Margaret Beyer, a Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares her story of service:

Spiritual Midwifery for the Dying

In August 2011, I began my study of Spiritual Midwifery for the Dying with Connee Louise Pike, founder of The Mandorla Project, www.themandorlaproject.org/

Focused not only on the transition of dying, but also on the process that unfolds from the time a life threatening diagnosis is rendered, Connee's teaching has provided me with an understanding of a spiritual, or consciousness view of the dying process.

This beautiful, sacred teaching led to my completing hospice training in May 2012. This past summer, I began my volunteer work providing energy healing sessions to hospice patients.

Currently, I continue my hospice training with a class for providing vigil during the last days/hours of life. It has been an incredible honor to be allowed to share La Chi and Reiki with people at this most important time of their lives.

Margaret Beyer

Margaret Beyer, Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares her story of service:

Spiritual Midwifery for the Dying

In August 2011, I began my study of Spiritual Midwifery for the Dying with Connee Louise Pike, founder of The Mandorla Project, www.themandorlaproject.org/

Focused not only on the transition of dying, but also on the process that unfolds from the time a life threatening diagnosis is rendered, Connee's teaching has provided me with an understanding of a spiritual, or consciousness view of the dying process.

This beautiful, sacred teaching led to my completing hospice training in May 2012. This past summer, I began my volunteer work providing energy healing sessions to hospice patients.

Currently, I continue my hospice training with a class for providing vigil during the last days/hours of life. It has been an incredible honor to be allowed to share La Chi and Reiki with people at this most important time of their lives. 

Margaret Beyer

Sherry Remez, a Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor,who resides in Maui, Hawaii shares her story of service for Japan:

My volunteer humanitarian aid service is focused in supporting the areas of Japan affected by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

I am now offering Wisdom Healing Qigong classes and Chi Healings in Japan.

I wish to direct you to my new website.The first entries will be devoted to this campaign of service. www.journeyinsidejapan.com/

 Photos of precious friends from the disaster zone who came to Maui July 2011 through the Aloha Initiative. www.alohainitiative.com

Sherry Remez, a Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, who resides in Maui, Hawaii shares her story of service for Japan:

My volunteer humanitarian aid service is focused in supporting the areas of Japan affected by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

I am now offering Wisdom Healing Qigong classes and Chi Healings in Japan.

I wish to direct you to my new website.The first entries will be devoted to this campaign of service. www.journeyinsidejapan.com/ 

Photos of precious friends from the disaster zone who came to Maui July 2011 through the Aloha Initiative. www.alohainitiative.com

Kuniyoshi (L.) is arranging for the teaching/healing venues in Fukushima Prefecture.

This is Mitsukoh (R), and her son, Tom (L), who is affected by William's Syndrome. I've taught Tom a simplified qigong technique for centering in the dantien and visualizing the release of pain, which he continues to practice every day.

 For more information about Sherry Remez and Healing With Chi, please go to: www.healingwithchi.com/

Judy "Jude" Henning

Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor

Volunteering at Food For Thought, Sonoma County, CA.

The Food For Thought (FFT) food bank provides free weekly bags of groceries, fresh produce, and vitamins to over 650 men, women and children living with disabling HIV/AIDS in Sonoma County. Last year the food bank provided over 300,000 meals to clients. For many, the weekly portion of groceries is their main supply of food. I have been one of 625 active volunteers at FFT for the past nine years. Volunteers at FFT provide 24,000 hours of service each year, the equivalent of 12 full time employees.

Judy "Hey Jude" Henning, Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor 

Volunteering at Food For Thought, Sonoma County, CA.

 
The Food For Thought (FFT) food bank provides free weekly bags of groceries, fresh produce, and vitamins to over 650 men, women and children living with disabling HIV/AIDS in Sonoma County. Last year the food bank provided over 300,000 meals to clients. For many, the weekly portion of groceries is their main supply of food. I have been one of 625 active volunteers at FFT for the past nine years. Volunteers at FFT provide 24,000 hours of service each year, the equivalent of 12 full time employees.

My hours are spent in the beautiful organic garden where a handful of volunteers, and one head gardener grow delicious vegetables, fruit, culinary, and medicinal herbs, flowers, and maintain a memorial area. Last year we grew produce amounting to $11,000.

This food is lovingly grown by the volunteers with a shared intention -- to provide nutritious food that is vital to health and healing. We are a family of fun-loving, food-loving and hard-working gardeners. All of us love our work at Food For Thought, working hard together, and making a contribution to our community.

