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Schedule

Workshop participation will take place each day.

Stillness session: 8:00 am – 10:00 am 

Movement session: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

Location

theDENcnx | เดอะเด็น | a movement space

430 moo 10, soi2/2 Mae hia Chiang Mai 50100

Dates

This workshop will run over 10 days with a weekend break in-between:

 

Monday 3rd - Friday 7th June 2024

Monday 10th - Friday 14th June 2024

Investment

Workshop ONLY: THB 35,000       

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Workshop + theDENcnx Access: THB 36,000     

(Pay an additional THB 1,000 and gain full access to the facilities at theDENcnx for the entirety of the workshop period. Facilities include the fully equipped gym and space for personal practice, moving and training, plus ice bath and sauna for recovery.)

INTENTION

The Living Temple: Stillness + Movement Workshop offers a transformative, experiential, healing, and awakening experience. You will be guided through how to use practical methods in a participatory environment which – once embodied, cultivated and refined – can bring ever-increasing and continual empowerment, meaning and harmony to life.

 

Through qigong meditation and embodied intelligence movement we will explore and understand the intimate relationship between our mind, body and energy to transform our inner and outer being – consciously creating our Living Temple. 

 

Our embodied methods are based in the wisdom tradition of alchemy, with emphasis on meditation, movement and mindfulness – cultivating stillness and allowing for natural connection and integration of our mind, body and energy for healing, evolution and growth. During the workshop we will explore:

 

  • our Outer Temple through movement practices including contact improvisation (CI), Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) and strength training. We will explore these practices through a kinesthetic language allowing participants to be attuned to the sounds of the relationship, affording them to move by ‘being’ intuition as opposed to ‘experiencing’ intuition – embodied intelligence – building a strong vehicle for freedom of expression of consciousness and energy mobilisation;

  • our Inner Temple through qigong meditation and attunement to energy. We will explore the energy principles of the five elements and non-dual white light to build a harmonious foundation to our inner temple and synchronise our mind, body and emotions to our highest potential, awakening our spirit;

  • partner exercises to cultivate listening skills, awareness and intuition;

  • introspection, self-healing and personal transformation. 

 

Marissa and Tristan share their extensive experience to introduce and guide you in deep embodied transformational methods so that you can continue to explore, integrate and create your own Living Temple.

 

Facilitators

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Marissa Newell

Marissa began her journey in internal arts in 2007 and has dedicated herself to studying qigong, tai chi chuan, internal alchemy, and Hermetics.

 

Internal Qigong and Hermeticism are the foundation of her practice and teachings, guiding students on a path of healing and evolution through energy work, inner transformation and spiritual ascension.

 

She has run meditation and qigong community classes in collaboration with Buddhist Nuns at a local temple, offers private qigong healing, workshops and courses, and trains students intensively in internal arts both in person in Northern Thailand, and online.

 

www.qigongwithmarissa.com

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Tristan RT

Tristan explores movement, drawing upon Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), contact improvisation, strength training, stillness, and other related practices.

 

He teaches movement through a kinesthetic language allowing participants to be attuned to the sounds of the relationship, affording them to move by ‘being’ intuition, as contrasted to ‘experiencing’ intuition. 

 

Tristan sees such a language as a proxy to make sense of our relationship with what-is-not-us. The language is explored through ‘relational practices’ which explore cooperation (through contact improvisation) and competition (through BJJ). 

 

He is a co-founder of theDENcnx, a space where people can cultivate themselves through an ecology of movement practices.

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location

430 moo 10, soi 2/2, Mae hia, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50100

opening hours

everyday   9 h - 21 h

contact

+66 065 212 3919

TEStimonials

“Marissa has a profound understanding of Qi Gong and has the ability to transfer this understanding to the student.  In my opinion, Qi Gong cannot be book or YouTube learned. It requires a personal connection with someone who is versed in the practice. But as important it requires someone with quiet calm confidence that embodies the practice.  Marissa is this person.
Marissa is not someone who trumpets her skills or makes wild claims.  It is her groundedness that speaks to the quality of her practice and her ability to lead students to their own discovery of Qi. Marissa has guided me to see my own abilities in working with the Qi.”  

