Release and transform old wounds and negative emotions through effective heart-centered Qigong practices to manage stress, rebalance your nervous system, and cultivate emotional wellbeing by integrating the shen — the vital essence of spirit and mind in Traditional Chinese Medicine — into your daily life.
Your heart is the home of your spirit, called the shen in Chinese, says celebrated Qigong teacher Marisa Cranfill, creator of YOQI® (yoga + Qigong).
The shen, translated as “spirit,” is one of the three treasures in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It governs your mind, emotions, and spiritual awareness — and represents the highest parts of your mental and emotional being.
When your mind, body, and heart are not connected — and in our busy modern lives and turbulent world, they often are not — you may experience strained relationships, depression, chronic disease, isolation, and a sense of stagnating spiritual growth.
Thankfully, with a regular Qigong practice, you can cultivate your energy in more expansive ways, says Marisa. As you move with relaxed intention and take slow breaths during your Qigong practice, you cultivate the shen to regulate your nervous system.
When you cultivate the shen, you reduce stress and enhance mental clarity — fostering greater self-awareness, inner peace, spiritual transformation, and a deeper connection to your true self.
When you enhance your Qigong practice, you elevate every aspect of your life.
With repeated practice, this process not only repatterns your nervous system but also harmonizes your entire energy field. It gently guides your body from the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system into the calming, restorative parasympathetic state.
This shift facilitates profound healing, both physically and emotionally. On a deeper level, it nurtures the spiritual aspect of the shen. As your shen becomes more balanced, you experience a state of joyful equilibrium, where you feel deeply connected, whole, and at peace.
You’re invited to embark on a transformative journey to understand and harness the profound power of Qigong in Marisa’s new 7-week course.
She’ll guide you through ancient Qigong practices that nurture the shen, bringing balance and harmony to your nervous system and fostering a profound unity of spirit.
Marisa is a globally recognized expert with more than two decades of experience who seamlessly blends the ancient wisdom of Qigong with the transformative practices of yoga.
She has trained extensively in both Eastern and Western modalities, creating a unique approach that empowers individuals to achieve balance, vitality, and holistic wellbeing.
Her teachings are rooted in deep cultural understanding and practical application, making her a trusted leader in the fields of energy healing and mind-body integration.
During your seven weeks with Marisa, you’ll gain a deep understanding of the Daoist view of the spirit and how it plays a crucial role in our happiness, harmony, and spiritual awakening.
Marisa discovered Qigong more than 20 years ago as a student in China. She soon combined it with her yoga practice — and experienced more sensitivity to energy, deep self-healing, and access to nature’s unlimited potential.
She calls this integration YOQI® (yoga + Qigong).
Today her greatest joy is in sharing these tools to help others cultivate life force energy for self-healing, vitality, spiritual fulfillment, and a deeper connection to nature and self.
Marisa’s comprehensive curriculum combines theoretical knowledge with practical exercises, providing a more holistic approach to Qigong. You’ll explore Qigong postures, energy flow techniques, and meditative practices that unify body, mind, and spirit.
Qigong can empower you to access the untapped well of inner wisdom within your heart. Your focused, intentional practice can help you remember that everything you need for a balanced, joyful life full of love is already within you.
In this 7-week live video course, you’ll explore:
- Fundamental principles and techniques that form the foundation of Qigong practice
- The YOQI® method’s six phases of Qi flow — the natural way that energy transforms, according to traditional Qigong principles
- How to cultivate and balance your Qi (life-force energy) to improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing
- A clearing process to let go of old hurts, resentments, and emotions that are blocking you from seeing your true potential — so you can unify your mind, body, and spirit
- Qigong exercises and meditations designed to promote healing and restore harmony within your body
- How to expand shen consciousness through the heart — so the divine can work through you and give you clear direction in your life
- Practices that connect you with the divine, allowing for greater clarity, purpose, and alignment in your life’s path
- Practical tools and insights to integrate Qigong into your daily life, enhancing your overall health and spiritual growth
- How to build a state of inner calm, a sign of mastery over your shen — which leads to a feeling of joy, love, fulfillment, and a sense of being loved by yourself and the universe
- Breath regulation and flow exercises to strengthen your resilience to stress and tap into a coherent state between the heart and the brain
- Weekly guided Qigong practices to cultivate the shen and solidify what you’re learning
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Marisa will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully cultivate the shen to regulate your nervous system for self-love, emotional balance, and peace.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Marisa and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Marisa’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions Mondays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Marisa. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to demystify the concept of the shen as you make it part of your daily life.
