Inner Medicine Series

Inner Medicine Series classes are designed to support your wellness journey with classes around topics relevant and important to your health and mind-body-spirit connection. Each class will include self-healing and energetic practices as well as inner medicine principles, theory and skill building.

Class Series Include & Incorporate

Qigong breath-work, movement and practices
Energetic practices for mind-body awareness
Boundary setting for strength and protection
Doaist medicinal theory and meditation

Self-healing skill building for better health
Nervous system regulation and emotional balancing
Opportunities for self-reflection and integration
Chinese Medicine learning and applicability

Winter Alchemy: Surrender and the Power of Rest

After the letting go comes a deeper invitation — to rest, to trust, and to let stillness do its quiet work.
Winter is the season of the Water Element, where nature turns inward and life gathers its strength in the unseen. In Chinese Medicine, the Kidneys hold our essence (Jing), our will (Zhi), and our capacity to move through life from a place of deep trust.

This Inner Medicine series explores the art of surrender as transformation — how rest restores vitality, how stillness clarifies wisdom, and how yielding reconnects us to what is truly precious.

Each class weaves together:

Chinese Medicine Teachings on the Kidney, Water Element, and the spirit of Zhi
Qigong and Breath Practices to replenish essence and calm the nervous system
Meditation and Reflection for inner stillness and embodied trust
Boundary and Integration Tools to protect and sustain your energy through winter

Wednesdays Online
November 19
December 3, 10, 17
Note: No Class 11/26
12:15-1:30pm

PLUS

Saturday Mini-Retreat
December 13, 2025
10am-12:30pm
(In-Person in SF or Online)

Cost: $195

No refunds after purchase.
Recordings available for all classes.

Inner Medicine Series begin every 6-8 weeks, join anytime!
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Classes will be offered mid-day Wednesdays for Late Summer Session and on Fridays in the Fall, Winter and Spring.
Sliding scale offered upon need and request, please contact us for details.
No refund after purchase. Other payment options also available: PayPal, Venmo, Cash/Check

Class Calendar

How to Attend

How to Attend

Class series are offered online with the exception of the Special Event which is offered either Online or In-Person at the SF Buddhist Center, 37 Bartlett St in San Francisco, CA

Living Aligned Zoom Classroom

Nice to meet teacher and community of mellow but dedicated practitioners who follow her kindly, supportive manner and enjoy qi gong. Her spirit is warm and thoughtful as a teacher. -MI

Suzannah is a very kind and patient teacher with a lot of humility and self effacement in her approach. She doesn’t portray herself as a “know at all”, but is continuing to grow like the rest of us in her class. Suzannah also shares her own experiences and insights and presents areas of study in the form of books, research articles, and online resources if we want to dig deeper into a particular aspect of qigong. -MM

This Qigong class has added a whole new level to my spiritual practice. I’ve leaned not only the sequences but even more so, connecting with Qi/life force energy at a deep level within my body and my life. -SM

Qigong helps me remain calm during the chaos of my life.

I have noticed that I have improved my upper body strength and balance from practicing multiple times a week over the last 9 months. It gave me validation that the "slow" physical movement of Qi Gong is very effective in building strength and the low impact of Qi Gong is especially valuable to a senior like myself.