A healthy and balanced person

is a better and happier therapist. 

  Promoting physical and mental health

through the ancient practice of 

generating balance & harmony

energizing, preserving & maintaining

a lasting sense of well-being.   

Proper instruction and constant practice 

give results and become part of the daily routine.

Do-In is the oldest form of Qi Gong recorded by man. 

'Do/Dao' refers to the physical movements which stimulate the internal flow of Qi in the body, guided by the strength of the mind

In/Yin' refers to the movement of Qi reaching all the body and creating a complete cycle, assisted by specific physical movements.  

The emphasis is on body-mind harmony attained through postures and movements.

Benefits of Qi Gong & Do-In :

• grounding and circulating the Qi in the meridians (energy channels), 
• strengthening the body, 
• calming the mind,  
• developing concentration. 

These practices enhance the awareness and feeling of Qi flow in and around the body.

This increased sensitivity enables the therapist to actively work with Qi (energy) as a healing tool.

Yoga Sadhana

In Sanskrit the word 'yoga' literally means "yoke", or "the act of yoking or harnessing", pointing at either the act of binding to the goal, or binding in the sense of things that bind one, like attachments, a state of clinging or craving. 

Dating back thousands of years, yoga is the oldest defined sadhana (spiritual practice) of self development.    

 The goal of yoga is purification of the mind:

• Cleansing the mind of unwholesome tendencies
• Directing the mind towards wholesome mental states,
• Becoming freed from suffering
• Attaining real contentment and wisdom.

The methods of traditional yoga sadhana include : ethical and moral disciplines (yama & nyama), physical postures (asana), breath control (pranayama) and meditation (dharana, dhyana, samadhi).   

For the serious adept, the first stage in this process is the ethical training in morality, followed by or in parallel to the basic physical preparation of the body for the mental work that lies ahead. 

Many people today associate the word 'yoga', typically called Hatha Yoga, with the physical practices of asana and pranayama, postures and breath control. This is slightly misleading as the physical techniques are only a small part of the whole practice of yoga.

The Benefits of Yoga Sadhana  

• Yoga as a path for spiritual transformation
• Yoga as a tool for physical well-being

- relaxation - physical strength - flexibility - energy and vitality - stress-management and relief - hormonal balance - mental concentration and focus -  general well-being, and more.

• create balance in the whole body
  
• develop strength and flexibility
  
• activate the endocrine gland system
• calm the nervous system 
• re-align the musculoskeletal system
• energize the cardiovascular system

How to Practice

- Dynamic and repetitive movement generates internal heat (tapas) and stamina.   

- Slow and deliberate positioning emphasizes whole body alignment. 

- Conscious and controlled breath (pranayama) cleanses the lungs, oxygenates the blood, relaxes tension and relieves stress. 

- Standing, sitting, laying down  asanas for specific physical conditions.  

It's all about 'how to do', not 'how much' ! 

In addition to being a physical practice that makes one feel good, the practice of yoga asana can be your gateway into a personal spiritual inquiry.  

Anyone can begin practicing yoga asana, even if you don't think that you are flexible or strong. You will find the poses that suit and benefit you most and create your own routine practice. With time it will develop into your individual experience with yoga.

Integrated courses include the practice of yoga asana and pranayama, according to relevance to the study program.   

Meditation (Dhyan)  

The word meditation is derived from the Latin 'meditatio', from a verb 'meditari', meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". The term meditation was introduced to the west as a translation for Eastern spiritual practices, referred to as ' bhavana' and 'dhyāna' in Buddhism and Hinduism, which comes from the Sanskrit root 'dhyai', meaning 'to contemplate or meditate'. 

Meditation refers to a set of practices in which the practitioner trains the mind or enters a self-induced and regulated mode of consciousness to realize benefit. It is an inwardly oriented, personal practice, which individuals do by themselves for developing mindfulness and concentration. The practitioner focuses on training the attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby foster general mental well-being and development of mental capacities and qualities such as calm, clarity, and concentration. All these characteristics are cultivated towards the attainment of a higher goal, which is the acquisition of wisdom which liberates the mind from all unwholesome mental states.   

In yoga, or dhamma (dharma), two important mental qualities that arise from wholesome and proper meditative practice are:

- serenity, or tranquility (samatha) - which steadies, composes, unifies and concentrates the mind;
- insight (vipassana)  - which enables one to see, explore and discern phenomena for what they actually are.
Through serenity one is able to suppress obscuring hindrances and, with the suppression of the hindrances, it is through the development of insight that one gains liberating wisdom. 

Throughout the day, we experience levels of stress which our bodies translate into reactions of tension, agitation, nervousness, moodiness, frustration, anger, impatience, etc. Prolonged or frequent stress periods may cause physical distress, ill-health and other physical and mental disorders. Meditation affects the body in exactly the opposite ways that stress does by - 

• restoring the body to a calm state, 
• assisting and supporting the body's mechanism of self-repair,
• preventing new damage due to the physical effects of stress.

for reflection ... and inspiration