When: Every first Saturday, from 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Lotus Light Contemplative Community Center
501 Arthur St, Knoxville, Tn 37921
Currently in-person only.
What: Ai Xin-tai Chigung
We have some yoga mats, but you are welcome to bring your own.
How Much: Donations suggested based on one’s ability after 1-2 classes, as part of each student’s practice. None will ever be turned away due to lack of funds.
Registration: No registration required. You are welcome to simply arrive.
Donations to Lotus Light are always welcome.
“Chigung” (work with chi) is a practice of moving meditation and gentle shifting of awareness designed to help one more clearly feel the flow of “chi” (energy), and to help it circulate in a healthier uninhibited flow.
“Ai Xin-tai” Chigung is a system of chigung dedicated to helping us more deeply feel:
- “Ai Chi,” or the most loving, compassionate and harmonious flow of chi (or ki) between every living being and thing; and
- “Xin-tai,” or the ‘Newly-born’ liberation of clarity, and feel how liberated Clarity (as motivated by “Ai”) can flow and guide through its flow.
Because one’s chigung can only go as far as one’s meditation goes deep, Ai Xin-tai is designed as a companion practice to a core meditation practice of release / surrender into stillness (from any school or tradition), as flow can only truly be felt from a place of greater stillness.
Classes led by Isa Douglas Asland, who began his study of chigung in 1994 at the Wahlum School in Knoxville, TN, and continued with more focused study / training throughout the U.S. for the next 17 years. In 2011, Isa Asland began to offer classes in Gainesville, FL. This soon revealed the need for a more defined curriculum for students, which led to the systemization of key practices in 2013 into what thereafter became the “Ai Xin-tai” system of chigung.
For more info feel free to reach out at the Facebook community page for students.
Sincere prayers of healing and inner peace for us all.