Nilima Raichoudhury, Taoist Meditations, Zen Shiatsu.

The Lotus Tree Taoist Qi Gong Classes for Women & Men
Monday & Wednesday Evenings at Violet Hill Studios. Bodywork and Private Sessions by appointment.

A great believer in living The Way to discover it's secrets; microcosmic and macrocosmic…Nilima has been living the Taoist Way for 10 Years. Her daily meditations include the cultivation of Internal Chi Energy, Taoist Sexual Energy practice for both Tantric skills and healing purposes, Qi Gong, Fusion with Nature and the 5 Elements, Tai-Chi, Ironshirt and much more!!! She follows the clarity of the Universal Tao System developed by the Tao Master, Mantak Chia - www.universal-tao.com and is open to the wisdom of other Taoist lineages and teachers she meets along the way. As a result, Nilima has come to gain much valuable experiential and esoteric insights into the magical workings of the Tao, as a living reality especially in the stresses of the urban enviroment. This journey back to excellent health, rediscovered vitality, vision, opportunities and adventures shapes her teaching practices and methods. A Certified Universal Tao Instructor, She runs a successful and established weekly Lotus Tree Women's Qi Gong Class. With her Taoist partner and husband Tom, they have recently opened up The Lotus Tree Men's Qi Gong Class which Tom teaches. Nilima also runs an established Lotus Tree Healing Clinic as part of the classes, treatments, courses and retreats that make up the curriculum of the Lotus Tree.

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Nilima and Tom have featured on both UK and Dutch TV regarding Taoist dual/couple practices. Nilima is also a guest writer for a Canadian Qi Gong Newsletter 'Breathe Deep' - www.wujiproductions.com and has recently taught workshops in Maui/Hawaii. She is currently writing an anthology of Taoist Poetry. Nilima lives in the vibrant Portobello part of West London and shares her life adventures with her husband Tom and 2 cats. She divides her time between London and Kent.

She runs a successful and established weekly The Lotus Tree Women's Taoist Practice group at Violet Hill Studios Mon 7-9pm (beginners welcome)

Women! Explore 6000 year old Taoist secrets. Awaken your healing potential and activate the latent energies of The 3 Treasures (jing, chi, shen) within your body. Access unlimited energy for everyday life, by discovering the ancient Chinese arts of Qi Gong and Nei Gong . Learn how to harness and transform the rich potential of life force energy (jing) into the potent and powerful healing force of (chi) and the illumination of spiritual energy (shen).

Using a 5 Elements approach as the way back to balance, learn to take charge of your own health and understand how to improve it. Regain stamina, enhance sexual vitality, release emotional blockages, readdress gynaecological imbalances. Menopause. Look and feel younger, vibrant and more creative. The Lotus Tree Class provides a sensitive, supportive, and educational space for women interested in the Taoist art of self healing.

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Through a combination of Qi Gong, 5 Elements Visualisation, Inner Structure, The 6 Healing Sounds, Still and Moving Meditation and Tai Chi, The Lotus Tree Class offers an opportunity to be guided through the awakening, cultivation and recycling of female lifeforce Energy. Beginners welcome. No prior knowledge necessary

With her Taoist husband Tom, The Lotus Tree has opened up the Men's Taoist Practice group at Violet Hill Studios on Wednesdays 7-9pm (beginners welcome)

Tom So came to way of the Tao after exploring and studying the system of Tao master, Mantak Chia. In a period of intense Qi Gong and internal Nei Gong training, he especially learnt to apply the Cultivation of the male lifeforce Energy practices into his everyday life. Held fascinated, he gradually experienced the flow of chi through his body, his thinking and his life. The ancient and shamanic Taoist Way reconnected his deep love for his Chinese heritage, with his love of nature and integrated it with the flow of his work life as a Network Consultant. Tom offers unique, personal insights and advice into the ways of learning the basics of Qi Gong as well as the cultivation of The Male Practice. A Certified Universal Tao instructor, he continues his studies with Master Chia and other Taoist teachers, providing his class with an opportunity to explore The Tao of their journey through the world of energy movement. Tom offers private sessions of Qi Gong, Nei Gong (Internal Energy Work), Taoist Male Practice and Cosmic Qi Gong Healing.

