SIFU MICHAEL SHAMAN will present the Third of five 3 hour intensive workshops on the FIVE ANIMAL FROLICS (WuQinXi) of HUA TO at 6:30 PM, July 17, at ZENTER /PRANA/TEMPLE SF (aka ZenCompoundSF), 540 Howard Street, San Francisco 94122.

The "FROLICS' are the original Qigong Healing Movement forms from which most Internal and External Martial Arts and Healing Arts systems are derived, including TAI CHI CHUAN and the SHAOLIN KUNG FU Animals.

Each of the 5 Taoist Animals corresponds with an Element, a Healing Organ, a Direction, a Principle, a Sound, A Season, a Hand, a Posture, and a Variation on Breathing, among many other of the 10,000 Things. 

In this workshop we will review the Bear Qigong set taught in the last set, followed by a concentrated training in the Third Element: Earth and its Totem Animal Representative - the DEER. The Deer is primarily used to help heal and strengthen the Spleen and Reproductive Organs, and Increase sexual Potency. Additional focus is on the Principle of Centering, enhancement of balance and hand/eye coordination, and adding spring to the step.