Module 1: The "Attune" Phase of Qi Flow - Cultivate a Sense of Connection, Joy & Self-Empowerment (October 21)
In Qigong, the shen (spirit) holds profound importance, representing the highest aspect of human consciousness and the ultimate state of spiritual development.
The YOQI® method’s six phases of Qi flow approach the shen in the natural way that energy transforms, according to traditional Qigong principles.
Begin with the attune phase by tuning into the shen and setting your intention for the course — such as improved emotional balance, mental clarity, sounder sleep, nervous system regulation, or spiritual transformation.
Discover the origins of your shen according to Daoist metaphysics and Traditional Chinese Medicine, deepening your knowledge of this profound topic.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The YOQI Method’s six phases of Qi flow to transform your energy
- The Daoist view of health and enlightenment
- The meaning of spirit and consciousness, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine
- How the shen plays a role in your health, wellbeing, and spiritual transformation
- The Inner Smile Meditation with Self Massage, designed to awaken awareness and connection to your shen spirit to promote a sense of inner peace and nourishment
Module 2: The "Purge" Phase of Qi Flow - Clear Stagnant & Pent-Up Energy to Accept, Forgive & Let Go (October 28)
The goal of a Qigong practice is to increase the quality and quantity of Qi in the body and promote a smooth flow of Qi and blood.
As Marisa will explain, when Qi and blood flow smoothly, you feel healthy and the shen (spirit) is happy. When the flow of Qi and blood is blocked, there is disease and suffering.
The energy in the heart shen is affected by emotions such as anxiety, anger, worry, fear, grief, and depression. In the purge phase, you’ll learn how to clear stagnant and pent-up energy through Qigong exercises, breathwork, and the principles of accept, forgive, and let go.
Purging excess heat and emotional energy from the heart and fire meridians helps improve mood, mental clarity, posture, confidence, communication skills, and sleep — and opens the heart to the blessings of the universe.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The power of the purge phase of Qi flow
- Your fire meridians — the heart, small intestine, triple warmer, and pericardium
- How to identify emotions as energy frequencies
- Qigong techniques to clear stress, pent-up emotions, heat, anxiety, and depression and balance your energy
- How to identify specific shen imbalances of excess and deficiency
- Techniques to calm the heart and spirit for sound sleep
- A guided Qigong heart purification practice
Module 3: The "Tonify" Phase of Qi Flow - Experience Inner Peace, Self-Healing & Deeper Intimacy in Relationships (November 4)
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the sign of a balanced and stable shen is a sense of calm.
The tonify phase of Qi flow nourishes the shen by cultivating energetic balance and tranquility. Marisa will guide you to focus on the pericardium meridian, also known as your heart protector.
It is the key meridian for inner peace, self-healing, and cultivating intimate relationships.
When this meridian is healthy, you feel calm, compassionate, and maintain healthy boundaries. Explore the simple yet profound energy that lies within calmness and how cultivating it through Qigong leads to expansion.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Why calmness is the prized emotion in Qigong
- The hidden power within your Sea of Tranquility point (CV17)
- Key acupressure points for anxiety and calmness
- Qigong practices to clear heat and emotional tension from the pericardium and strengthen your heart protector.
- How the pericardium supports hormone balance, self-love, happiness, and emotional tranquility
- A guided Qigong practice, “The Heart Protector Flow”
Module 4: The Shen & The Nervous System - Tools to Manage Stress, Improve Your Health & Deepen Your Practice (November 11)
This combination of theoretical insights with practical exercises provides you with comprehensive tools to manage stress, improve your health, and deepen your Qigong practice.
Delve into the Qigong theory that explains the autonomic nervous system’s yin (parasympathetic) and yang (sympathetic) elements. Qi can also be seen as breathwork. The breath is vital in regulating the nervous system due to its connection to heart rate and Qi flow.
Through these tonification practices, you will learn how to strengthen your resilience to stress and tap into a coherent state between the heart and the brain through breath regulation and flow.
