stress. Proper breathing helps activate:

• Anatomy of the legs, spine, & pores of the body, in order to ìbreath from your feetî.
• Microcosmic orbit & belt meridian & the yin & yang tissues.

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Takes up where ìBreathing the Physicalî ended. With mind & breath, you link the physical body with its corresponding energy anatomy in the ìqi/chi body.î

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Qi/chi Anatomy uses standing meditation to consciously coordinate and control your bodyís downward flow of qi/chi (an important safety precaution in any energy practice), & to dissolve blockages in specific energy locations.

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Cloud Hands is a complete exercise that will link the entire body into one unified whole and facilitate both the flow of qi/chi to all parts of the body.

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Swings and Curves are six exercises that energize & strengthen the qi/chi of the lower, middle, and upper body & fully open the joints of the hips, shoulders, elbows, and hands.

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Learn how to use your mind to move your energy in circles, spheres and spirals throughout the body & to project qi/chi through intention to any part of the body. This set increases your energy, opens the upward flow of qi/chi & dramatically releases your body & mind from rigid, linear movement.

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Back Qi/chi Gong helps relieves back, neck, and joint disorders. Learn to ìopen and closeî the bodies joints, an important internal technique used in the internal arts for moving and controlling qi/chi.

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Spine Qi Gong will strengthen your back and nervous system through transforms your body into an expanding and contracting pump. This action increases internal pressure allowing for increased circulation of the bodyís fluid systems. With every breath this expansion & contraction releases compression on the spine & physically and energetically links the synovial, lymphatic, & cerebrospinal fluids with the spinal cord, vertebrae, joints, cavities, glands and muscles.

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This short Tai Qi form fuses nei gong (internal power development) with tai qi, leading to improved internal energy stabilization & qi management. Tai qi is performed slow and deliberate and does not involve any jarring motions. The weight bearing movements stimulate bone growth & it is useful in the prevention and treatment of certain problems such as back pain. Tai qi also improves posture, coordination, & balance, thereby helping to reduce falls.

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Complete Set is a powerful rejuvenation method. All the internal power development components are practiced simultaneously to give your body a thorough internal work out.

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While Sitting- Emotional tension, physical contractions, or mental disassociation can cause qi/chi blockages. Learn how to open blockages & releases qi/chi and achieve inner stillness. For any age & physical health condition

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While Standing- Emotional tension, physical contractions, or mental disassociation can cause qi/chi blockages. Learn how to open blockages & releases qi/chi and achieve inner stillness. For any age & physical health condition

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While Moving- Emotional tension, physical contractions, or mental disassociation can cause qi/chi blockages. Learn how to open blockages & releases qi/chi and achieve inner stillness. For any age & physical health condition

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Yin Yang Bridge Walk will spiral and coil your body to release bound energy in every organ and tissue.

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Six Balls One Pillar is a deep internal practice that links the eyes, kidneys, and genitals to the shoulders, waist, and hips, respectively. When the body moves from deep along the central axes the whole body moves as a functional unit.

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Bagua is a Chinese kung fu used for fitness and martial art. Practitioners walk in a circle holding various postures, expressing different energies and changing direction without losing balance. The result is you feel agile, alert, and stable.

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Bagua Small Palms are conditioning palms that prepare the body for full body movement. You will learn biomechanics and energetic expressions that allow your body to move in circles and spirals.

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Bagua Big Palms picks up where Bagua Small Palms leaves off. The range of motion and technical complexity is increased.

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Using various intensities of finger taping, palm tapping, & fist tapping, the practitioner stimulates the various channels and acupressure points in the bodiesí energy system. This exercise can also be done with partners.

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This qi/chi development exercise is done stationary yet will work every joint in your body, moving them in a gentle circles. Great for staying loose and increasing range of motion.

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Figure-8 is full body twisting and spiraling, lubricating every joint, using three areas of the back as a pivot. Great dynamic stretch. And open the flow of qi throughout the body.

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Ancient Eastern exercises that stimulate the circulation of qi & blood; & strengthen & reinforce your tendons & muscles assisting in the prevention of injuries during eccentric loading in sport performance, martial arts and most activities of daily living.

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A vigorous exercise done with the trainer or partner that exercises agility and coordination. Loosens the hips, back, & shoulders.

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Cardiovascular, Strength, and Flexibility is the foundation of Western Personal Training. Warm-up; cardio training on a treadmill, elliptical or stationary bike; strength training with machine, free weights, or other tools; flexibility and stretching; ending with a cool-down.

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80% of the population will experience some kind of back pain in their life. It is the muscles of the coreñthe abdomen, pelvis, chest and backñthat stabilize the rest of the body and help prevent certain types of back pain. A strong core supports all activities, especially when applying force.

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Air filled balls of various sizes that provide a challenging workout for all muscle groups, especially core muscles. Posture, balance, body awareness and control will improve.

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Balls of various sizes and weights. Stationary machines restrict natural movement, while medicine ball workouts provide weight-resistance through a full range of motion, especially good for training explosive motion.

