Tai Li Fa – The Big Regulation - 5 Week Embodied Prayer Practice

Connection To the Sacred, An Embodied Prayer Practice

The Tai Li Fa is an embodied prayer practice. What is embodied prayer? I’m glad you asked, embodied prayer means using your body as a vessel for prayer or devotion, sometimes with words, most times without words and with an intention. This is a powerful transformative practice as well as a complete qigong form that gently stretches your whole body from head to toe. The whole form takes roughly 5 minutes to complete so it is a really good tool in the toolbelt for quick emotional regulation practices throughout the day.

5 Week Mini Series (one class per week)

Week 1: Learn Shapes

In week one we will learn the shapes of the Tai Li Fa form. This is like learning the letters of the alphabet before we fill in the shapes with subtlety, nuance, visualization, and meaning. Every class will start with a 10-15 minute warm-up and connection to Qi as we move into our practice of the form. This week we will focus on the physical body and “learning the alphabet.”

Week 2: De Qi

This week we are learning the De Qi flow. This short flow is a foundational exercise to feel Qi sensations as “qualities of aliveness”. Have you ever felt a tangible connection to Qi? This flow gets us out of our thinking brain and into our feeling brain (left brain to right brain). We start by learning to feel Qi sensations in our hands as they are meant to feel, and then we slowly start to feel the aliveness in the rest of the body. The De Qi flow will be our warm-up and we will go into our Tai Li Fa practice, refining our understanding of the shapes of the form.

Week 3: Presenting an Offering/Receiving a Blessing

Communion with something greater than ourselves comes across in many ways. Since ancient times we would give offerings as an affirmation that there is something greater out there that would provide us assistance if we asked wholeheartedly. Reciprocity and exchange are prevalent across all Indigenous cultures all over the world. This week we incorporate making an offering and receiving a blessing in our Tai Li Fa form.

Week 4: Imitating Nature and Progressive Relaxation

In our modern world, many of us feel disconnected from the natural world. We spend way too much time in our houses, in cubicles, and in other artificial or man-made environments, away from nature where we spent 98% of our history. In our practice we call on the natural world through imitation, imitating animals, seasons, and other elements of nature. As we imitate nature we invite the feeling of the natural world us. A healing medicine for modern times.

Week 5: Connection to the Sacred

What does Sacred mean to you? Does it invoke the idea of a certain figure like Jesus, or Buddha, or Mother Mary? Is it a thought? A belief? A Feeling? Perhaps it is something entirely different? This week we look at the meaning of what is sacred to us. We learn to connect to the sacred as a felt sense experience and bring that experience into our embodied practice, merging a simple form into a profound healing practice. This is a gift from my heart to yours. May you connect to your sacred practice and allow it to transform you in ways that are unimaginable.

Your facilitator for this series is Ravi Kaler.

Series are a serious dedication to your practice. No refunds or substitutions will be offered for missed classes.

Investment: $55 plus tax ($57.75) or 5 classes from your pass.

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