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Enneagram & QiGong

  • 01/09/2023
  • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Zoom

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Enneagram & Qigong

an experiential session for the gut, heart, and head


This event is virtual, and facilitated by Kathy Jankowski.

Come join this session on Qigong and the Enneagram and get your year of deeper embodiment off to a great start! Qigong is the art of cultivating awareness of Life Force in every moment. It is a 3,000-year-old approach to living with more health and well-being through gentle movements, breathing, and visualization. As a Riso-Hudson Enneagram student and practitioner for nearly 20 years when Kathy first learned Qigong, it was these practices that changed her understanding of Don Riso’s Levels of Development.

Just like the Enneagram, Qigong is simultaneously a developmental and a spiritual path. Qigong’s three Dantians, or energy centers in the body, map directly to the Enneagram; they are in the gut, heart, and head. These practices take an experiential approach to transforming contractions and resistance, untangling emotional reactivity, and strengthening the capacity to unhook from fear and uncertainty. We move beyond observation and habit change into a profound dialogue with Life Force itself, with the Domain of Liberation.

In this experiential session, we will spend most of the time doing several practices, including the First Golden Wheel; the Great Harmonizer Breath; Connecting to the Holy Ideas and Virtues through Visualization and a Pearl practice; and a Nourishing Qi practice. Participants will learn a powerful new way to connect their centers so that the intelligences in the three centers can flow with more wisdom, love, vitality, and ease.

The Qigong practices we will do can be done sitting or standing. Please dress comfortably, bring water, and be in a space where you can spread your arms out. There is one practice where you can choose to lie down, just so you can plan to have a mat and some blankets if you want to be cozy.

Facilitator Bio

Kathy Jankowski has been applying the Enneagram to individual, relational, and team building for more than 25 years. She has developed an innovative, 16-month signature coaching program designed to help Enneagram practitioners walk the path of integration and harmonize their instincts. She is rooted in the Riso-Hudson Insight Approach and is certified by the Enneagram in Business. Kathy was a participant in and administrator for Essence Emerging, a 10-year inner-work group led by Jessica Dibb and Russ Hudson.

Kathy is a certified Robert Peng Qigong trainer. She is an experienced trauma-sensitive, nervous system balancing coach; a Level 3 certified breath coach with Breath-Body-Mind; and an integrative breath worker. Over the last 11 years, Kathy has taught more than 6,000 people how to live with more vitality, love, and wisdom by cultivating awareness, attention training, movement, and breathwork — working with socially responsible individuals and businesses, schools, neighborhood groups, nonprofit staff/clients, children and families, nurses, doctors, breast cancer survivors, teachers, the unemployed, and collective-impact initiatives.

Kathy's husband is a poet and a high-school English teacher working at an innovative public school for teens with emotional disabilities. They credit Qigong and the Enneagram for helping them celebrate 38 years of marriage this past December - and are grateful to wake up each day ready to discover how to fall in love with each other and this amazing world a little more deeply.


Enneagram Minnesota is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

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