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A stretchable band or tube of various resistances used for rehab or as part of an everyday workout.

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"Regular balance training is excellent for just about everyone- special populations, seniors, or athletes. Balance training can help:

• Improve motor skills
• Prevent injuries during workouts
• Prevent injuries during activities of daily living
• Rehabilitation programs
• Intensify your existing workouts
• Develop coordination
• Increase control over your own body

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Create a leaner, stronger more flexible body using corrective exercises and stretching techniques to improve overall posture.

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Fluid movements of Tai Qi/chi performed on the BOSU Balance Trainer. Both Tai Qi/Chi and the BOSU are well researched to improve balance and coordination. Why not combine both? Losing your balance can affect your functional strength and lead to falls, injury, and effect force production during sport performance. BOSU + Tai Qi/Chi will integrate your mind/body to efficiently activate your stabilizer muscles and train your body to quickly re-establish balance.

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Understand your present posture using Western postural assessment and corrective exercises. Integrate this knowledge through internal awareness using standing meditation. Helps relieve stiff necks, hunched shoulders, restricted breathing, tightness in the thighs, legs and ankles, backaches, headaches, and other painful symptoms due to postural imbalances.

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Squatting is a functional movement used in most activities of daily living. Learn proper biomechanics & how to use the squat to move & increase qi throughout your body.

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A fusion of Continuum, Body-Mind-Centering and Standing Meditation. During Standing meditation the participant moves their internal awareness downward as they become aware of qi/chi centers, muscles, bones, organs, glands, lymph, and nervous systems. Helps relieve stress & tension and leads to feeling comfortable in your body.

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By keeping the Qi/Chi Down you learn to decrease arousal and stay focused. This is accomplished through controlling both your internal mental awareness & breathing while constantly & vigorously being challenged to maintain your balance and stability.

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This unique bodywork requires full participation. It ranges from complete passivity to full activity. Bodies are in contact, changing the relationship to gravity and form. The result is full body palpitation.

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Healing Touch uses gentle, non-invasive touch to influence and support the human energy system within and surrounding the body. It restores harmony, energy, and balance within the human energy system, promoting the bodies innate ability to self-heal.

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Ever wonder what might happen to your mind and body if you changed your relationship to gravity? Muscle tension is released, tight joints are freed, and circulation is enhanced. Alter your relation ship to gravity using balls, floors, walls, chairs, tables, trees, basically any thing that can allow you to tilt, tip, drape, droop or dangle.

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A simple, unique exercise developed by Chaco to address rehab, cardiovascular training, strength training and flexibility. Its as simple as getting down and up off the floor or ground.

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Classes: Detailed Description

Qigong Healing Techniques

This class will blend therapeutic movement with hands-on healing techniques from the Body-Mind practice of Medical Qigong. You will Purge, Tone, Regulate, & Rejuvenate the Qi (vital energy) of your visceral-organ system. Through energetic healing treatments on yourself & others; postural alignment; abdominal breathing; focusing intention; & self-massage techniques, you will learn how to maximize the health of the your body's organ systems.

Take all five classes & practice in sequence, for a complete system. Or, take separately, and practice as individualized prescription exercises.

• 1. Qigong Healing Techniques - Liver
• 2. Qigong Healing Techniques - Heart
• 3. Qigong Healing Techniques - Spleen
• 4. Qigong Healing Techniques - Lungs
• 5. Qigong Healing Techniques - Kidneys

Time: Next class starting in Sept, 2012
Location: 601 West Broadway St; Unit M11, Langara Continuing Education, Vancouver
Cost: TBA
Course number: TBA

Register with Langara:

• On-Line: Login at www.langara.bc.ca if you have a Langara ID number. If you don't have one or can't remember it call 604.323.5322
• Fax in: Registration form at 604.323.5899 with credit card info.
• Mail in: Registration form with payment to Langara College, Continuing Studies, 100 West 49th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6. Make cheques payable to Langara College.
• Phone in: 604.323.5322. Register by VISA or MasterCard, receipts will be mailed to your home.
• Drop in: Register in person at the Continuing Studies Office at Langara College.
• Already a Student: If you already have a Login ID and PIN, login to register directly for faster service.

Registration Office Hours
Mon through Thurs, 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

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Group Fitness for the Older Adult

Time: TBA
Location: TBA

This exercise class will get you moving in a fun, supportive environment reducing your risk of heart & lung disease, high blood pressure and type II diabetes. It incorporates strengthening & core exercises to make your muscles and bones stronger, allowing you to reach, bend, lift, & carry and reduce your risk of developing osteoporosis. Flexibility, agility, and balance exercises will also be included to keep your joints moving & to reduce your risk of slips, trips, & falls. Start now and stay healthy & independent!

• Reduce the impact of illness and chronic disease
• Lose weight
• Sleep better
• Improve mood and boost self-confidence
• Maintain mental agility

Who would benefit from participating in this class?

