How can we help our hearts feel more attuned to life’s rhythms and resonate more fully with our experiences? How can the song of our heart shine brightly, even when internal or external energies become chaotic, draining, or challenging? These questions lie at the heart of Daoist and Buddhist practice—and they form the foundation of this 4-week course.
Join meditation, qigong, and internal martial arts teacher Mimi Kuo-Deemer for a month-long journey into nurturing and liberating the song of your heart. Guided by Mimi, we will explore the heart and its three allies in Chinese medicine and qigong: the small intestine, pericardium (heart protector), and triple heater.
Each week, we will focus on one of the four organ and meridian systems associated with the Fire element and its corresponding season, summer. Through insightful discussions, guided meditations, contemplative practices, and Fire-themed qigong, Mimi will help you cultivate a heart that meets life’s complexities with greater ease, openness, and resilience.
Together, we will harmonise the heart’s song, strengthening its capacity for insight, wisdom, and compassion—allowing it to sing freely and fully in the world.
Registration opens in April! Please check back.
Dates: Sundays, May 25 – June 15
90 minutes
5:00 - 6:30pm UK time
Join meditation, qigong, and internal martial arts teacher Mimi Kuo-Deemer for a month-long journey into nurturing and liberating the song of your heart. Guided by Mimi, we will explore the heart and its three allies in Chinese medicine and qigong: the small intestine, pericardium (heart protector), and triple heater.
Each week, we will focus on one of the four organ and meridian systems associated with the Fire element and its corresponding season, summer. Through insightful discussions, guided meditations, contemplative practices, and Fire-themed qigong, Mimi will help you cultivate a heart that meets life’s complexities with greater ease, openness, and resilience.
Together, we will harmonise the heart’s song, strengthening its capacity for insight, wisdom, and compassion—allowing it to sing freely and fully in the world.
Registration opens in April! Please check back.
Dates: Sundays, May 25 – June 15
90 minutes
5:00 - 6:30pm UK time
In this course you'll learn:
- Practical Tools for Heart-Centred Well-Being: Learn how to use meditation and qigong to nourish and support the heart, especially during times of anxiety, hurt, or emotional turbulence.
- Deepened Understanding of the Heart’s Allies: Gain insight into what supports or challenges the heart’s companion systems—the Small Intestine, Pericardium, and Triple Heater—and how to care for them.
- Fire and Summer Qigong Practices: Discover a series of qigong sequences designed to care for, protect, and regulate your physical, mental, emotional, and energetic well-being, aligning with the Fire element and summer season.
Detailed module descriptions:
Module 1: A Calm and Tranquil Heart
In Chinese medicine, the heart thrives in a state of calm and tranquility. Yet, for many of us, modern life often feels anything but serene, leaving us navigating our days with mounting stress and anxiety.
This first module explores how to support the heart’s innate desire for steady peace. We’ll delve into practices that help rebalance and nourish the heart’s energy when it feels dysregulated or disturbed. Through discussion, Heart-themed qigong practices, and time for reflection, we’ll begin to cultivate a deeper connection to this central organ of Fire.
Module 2: Clear and Pure: Sorting Out Your Small Intestine
When clear judgment feels elusive, or your heart feels muddled and indecisive, Chinese medicine and qigong point to the small intestine as a key player. This organ helps the heart discern what is pure and impure—whether in food, thoughts, or experiences. When this function weakens, the heart becomes overwhelmed by non-essential “junk,” clouding its clarity and vitality.
In this module, we’ll explore practices to strengthen the small intestine, supporting the heart in its role as a wise and loving ruler. Together, we’ll cultivate clarity and insight, allowing the heart to govern with confidence and compassion.
Module 3: Shielded and Safe: Reinforcing Your Heart Protector
In Chinese medicine and qigong, nervousness, anxiety, and fear arise not from direct blows to the heart, but from a weakened heart protector, or pericardium. A strong pericardium shields the heart, allowing it to remain open and resilient even in the face of life’s challenges.
This week, we’ll focus on qigong and contemplative practices to nourish and fortify the heart protector. By strengthening this vital shield, we’ll help the heart’s song resonate with courage and compassion, even in a world filled with fear.
Module 4: Regulating and Relating: Tending to Your Triple Heater
In our final week, we’ll explore the Triple Heater, the most mysterious of the Fire element’s functions. Though it has no physical form, the Triple Heater plays a crucial role in regulating both internal and external relationships. Internally, it harmonizes interactions between organs; externally, it governs how we connect—or disconnect—with others.
Through qigong practices and contemplative insights, we’ll tend to the Triple Heater, fostering balance and harmony within and around us. Mimi will also share how these practices can help our heart’s song remain steady and resonant, even during turbulent times.
Open to all levels, including beginners. Options for seated practices will be shared.
Booking opens in April via Sangha Live. Please check back!
In Chinese medicine, the heart thrives in a state of calm and tranquility. Yet, for many of us, modern life often feels anything but serene, leaving us navigating our days with mounting stress and anxiety.
This first module explores how to support the heart’s innate desire for steady peace. We’ll delve into practices that help rebalance and nourish the heart’s energy when it feels dysregulated or disturbed. Through discussion, Heart-themed qigong practices, and time for reflection, we’ll begin to cultivate a deeper connection to this central organ of Fire.
Module 2: Clear and Pure: Sorting Out Your Small Intestine
When clear judgment feels elusive, or your heart feels muddled and indecisive, Chinese medicine and qigong point to the small intestine as a key player. This organ helps the heart discern what is pure and impure—whether in food, thoughts, or experiences. When this function weakens, the heart becomes overwhelmed by non-essential “junk,” clouding its clarity and vitality.
In this module, we’ll explore practices to strengthen the small intestine, supporting the heart in its role as a wise and loving ruler. Together, we’ll cultivate clarity and insight, allowing the heart to govern with confidence and compassion.
Module 3: Shielded and Safe: Reinforcing Your Heart Protector
In Chinese medicine and qigong, nervousness, anxiety, and fear arise not from direct blows to the heart, but from a weakened heart protector, or pericardium. A strong pericardium shields the heart, allowing it to remain open and resilient even in the face of life’s challenges.
This week, we’ll focus on qigong and contemplative practices to nourish and fortify the heart protector. By strengthening this vital shield, we’ll help the heart’s song resonate with courage and compassion, even in a world filled with fear.
Module 4: Regulating and Relating: Tending to Your Triple Heater
In our final week, we’ll explore the Triple Heater, the most mysterious of the Fire element’s functions. Though it has no physical form, the Triple Heater plays a crucial role in regulating both internal and external relationships. Internally, it harmonizes interactions between organs; externally, it governs how we connect—or disconnect—with others.
Through qigong practices and contemplative insights, we’ll tend to the Triple Heater, fostering balance and harmony within and around us. Mimi will also share how these practices can help our heart’s song remain steady and resonant, even during turbulent times.
Open to all levels, including beginners. Options for seated practices will be shared.
Booking opens in April via Sangha Live. Please check back!