What is Chi Kung?

Chi Kung, also known as Qi Gong, is the ancient Chinese art of developing energy.  It is a gentle, meditative exercise that when practiced just 15 minutes a day can help you achieve:

 * Optimum Health and Vitality 

 * Efficiency

 * Mental Clarity, and 

 * Spiritual Joy!

The type of Chi Kung tought by Christina Didyk, DOM, AP is called Shaolin Wahnam Chi Kung.  This type of Chi Kung is considered the most effective, elite and practical Art in the world.  Practicing it can make a meaningful improvement in your life.   

Sifu Christina has trained under the world famous Shaolin Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit.  She is offering courses in St. Petersburg, Florida.  Please see the Spring 2013 schedule here!

Please click here to learn more about Sifu Christina Didyk.

Who is Sifu Christina?

Sifu Christina Didyk is a member of Shaolin Wahnam International since 2006.  She travels extensively to train Chi Kung, Taijichuan and Shaolin Kung Fu with her Sifu, Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit.  Sifu Christina has attended multiple courses in Malaysia and enjoyed traveling to Finland, Norway, and Sifu Christina is very lucky to be able to share these arts with her husband Sifu Chris Didyk who also teaches Wahnam Kungfu and soon Wahnam Taijichuan in St Petersburg.

Christina is also registered by Shaolin Wahnam as a Certified Chi Kung Healer.

Sifu Christina teaches Chi Kung to overcome disease and restore health and vitality specializing in disease considered "incurable" by Western Medicine such as Auto-immune disease, cancer and disorders of the Nervous System and movement.

Sifu Christina is also a licensed and practicing Chinese Medical Physician specializing in Internal Medicine, Chronic Degenerative diseases, Auto-Immune diseases and Serious Trauma or pain of any kind.

Christina enjoys working with Sports professionals as well and in the future hopes to create a Chi Kung and Chinese Medicine program to aid those retired Sports Professionals suffering from multiple traumas to regain their health and vitality and enjoy the fruits of their careers.

Chi Kung Info and Classes

SPRING CLASS SCHEDULE 

with Christina Bickley Didyk, DOM at Art of Acupuncture

Introduction to Chi Kung:

What:  Learn to enter the Chi Kung State of Mind, Relax Deeply, Generate an Energy Flow and Experience your bodies “Qi”, or Vital Energy flowing. 

Enjoy the benefits of great health, vitality, mental clarity and profound joys you gain from a daily practice of the simple and effective Chi Kung Exercises. 

Prerequisite for weekly intermediate level classes.

Where: Art of Acupuncture Clinic

Book Appointment online at www.artofacu-stpete.com or call Amy at 727-321-6969

When:  Every Friday 9-11 am

Who: Sifu Christina Didyk

Cost:  $200.00

Intermediate Vitality level Chi Kung Class:

What:   Enjoy the amazing benefits of the 18 Lohan Hands and the 18 Therapeutic Exercises in this class. 

Emphasis on building tremendous vitality to enjoy daily life as well as strengthening the individual skills needed for a successful Chi Kung practice. 

Enhance what you know and enjoy learning new exercises while deepening your Chi Kung experience enormously through specialized in depth teachings on the philosophy and practical uses of Chi Kung, or energy exercise.

Where: Unitarian Universalist Church on Mirror Lake in St Pete

            719 Arlington Ave N St Petersburg Fl 33705

           

Sign up with Amy at 727-321-6969

When:  Every Monday 5:45 to 6:45 pm

Who: Sifu Christina Didyk

Cost:  $100.00/month or $50.00/half-month (two or less classes per month)

  

Chi Kung Healing Program:

What:  This Health Level Chi Kung is for those with serious illnesses generally considered incurable in the Western Medical Paradigm, such as Cancer, Autoimmune diseases, Neurological Disorders, Addiction and Anxiety disorders.

The 18 therapeutic exercises and the 18 Lohan Hands will be used to generate a healing flow of energy to clear blockages and restore yin yang harmony in the bodies natural energy flow thereby restoring the system to a state of good health.

If you are healthy this program is not for you, inquire about an Introduction to Chi Kung course with Sifu Christina and ongoing classes for Vitality Level Chi Kung.

When:  Direct one on one session with Sifu Christina to open vital points and stimulate the healing flow of energy in the patient directly once monthly as well as once monthly assessment and evaluation of progress.  Small Group Session bi monthly to answer questions and go over exercises together.  One large group session per month with Intermediate level students to enhance energy flow. 

Where:  One on one sessions and small group sessions will be located at the Art of Acupuncture Clinic.  Large group sessions will be located at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Mirror Lake.

Sign up with Amy at 727-321-6969

When:  Course will be over a 6-month period, up to 2 courses potentially necessary depending on disease. 

Who: Sifu Christina Didyk

  

Cost:  $5000.00 (Christina offers free consultations to evaluate if this program is a good fit for you and to answer your questions and concerns - Call Amy to schedule this consultation).

