Jim Morningstar demonstrates a series of Taiji Warm up exercises, standing postures and song gongs (energy moving exercises) that he has learned as a student of this comprehensive form of Self care. These particular exercises are taught through www.discovertaiji.com by Sifu Adam Mizner. As a student of Tai Chi since the early 1970’s, I have found the daily practice to be centering, strengthening and enlivening to my body, mind and spirit. It affords the opportunity to go as deep and as far in mastery as the student is willing to pursue. For Jim Morningstar’s Worldwide Learning Community: www.transformationsusa.com

Jim Morningstar, a student of Taiji, demonstrates eight fundamental energy exercises based on moving the body’s joints in the most natural and efficient way possible. These “Ji Ben Qi Gong” for health and wellbeing are taken from the work of Damo Mitchell’s Daoist Nei Gong and are meant to generate interest and follow up with certified Qi Gong instruction.

Jim Morningstar, PhD, author of three books on the art and science of breathwork, who directs one of the longest running training centers for dyadic breathwork, shares how the doorway to aliveness is right under your nose. Learn and become both a practitioner and teacher of therapeutic breathwork.

This is a 6 minute excerpt from a course on Holistic Counseling, in which Jim Morningstar, PhD, gives his perspective on spirituality, religion, models of spirituality and their application to everyday life and counseling. A true whole person approach to healing with self and others must include our beliefs about our aliveness and what motivates our being.

Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness presents an introduction to communicating feelings, which is a section of Class #9 in the Life InWellness Series: Communication. How we communicate feelings determines how effective we are at reaching others. This 7 minute introduction examines your communication style and effectiveness as well as ways to increase your abilities and satisfaction in the process.

Leonard Orr, founder of the modern rebirthing breathwork movement demonstrates the pranayama practice called “four shorts ones and one big one.” Leonard has been playing with ways to heal, energize and elevate consciousness with the breath since the early 1970’s. He has taught on six continents and circled the globe dozens of times. He has authored over 20 books in more than a dozen languages. Here  he quips “How to get stoned in 30 seconds,” with the breath.

Because Feelings have been the motivating force behind the greatest heroism and the greatest atrocities in human history, they are often treated with great caution if not suppressed entirely. Yet they are an essential ingredient not just to our survival, but to the enjoyment and fulfillment we all seek. Jim Morningstar, PhD, Director of InWellness and Transformations offers this Introduction to the LIWS Class #6 on Feeling to explore the role of feelings in your daily existence and practice ways to have them increase the richness and intimacy in your life.

Jim Morningstar, PhD, shares a 2 minute introduction to the Gi Gong “Sun Breathing Exercise.” This simple exercise can be done anywhere to wake up and revitalize your body, calm your mind and refresh your spirit. The key to life mastery is not in a bottle or a pill, but right under your nose.
Enjoy this breath of fresh air with Jim.

Everything in us is moving. The heart pumps, blood flows, lungs expand and contract, eyes roll, eardrums vibrate. To be alive is to be moving. Inhibit the movement and you create illness. Stop movement and you are dead. Allow it fully and you realize wellness. In this introduction to the Life InWellness Series #5 Moving class, Jim Morningstar, PhD, presents information and demonstrates exercises to help you use your body in balanced and pleasurable ways and integrate them into your life.

It is through the senses — seeing, touching, smelling, hearing, tasting — that we come to know and enjoy the world. Our abilities to work, to feel pleasure, to communicate with others, and to impact the world are directly related to our abilities to appreciate and use our sensory input efficiently and creatively. In this introduction to the Life InWellness Series #3 Sensing class, Jim Morningstar, PhD, presents information and exercises to help us use our human sensory system to increase our potential for pleasure, satisfaction and meaning words lives.