Tsitsi Mutseta, Founder. Compassion for African Villages.

Team Tsitsi-Feed An Angel-Save A Village

My name is Tsitsi Mutseta. My homeland is Zimbabwe, and the name of my village is Rundogo. My family and people are suffering with epidemic proportions of HIV AIDS, which has decimated my community. From 150 graduates of my high school, only 3 are alive today. I have also lost 2 of my sisters, and 2 of my brothers, to AIDS.

Since 2005, I have been financially and emotionally supporting: 350 children, 200 are orphans, and 8 school teachers. Even though the school is in disrepair, the kids love it and keep on going. I have been providing the children with uniforms, school supplies, while paying 8 teacher’s salaries.

Team Tsitsi Update: As of October 2012, Tsitsi continues her weekly chemo treatments, and her work for the children of Rundongo. Her greatest joy is to be in her garden in San Diego.

Tsitsi is in great need of financial support. She crochets hats to make extra money, although it does not cover her rent and other basic bills. 

Can You Help?

Make your check payable to Tsitsi Mutseta and send to: Team Tsitsi, PO Box 385, Pinole, CA 94564

Tsitsi Mutseta, Founder. Compassion for African Villages.

Team Tsitsi-Feed An Angel-Save A Village

My name is Tsitsi Mutseta. My homeland is Zimbabwe, and the name of my village is Rundogo. My family and people are suffering with epidemic proportions of HIV AIDS, which has decimated my community. From 150 graduates of my high school, only 3 are alive today. I have also lost 2 of my sisters and 2 of my brothers, to AIDS.

Since 2005, I have been financially and emotionally supporting: 350 children, 200 whom are orphans, and 8 school teachers. Even though the school is in disrepair, the kids love it and keep coming to class. I have been providing the children with uniforms, school supplies, and paying the teachers' salaries.

While studying to become a nurse in San Diego, California, I was diagnosed with cancer. It was my commitment to graduate, and to return to Rundogo to help my people. Here in San Diego, I created a community garden to raise awareness and money for Rundogo. Michelle Obama heard about my work and visited me in San Diego in 2010, which was a great honor for me and my people.

For quite some time, I have not been able to attend school or work. I worry about raising money for the village, and how I will pay my own bills while I’m having treatment for cancer. It is difficult to concentrate on healing when I don’t know how I will manage and knowing my people back In Africa are in such desperate need.

For the last 3 years, there have been many angels in my life and with their loving and financial help, I have managed to survive. The Wisdom Healing Foundation has been incredible with support, and a beloved angel – Gina. Although Gina has passed on, I wish to continuously express my gratitude to Gina and her community, who have raised money, sent personal donations, and bought hats that I made. It’s amazing, all that they have done on my behalf. There is another wonderful angel who funds me to go to the Cancer Care Clinic in San Diego. Thanks and gratitude to all - Tsitsi Mutseta

Team Tsitsi Update: As of October 2012, Tsitsi continues her weekly chemo treatments, and her work for the children of Rundongo. Her greatest joy is to be in her garden in San Diego.

Tsitsi is in great need of financial support. She crochets hats to make extra money, although it does not cover her rent and other basic bills. Finances are a heavy stress. 

Can You Help?

Cherie Lippard, Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares: 

In 2006, I helped my friend Cathryn Couch create the Ceres Community Project. This is a miraculous non-profit that touches the lives of so many in our community in countless ways. This is our mission: We build healthy communities by restoring fresh, whole and organic food to its place as the foundation of health, and by connecting people in heart-centered ways to themselves, others and the earth.

 The ripple effect of this organization has changed the lives of thousands of people and given hope and inspiration to so many, whether they are the teens involved, the volunteers, the staff or our clients and their families. We began with serving four families, and are now reaching out to 40 - 60 families per week, having delivered over 110,000 meals.

Cherie Lippard, Certified Level One Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares: 

In 2006, I helped my friend Cathryn Couch create the Ceres Community Project. This is a miraculous non-profit that touches the lives of so many in our community in countless ways. This is our mission: We build healthy communities by restoring fresh, whole and organic food to its place as the foundation of health, and by connecting people in heart-centered ways to themselves, others and the earth.

We gather teens in the kitchen, teaching them how to prepare nutritious, organic meals. In the kitchen, they learn life-long skills, and can also get involved with the teen leadership program. These meals are then delivered to families where one member is suffering from a life threatening illness.

The gratitude we receive from our clients is tremendous. The benefits expressed, start by encompassing the physical, extending this great healing to their hearts as they feel the support of their community through the energy of the food. The invaluable benefits are also deeply received by all of our volunteers, through their tender connections woven throughout the community, no matter what service they are called to hold.

