Kay Hutchinson
CAMQ (Certified Advanced Medical Qi Gong Practitioner) Certified Acupressurist
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Integrating Qi Gong into Daily Life Expert
Kay Hutchinson Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Clinical qi gong and movement, acupressure, Chinese herbal medicine
- Career Focus
- Practitioner of Chinese medicine in private practice & qi gong instructor, energetic life coach, workshop presenter, publisher/author
- Affiliation
- NAMASTA, National Libraries of Medicine (consumer health advocate), Longevity Center
Trained at the Longevity Center in a 3 yrs residential program in San Jose, CA, Kay studied under the guidance of Dr. Arnold Tayam, founder of Longevity Center, head qi gong instructor for Stanford's Integrative Med. Dept and IVF program, Professor of Medical Qi Gong at Five Branches, and Dean of Infinichi Qi Gong Program at Yo San University.
She has a passion for the clinical applications of qi gong and combines qi emission skills with training in qi gong movement, acupressure (certified acupressurist trained at Acupressure Institute in Berkeley), psychotherapy (graduate level courses taken at Califo ia Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco), and Chinese herbal medicine (apprenticed with master herbalist John Fung).
She trained the 48 Chen Tai Chi form with Dr. Tayam, and continues her studies with Dr. Tayam training Master Hua Chi Ni's Cosmic Tour Bagua.
Kay is also a triple certified educator and publisher of "Health Prosperity" a blog that empowers people with strategies for achieving wellness with qi gong movements, self help acupressure, herbal medicine and Chinese energetic dietary tips.
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Beat the Heat with Qi Gong
Heat comes in many forms, not just the weather. It can represent struggle, inflammation and illness (particularly cancer). Visualize a large ice cube at the top of your head melting downward and washing away all tension, stress, pain and struggle as the coolness flows to your toes. Use this visualization every hour for one to three minutes today and notice what happens to your energy and perceptions. Often times, the conscious choice to shift our energetic states creates deeper states of peacefulness and acceptance in our lives.
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Let Go of Ego and Heal More Deeply
This week, I took my three-years-old niece to the Zilker Botanical gardens for some relaxing play amid koi ponds filled with guppies. We walked under bamboo groves, swaying in hot summer breezes and delighted at feeding turtles at Mozart’s cafe as river waves splashed onto the deck unexpectedly. Ahh! Summer bliss. The lack of self consciousness and the authenticity of just being, trusting and engaging life deeply, is amazing in young children.
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Ascend Your Energy By Breathing and Stepping Out of Comfort Zones
Blue mountain irises danced in the wind on summer days at my cozy cottage in the Santa Cruz mountains. What a treat each day to be greeted by their gentle beauty. Yet, here in the parched landscape of central Texas, beauty also unfolds each day in more subtle ways. A small cricket makes its way towards that elusive source of water, the collection pot holding the overflow of moisture from the air conditioner overflow valve. The cricket pauses and sings for a moment. That sound, almost imperceptible, is as soothing and sweet as the energy of the blue iris.
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Sitting in the Quiet Spaces of Life
Sometimes the waves of life come quickly and overwhelm, yet if you take a deep breath, it’s amazing what strength exists in the spaces between the rising wave and its crash upon the shore.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Sunset Meditation
Sunsets are a wonderful opportunity to linger over all the moments in your day for which you are grateful, and prepare to embrace the yinness (softness, darkness) of the night. If you usually exercise in the morning, try switching to the evening time to perform Chinese yoga (qi gong), tai chi or other forms of energy healing exercises. As you gaze upon the setting sun, inhale slowly and raise the arms slowly to the sides with palms up as you reach above the head to grab an imaginary ball of warm, sunset energy.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Clears Dampness and Stuck Energy
Chinese yoga or qi gong (pronounced chi kung), is a powerful way to release the dampness and heat that summer time brings. Dampness and heat are states that can lead to health issues such as excessive weight, chronic fatigue, aggravation of inflammatory conditions, depression, anxiety, and digestive challenges. What causes dampness and heat? Cold and iced beverages stagnates the energy of the spleen, creating dampness.
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Qi Gong (Chinese Yoga) Clears the Lymphatic System
Often times, the stress of life and exposure to toxins in the environment can stress our lymphatic system. In Chinese medicine, the lymphatic is most closely associated with the triple heaters or triple burners, which can be thought of as an irrigation system of energy that disperses qi to the inte al organs. When this irrigation system is clear and free flowing, disease does not exist. When the triple heaters are obstructed, we see challenges manifesting as swollen lymph glands, low energy, and low immunity.
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Discovering Your Soul Lessons
n many spiritual traditions, there is the belief that our souls have lessons to learn by living in this human form in the earth plane. The lessons that are specific to a soul are called curricula, and like curricula in a school, these lessons involve a series of theme based experiences that deepen growth, skills and the levels of refinement that one brings to this glorious dance of life. What is your soul’s curricula? How do you know what themes are present in your life as soul lessons?
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Co-Create Positive Experiences
What is your pattern of approaching new life experiences? Do you welcome them with open arms and a smile and embrace the support and love in your life? Or do you hesitate and look for obstacles and reasons for why something new will not work for you or hesitate to work with others to bring a new experience to a fruitful place? All of us have comfort zones, but researchers find that stretching past comfortable zones trains us to: 1. Trust more fully and develop deeper levels of faith in ourselves and others.
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One-Sided Love Relationships: How to Spot and Exit Them
You begin a process of dating and discover the wonders of another person. You find yourself excited and happy to take that risk to allow yourself to trust being vulnerable and open. You find yourself selflessly creating more and more space in your life for the person and doing more to demonstrate a growing admiration and love for this person.
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Organic Gardening Heals Profoundly and Encourages Using Food as Medicine
What do Chinese medicine and eco-friendly gardening have in common? Chinese medicine emphasizes the idea that our bodies are a microcosm of nature. Thus, when we embrace organic and sustainable gardening methods as a way of growing foods that can be used as medicine to balance the body, we reconnect profoundly with nature and empower ourselves with a way to improve both diet and health, by bringing balance to the natural flows of energy in our bodies.
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Disolve Denial and Awaken the Potential of an Authentic Life
Many of you are expressing that this start of the year of the snake has been a very important time for soul searching and experiencing breakthroughs of profound awakenings, and alongwith this comes recognizing the depth of resistant patterns that have been sabotaging your abilities to manifest your spiritual potentials in previous years.
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The abundance of wellness, peace and growth is available to every one of us at any moment if we only open our souls to the process of simply breathing and being.
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How to get started
Qi gong is the life long art of cultivating the inte al depth and harmony of the spirit. It is an art that is ever evolving just as we are ever evolving as individuals and as a species.
Everyone can begin the practice of qi gong with simple breathwork meditation. Please visit my website for free articles that give guidance. My blog archives can be found at http://www.aikihealing.com/
Contact me also for guidance if you live far from my studio and clinic. I provide focused long distance services to empower all people to begin a gentle practice of life-enhancing qi gong.
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I also offer wellness coaching in person and long distance via email. The experiences are customized to each individual to awaken your body, mind and spirit connection to achieve life goals.