What Is Medical Qigong? My Experience as a Practitioner
Medical Qigong is a branch of Chinese medicine that works with Qi — the body's vital energy — to support health, wellbeing and longevity.
Most people who have heard of Qigong know it as a movement practice: slow, intentional movements combined with breath and awareness. Medical Qigong draws from the same understanding of the body's energetic system, but a practitioner works directly with a person's Qi through off body healing.
Sessions can take place in person or at a distance and don't require physical touch.
How I came to Medical Qigong
I didn't begin my career as an energy medicine practitioner, far from it!
I've spent much of my working life in mental health. I then trained as an integrative psychotherapist after years of working with the body through massage, movement, yoga and other embodied practices.
But I kept encountering something I couldn't ignore: energy, this vital kind that makes your hands get hot and your body tingle.
Once I started working with modalities like polarity therapy with my clients, again and again, I saw that shifts happened through energy healing that took AGES for massage alone to resolve.
Eventually my curiosity led me into Medical Qigong.
What I love about it is that it doesn't separate the emotional, physical and energetic into different compartments. We work with the whole ecosystem of the body.
What happens during a session?
My work is hands-off and can be done remotely.
You don't even need to understand energy medicine. You get comfortable, and I work with the body's energetic system using practices drawn from my training in Medical Qigong and energy medicine.
People's experiences vary. Some notice sensations such as warmth, tingling or movement. Some feel deeply relaxed. Images and guidance appears spontaneously. Sometimes what becomes noticeable is emotional or intuitive rather than physical.
For me, the purpose isn't to impose something on the body.
It's to listen, work collaboratively with what is already there, and support the conditions for change.
Medical Qigong has become part of a much larger body of work for me incorporating energy medicine, psychotherapy, coaching, movement and the creative arts.
That work now lives inside The Gold Standard, my signature one-to-one programme for women ready to fall in CRAZY SEXY LOVE with life AGAIN.