• Older adults starting a fitness routine recommended by a doctor or physiotherapist
• Older adults wanting to take a class instructed by a professional trained in older adult fitness and health &fitness
• Coronary heart disease
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Stroke
• Hypertension
• Osteoporosis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Overweight
• High cholesterol
• Arthritis (muscular skeletal)
• Metabolic syndrome
• Risk of Falls
• Chronic Migraines

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Spiral Core Conditioning

Time: June 17, Sun 10-2, July 21, Sat 10-2, Aug 18, Sat, 10-2, 2012
Location: 601 West Broadway, Unit M11, Langara Continuing Education, Vancouver
Cost: $99 per workshop; $270 for all three workshops
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Energize your conventional fitness & yoga routines!! In this unique series of classes we will explore powerful conditioning exercises from Western Exercise Science and Traditional Chinese Martial & Healing Arts. Learn to move your body from the core as a functionally integrated coordinated whole. Through twisting, turning, coiling, wrapping, & spiraling movements, using your own bodyweight, partner perturbations, weights, ropes, bands, balls, and poles, you will stretch & strengthen your arms, legs, spine, trunk, back, shoulders, hips, & connective tissue, promote healthy circulation, improve posture, & develop dynamic balance, stability, rotational power & agility.

Courses can be taken separately or as a series:

• 1. Spiral Core Conditioning 1 - Arms & Legs
• 2. Spiral Core Conditioning 2 - Spine & Trunk
• 3. Spiral Core Conditioning 3 - Power & Strength

Build physical fluidity
by mobilizing, opening and releasing your joints

Release stress and tension
by twisting and dynamically stretching your muscles and fascia

Increase stamina and core strength
through vigorous flowing movements

Improve balance and posture
by training your body to center and ground

Support your immune system
through movements that pump blood and lymphatic fluid through your body

Support athletic performance
through coordinated & agile movements that link the neuro-muscular communication in your body

Equipment:
ropes, poles, weights, bands, mats

Benefits from participating in this class:

• Something new to energize conventional fitness routines
• Improve musculoskeletal pain and mobility issues
• Spiral stretching can increase flexibility, muscular strength & endurance
• Increase blood flow to muscles promoting recovery after injuries
• Improve posture
• Prevent injuries, particularly if you have tight muscles or joints
• Increase your daily energy
• Increase range of motion in the muscles, tendons, joint capsules, fascia, & skin
• Increase full body fluidity, flowing ROM (range of motion)
• Improve your neuro-muscular connection
• Stimulation of joint receptors
• Mobilization of restricted joints
• Increased stretching of tight muscles/fascia
• Restoration of the optimal length of muscle
• Refresh your body, mind & soul
• Increase flexibility, muscular strength & endurance
• Improve your posture & balance
• Increase circulation
• Stabilize your core
• Release restricted joints
• Help prevent injuries
• Refresh your body, mind & soul
• Excellent for those wanting to improve fitness & health in a unique way

Register with Langara:

• On-Line: Login at www.langara.bc.ca if you have a Langara ID number. If you don't have one or can't remember it call 604.323.5322
• Fax in: Registration form at 604.323.5899 with credit card info.
• Mail in: Registration form with payment to Langara College, Continuing Studies, 100 West 49th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6. Make cheques payable to Langara College.
• Phone in: 604.323.5322. Register by VISA or MasterCard, receipts will be mailed to your home.
• Drop in: Register in person at the Continuing Studies Office at Langara College.
• Already a Student: If you already have a Login ID and PIN, login to register directly for faster service.

Registration Office Hours
Mon through Thurs, 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

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Integrating Anatomy & Physiology with Medical Qigong

Time and Date:TBA
Location: TBA
Cost: TBA
Bring: Massage tables (1 for each pair)
Texts: Order through Chapters, UBC bookstore, Banyen Books

Essential:

• Essential Anatomy for Healing & Martial Arts (Marc Tedeschi) [$20-$40]
• The Anatomy Coloring Book (Wynn Kapit) [$20]
• Chinese Medical Qigong Therapy (Jerry Allan Johnson)

Optional:

• McMinns Color Atlas of the Human Body (R.H. Abrahams) [this is a cadaver anatomy text; I have the 5th edition; the new 6th edition is called "McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy with DVD" [$90]

If you do not want to get the texts mentioned above you will still need an alternate anatomy & physiology textbook and a meridian & acu-point location text (preferable with what is anatomically there "under" the point e.g. nerves, blood vessels, muscle, etc). I encourage all of the participants to bring all (or most) of their body-texts so we have multiple resources.

Learn:

We will deepen our study of the 14 meridians & the anatomy at the point location, thereby learning anatomy and physiology as we work through the meridians & points. We will perform Qigong & give treatments to explore what we have learned in order to integrate both anatomy & physiology with Medical Qigong.

Chaco:
ph: 604-710-2529
email: chaco_well@yahoo.ca

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