Rooted in core Qi Gong principles and ideas around energy cultivation, explore a movement practise that tends to our internal energy, which we will then transform into sculptures made from paper clay.

Building on their ongoing Daoist and Qi Gong practice and its intersection with paganism, land-based practice, and world building, bones tan jones will guide us through a series of gentle Qi Gong movements and energy cultivation techniques to nurture the dantian energy centres in our bodies.

Through poetry and written reflections, we will annotate scrap pieces of paper with our feelings, responses, and memories, before coming together and using our words in the creation a batch of sustainable paper clay. We will then dream up what our own personal energy balls might look like before bringing them into the physical realm moulding, sculpting, and shaping the paper clay, imbuing our balls with the collective and personal dreams, hopes, and poetic essences of the people convened in the space.

All materials provided – no experience in Qi Gong or clay is necessary!

This workshop will take place either in our outdoor courtyard (if the weather is on our side!) or in our indoor courtyard room at our main site at Bow Arts Trust, E3 2SJ.