What’s your element?

7:00pm 26 September 2025 - 4:30pm 28 September 2025

Cost: £63.00

Venue: Samye Ling

It is estimated there are over 3000 styles and variances of Qigong practiced worldwide.

Moreover, the common Qigong Forms practiced amount to 56 with approximately 75 early forms that can be found in Chinese Qigong literature that relates to Buddhist, Taoist and Confucianism practice as well as Martial Arts, Ethnic Styles and Medical Qigong.

The 5 Elements Qigong style are interlaced with Traditional Chinese Medicine and culture.

Over the weekend, we will be exploring and comparing 5 Element Qigong Forms and their effect on daily health maintenance with regular practice.

This course is suitable for beginners and advanced practitioners.

Bookings for this course (and guest accommodation) will open 1st July 2025. Please send an email to bookings@samyeling.org.

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The Buddhist principle is to be everybody's friend, not to have any enemy.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Meditation means simple acceptance.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Whenever we see something which could be done to bring benefit to others, no matter how small, we should do it.
Chamgon Khentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Hasten slowly, you will soon arrive.
Jetsun Milarepa
It doesn’t matter whatever comes, stop judging and it won’t bother you.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
Whatever obstacles arise, if you deal with them through kindness without trying to escape then you have real freedom.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
To tame ourselves is the only way we can change and improve the world.
Choje Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
Strive always to be as kind, gentle and caring as possible towards all forms of sentient life.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Every sentient being is equal to the Buddha.
Chamgon Kentin Tai Situ Rinpoche
Wherever and whenever we can, we should develop compassion at once.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche
Reminding ourselves of how others suffer and mentally putting ourselves in their place, will help awaken our compassion.
Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche