Winter Soltice Qigong

Description

This is the final series in the Ride the Fire Horse year-long Qigong program— designed to work with the transformative energy of 2026 so you can complete the year with greater clarity, balance, and purpose. Working with a personal intention as our anchor, each series harmonizes your Vitality, Emotional, and Wisdom energetic centers — the foundation for stamina, adaptability, and wise decision-making — while adding practices tied to the mini-seasons of the Chinese calendar, each associated with specific vertebrae of the spine. Winter Solstice marks the peak of Yin — the still point of the year, and the moment when Yang begins its return. This is Water season, associated with wisdom, the Kidneys — which govern our vitality — the Urinary Bladder, and the Reproductive system. Water energy carries the depth of what has been lived and the seed of what is about to begin. At the Solstice, the cycle completes — this is the season of new birth. In this period, we'll work on C2, C1 & L5 — moving from the top of the spine to its root, mirroring the seasonal transition itself: completion above, new beginning below. The three dates are selected using Ze Ri (Chinese Date Selection), aligning the energy of each session with the specific work we do in it. Replays will be shared within a couple of hours, so you can still do the practice in the following few days, when the energy continues to be supportive for this work. December 15 — Settle into stillness — completing what the year has asked of you and releasing the last of what no longer needs to be carried, as the Solstice approaches · C2 December 21 — Rest at the still point — honoring the depth of what has been lived and opening to the seed of new intention as Yang begins its quiet return · C1 January 5 — Root the embryonic intention — grounding what stirred at the Solstice into the body and beginning to give it shape, as the Fire Horse is in its final weeks and the first threads of a new cycle are gathered toward Spring · L5 A worksheet will be provided to support your year-end reflection — reviewing how the year has unfolded, what worked, what didn't, and beginning to shape the seed of a new intention. Each class stands on its own; together, the series supports completing your Fire Horse year with intention — integrating what has been lived, honoring what has grown, and planting the seed that will carry you forward into the new cycle.