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Yoga Class — With each pose you will gain strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance throughout your whole body. When holding a certain pose with breathwork, you continue to build strength and flexibility in all your muscle groups and stimulate your meridian channels releasing any blockages in your body.

Meditation Class — Various meditation techniques to quiet and calm your mind in order to become focused and present.

Stress Reduction and Relaxation Class — Mild stress reduction and relaxation exercise class to assist in relaxing your Mind, Body and Spirit in order to become focused and present.

Power Yoga— A series of asanas or poses that increase and build flexibility, strength, endurance, and balance.

Pilates — Focus on building and developing a strong Powerhouse (core abdominal muscles), the body’s center of gravity.

Qi Gong For Fertility — is used to enhance Nevada Fertility C.A.R.E.S (www.nfcares.com) fertility treatments and increase chances for successful conception and implantation. Qi Gong helps to normalize the sex hormones in In Vitro Fertilization patients prior to their cycle and influences growth hormone and immune response in men prior to In Vitro Fertilization.

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Tai Chi Class — A slow moving meditation exercise to balance and control your Chi energy. Coordinated breath work helps you become present and focused.

MitchAnne Yoga & Tai Chi Benefits:

Help to detoxify the physical body allowing the mind to relax and de-stress using stretching and breathing techniques along with specific body movements.
Adds more complete body motions that also have a cardio benefit helping to stimulate one’s circulation.
Can help students recover from physical ailments such as chronic neck pain, back pain, insomnia, depression and other disabilities.
Combines the benefits of Yoga, Tai Chi and Meditation. MitchAnne Yoga & Tai Chi classes consist of an holistic health program composed of unique and effective techniques to develop your mind, body and spirit.
Meridian/Cardio Benefits from integrative stretching and vibration exercises used to activate the Meridian System and flow of Chi energy. Feel relaxed and yet invigorated, peaceful but energized.
MitchAnne Meditative Breath Work - Energy focused meditative respiration which brings physical energy, emotional stability and mental clarity.
Lose weight, develop a positive mental attitude and have better interpersonal relationships in your private and professional life. Feel happy, complete and have an overall sense of well being.
Students leave the class feeling relaxed and yet invigorated, peaceful but energized.

The ongoing benefits of MitchAnne Yoga & Tai Chi exercise will bring a more balanced physical and mental state to regular participants. The exercise helps realign the spine, reduce daily tension, and normalize breathing, which conclude in engaging the body's natural self-healing abilities. Students have recovered from many physical ailments such as chronic neck pain, back pain, insomnia, depression and other disabilities. Regular practice of MitchAnne Yoga & Tai Chi can help you to be healthier, less stressed, lose weight and have better interpersonal relationships in your private and professional life, ultimately re-connecting with your True Self.

Principles of Qi Gong

À Loosen your major joints with warm-up exercises.

À Focus on your Tan Tien, ( Pronounced Dan Tien, center of energy, 2 inches below your navel). When you focus on your Tan Tien you are focusing on your breath. Inhale… expand your abdomen fully. Exhale… contract your abdomen into your spine. Breathing slowly and deeply.

À Allow Chi energy (Life energy) to flow into your palms and body.

1. Clap your hands vigorously 10 times and rub your hands together bringing heat into your palms.

2. Standing shoulder width apart, bounce your knees up and down and shake your palms.

3. Stop for a few moments and feel the Chi energy flowing freely throughout your body.

4. Feel the vibration in every part of your body.

À Posture— Proper posture is important in maintaining your center (Tan Tien). Stand shoulder width apart or wider. Knees slightly bent. Feet centered into the Earth, back is straight but, relaxed. Relax your shoulders, arms, and wrists.

À Qi Gong 8-form by MitchAnne (Chi Kung in Chinese) is an innovative practice to bring you perfect health for your mind and body. It includes aerobics, Tae kwon do, Tai-Chi and Yoga. It incorporates Meditation and music. You will find this practice genuinely effective and easy to learn mentally and physically. Also, it will bring you relaxation and mental health by leading you into a deep meditative state. It can be a beautiful dance or Tai-Chi.

À Qi energy or Chi energy is Life energy, Healing energy that flows freely throughout our mind and body while practicing Tai-Chi.