Explore the essential relationship between the heart, lungs, and kidneys in managing stress. By mastering these techniques, cultivate and expand your shen, achieving mental clarity, emotional resilience, and spiritual growth.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The Yin and Yang of the nervous system
- The importance of balancing the heart, lungs, and kidneys for nervous system regulation
- The traditional Daoist breathing method called dantian breathing and the 5 breath regulations
- Daily energy exercises to reset your nervous system
- Spinal cord Qigong
- Breathwork techniques to manage stress and cultivate a resilient nervous system response
- The Qigong principle of effortless effort (wei wu wei)
- A guided Qigong practice, “Calming the Shen Qigong Flow with the Bell”
Module 5: The "Grow" Phase of Qi Flow - Multiply Your Love Energy to Uplift Your Mood for a Sense of Connection & Peace (November 18)
Explore the profound connection between the shen and self-love. Without an attitude of unconditional love for ourselves, we block the flow of the universe.
Taking time to love and care for ourselves is not selfish; it is essential. We cannot fully love others until we love ourselves. If our energy is depleted, our ability to give is limited. The more love we have for ourselves, the more we can share with others.
The shen, residing in the heart, is the essence of our spirit and consciousness. Cultivating self-love is essential for expanding and growing your heart energy. Self-love means respecting, honoring, and caring for ourselves in a healthy way. In Qigong, self-love is a holistic practice that nourishes the body, mind, and spirit.
In this grow phase of Qi flow, multiply your love energy and practice Qigong techniques designed to awaken love in your heart, including body massage to nurture your physical being, and flows to circulate and expand your heart fire. Positive affirmations reinforce a loving and compassionate mindset.
This practice is also wonderful for those healing from loneliness, depression, loss, or heartbreak. The gentle, loving energy cultivated through Qigong can help mend a broken heart. Learn powerful tools to support your emotional healing and personal transformation, allowing you to embrace a more fulfilled and joyful life.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- How to grow love in your heart through the grow phase of Qi flow
- Powerful tools to support emotional healing and personal transformation
- The power of healing self-love through the Dao
- The importance of nourishing your jing, Qi, and shen
- Laughing Qigong to nourish the shen spirit
- A guided Qigong flow for self-love
Module 6: The "Circulate" Phase of Qi Flow - Refine the Heart to Attain a Sense of Purpose, Meaning & Fulfillment (December 2)
Cultivating the shen is essential for spiritual growth and transformation — developing higher states of consciousness, deepening your self-awareness, and connecting with your true nature.
Marisa will address the spiritual aspect of the shen during the circulate phase, where energy flows smoothly and balances, leading to refinement. Explore the shen in its most expansive state—the energy of compassion.
Shamans in China, known as “stretchers,” could extend their consciousness to other dimensions of time and space. Your internal power emanates from the heart. Elevate your shen consciousness through the heart, allowing Dao to flow through you, illuminating your path and purpose.
Learn an internal alchemy practice to transform energy and raise the frequency of the shen. Cultivating your shen is the key to opening up and being able to hold more information and light. As you expand your shen through the heart, Dao can work through you, providing clear direction and joy in your life.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- The 3 dantians, your 3 energetic treasures
- The difference between the small shen and the large shen in Chinese energetic anatomy
- Awaken your elixir field of compassion
- How to transform and repattern your energy field to raise your vibration
- A beautiful mantra — Guan Yin, the Chinese Bodhisattva of compassion
- A guided practice of a warm-up followed by dantian elixir tapping and meditation
Module 7: The "Integrate" Phase of Qi Flow - Cultivating Your Shen for Empowerment & Eternal Happiness (December 9)
Synthesize and integrate all the knowledge and practices you’ve learned into your daily life in this phase. The ultimate goal of practice is to align your spirit with the universal spirit (yuan shen) and achieve unity with the Dao.
The empowerment of the shen brings eternal happiness that is not dependent on external conditions. True happiness comes from being at one with the cosmos, adapting to circumstances as they arise rather than trying to control or change them. This lifelong journey is a path of self-realization through selfless awareness.
A profound aspect of Qigong and neidan (internal alchemy) is the realization that you are not merely your physical body or form, but the energy within that form — you are spirit in matter.
We will examine the influence of seasons, hormone cycles, daily rhythms, diet, and lifestyle activities on maintaining a happy and healthy spirit.
