Tanya Zajdel – Healing Trauma With Qigong

Tanya Zajdel – Healing Trauma With Qigong

The body holds the key to unlocking repressed trauma when our words aren’t enough.

Join this online Healing Trauma With Qigong Program with expert-guided, 10-minute Qigong exercises to gently relieve trauma symptoms and restore a sense of safety and calm in the body after trauma and help to:

• Reconnect to a sense of calm and safety in the body to decrease anxiety and overwhelm
• Nurture a sense of inner safety and increase relaxation in the body to soothe and regulate the nervous system
• Reclaim a sense of self-agency by exploring movements that rekindle a sense of trust and safety
• Ease the heaviness from the body and mind to improve the functioning of the immune system
• Reconnect to a sense of inner peace and balance to decrease symptoms of depression
•  Increase blood flow, relax muscles, and activate the respiratory and circulatory system to promote healing

Trauma dysregulates the nervous system, triggering distressing physiological symptoms that can present as the following when left unresolved:

• Impairs the immune system⁴
• Heightened stress, anxiety, and depression²
• Increased sense of hypervigilance⁶
• Physical discomfort, pain, and illness⁶

Drawing inspiration from the works of Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Dr. Bruce Perry, Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and Dr. Gabor Maté, Rewire Trauma Therapy works to carefully curate a bottom-up, somatic approach to trauma healing to support you and others in relieving the debilitating effects of trauma on the body in a way that words cannot.

This online Healing Trauma With Qigong Program has carefully been curated to support you and others in discovering ways to activate the parasympathetic nervous system to help the body shift into a calmer, regulated state more easily to find relief from overwhelming trauma symptoms.^{5, 6}

Utilize mindful awareness and breathwork with the slow and gentle movement of the body to:

• Nurture awareness in your body and surroundings to support you in safely and gently coming back to the present
• Restoring a sense of calm within the nervous system, body, and mind
• Ease anxiety from the body and mind to discover a sense of relief
• Rekindle the connection between the body and mind to restore a sense of safety and trust in the body

In this program, you’ll gain access to four expert-led theory modules:

Qigong experts Mimi Kuo-Deemer and Dr. Randy Sugawara, cover the ancient history of Qigong and delve into the therapeutic value, effects, and benefits of Qigong practices in trauma healing.

Module 1: An Introduction To Qigong And Chinese Medicine with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Module 2: The Wisdom Of Nature: Interpreting Trauma Through The Lens Of Chinese Medicine And Qigong with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Module 3: The Principles And Characteristics Of Qigong with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Module 4: Qigong and Tai Chi For Trauma Healing with Dr. Randy Sugawara

This program will lead you through ten expert-guided, 10-minute-a-day, trauma healing Qigong practices:

Carefully curated to support you in reconnecting with your body, the slow movements, diaphragmatic breathing, and meditation involved in these practices can support you in moving to a calmer and more regulated state to counteract and relieve the effects of trauma on the body to move through life with a sense of ease again.

Technique 1: Cloud Flower Hands
Technique 2: Breathing The Hands
Technique 3: Safe Spaced In The Body
Technique 4: Moving Inwards
Technique 5: Moving Outwards
Technique 6: Finding Clarity and Release
Technique 7: A Sense of Protection and Peace

Meet Rewire Trauma Therapy’s Trauma Healing Experts

James Rafael

MINDFULNESS AND MOVEMENT COACH

James is a mindfulness and movement coach who educates using practical techniques from the traditions of yoga, qigong, and mindfulness meditation. These disciplines, when communicated in an inclusive and kind way, give us tools to regulate, process, affirm, and empower ourselves. James has used these practices to support his own journey to sobriety and life beyond drug addiction and to address the trauma and shame connected to his experience as an LGBTQ+ person. He has been practicing and teaching for the last 15 years in London and internationally.

Mimi Kuo-Deemer

MA, QIGONG INSTRUCTOR, AUTHOR

Mimi Kuo-Deemer, MA, is the author of Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis: Nourishing Practices for Body, Mind and Spirit and Xiu Yang: The Ancient Chinese Art of Self-Cultivation. She teaches qigong, internal martial arts (6th generation lineage holder in Baguazhang), and meditation, and once traveled the world as a photojournalist. Born in the United States, she lived and worked in China for over 13 years before settling in the British countryside with her husband and their dog, three cats, 6 chickens and 60,000 bees. She champions the balance of playfulness and precision as the best way forward in life, and never underestimates how sitting, breathing, and conscious movement grant the clearest and most compassionate perspective on the joyful yet mysterious, messy, and unpredictable job of being human.

Dr. Randy Sugawara

DOCTORATE IN COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, TAI CHI CHUAN INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Randy Sugawara holds a doctorate in counseling psychology. Founder of the Qigong Behavioral Therapy Institute, his program Integrates both mental health protocols and somatic body healings. Dr. Sugawara’s martial arts trainings are inspired by Buddhist and Taoist masters. He is an instructor of the internal martial arts Tai Chi Chuan, Bagua Zhang, Hsing-I and I-Chuan moving meditations. Mugen Roshi is Randy’s spiritual mentor in the Kunlun Nei Gung system. Randy’s private practice is in the San Francisco Bay Area.