Yesterday, I passed my Level 1 Qi Gong Teacher training with Ren Xue International. It’s been a transformative process with hundreds of hours of study and practice. Every day that I practice is a day that is markedly calmer, more peaceful and I experience much greater creative flow and less self-judgement. Those days when I don’t practice often leave their reminder that I need to practice tomorrow.

As a fellow Qi Gong teacher posted online today, the practice of Qi Gong is a radical act of self-care. Especially right now, when (almost) everything we see and read in the news and on social media seems to be working to divide us, to direct our negative judgments toward another person or group, is encouraging us to argue and fight and cancel one another. At best, these posts tell us we need to stand up for ourselves and for others. But how do we have the capacity to do that? In addition to looking after ourselves, families, going to work, and trying to maintain a creative practice? I recommend Qi Gong! So here is a poem, let’s call it an ode to Yuan Gong (the powerful and very accessible method of Qi Gong offered by Ren Xue), that was also inspired by another poem I read today.

Happy writualing, Chantal xxx

p.s. Writual will launch in early 2026 and will offer both in person and online Expressive Writing Circles, Shared Reading Groups, Qi Gong Classes, Qi, Tea & Poetry, Retreats and more. You can follow me on insta at writual_au. Thanks.