Daisy Lee – Movement as Medicine With Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women

Real change — enduring change — happens one step at a time.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The journey begins with a single step. In this opening module, Daisy will share practices to start you on your heroine’s journey — with simple, accessible Radiant Lotus Qigong practices to support emotional stability, increase vital energy, and ignite your joy for practice — and for life.

Daisy will share two indivisible principles of practice: your body is your true home (wherever you go, there it is), and when you take care of your home on a daily basis, you won’t have to spend much on major repairs.

As Daisy says, “The breath is everything and nothing.” She’ll show you how to regulate your breath from panicked and anxious to slow, calm, and deep — to enhance your body’s self-healing capacity.

As you’ll discover, Radiant Lotus Qigong is a pathway for women to attain whole-body health.

In this first class, you’ll discover:

• How the body has the potential to heal itself when it comes into homeostasis
• The different health impacts of fast and slow movements — and how the tale of the tortoise and the hare shows that gentle, slow movements win the race against fast and furious movements
• The first of 7 healing sounds from Tibet — and how the Tibetan Healing Sounds break up stagnation in a woman’s body
• Movements that act as medicine in the body, including Showering Qi for high blood pressure and Showering Qi 2 for balancing low blood pressure
• The Kuan Yin Movement to honor the Divine Feminine within and around you

You’re invited to the Radiant Lotus release party…

For this second class, come dressed in your pajamas if you wish, but, as Daisy says, definitely BYOB (bring your own bosom) — and come prepared to drink in the wealth of ways to support your body’s breast and chest health.

As Daisy will explain, women have always extended themselves to support those they love — and often forget to look after themselves in the process.

Perhaps by the design of their DNA and the womb, this primal, maternal instinct to surround and protect life can define a woman’s strength — and her vulnerability.

When a woman has grown up in a loving, nurturing family, she often trusts in her thrive ability and can offer it to those less fortunate.

She innately knows that survival is dependent on cooperation, not competition. She understands that we need more community-building and sharing of resources, rather than hoarding and dwelling on fears that there’s not enough to go around — or worse, that she is not enough.

In this session, you’ll learn the value of self-love and how to:

• Enter practice with an intention to play, sending a signal to your cells to celebrate life, rather than battle disease (as you’ll discover, the body prefers joy and possibility over fear and foreboding!)
• Venture into the unknown with greater courage, sending a positive mental and emotional signal to your body that encourages repair, renewal, and healing
• Impact your health outcomes with the power of thoughts and word choice — for instance, the words illness and disease feel energetically negative, while a health project sounds empowering
• Honor your breasts and your womb — and explore how breast health often correlates with emotional health and self-image
• Support Qi flow in the breasts and uterus with gentle self-massage — you’ll let go of destructive emotions and have better Qi flow, which enhances physical health
• Use pressure points to support Qi flow for improved digestion and assimilation — as Daisy will explain, impairment in the stomach and spleen meridians can compromise breast and uterine health
• Release stagnant energy from the womb, sometimes nicknamed the heart below the horizon, using the second Tibetan Healing Sound Ahh​
• Use the Kuan Yin movement to honor life

In this session, Daisy will share how to make time for practice when the need to prioritize others can be all-consuming, and even expected.

Rather than feeling guilty or judging yourself for taking time to honor your needs, decide to practice and then, as Nike once put it so simply… just do it!

As Daisy will explain, the time you spend making excuses — often to avoid the feelings of selfishness that may arise — is much better spent taking care of yourself, even if it’s just 20 minutes of practice.

Twenty minutes of practice sets you up for goodness for the rest of the 15+ hours you spend tending to work, family, or other matters. By taking care of you, you will be able to take care of others.

In this class, you’ll explore:

• The Tibetan Healing Sound Lu, whichinvigorates the breasts and supports lymph flow
• How the Flying Phoenix movement helps women release tension from the heart and middle dantian — while supporting greater lower-body strength in the legs and abdomen — and helps you set boundaries so you can fly freely into the next holiday, conflict, or soak in the tub!
• The Showering Qi and Kuan Yin movements
• How to bring peace and calm to the body as you release tension from the joints
• Proper standing and kua folding technique to improve hip, knee, and ankle strength — giving you greater stability and groundedness as you connect to the Earth Qi with ease
• How dedicated practice deposits extra Qi into your energy bank

When you’re so immersed in doing, you may not notice you’re actually being driven and controlled by life’s circumstances.

