Come celebrate Summer by getting your chi flowing at these special Heartwood seminars! Whether you take one of the seminars or both, you will feel the benefits of these beautiful Chinese martial arts forms. Seminar One: Summer Chi Gong for the Heart This is a special Chi Gong form created by Grandmaster Zhang, based on…

TIMES: Saturday, June 3rd: 9:30am – 5:00pm Sunday, June 4th: 9:30am – 4:30pm Special Note: On Friday, June 2nd 6:00pm: Lopön Barbara will lead the June 2nd Friday night Gateway class at 6:00pm. TUITION: Through May 24: $125 / 112.50 (members) Beginning May 25: $135 / 121.50 (members) (Monthly contributors receive an ad…

When : May 31st from 6-8pm at Heartwood Center There are now 41 qualifying conditions in Illinois for which patients can use medical cannabis. Do you have questions? If so, we can help. This session will give you an in-depth look at The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act.  Recommended for adults who want to obta…

Calligraphing the Heart Sutra, Taught by Lopön Helen Berliner The practice known as “copying the Heart Sutra” is traditionally revered as a way, or path, to actually becoming the wisdom embodied in the words. Like music, the meaning of the Heart Sutra is universal and readily accessible to anyone willing to listen. Its…

A Public Talk by Lopön Helen Berliner Contemplation, from the Latin contemplari, literally means “within a space to see clearly.” The space is the mind of meditation. It accommodates the good, the bad, the complex, and is a source of unconditional creativity and joy. What is clearly seen in that space is the bigger pic…

Becoming self-empowered with mindful, body-centered Focusing.         Today there is new generation of body-centered practices backed by nuero-science, that go beyond words and thoughts and reach the bodily experiencing beneath THINKING that affects human behavior and change. The discovery of this bodily felt awareness…

A weekend urban mindfulness retreat held Feb. 3-5 in the Skylight Room at Heartwood with Jonathan Hanna.

Arlene Faulk, Tai Chi, and Michelle Bobier, QiGong invite you to our CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION – Year of the Rooster Sunday, January 29, 2017, 1-4 pm, Skylight Room, Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster, Evanston, Il. Learn about Chinese New Year traditions from Grandmaster Zhang, who has taught QiGong, Tai Chi and KungF…

Let’s face it. Pain is a fact of life. We all experience it in one form or another at various times. No one escapes it. So then, what can we do about it? Well, let’s first take a look at what it is . . . and what it isn’t. According to the Saunders Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, pa…

Do you remember a dream you had this week? When you remember dreams do you interpret them? Or appreciate them? Do you enjoy that creative part of you? Dreams offer creative and sometimes alternative points of view that can move us out of our everyday way of seeing things, and re-infuse our life stories with a sense of…