Book Study: How to Read the Akashic Records

The Akashic Record is an unlimited resource with unlimited potential.  All available for your transformation.  This is your individual Soul's Guidance.  There is no middle man - How empowering is that!!

Learning involves two stages: 1) self examination and 2) group interaction on the same path.  The AR Study Group is intended to support the learning process in accessing the Akashic Records through The Pathway Prayer Process© presented in Linda Howe's book, How to Read the Akashic Records. 

Join Christine for this unique, four week study to start transforming your life!  The purpose of this study is to demystify the Records and remove barriers and beliefs.  Through support you will learn that anybody can access the Records.

The Akashic Records have been an invaluable, loving and compassionate resource for Christine's growth and transformation process.  She wants to share it with you to empower you to connect to this unlimited resource. 

Fridays in March (3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29)

3:30 to 5:30

at

Art of Acupuncture

2941 5th Ave N

St. Pete FL 33713

Contact Christine to reserve your place in the Study.  

Space is limited so be sure to register soon to guarantee participation!

AkashicRecordswithChristine@gmail.com

or

727.269.1960

* Cost is $55 for the four-week study.  Please bring check or cash to the first class.

(contact Christine to arrange credit card payment)

*  Books are available for purchase ($15) at Art of Acupuncture.  Please read chapter 1 and 2 prior to the first meeting.  

* Please bring the following:  Notebook or Journal (for writing and sharing), Water Bottle (with a secure top), and an open mind!

This class will guide you through the your own exploration of the Records as you read through the book and do the exercises that Linda Howe outlines in her book.  We will deepen our experiences by sharing and exploring.  

What are Akashic Record Readings? Who is Christine?

Accessing the Akashic Records helps you understand your soul's lessons and your unique spiritual journey.  Through the Records you receive the transmission of both energy and words to help facilitate powerful personal transformation.  

Christine VanCoughnett is an intuitive, psychic, energy and body healer, reader and teacher.  She has spent over twenty-five years studying and practicing alternative healing modalities to help and inspire her clients to live their soul's mission.  She has worked at the Wellness Center at The Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York since 1995.

Christine's purpose and joy comes from assisting her clients through the transformational process of becoming their truest, most inspired selves.  Her offerings include Akashic Record Readings, Amma Therapy, Yoga Therapy, and Intuitive body and energy work.

Her teachers of the Records are Linda Howe, author of How to Read the Akashic Records and Healing through the Akashic Records, and Ernesto Ortiz, author of The Akashic Records: Sacred Wisdom for Transformation.

Christine is available by appointment for readings at Art of Acupuncture.  

Christine is also offering a FREE Akashic Record Readings Seminar where you will be introduced to AR, as well as experience opening your own record. 

Thursday, February 28th, 2013

6:00 to 7:30 pm

at

Art of Acupuncture St. Pete

2941 5th Ave N

St. Pete 33713

727.321.6969

www.artofacu-stpete.com

Additionally, Christine will be offering a four week book study in March.  

Please click here for more details.

Christine is available by phone or email if you would like to book an appointment, or better understand Akashic Records:

Christine VanCoughnett

727.269.1960

AkashicRecordswithChristine@gmail.com

Happy Valentine's Day! Be Good to Your HEART

Happy Valentine's Day!

Wishing you all be extra good to your heart today:

- Give someone a hug

- Take a long walk

- Drink some beet juice

- Forgive someone who hurt you

- Tell someone you LOVE them!

We also want to take this time to thank all of our dear friends and patients who have shown us so much love these past months as we've built our clinic.  

Thank you lovely friends!

Seasonal Eating - Irresistible Recipes! (Winter)

While it feels like spring here in Florida, we still have another six weeks of winter.  Fill up on these grounding foods over the next few weeks.  Eating seasonally helps your body maximize the nutrients of the foods you digest.  Scroll down for some yummy recipes that incorporate these winter gems into your diet.  

 

                       Baked Beet Chips               Apple Cabbage Slaw w/ Crystallized Ginger

          Baked Sweet Potatoes                           Grilled Vidalia Onion Steaks

 

           Pickled Pears                       Old Fashioned Clementine Cake

We're also quite lucky down here as we can tap into some yummy spring fruits that are abundant...

(say, Strawberries!). 

Stay Healthy, Friends!

Food Chart via StylemeGreen

What is PCOS? And how did my ovary end up with a pearl necklace??

image source

Our first post is an oldie but goodie.  Hillary explains some causes and symptoms of PCOS, along with providing some natural solutions to help you.  

Please check out Hillary's post on PCOS on her blog, The Wellness Well.

Stay healthy, friends!

We're Live!

Welcome to our blog!

Art of Acupuncture is a clinic located in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida.  We have years and years of experience between our three acupuncturists, and two massage therapists.  The clinic was born in August of 2012 in a renovated bungalow.  We offer extraordinary care in peaceful environment.  

This blog is our outlet to provide resources to optimize your health.  Everything from healthy eating and living tips to information about Chi Kung (Gi Gong) and massage therapy.  

We look forward to chatting with you!