In this session, Daisy will explain how you do have a choice when confronted by a challenging situation — you can immediately respond, or take a moment to breathe and let the mud settle so clarity can arise.

The outward circumstances will be the same — the only difference will be your perception of choice or choicelessness.

Daisy will guide you to do a check-in in the middle of your seven sessions together — you’ll observe where you are in your practice and learn to take a long, slow, deep inhale and tension-releasing exhale… before you decide how you will respond to the cacophony that surrounds you.

In this pivotal module, you’ll discover:

• How to assess your personal improvement points (PIPs) — a gentle way to grow and thrive without harsh self-criticism or judgment
• A review of Showering Qi to clarify and soothe, as well as the Wei Qi field and the Flying Phoenix to reset boundaries and release sadness
• A revisit of shaking, cupping, and tapping to shake out the rug of the body to discharge cellular debris and stagnant Qi
• A deeper look at women’s self-massage to soothe and provide relief from excessive doing
• How to practice with enlivened awareness and self-compassion
• Powerful practices including the Tibetan Healing Sounds Ong, Ahh, Lu, Me, and a closing Kuan Yin movement

It’s the dawning of a new day and a new age — and Daisy will share how to bring on goodness for yourself, your family, your community, and the planet…

The microcosm reflects the macrocosm of the bigger universe, and when you care for yourself, the world becomes a better, more sustaining place.

In this class, you’ll review what you’ve learned and add more elements to your practice as you discover:

• The Tibetan Healing Sounds of Ong, Ahh, Lu, Me — and a new sound, Bah
• How Vertical Alignment + Neutral Compassion = stable lead energy
• A deeper exploration of the Showering Qi movement
• The Lotus Rises movement — you’ll explore the meaning of the lotus, and the role of the water and the mud in a woman’s daily life
• A guided Lotus Meditation to call in forgiveness and create fortitude, as forgiveness helps you make room for gratitude, new bold ideas, and radiant health
• How to use lung and large intestine acupoints — to release grief and bring in goodness so that you can begin the new year unburdened and refreshed
• Ways to breathe in a fresh, new beginning when you let go of S.H.I.T. Qi — S.H.I.T stands for stagnant, hostile/hectic, interfering/ignorant, turbid/toxic
• Why we can only fill up when we’ve let go of what no longer serves us
• Ways to cultivate an invigorated energy and vitality, and a clearer mind and fresh perspective as you plan for the future

In this session, Daisy will continue sharing the heroine’s epic saga — and explain how it’s your journey, because you are the heroine in your own story!

Encountering roadblocks, the heroine continues to find ingenious ways to overcome obstacles. She steps up, rising through the mud of life to claim her potential.

She once was stuck, but she now understands the mud was not the enemy — but a powerful ally in her growth.

She’s learned to take nothing for granted. By paying attention to the small details and yet creating a bigger vision for her life, she attends to life with greater energy, grace, dignity, and positivity.

In this module, you’ll apply these principles to your own life as you learn:

• Why courage is required to open your heart to possibilities
• How the heart vies for emotional attention because of its proximity to the lungs
• Why you can sometimes swing from deep sadness and grief to profound love and excitement on what Daisy calls the seesaw of life
• How to add an acupoint to your practice to releases tension in the heart and breasts — and open a pathway for enhanced healing
• The sixth Tibetan Healing Sound, Yee — as you’ll discover, it’s used to balance hormones and moves you into equilibrium on both sides of the body
• How the blueprint for life is integrated into the movements you’ve learned so far — the Flying Phoenix provides liftoff as you test your wings, Lotus Rises teaches you to rise through the dark waters to meet the light, and when you embody Kuan Yin, you’ll remember that compassion embraces all, yet being virtuous doesn’t mean giving in to ignorance