Qi Gong and Sound Healing Qi Gong with Davida Monk
Qi Gong with Davida Monk
Days: Thursday - Sunday
Dates: January 23, 24, 25, 26, 2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Cost: $18 a class
Class Description:
Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese practice that increases vitality and reduces stress. Qi Gong integrates and harmonizes the body, emotions, and mind: empowering the imagination, increasing creative potential, lifting the heart and vitalizing the body. These classes will impart the experience of recognizing, sensing, cultivating and circulating energy. The material and the approach are based on Master Lee Holden’s Qi Gong techniques. Classes are one hour in duration, including physical warmups and Qi Gong flow movement patterns and ending with a short meditation.
Sound Healing Qi Gong with Davida Monk*
Days: Friday - Sunday
Dates: January 24, 25, 26, 2025
Times: 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Cost: $18 a class
Class Description:
These classes will introduce students to the ancient Qi Gong practice of sound healing. Sound Healing is known to have many profound positive effects, physically, emotionally and mentally. Participants will learn sound, movement, and visualization patterns that are said to purge and tonify the five organ systems.
*Note: It is recommended that students interested in Sound Healing Qi Gong also take the general Qi Gong class at 10 am.
Instructor Biography:
Davida Monk began her professional career in 1985 with Le Groupe de la Place Royale of Ottawa, and was instrumental in the development of Canada’s first professional contemporary dance laboratory for choreographic development, Le Groupe Dance Lab. Monk’s works have been presented across Canada and in Europe.
In her current project Songs Without Words she has created 20 distinct solos which are available for viewing, complete with collaborator comments, studio notes and artists responses at www.m-body.ca. In addition to performing these works, Monk is in the process of giving them to other emerging and mature dance artists for their own performance repertoires. The next phases of Songs Without Words will also include productions of reimagined combinations of the SWW body of work.
Monk has taught dance technique, creative process and choreography in a wide variety of contexts and has danced for and collaborated with many Canadian choreographers and artists of other disciplines. She became a Certified Holden Qi Gong Instructor in 2023. The recipient of awards for choreographic development and touring from the University of Calgary, Calgary Arts Development, and Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Banff Centre, Monk directed Calgary’s Dancers’ Studio West, an organization dedicated to the development of choreographers from 2008 – 2018. Monk is Associate Professor Emerita (University of Calgary), and Artistic Director of M-Body, dedicated to the development of her own works, since 2004.