 – Steven Epstein (USA)

“The 50-hour intensive Qi Gong & Internal Alchemy course with Marissa was life-changing. I studied with Marissa when I already practiced a lot of modalities like Reiki, Energy Medicine, Cranio Sacral, and Yin Yoga, but I didn’t know how to tie them all together. Part of me was still confused, ‘What is energy, really?’ After studying with Marissa, the answer was very clear to me: what energy is, and what energy is not. The course is very well structured and every class is different, I grow after every single class. She helped me discern the different energy frequencies, how to tune to them and how to benefit from them. Our training was very much focused on how to use energy to heal others, so there was a lot of partner work, which was so valuable to help validate my sensations. Marissa also helped me apply Hermetic foundations to the other modalities that I was practicing. After the course, I’m full of confidence for the healing path that I’m taking forward. Thank you, Marissa, for being one of the best teachers I’ve had. If you feel called to study with her, just do it – it will be life-changing.” 

 – Alex Tran, Hermetic Reiki & TCM Meridian Therapy Practitioner (Vietnam/Canada)

"Being a Reiki Master and someone who knows a bit about life (not everything though), I came across Marissa's qigong course through a friend of mine in Thailand. Little did I know when I joined Marissa to teach me about qigong energy that it would help me in a way that I will never be able to measure on any scale.

This course took me to places that I have never been to before – the feelings, the insights, the laughter, but also the seriousness of the training was the best that I have experienced. I wish that I had’ve done this course 30 or more years ago. I think that if I had, my life would have been completely different.

Marissa is an amazing teacher, this is who she is: a great teacher. She teaches with love, kindness and care for her student. I cannot speak highly enough of this woman and her talent. She guided me through this course with such amazing insight and precision, and I remain in awe of what I was able to achieve and learn. I will always be grateful and thankful to Marissa.

If you want to succeed in life, learn more about yourself and be the man/woman you are meant to be then I would highly recommend spending a month with this down-to-earth, amazing teacher Marissa. You will be so glad that you did."

 – Toby White, healer (Australia)

“I finished my internal alchemy course with Marissa. I must say that this was one of the most important courses in my spiritual journey. Through her teachings I was able to put everything together. I was able to put the puzzle pieces together and see the full picture. She empowered me. She held the space for me to grow. There was no push, no ‘you have to’. I felt loved and safe and as a result I shined. I saw the light, I was the light, I’m the light. Thank you Marissa, you are incredible. Marissa is amazing and I strongly recommend her as a teacher.”

 – Diego Rochagranado, meditation and qigong teacher (Brazil)

“Before I met Marissa, I struggled to embody my sensitivity in a helpful way. I ‘knew’ it was a gift, but I also really suffered from overstimulation, shame, depression, and constant exhaustion – chronically feeling other people’s emotions. Learning Nei Dan QiGong with Marissa gradually, but also quickly, empowered me to find a new relationship to being a highly sensitive person. She knew when and how to push me, and when to just hold space for me. I needed both to remember who I really am. To learn how to push myself and hold space for myself at the same time. Fire and Water harmonised.

I had been searching for approaches that would allow me to further explore my vision of integrated spirituality – transcending our immediate human experience and taking this very human experience along on the journey. With Marissa, I found what I had not found in plant medicine and psychedelic journeys, meditation and breath work retreats: a framework to do that.

Marissa, I love you dearly and admire your integrity, dedication to your students, and power.”​

 – David Berger, Holistic Trauma Therapist (Germany)

“Although I’ve been practicing Qi Gong and Tai Chi for a few years, when I met Marissa and experienced her way of practicing, it changed everything: she gives precious tools not only for the practice of Qi Gong, but also for enhancing the quality of life.


Marissa offers a bridge to go beyond the form, to go within and sink into the present moment and breathe, touch and store the energy that is around and inside us, and that is freely available for everyone. Is it so precious and revolutionary during difficult times to have such tools.


I’m very grateful for Marissa’s generosity in sharing Qi Gong with an open heart and giving me the possibility of doing the same with others.”  

 – Gabriela Flores (Italy)

"I started Qigong with Marissa a month ago. I had been meditating for a few years but I still felt like I was searching for something, though I wasn’t quite sure what. In hindsight I was looking for a spiritual practice that really resonated with me. What I have learned from Marissa already in just a few sessions has been nothing short of life changing. I have learned how to physically feel, connect with, and work with energy. This was a huge revelation and opened up a whole new world to me. It is a joy to practice and it has had a very positive effect on my life. Generally, I feel more centred, happy and peaceful and more connected to the people in my life. Marissa is a wonderful teacher. She is kind, patient, open, knowledgeable and clear. She has a very calming presence that makes you feel comfortable quickly. I highly recommend working with Marissa!"

 – Orla (Ireland)

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