Winter Sangha Full Program | $300

Imagine living a daily life designed to create more balance and harmony in your routine while still fulfilling your daily obligations and priorities.  Giving up self-care for checking off the details of your life and selflessly taking care of others is only leading you down a path of depletion.  It’s not necessary to replace one with the other.  Winter Sangha was created to provide you with the tools necessary to find ease and support while moving through your everyday life.  Real growth doesn’t happen by simply listening and absorbing – it’s the result of engaging, participating, and actually doing the work.  Jumpstart your journey towards whole health to empower your personal and collective well-being through immersive practices and the wisdom of East Asian traditions for modern life. 

The purpose of Winter Sangha is to bring together an intimate group of people who have the desire to live a healthful life guided by the wisdom of East Asian medicine and movement practices. Winter Sangha includes 6 weeks of supportive, knowledgeable, and intentional work towards finding harmony and balance in the season. The Winter Sangha will be limited to only 8 participants in order to create a beneficial experience for all who participate in the sangha.

The Full Program includes…

• 6 weeks of movement classes, including qi gong, yoga, and xing yi gong fu,

• 5 Cha Dao Tea Sessions (The Art of Drinking Tea and Conversation), and

• 2 Living with the Seasons Workshops.

• Sangha members can also add on acupuncture treatments with Dave Martin at a special sangha member rate.

In Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine, winter is the season for inward reflection; a time to replenish one's mind, body and spirit.  The winter season is related to the Water element, and just as water is tranquil and quiet, nature during the winter season is calm, peaceful and at rest. This resting time allows nature to work internally, storing energy and preparing for spring. Winter is also the ideal time for refining routines and practices toward, not only self-care, but essentially, self-love.  The Winter Sangha is designed to give you the support to rejuvenate and find complete balance aligned with the season. 

While participating in the full program is ideal, you can also choose individual portions of the six week program to attend…

MOVEMENT CLASSES | $120 for all classes

Drop In $15/class

Qi Gong | Fridays, 1/21 & 3/4 8:00 - 9:00am

Qi gong is a form of moving meditation.  The Jing Luo Qi Gong method uses breath, intention, movement, and massage to open and reinforce the channel system of the practitioner thus keeping a healthy balance between mind and emotion, qi and strength. This specific form encourages body awareness, and promotes a wonderful sense of emotional balance.  Regular practice strengthens the tendons, bones and skin, regulates the functioning of the brain, circulatory system and digestive systems, and allows the cells of the entire body to remain in coordination.

Yoga | Mondays, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/21, 2/28, &3/7 6:00 - 7:15pm

Our Five Element Yoga and Yin Yoga practice is an infusion of Qi Gong and Yoga, integrating the influences of Hatha Yoga with Chinese Daoist practices and Western science to create vitality in the body.  Re-integrate yourself back into the natural world to understand your relationship with the seasons, your emotions, your health, and ultimately with yourself. In Yin Yoga we don’t use the body to get into the pose, we use the pose to get into the body.  With its emphasis on long-held, passive stresses of the deeper connective tissues, Yin Yoga mobilizes and strengthens our joints, ligaments and deep fascial networks.  Yin is yielding, allowing, and nourishing.  This intimate practice of yoga requires you to get ready to be intimate with the self, with feelings, sensations, and emotions.  This yoga practice is designed to nourish the mind, body, and spirit while also empowering you to harmonize health naturally through movement and breath.

Xing Yi Gong Fu | Wednesdays, 2/2 & 2/23 6:00 - 8:00pm

Xing Yi is a traditional internal martial arts style from China. This art form emphasizes the development of relaxed power by training proper body alignment and strengthening the connections between muscle, tendon, and bone. We focus on long, slow movements that lead us to excellent, precise motor control and coordination with an emphasis on connecting breath with movement. Based on the theory of the Five Elements (Wu Xing), Xing Yi offers excellent health benefits and the ability to be martially effective.

To register for individual classes, visit the Studio Classes page.

CHA DAO TEA SESSIONS | $100 for all sessions

Drop In $25/session

The Cha Dao Tea Ceremony is designed to connect humans to ancestral wisdom and their traditions.  Tea ceremonies have been used to bond communities, celebrate seasonal changes and cultures, and to connect more deeply with oneself.  Each session will include the art of drinking tea and conversation around the wisdom of ancient East Asian traditions.

• January 20: Season of Winter | An East Asian Perspective 

• January 27: Yin & Yang and the Five Elements

• February 3: Understanding Your Unique Constitution

• February 17: Introduction to Dinacharya (Daily Routine) 

• March 3: The Energetic Body

To register for an individual Cha Dao Tea Session, visit the Events & Workshops page.

LIVING WITH THE SEASONS | $80 for all workshops

Drop In $45/workshop, advanced registration required

Learning to live with the seasons is experiential and takes patience and practice. The key is to cultivate a daily practice little by little every day by what we eat, how we move, practice, think and speak. Over time this naturally results in the moving towards a life of more balance, peace, purity and clarity. These workshops are designed with a hands on approach to lead you on that journey. Each workshop focuses on cultivating a lifestyle aligned with the current season. Advanced registration is required for these workshops to assure materials are available for all participants.

• January 30: Ayurvedic Nutrition for the Winter Season | Register by January 27

• February 20: Boost Immunity for the Winter Season with Classical Chinese Medicine Formulas | Register by February 17

TREATMENT | $100 per session if registering for the Winter Sangha

Medicine and healing are ultimately about deeply understanding ourselves. We believe that “self” includes aspects of time, space, and direction. For those true seekers who are dedicated to the long, difficult journey of self-awareness, we are here to help you along the way.

At Trinity Natural Medicine, we focus on principles of health and wellness that come from the early Daoist teachings of Han dynasty China, (200 BCE to 200 ACE), and the traditional medicine of India, Ayurveda. Your treatment may include modalities such as: herbal medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion therapy, Chinese medical massage, cupping, Qi gong exercises, diet and lifestyle counseling.

Treatments will be scheduled with Dave Martin.