Healing Season: Sacred Bodies, Sacred Lands

Event Overview

You’re warmly invited to join this 8-week deep dive into the practical wisdom of Classical Chinese Medicine and deep ecology. This full journey around the Spiral of the Work that Reconnects is also a path of body-love, Earth-connection, greater health and pleasure in being alive, and clearer, strengthened purpose.

We learn about and actively care for:

• the Five Elements (or five phases) and how they express in your body and your mind,
• the relationship between emotional and physical health,
• and the connections between personal and collective well-being,

We won’t just be learning “about” these things through words – we do practices that clear blockage, support our health, and liberate more energy and clarity in our response to the needs around us.

Healing Season: Sacred Bodies, Sacred Lands includes:

• 7 live calls over 8 weeks, for practicing qigong, doing the Work that Reconnects, and Q&A
• recorded teachings (no time limit on access after the course concludes)
• unlimited attendance at online qigong classes and Work that Reconnects circles with Leilani during Healing Season and the following month
• bonus: free access to one self-acupressure course of your choice

Live calls will take place in two cohorts:

• Wednesdays, 10am-11:30am Pacific Time (September 23 – November 11)
• Saturdays, 11am-12:30pm Pacific Time (September 26 – November 14)

Registration is open now, and closes on September 29.

You can register for one payment of U.S.$360, or two payments of U.S.$180.

Click here for all the details and to sign up.

You’ll be immersed in the wisdom of Classical Chinese Medicine, which teaches us that a major cause of disease is imbalances in how we relate to our emotions. With practices and tools to tend to our emotional lives, our foundation for wellness is broad and strong.

You’ll learn

• to understand yourself through the Five Phases (five elements): their physical and emotional aspects, how they relate to each other, and how to balance each one in yourself
• qigong practices to clear stagnation, build qi, and harmonize the body

You’ll experience community practices from the Work that Reconnects. Originally developed by Joanna Macy, this work help us meet these times with more aliveness, resilience, creativity, and courage. This supports both

• personal health, by unblocking the stagnation caused by emotional stress and “stuffing our emotions down”
• and social/ecological health, by unblocking our authentic emotional responses to what’s happening in the world. This allows those natural responses to guide us forth into service and changemaking

We’ll experience physical health as inseparable from emotional health, and personal well-being as inseparable from community/ecosystem well-being.

This is for you if…

you feel like you’re out of balance, and it’s time to experience greater health, joy, steadiness and purpose

your pain for the world can get overwhelming

you know your emotions are a key to your well-being, and you want to connect with ancient wisdom about these energetics

you’d love to understand traditional Chinese Medicine more deeply and learn the healing practice of qigong

you’d like to understand your own unique balance, and what contribution to the world fits your nature

you’re ready to connect more deeply with the living Earth, and with other people ready for that too

You have a brilliant, emergent, healing intelligence inside you.

What past participants have said:

“Healing Season has been foundational. It was a beautiful experience to notice the elements within and surrounding me, and how to tune into them in my life. I am experiencing my emotions with more kindness, and a balancing approach to tend to them as they happen. My feelings of the world are still crushing (it is catastrophic out there), yet this work in myself reminds me I am here, and the paths I cross are important, and that is all that’s up to me. To best meet those intersections of myself and community, I have to be willing to be tender with myself.”

– Ariselli G.

“Since Healing Season, I feel less fragmented: physically, mentally, and emotionally. Here, I found curiosity, ways to greet my pain, and inspiration to move forward with vision. I will continue to reap the benefits and enjoy the content for a long time to come. If you’re looking for connection to yourself, others, and the natural world – this course is for you. I highly recommend Healing Season.”

– Erika W., Student, Utah

“Healing Season has been vitally nourishing. I have found purpose and power in allowing grief into my being, and letting joy out of my being, into the world around me. I have been in relationship with many different healing modalities and medical systems. Leilani and this course stand out as uniquely capable of weaving together so many threads, organs, ecosystems, seasons, thought processes, elements of attention, in a way that is digestible to each individual. Additionally, it is a gift to be able to invite, hold, and care for community in just a few short weeks. While Leilani “presents information” about the Work that Reconnects, she also is actively “doing the work that reconnects” in the manner that she creates and offers this community course.”

– Gretchen G., Rites of Passage Guide, Montana

“I’m now having an easier time feeling my emotions in my body, and I’m more inspired than ever to allow them to move through me (when in the past I’ve habitually stifled “negative” emotions). Particularly if you are someone who is a ‘people pleaser,’ or has learned to suppress any type of emotion (whether as a means of survival or learned culture), this course is a must! Healing Season helps you to see and understand the connection between emotional and physical health in a way that is so critical to real healing. The course also provides real, practical tools to start a journey towards a more fulfilling, balanced, healthy life.”

– Anonymous

“Healing Season has been a huge gift. It’s given me a lens to see myself, my life, my body that’s more than just accepting of it all, but honoring, welcoming and enjoying the full range of life, of being an emotional, physical, and spiritual being. I have found myself more able to welcome my feelings because I am not afraid that they will stay forever. The interconnectedness of the elements makes me feel more appreciative of how each emotion is necessary to feed life and be in an ever-changing balance. Thank you, Leilani, for your leadership, and wisdom. Thank you for creating this space that we all get to be in.”

– Gwenn R., Physician, Connecticut

“A lot has shifted in my awareness around the presence of the elements within my body. I am often identifying my emotions, making the connection as to which element is actually needing my attention. Also, the qigong has been huge for me. Practicing qigong from start to finish or just for a particular element as needed really helps to move any stagnant energy. I am looking forward to going back through Healing Season library to deepen my understanding.”

– Haylee A., Hospitality Small Business Owner, Utah

Click here for all the details and to sign up.