In this module, you’ll explore:
- Developing higher states of consciousness, deepening self-awareness, and connecting with your true nature
- Understanding eternal happiness through the shen
- How to integrate practices for the shen into your daily life
- A Qigong Flow for Empowerment practice
The The Heart of Qigong Bonus Offering
In addition to Marisa’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Guan Yin Meditation Program
Audio Meditation From Marisa Cranfill
Follow along with this audio Buddhist Pureland meditation, transmitted to Marisa through a nun on Putuoshan Island in China in 1999. It uses guided visualizations to invoke compassion in your heart and share this love with all beings. It’s designed to transmit the sound through divine grace as a journey into a state of peace and healing. A 15-minute chant, “Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa,” is perfect to play in the background anytime you want to bring peace and beauty into your life.
Balanced Breath Rate Bell Sound Audio
Audio Teaching From Marisa Cranfill
The rate at which you breathe has a direct effect on your nervous system. When you slow your breath down from the average 15 breaths per minute to five, something magical happens — the heart and mind go into a state of coherence. The coherent state naturally turns on the parasympathetic nervous system response (rest and digest), which has a balancing effect. This audio contains the sound of a bell at the breath rate of five breaths/minute. Use in your personal practice, while lying down during breathwork or standing during Qigong flow.
Journal Prompts, Affirmations, and Shen Meridians
PDF Guide From Marisa Cranfill
Throughout the course, Marisa will guide you through journal prompts, reflection questions, affirmations, and visual aids to help you connect to your shen spirit — get started as soon as you’d like with this digital guide. She’ll encourage you to keep a journal with all the information you can store here: date, moon phase, and season. You may see patterns and transformations emerge!
What Graduates of Marisa’s Courses Are Saying...
Marisa’s guided Qigong sessions are phenomenal. Her voice is so calming, and the practices are very effective. I feel more balanced and energized after each session. I am so grateful for her teachings.
Canada
Marisa’s videos are a blessing! Her Qigong routines have helped me manage my stress and anxiety so much. She explains everything so clearly, and her energy is so soothing.
Australia
I have been practicing with Marisa for over a year now, and her teachings have completely transformed my life. Her calm presence and deep knowledge make every session a powerful experience. Highly recommend YOQI to anyone seeking true wellness.
United Kingdom
Marisa is a wonderful teacher. Her ability to transmit ancient wisdom in a simple and accessible way is truly a gift. I have benefited immensely from her teachings both physically and spiritually.
The YOQI method is transformational. Marisa’s teachings have helped me develop a deeper understanding of energy flow and how to use it for healing and vitality. Her classes are a perfect blend of physical practice and spiritual insight.
United Kingdom
Join the Global Community
The Heart of Qigong offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Marisa Cranfill will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Marisa Cranfill
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Marisa Cranfill, founder of YOQI® (yoga + Qigong) — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to connect to your heart and select effective Qigong practices to manage stress and rebalance your nervous system as you enhance your practice and elevate your life. Course sessions are on Mondays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The Heart of Qigong
We feel honored that Marisa Cranfill has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of YOQI® (yoga + Qigong) whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about cultivating your shen for empowerment and eternal happiness, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Marisa Cranfill
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Marisa Cranfill is the founder of YOQI® (Yoga + Qigong). Frequent trips as a child inspired Marisa to study academically and work in Asia for more than 25 years. While living in China and Thailand, she received direct transmission from Qigong masters, nuns, and healers in both the Buddhist and Daoist traditions. Marisa developed the YOQI method while teaching yoga and Qigong at meditation retreats in Thailand. The method follows the six phases of Qi flow to remove energy blockages and promote self-healing and spiritual insight.
Marisa is a certified (E-RYT® 500) yoga, Yin Yoga, Vipassana meditation, and Qigong instructor. While her primary Qigong master is Mantak Chia of the Universal Healing Tao school, Marisa has trained with many Qigong and Tai Chi masters around the world — both famous and off the grid. She has been described as the “Queen of Qigong Flow,” with a resource library cataloging over 300 flows. A generous and lighthearted teacher, she guides her students through a functional approach and direct experience. Marisa, who teaches around the world, has the #1 ranking Qigong YouTube channel with an extensive VOD library.
