Join in for an introduction to Qi Qong for Health, Healing, and Wellbeing.
Open to available energy in the field.
Remove blockages.
Cultivate Flow.
Sliding Scale: $20-40 per class
About the Instructor:
Charles Colten works at the confluence of the martial arts, healing arts and communication arts, often combining elements of Qi Qong and Aikido; interweaving solo practice with partner connectivity and flow. He views the animate world as his teacher, role model, and spiritual compass, and is deeply guided by principles of interconnection, symbiosis, and reciprocity.
Charles’s Qi Qong research includes more than 30 years of study from a variety of sources. For the past 15 years, he has been following Master Zhongxian Wu and Sifu Thomas Droge from the Mt. Emei Zhengong lineage, whose shamanic shaking and cultivation practices have profoundly influenced Charles’s practice and teachings.
Charles also currently holds the grade of 6th degree black belt in Aikido, and is a direct student (Deshi) to Endo Seishiro Shihan, who was himself a direct student of Aikido’s founder, Morihei Ueshiba (O Sensei). Charles has founded dojos in New York, California and Maine and is also the Founder, Director, and Chief Instructor for “Aikido in the Schools”, which brings the physical and pro-social benefits of Aikido into public and private schools.
In the healing arts, Charles developed Aikisomatics, a modality combining Aikido principles and movements with the somatic emotional release practices that he learned from the study of Hakomi with its founder, Ron Kurtz.
He holds a Doctorate in Education, which focused on helping teachers, through professional development, as they advance toward mastery in the art of teaching. His other work in the education space involves nurturing a paradigm-shift that views schools as integrated living systems; following principles of reciprocity, symbiosis, permaculture design, biomimicry and the patterns found in nature to create learning environments that cultivate growth, diversity, and the resilience these engender.
He currently lives in Maine and regularly gives seminars, workshops and classes in schools, community spaces, clinics, and dojos.