À MitchAnne’s Qi Gong is composed of a series of 8 poses designed to balance the body and mind and cultivate Chi energy. Each pose symbolizes a person becoming awakened to unlimited love towards all living beings and is performed 3 times.

À Qi Gong 8-form by MitchAnne originated from the founder of Dahn Hak, Grand Master Il Chi Lee, who created his form of Qi Gong for mental and physical health. Through Qi Gong's different forms, you can dance, do Tai-Chi or martial art while learning to feel Chi energy, which develops your breath, your focus, and your balance.

Qi Gong 8-Form

1. Catching a dragon

À Three motions symbolizing catching a dragon.

À In Asia, a dragon represents the Chi energy.

À Concentrate on your Chi, the energy center in your lower abdomen and located about two inches below your belly button and two inches deep. Collect Chi energy in your palms. Feel Chi energy in your palms. It is important to put your feet together. Straighten your back, and feel comfortable.

À Slightly bend your knees, breathe in and raise your arms and place your hands together above your head. Palms come together. Then bring your hands right below your chin. Separate your palms and gently push your hands down to your Tan Tien. Repeat this motion 3 times.

2. Love towards Heaven, Earth and Humans

À Bring your right foot out to shoulder width with your right palm downward. Your left palm is placed in front of your Tan Tien.

À Make 3 big slow circles at waist height. As you inhale make a circle and exhale when you come to your center. Repeat with left hand. Their philosophical meanings are the love towards the Heaven, the Earth and all Human kind.

3. Harmony

À Cross your left leg behind your right leg. Draw 3 infinities in the air with your hands, swaying your arms back and forth in coordination with your breath. Let your eyes follow your hands. The hand in front of your chest faces up and the other pushes out. Switch legs. Bring your right leg behind your left leg. Repeat the arm motion 3 times. Focus on your Tan Tien.

À Benefit: This pose represents harmony between nature and human kind. This form strengthens your lower Tan Tien.

4. Teaching Harmonious Living

À Step your right foot out to shoulder width. Place your hands in front of your chest with your palms facing up. Move your right arm smoothly out to the side in a circular motion behind you and rotate your wrist. Gently twist your wrist downward and extend your hand forward fully. Bring it back toward your chest and make an inside circle moving your palm under your armpit and extend your arm to straighten your elbow. Swing your hand out and make a circle and then bend your elbow to bring your palm over your head and return to the chest. Complete the same motion alternating with both hands 3 times.

À Benefit: This pose helps expand your Chi energy throughout the earth and to all people. You can feel the connection between you and nature.

5. Leading People Harmoniously

À Repeat the same motion as before with both hands at once, 3 times.

À Benefit: Through this pose, you can spread your Chi energy limitlessly and circulates Chi energy through your whole body. You will realize that you and the cosmos are one.

6. Creating a Brighter World

À Put your feet together and slightly bend your knees.

À Bring your hands in front of your Tan Tien with the palms downward in a closed position. Thumbs are placed over the belly button forming a triangle with your palms.

À As you inhale, spread your hands out to the sides with the palms up in an open position. When you place your palms back together, you exhale. When you open your hands, you release all stagnant energy from your body. When you close your hands, you receive good, fresh energy into your body. Repeat this motion 3 times.

À Focus on your hands, soles of your feet, and the top of head. Feel Chi energy flowing through your whole body.

7. Dragon Flying Up To Sky

À This pose represents a dragon flying up into the sky to get enlightened (Collecting Chi energy).

À Inhale while you pinch your first three fingers together, extending your arms out to the side with the elbow slightly bent. Then pass your hands behind your back and briefly touching your thumbs together. Continue to raise your hands up to your armpits and exhale. Gather the energy from your hands through Governor Meridian Channel along the spine to accumulate the Chi energy.

À Inhale and as you exhale release your hands and arms down to your sides. Look forward. Keep your shoulders and arms relaxed.

À Benefit: Through this pose, you maximize the capacity for the oxygen in your lungs while recharging the Chi energy.

8. Becoming One with Chi Energy

À Relax your arms, wrists, palms and shoulders. As you inhale raise your arms and palms up to your chest height. As you exhale let your arms flow down to your Tan Tien, your center. Repeat 3 times.

À Focus on your Tan Tien, your center and feel the Chi energy in your palms. You will feel the Chi energy fully as you learn to connect with your center.