Spring Forest Qigong (chee gong) is a simple, efficient, and effective method for helping you experience your optimal health, wellness, and happiness; helping you heal physical and emotional pain; and helping you enhance the quality of your life and the lives of others.
Basic Description of Qigong & Spring Forest Qigong
What Doctors and Health Care Professionals are saying about Spring Forest Qigong
Spring Forest Qigong "extremely effective" in treating Depression & Bipolar Disorder
- SFQ is Balance
- The goal of SFQ is to enhance the quality of your life by teaching you ways to open your energy channels and maintain balance. Remove the imbalance, and you remove the pain.
- SFQ is Energy
- Everything in the universe is a form of energy. Your mind, your body, and your spirit are energy. All sicknesses of your body, mind, or spirit are caused by energy blockages. We help you remove those blockages and transform that energy.
- SFQ is Movement
- The SFQ method is simple and easy to learn. It is comprised of four parts that all work together:
- Breathing
- Gentle Movements
- Mental Focus
- Sound
- SFQ is Empowerment
Empower yourself to live a life without limits!
As of now, there are three free practice groups in Solano County (with more to come):
- Wednesday mornings
- Unity Church - 350 North Orchard Ave, Vacaville
9 AM to 10:30 AM - Thursdays
- Acupuncture Plus - 310 E. Monte Vista, Vacaville
11:30 AM to 1 PM
begins January 8th - Sunday evenings
- Grace Episcopal Church - 1st & Kentucky in Fairfield
(either room 6 or Parish Hall inside courtyard)
5 PM to 6:30 PM
Anyone who has either pre-registered for and/or completed any SFQ Level I class and/or owns the Level I instructional materials is welcome to any practice group. Contact the instructor (see below) for more information. Any comfortable clothing is fine for SFQ. Feel free to bring a meditation cushion if you prefer that to a chair. All of SFQ Level I, both the active exercise and the meditations, can be performed, sitting, standing or lying down, depending on your level of fitness and focus. SFQ is easy to practice at any level of fitness and health. Please always check with your health care professional before starting any new exercise program.
The entire SFQ Level I class is broken down into two 4 hour sessions, which includes the active exercise, 2 meditations, and a simple healing technique, in addition to secrets for success in healing yourself and others.
Please check the Nutrition Shoppe Calendar for upcoming class dates.
The cost for the class is $150, which includes tuition for the complete 2 session class, and all materials including an instructional DVD, the CD for the meditations, the Level I manual, FREE ongoing phone and internet coaching and support and access to all free practice groups, as well as a certificate for completion of SFQ Level I. 
Classes will be taught by Steve Vale. Steve has studied and practiced various forms of qigong and Tai Chi for over 30 years. He is certified as a teacher in 2 forms of qigong (including SFQ by Master Chunyi Lin, the founder and Grandmaster of SFQ) and taught Tai Chi to beginners for 5 years. Steve is also a rabbi, spiritual counselor and professional storyteller, emphasizing healing in all his work. He also does Spring Forest Qigong healing.