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YI JING JING FOR VITALITY
Reduce Stress, Manage Energy, Build Resilience
Yi Jin Jing is my favorite movement series I’ve learned in my nearly 30 years of compassion meditation and qigong practice.
This ancient and powerful movement method for reducing stress, managing energy, and building resilience to help you optimize your health was popularized by the fighting monks of the legendary Shaolin Temple.
This program is offered as a 7-week online course, an online weekend workshop, and as a self-paced online course. It is a wonderful introduction to the ancient qigong practice of Yi Jin Jing.
Ready to Explore Yi Jin Jing?
Yi Jin Jing is a powerful qigong practice popularized by the fighting monks of the legendary Shaolin Temple.
Legends say that originally, these monks slouched over religious texts and prayed for many hours. As a result of their sedentary lifestyle, they suffered from shallow breathing, poor posture, backaches, tight shoulders, and neck pain.
This qigong form focuses on infusing soft tissue, including ligaments, tendons, and fascia with a specific kind of qi. With practice, the body becomes significantly stronger and more flexible.
Each movement in the series utilizes both strength and softness thus creating a sense of balance and harmony throughout the body.
Yi Jin Jing Program Highlights
+ Manage Your Mind & Move Your Qi
In general terms, Qi is energy. Learning how to connect with and move your energy is an empowering way to reduce stress and increase joy.
First, we’ll work with tools and techniques to settle your mind and reduce rumination. Once we are better able to focus our thoughts and remain in the present moment, we’ll begin practicing the Yi Jin Jing series which helps us embody mindfulness.
+ Qigong Breathing
Use your breath as an anchor to help you settle into deep stillness. We’ll explore a variety of breathing exercises and notice how they each affect qi differently.
+ Self-Awareness & Internal Energy
Connecting to and deepening our self-awareness helps us connect to our qi. As we become more content with ourselves, we begin to harmonize and flow with life’s experiences. We unlock our creativity and intuition, and we begin to balance body, mind, and spirit. Additionally, each move ties with an emotional transformation. If you’re feeling stuck in a particular area of your life, one or two moves can help you effectively shift your mood and mindset.
+ Qigong Movements
We’ll learn and practice the Yi Jin Jing series. This form of qigong helps us connect with our physical body, internal energy, and mental and emotional resilience, which in turn helps us relieve and heal physical pain, stress, depression, and other ailments.
+ Additional Support Through Selected Essential Oils
When you register for the 7-week or weekend workshop, I’ll send you a selection of essential oil samples that support the emotional transformations that are associated with each move. We’ll explore what the oils mean and how to use them during our time together.
This Yi Jin Jing workshop is appropriate for those who are learning qigong for the first time or wish to continue to develop their skills. Another form of qigong, a mudra meditation series, may be incorporated into the course or workshop depending on timing.
Inside the Program:
- Learn and practice three qigong deep breathing methods, along with when and how to use each technique most appropriately.
- Learn about, gain an understanding of, and implement the fundamentals of excellent posture. Quality posture increases overall health and reduces lost time due to neck, shoulder, and back strain and injury.
- Learn about qi (life force energy) and the tan tien (the most important storage place of internal qi).
- Learn and practice the Yi Jin Jing qigong series.
7-Week Program
Join us for this seven-week program online via Zoom! Each week we’ll meet for an hour and learn and practice the Yi Jin Series.
You’ll also have an opportunity to integrate the power of essential oils! Each oil is specifically selected to support the emotional transformation that comes with each particular move. After you register, oils will be sent to you.
Dates & Times:
- Check Back for Upcoming Dates
Sessions will be recorded, and you can review them until two weeks after that last class date. If you miss a session, you’ll have a chance to catch up before the following week.
Investment $149
1-Day Workshop
Join us for this one-day workshop online via Zoom! Throughout the day, we’ll learn various aspects of compassion for self and others.
You’ll also have an opportunity to integrate the power of essential oils! Each oil is specifically selected to support the emotional transformation that comes with each particular move. After you register, oils will be sent to you.
Dates & Times:
- Check Back for Upcoming Dates
The workshop will be recorded, and you can review it until two weeks after the workshop dates. If you’d like to learn but can’t make the live session, register, and you’ll be sent a copy after the workshop is over.
Investment $149
Or, join me on an international spiritual tour and we’ll practice the series daily in beautiful and inspiring landscapes.
At the end of the program and with continued practice you may experience:
+ Emotional balance and a calmer mindset, which reduces stress and enhances well-being
+ Expanded recognition of physical strength, flexibility, and stability
+ Peace of mind and vitality that comes with consistent deep breathing and flowing movement
+ Increased vital energy, compassion, and better overall health
+ An awareness that your body seems lighter and movement seems easier
“Two hours ago, my body and its energy felt like a flighty flock of sparrows. Now I feel calm and grounded like a mountain. The change during the course of the day is amazing!”
“I love the qi breathing. It helps me feel relaxed and energized at the same time. I never knew that breathing in different ways could have such profound effects on my body.”
“After learning and practicing this series, I think more clearly, move more easily, and I’m better able to flow through the day in comfort. Thank you for teaching us Yi Jin Jing.”
Hi! I’m Amy Pattee Colvin
I first discovered qigong and compassion meditation in the early-1990s through a teacher who blends Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Within meditation, he also taught how to integrate stillness with the natural movement of internal energy (qi) as an effective method for transforming physical, mental, and emotional challenges.
I later learned this Yi Jin Jing series and found it harmonized perfectly with my long-time practice.
As well as teaching qigong and compassion meditation, I authored Amazon #1 Bestseller, Cultivating Compassion: Simple Everyday Practices for Discovering Peace of Mind and Resilience. I work, play, and meditate on Samish Island, WA, with my husband Scott and dog Lily.