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Our practices consist of different activities, from systems of movement to meditation, scientific art forms designed to work harmoniously our 3 centers:

Physical (body)

Emotional (spirit)

Intellectual (mind)

and enhace time spent cultivating your level of awareness.

 

                                                                                    Tai Chi  

Tai Chi is a series of meditative, self-healing movements based on Chinese teachings over 6,000 years old, consisting of intricate exercise sequences which are performed in a slow relaxed manner.  Tai Chi literally translates in to Supreme Ultimate Force.  Tai Chi is one of the most broadly used systems of self-care in the world.  In China, it is estimated that 200 million people practice Tai Chi everyday.  Tai Chi combines dance-like movements, meditation, mental concentration and breath regulation to enhance the flow of vital force (chi) that animates the body.  Chi circulates in patterns that are closely related to the nervous and vascular system.  When executing Tai Chi movements, a focus is placed upon directing the chi or life force energy through the body, mind and spirit.  The slow, rhythmic movements are very effective in returning the skeletal structure, muscles and organs to their natural alignment, as well as helping with coordination and balance, improving blood circulation, strengthening the immune system, relieving stress and promoting overall well-being.  

                                                                         Birkram Yoga

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Bikram Yoga is named after its founder - Bikram Choudhury and consists of 26 poses that are performed in a heated room.  Each Yoga Pose is usually performed twice and held for a certain period of time.  Yoga Sessions start from Standing Postures, then the Backbends, Forward Bends, and Twists.  The poses are accompanied by Kapalabhati Breath or the "breath of fire".  Heat is used in Bikram Yoga in order to allow you to go deeper and safer into a Yoga Pose.  Each pose stretches and strengthens your muscles, joints, and ligaments and, at the same time releases toxins and work on your internal organs like the glands and the nervous system. Bikram Yoga is not about being flexible, but about strengthening your body and your spine in all directions with the goal of creating a union between the body, mind and spirit.

                                                                                   Qigong

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Qigong is a practice that teaches how to recognize and work with one’s own inner energy (life force) by collecting the external life force (chi) from nature and circulating it throughout one’s body to replenish and strengthen one’s internal human energy system.  This is done through very slow dynamic intentional movements or standing postures held for a period of time while calmly breathing.  The cultivation of chi offers valuable health nurturing benefits.  Qigong is an essential foundation to the practice of Tai Chi.

                                                                Meditation Sessions 

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Meditation Sessions, as developed by Gailon, are an effective tool to enter an objective state of awareness, whereby the discovery of our inner nature is facilitated, as well as the nature of the mind is revealed.  Our ability to increase our level of sensitivity to our connection with life energy and consciousness is brought about, not with eyes closed and in silence, as is done in regular meditation, but with eyes open and by making contact with one another.  This truly is a way of learning how to enter consciousness and how to operate from that space, while remaining connected with others and aware of everything around and within oneself.  Group sessions with Gailon are available twice each day or can be scheduled by appointment as a private one on one.

                                                              Silence and solitude 

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White Cloud Sanctuary is a perfect place to get quiet and to become really still.  In that inner space of silence, it is easy to observe the frantic business of your mind, your persona's automatic programming and your ego's many faces.  Taking long walks or hikes in the jungle, sitting in one of our many mediation spots set up throughout our property, listening to the many sounds of nature, observing our animals - seeing programming perfectly at work there or being instilled if you watch young animals being taught by their mothers.  Regardless how you spend your free time at White Cloud, there is the chance of constantly being aware, present and in tune with Presence and the inner workings of your made up self.
 

 
 
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White Cloud Sanctuary * Private organization  for the study and development of Consciousness * Costa Rica
www.TheWhiteCloudSanctuary.com