Mindful Mountaineers | Qigong - Breath Meditation - Urban Walk - Mountaineers Seattle Program Center

Please join us for a mindful and relaxing Qigong, breath meditation and urban walk to welcome the Spring season.  We will integrate Qigong energy movements, breath meditation, followed by an urban walk around Magnuson Park.  ***Note: session fee is NON-Refundable.***

Qigong Session using WuJi Posture and Yi Ying Jing will be led by Gea D'Marea Bassett.  What is Qigong?  Qi is energy; and Gong is effort or work. This class will offer you the tools for understanding - from both a logical perspective and a somatic-embodied perspective - WuJi posture.  WuJi is the fundamental posture of alignment in an Qigong practice; it is the posture that we being practice in, end practice in, and maintain awareness of during practice.  Many Daoist meditations are also practiced while standing in WuJi. From WuJi we can begin training with the many modalities of Qigong.  WuJi means: infinite pole, central channel, nothingness (wu=nothingness).  When you "stand in WuJi" you are an infinite energetic pole and your body's central channel is open.  Through alignment in this posture you are allowing your energy to properly flow as you marry your energies to the energies of the heavens and earth.  We always train in WuJi.  

After beginning to understand WuJi, we will move through 8 of the Yi Jin Jing movements as taught by Jerigtu. Jerigtu's website is https://earthshaman.org.    Yi means change; Jin means tendons and sinews; Jing (in this context) means methods.  Yi Jin Jing movements work your muscles and well as opening the energy meridians in your body, strengthen and stretch the body, balance the nervous system, strengthen bones, focus on the mind, align the spine and nourish fluids in the body.

Breath Meditation: We will begin the session with a Centering & Grounding Breath Meditation led by certified breath practitioner and Seichem Reiki Master Teacher, Kelley Chaddock.

About our Qigong instructor Gea D'Marea Bassett: Gea has lived in Seattle since 2004 with her two children, Zizi and Zorka.  Gea took her first yoga class in 1996 in Cleveland, Ohio at the the Atma Center and began learning about Eastern Spirituality through Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh and her local yoga teachers.  In 2017 she obtained her first 200 hour yoga teacher certification in Seattle.  Gea has taken workshops and credit hours with Shiva Rea and Vasant Lad.  She studied with Zenobia Hwang at Sacred Path Medicine from 2020-2023 in the Medical Qigong Certification Program, and for one year at the Wudang Dan Tai Academy in South Seattle during this same period.  Gea has also completed the Sound Healing Level 1 training at the Seattle Sound Temple in 2024, has traveled extensively in South East Asia and Central America.  She has had the honor of to be in a sweat and in ceremony with the Salish Sea peoples for multiple years.  in her personal life, Gea practices Qigong, yoga and meditation as well as learning Kirtan in Seattle.   Gea has a Master's in Education degree from Goddard College in Vermont.

***More info will be sent in an email about a week prior to the session.  Fee for this event is NON-Refundable.

Meet at 0840 at the Mountaineers Seattle Program Center (Goodman A): 7700 Sandpoint Way NE, Seattle.  Session will begin promptly at 0900, followed by an urban walk.

***No late arrivals will be admitted once the program starts.