OCTOBER 2023
WEEKLY MEDITATIVE ABSORPTION - online
Fridays through June 2024.
Student Lichen Bouboushian says about the class: “…I highly recommend taking this class. It has made me feel like a seeker again in the best of ways - while knowing all along what I've sought is already there”.
In this class, Daria will give simple guidance to open to an awakened state of rest, drawing on simple sitting contemplative practices from the Taoist and Buddhist traditions.
When our mind/heart is at rest, whatever occurs becomes part of the all-encompassing space within which all is subsumed. There is no need to accept or reject what arises within or no need to achieve anything by trying.
Testimonies for this class HERE
WEEKLY CLASSES in-person and online
Start Oct 17 Tues & Thurs through June
Location: Randy Warshaw Studio 115 Wooster Street 2nd Fl, Soho NYC.
Weekly classes offer a continuity to build a strong foundation in practicing Chinese energetics based on qigong. Through different modalities such as the Alexander Technique Tibetan Buddhist practices, Daria offers a unique, sensitive teaching approach personified to each level and student’s personality.
WORKSHOP at Movement Research
Oct 18,19,20: METAL/AUTUMN/GRIEF: Seasonal Workshop in-person
Wednesday, October 18, 2023: 4-7 pm Edens Expressway
Thursday, October 19, 2023: 4-7 pm Edens Expressway
Friday, October 20, 2023: 3-7 pm Edens Expressway
Register at Movement Research.
The Metal element associated with autumn is an occasion to work with sadness, grief, and depression as fuel to find clarity, inspiration, and courage. How can we move beyond our given constitution and conditions to a blissful state and lucidity intrinsic to our being? Daria uses Chinese energetic and contemplative action modalities to tap into the Chinese 5 Elements theory within and without, considering the constant transformation of the environment and seasonal influences. This practice opens the experience of the interdependent alchemy of the physical, emotional, energetical, causal, and intellectual bodies, journeying in our constitutive forces and the process of transformation and realization of potential. Between the contemplation of inner arising and action, there is an open state where possibilities are endless in the immediacy of our fundamental unconditioned nature.
NOVEMBER 2023
WEEKLY CLASSES Tues & Thurs 10 am - 12 pm through June 2024 in-person and onlin
WEEKLY MEDITATIVE ABSORPTION Fridays 8 am - 9 am through June 2024 online.
WORKSHOP: Universal Healing Tao Basics
Sunday, November 5, 10 am-3 pm online
The 6 Healing Sounds - The Microcosmic Orbit - Inner Smile
The 6 Healing Sounds are an effective way of restoring and maintaining balance of your emotions and internal organs.
The Inner Smile connects with your original force as an energy to cultivate, store, and move internally.
The Microcosmic Orbit is a practice that links the two major meridians in the body, balances Yin and Yang energy, and enables you to multiply the energy flow in the other meridians.
DECEMBER, 2023
WEEKLY CLASSES Tues & Thurs 10 am - 12 pm through June 2024 in-person and onlin
WEEKLY MEDITATIVE ABSORPTION Fridays 8 am - 9 am through June 2024 online.
WORKSHOP: EMOTIONS in-person and online
Location: Randy Warshaw Studio 115 Wooster Street 2nd Fl, Soho NYC
Dec 17th - 10 am - 3 pm
EMOTIONS 情 - The Chinese character for the emotions has two parts: the heart is on left and on the right is the green and blue/color of life. It gives the image of movement as a surging force. Once there is the body’s constitution as an organism, emotions can express themselves. In this workshop, we would look at emotions as a form of light that colors us and moves within and without us. We will observe how emotions reside within the essences of the zang / organs and manifest as expressions in being.
JANUARY 2024
WEEKLY CLASSES Tues & Thurs 10 am - 12 pm through June 2024 in-person and onlin
WEEKLY MEDITATIVE ABSORPTION Fridays 8 am - 9 am through June 2024 online.
WORKSHOP at Movement Research MELT Intensive
WATER / WINTER / FEAR: Seasonal Workshop in-person
January 22-26, 2024 - time TBT
This workshop supports the Water dynamic agent circulating through kidneys, bladder, glands, and sexual organs or Jin. The kidneys hold the emotions of fear and trust. Jin is the “essence of the physical body” which sustains us. Winter, is a time to cultivate our most profound resources to cultivate Willpower or zhi with gentleness. It is a time to nourish our desire or life force to persevere toward what needs to be done.
How can we move beyond our given constitution and conditions to a blissful state and lucidity intrinsic to our being? Daria uses Chinese energetic and contemplative action modalities to tap into the Chinese 5 Elements theory within and without, considering the constant transformation of the environment and seasonal influences. This practice opens the experience of the interdependent alchemy of the physical, emotional, energetical, causal, and intellectual bodies, journeying in our constitutive forces and the process of transformation and realization of potential. Between the contemplation of inner arising and action, there is an open state where possibilities are endless in the immediacy of our fundamental unconditioned nature.