Men! Explore 6000 year old Taoist secrets. Awaken your healing potential and activate the latent energies of The 3 Treasures (jing, chi, shen) within your body. Access unlimited energy for everyday life, by discovering the ancient Chinese arts of Qi Gong and Nei Gong . Learn how to harness and transform the rich potential of life force energy (jing) into the potent and powerful healing force of (chi) and the illumination of spiritual energy (shen).

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Using a 5 Elements approach as the way back to balance, learn to take charge of your own health and understand how to improve it. Overcome impotency and other imbalances. Regain stamina, enhance sexual drive and vitality, release emotional blockage. Look and feel younger, vibrant and more creative. The Lotus Tree Class provides a sensitive, supportive, and educational space for men interested in the Taoist art of self healing.

Through a combination of Qi Gong, 5 Elements Visualisation, Inner Structure Work, The 6 Healing Sounds, and Still and Moving Meditation. The Lotus Tree Class offers an opportunity to be guided through the awakening, cultivation and recycling of male Sexual/Life Force Energy. Beginners welcome. No prior knowledge necessary.

Nilima is available for Bodywork and she offers:

l Chi Nei Tsang is an extremely powerful and effective Taoist Stomach Massage, which focuses on releasing root physical, emotional and energetic blockages which, if left unchecked, result in persistent, stubborn ill health.

Through deep internal Organ massage, Qi Gong, acupressure, Healing Sounds and Colours, 5 Elements Diagnosis, and Meridian work, Chi Nei Tsang treatments aim to get to the source of these root problems and shake out the "sick winds" from within. Organs are repaired, connective tissues untwisted, pulses are rebalanced as the flow of "Chi" energy is released to circulate freely around the body again; restoring health and well- being.

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Chi Nei Tsang sessions are a dynamic and interactive process between practitioner and receiver, where feedback and participation is encouraged and the healing process is guided and supported by learning and practising appropriate Chi Kung exercises between treatments. In the Taoist ethics of self-healing and autonomy, the journey through Chi Nei Tsang teaches the receiver to take responsibility and maintenance of health back to the Self.

Nilima has worked successfully and with good results on a diverse range of ailments. Conditions currently being treated include reproductive disorders, digestive problems, irritable bowel syndrome, gallstones,kidney/renal issues, severe depression and grief.

l Zen Shiatsu is gentle soothing Japanese bodywork using perpendicular pressure, stretches, pressure points, and meridian work to harmonise the flow of "ki" and rebalance the body's energies. Zen Shiatsu is particularly ideal for stress, back problems, muscular stiffness and long term conditions. This non intrusive Zen approach to the body allows for meditation and optimum relaxation during treatment and a chance to feel connections within the body as a total and enlightening experience. Treatments are supplemented with recommendations on diet and lifestyle based on Chinese 5 Elements Medicine.

l I Ching Readings. In the time Nilima has been consulting and studying the Taoist I Ching (Book Of Changes) she has built up a considerable body of notes on her experiences of how the higher mathematics of the 64 life cycles manifest themselves, in the interplay of everyday life and how to access and recognise them. In I Ching readings one is given the opportunity to delve into one of the oldest philosophical works on divination and problem solving and chart a way back to alignment and harmony in one's life.

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In her readings, Nilima attempts to open the triagrams and the hexagrams of the I Ching with clarity, using the alchemy of the elements and yin/yang correlation's to analyse current and coming cycles. She encourages insight into the key aspects of a situation, laying out personal patterns, biorhythms, the repetition of events and signals, as they come spiralling in, attuning to key moments or windows that appear allowing for change and transformation.

As much a study as a reading, Nilima encourages her clients to understand the creative and different cycles of energy/chi in everyday life, to steer effortlessly through the difficult learning or decline cycles and to amplify and multiply the creative and expansive cycles creating an organic, yet ordered template for manifesting visions, dissolving problems and surfing through the Tao of ones life. By plugging into nature, there is a miraculous opportunity to understand what the Taoists studied so infinitely, that the divine order of nature and the universe is the divine order and the Tao of ones affairs!

Readings take 2 hours and are by appointment.

l Qi Gong/Nei Gong Healing
l Reiki II