Qigong with Michael Canton

Qigong, pronounced “chi gong”, is a transformative practice developed in China thousands of years ago as part of traditional Chinese medicine. The word "Qigong" translates to Qi = life force energy/subtle breath and Gong = practice or skill development. In essence, Qigong is the practice of working with energy and subtle breath.

How Qigong Works

Qigong combines exercises to optimize energy in the body, mind, and spirit with the goal of enhancing health and well-being. It achieves this through:

  • Regulation of breath

  • Mindful body movements and posture

  • Gentle, flowing, and connected standing movements

Qigong facilitates grounding, centering, and balancing your energy while enhancing vitality and spirit.

Benefits from Qigong?

Qigong is a holistic practice that benefits individuals with a variety of goals or challenges, including:

  • Improving concentration and managing impulsivity

  • Balancing intense strength training or endurance workouts

  • Cultivating mindfulness, emotional regulation & vitality

  • Strengthening the connection to your body, energy system, and inner world

Reclaiming Your Personal Power with Qigong

In today’s fast-paced and highly connected world, it’s easy to lose sight of your personal energy and power. The constant pull of online entertainment, social media, advertising, work demands, and societal expectations often drains our attention, leaving us feeling fragmented and out of control.

Qigong offers a way to reclaim your energy, health, and focus, helping you take back your personal power in profound ways:

  • Detox from Overstimulation: Qigong helps quiet the mind, reduce mental chatter, and restore your inner calm, free from the overstimulation of modern conveniences.

  • Reclaim Your Energy: By cultivating your life force through breath and movement, you gain the energy to focus on what truly matters, instead of letting it be siphoned away by distractions or demands.

  • Shift from Dependence to Empowerment: Qigong allows you to take an active role in managing your health and well-being, reducing over-reliance on external institutions like the medical or pharmaceutical industries.

  • Reconnect with Yourself: Move away from giving your power to external pressures, multitasking, or relationship expectations, and instead reconnect with your inner world, values, and authentic self.

  • Strengthen Your Boundaries: With clarity and groundedness, Qigong supports creating healthier boundaries in all aspects of life, empowering you to say "yes" to what aligns with you and "no" to what drains you.

Practicing Qigong enables you to anchor into your own vitality and purpose, shifting from a state of giving away your power to one of intentional living and self-ownership.

Supporting Mental Health with Qigong

Qigong is a powerful tool to support mental health, helping individuals find relief and transformation from challenging emotional and mental states. By harmonizing the body, mind, and breath, Qigong helps ease symptoms associated with:

  • Anxiety: Brings calm and focus by slowing the breath and centering the mind.

  • Depression: Stimulates energy flow and fosters feelings of vitality and hope.

  • ADHD: Supports concentration, impulsivity regulation, and a sense of grounding.

  • Bipolar: Balances emotional highs and lows by cultivating inner stability.

Regular Qigong practice fosters emotional resilience, enhances self-awareness, and provides techniques to manage stress and overwhelm. Through gentle movements, meditative focus, and breathwork, Qigong encourages the body’s natural healing processes, promoting emotional regulation and a deeper connection to self.

Why Practice Qigong?

  • Enhances mental clarity and focus

  • Supports emotional resilience and balance

  • Improves circulation and flexibility

  • Aids in stress reduction

  • Connects you to a deeper sense of inner peace and vitality

Private 1:1 Qigong Sessions

In personalized sessions, Michael guides you through practices designed to optimize your energy and support your emotional, mental, and physical health.

  • Warm-Up Practices: A variety of classic qigong movements to warm up the body for any activity. Includes The Five Pumps, a grounding technique to open energy channels and make Qi tangible.

  • Deep Earth Pulsing: A transformative grounding practice to anchor the body’s energy and open pathways for balance.

  • Dragon Orbit Qigong Form: A six-posture set that activates and balances yin/yang energy.

  • Microcosmic Orbit: A foundational energy circulation practice that enhances your ability to move and direct Qi within your system.

  • 6 Healing Sounds: A short series of movements and soft vocal sounds to release stuck emotions from energy channels and organs like the lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, and stomach — stabilizing your mental and emotional well-being.

  • Inner Smile Practice: A technique to balance emotions during distress or chronic stress.

  • Shuigong Sleep Preparation: Pre-bedtime practices to calm thoughts and disperse excess head energy for restful sleep.

Session Details

  • Length: 60 minutes

  • Format: Online via Zoom (recorded for playback)

  • Investment:

    • $75 per session

    • $300 for a 5-session bundle (save $75!)

New! Group Qigong Classes

Michael is now offering group Qigong classes! These sessions are ideal for those seeking a sense of community and shared energy.

Who are group classes for?

  • Beginners looking to explore Qigong

  • Experienced practitioners seeking consistency & palpable energetic shifts

  • Fitness enthusiasts wanting to complement strength or endurance routines

  • Professionals and blue collar workers who sit or stand for long periods of time

  • Empathic service-oriented people interested in strengthening energetic boundaries

  • Retirees who wish to add easy-to-do movements to their lifestyle

  • Teens & college students seeking stress relief amidst a demanding school schedule, assignments & projects

Stay tuned to the Events page for updates on class schedules and locations!

Ready to Begin?

To set up your first Qigong session with Michael, purchase a Qigong package, or learn more about Qigong, contact Michael via the Contact form on this website, or simply schedule using the buttons below.