We work with local farmers, markets and businesses, and now have our own garden, which provides some of our produce, and offers another opportunity for volunteering in a meaningful way. Our program also includes education through nutrition classes, and lectures on health related topics.

The ripple effect of this organization has changed the lives of thousands of people and given hope and inspiration to so many, whether they are the teens involved, the volunteers, the staff or our clients and their families. We began with serving four families, and are now reaching out to 40 - 60 families per week, having delivered over 110,000 meals.

I was inspired to share my qigong practice during our board meetings, which then blossomed into offering the healing practice at our monthly nutrition classes. When I was asked to continue on a regular basis, I then committed to the teacher training program with Master Mingtong Gu in 2010.

I also offer classes in downtown Sebastopol where all are welcome. Since the Ceres Project is largely working with the cancer community, I have also led qigong practice at cancer awareness gatherings where I share my own healing path with hope of planting seeds in the hearts of those on their healing journeys.

It has always been amazing to me where this precious practice leads me both in the outer world and inner world. This work has been profoundly healing to me on all levels and my sense of community and the interdependence of all, continues to grow and reveal its magic.

Judy Guma Tretheway, Certified Level 2 Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares:

I have been teaching Qigong inside Folsom Prison since 1998, and it has been a great opportunity to learn and serve. In relationship with the men inside, who seek to find internal freedom, and with the institution itself, which holographically amplifies all the chi blockages of our society, I have accumulated so much of my Qigong perspective on life…

…The language of “Open your heart” is not easily received in the prison situation. For the men to be open means, for them, to be vulnerable in the most dangerous sense. The men seldom share emotionally, some-for lack of skill, most-for the danger that comes when others have some perceived advantage over you. Through the Qigong practice, some are able to take the steps needed to live inside prison with an open heart. How do they get there?

The process begins as they cultivate an awareness of who they are as energetic, spiritual beings who can withstand all that is thrown at them and heal from all the past wounding. They find this sense of internal alignment physically first, then energetically, emotionally and spiritually.

Judy Guma Tretheway, Certified Level Two Wisdom Healing Qigong Instructor, shares: 

Can prisons bring forth healed and peaceful people? Could we in the Qigong community join together to visualize a repurposed prison system based on healing?

I have been teaching Qigong inside Folsom Prison since 1998, and it has been a great opportunity to learn and serve. In relationship with the men inside, who seek to find internal freedom, and with the institution itself, which holographically amplifies all the chi blockages of our society, I have accumulated so much of my Qigong perspective on life.

My journey began as a very new teacher, a malleable woman, and a young spiritual seeker. Slowly I have evolved into a mature teacher, a woman who can work easily in a room filled with strong men, and with a sense of integrated awareness that resounds with Haola!

The language of “Open your heart” is not easily received in the prison situation. For the men to be open means, for them, to be vulnerable in the most dangerous sense. The men seldom share emotionally, some-for lack of skill, most-for the danger that comes when others have some perceived advantage over you. Through the Qigong practice, some are able to take the steps needed to live inside prison with an open heart. How do they get there?

The process begins as they cultivate an awareness of who they are as energetic, spiritual beings that can withstand all that is thrown at them and heal from all the past wounding. They find this sense of internal alignment physically first, then energetically, emotionally and spiritually.

Cultivating this core capacity is my primary focus. Once the men have the tools and the experiences of deep integration, freedom and infinite potential from the class cultivation, they are able to walk differently through their own lives and engage with those around them from an entirely new perspective. They find a way to be open and engaged in the manner most appropriate for a prison culture.

Another deep emphasis of mine has been to “Open the Heart” of the prison system. To see and the blocked chi of the prison culture and apply all the teachings we embrace in individual healing has been perhaps the biggest challenge and gift of this ministry. Healing is an inside job. To heal we must integrate the pure source energy deep into the purpose manifesting in each cell. As one of very few who have witnessed the energy at the cell level of the prison, I feel it is part of my commission here this lifetime to apply all that I learn about visualization and healing to this institution.

Can you join me in visualizing prisons whose purpose is to bring forth healed and peaceful people?

Here are some links into a blog that I wrote during the most formative years of my teaching inside:

Relating to cultivating the chi field (qifield): http://chifully.blogspirit.com/qi-field_writings/

Testimonials of the men about class: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/testimonials/

Personal growth as a teacher: http://chifully.blogspirit.com/journal_-_my_journey/