The Qigong Connection is a consortium of individuals who gather as a community to support, teach and share ideas with each other. Although the teachings of Master Chunyi Lin, founder of Spring Forest Qigong, are the foundational underpinnings upon which our techniques and practices are based, we also wish to include the study of other approaches to transforming energy promoting physical, mental and spiritual healing. Anyone interested in practices of energy work, for themselves or others, is welcome to join us. We gather on a monthly basis at the Carondolet Center on the campus of St Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Meetings are held Saturday mornings from 9 to 12 and include speakers, active and sitting meditations, individual and group healings, and a short business meeting. For more information or to get on the email list please write to susanallynqigong@gmail.com
May 19, 2012 - featuring: Joanna Hill
Our May 19, 2012 program is entitled: Our Sacred Journey; Answering the Call of 2012. It is presented by Joanna Hill, a practitioner of Harmonyum Healing and Soul Mentoring, helping individuals open themselves to the greater Universal Love and Wisdom and open their intuition to bring healing and authentic answers from the greater levels of consciousness.
Joanna Hill is a Native American, an enrolled member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwa and a Pipe Carrier. Her journey has included study of Christian traditions, Buddhism, the Kabbalah, and Native American spiritual traditions. She has studied Tibetan Buddhism and received the White Tara Initiation, the Medicine Buddha practice and initiation, and, in 1999, the Avalokiteshvara Initiation from the Dalia Lama.
In her mid twenties, Joanna experienced the Kundalini Awakening. She says:
“The whole experience of the Kundalini Awakening speeded up everything inside of me, greatly purged me, and during this time I had to integrate everything I knew and was taught, and apply it on an entirely new level and meet the challenges that came out of this process. The greatest gift of this experience was to receive and be in direct proximity to my Master Teachers.”
In the following years Joanna studied Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan including his teachings on Conscious Pregnancy; Women’s teachings from Tarn Taran Kaur Khalsa; Springforest Qigong Levels 1 & 2 from Master Chunyi Lin and Master Jim Nance; and Harmonyum Healing, a system of energetic healing that comes from the Universal Kabbalah, Levels 1, 2, & 3 with Joseph Michael Levry. She studied the Art of Soul Listening and Soul Mentoring with Siri Gian Kaur Khalsa. Joanna draws upon and incorporates the Universal Wisdom of these traditions in her healing practice.
Joanna is available for Harmonyum Healing, Soul Mentoring, and she can help co-create ceremonies to honor sacred passages and transitions on a case by case basis.
Joanna can be reached at 612-723-7147 or via e-mail at: redwillowhealingarts@gmail.com.