Summer Programme 2026

Imagine this:

You are standing by the water on a warm summer’s day. Light dances on the surface. When you look down, you see your reflection. Yet it is not exactly as you are. The ripples stretch you, make you smaller, blur your contours. Your reflection moves constantly with the water.

And as you watch, you may realize something remarkable.

You, too, are constantly in motion.

Beneath your skin flows a living world. Your breath moves, your heart beats, thoughts come and go, emotions change like the weather. For thousands of years, Chinese sages have described the human body as a landscape filled with flowing energy: streams, rivers, lakes, and seas continually finding their way.

Yet we often forget this.

We tell ourselves stories such as: This is just how I am, It runs in the family, This is my weak spot, or That’s simply how the world works. Gradually, these stories become stone-like. What once flowed becomes rigid.

Perhaps you recognize this. The feeling of being stuck. As if you are swimming against the current. As if there is less room to move, play, and discover. Judgement takes the place of wonder. The glass seems half empty rather than half full.

Could it be different?

What happens if you step into that moving reflection this summer? If you again make space for what wants to flow,  for softness where hardness has developed, for movement where you have come to a standstill.

Then something new emerges.

Not because you need to become someone else, but because you are coming home more and more to who you have always been at your deepest self.

Love the World Upside Down offers you the opportunity to experience how you can move more freely within yourself, with others, and in the world. This six-week cycle unfolds as follows:

1. How Are You?
2. I Am Safe Now
3. I Move Freely
4. Stepping into the Upside-Down World
5. Together We Play
6. We Love Heaven and Earth

And then the cycle begins again. With fresh eyes, you return to the first question:

How are you now?

You may participate in the full summer cycle or choose the parts that resonate most with you.

Our bodies are constantly alert. Consciously and unconsciously, we scan the world around us: Am I safe? This natural survival response is valuable, but it is often shaped and distorted by experiences from the past. What once helped us survive may now work completely against us.

This week, you explore what it feels like to experience safety from within rather than seeking it outside yourself. Qigong and tai chi invite you to relax and truly feel the ground beneath your feet—the steady support of the earth that always carries you. In this way, you come home to your lower energy centre, your foundation of peace, strength, and trust.

From there, you can open yourself to the light and make room for everything that arises within you. Nothing needs to be different from what it is. Through your healing collage, you give form to what you have experienced. Your inner process becomes visible and remains tangible long after the summer has ended.

Step by step, you begin to feel:

I am here, and I am safe.

Qigong and Tai Chi, online
Wednesday, 29 July
Healing Collage, online
Friday, 31 July

There comes a moment when you feel ready to look beyond what is familiar. To take a step into a world that feels new, different from what you know. Perhaps even a little upside down.

This week, you explore what it is like to meet your edge without crossing it. With gentleness and awareness, you move toward what feels exciting, unfamiliar, or uncomfortable. Old experiences and memories may arise. Energy that was once needed for protection no longer needs to be held.

Through movement, awareness, and relaxation, this energy is given space to release and flow away.

Again and again, you return to your foundation: the place within where peace, safety, and trust reside. From this safe haven, you can once more move outward and meet the world.

In this way, your resilience grows. You discover that you can move with whatever life brings, without losing yourself.

I dare to meet the world from the safety within myself.

Qigong and Tai Chi, online
Wednesday, 12 August
Healing Collage, online
Friday, 14 August

This summer began with the question: How am I? The answer ultimately brings you here—to the capacity to embrace life fully.

This week, you meet both the healthy and the wounded parts of yourself. With the same openness, you meet others as well. There is no need to push anything away or make anything more beautiful than it is. Everything that is human belongs.

You experience how heaven and earth come together in your life. Heaven: love, inspiration, and wisdom. Earth: your body, your relationships, and everyday reality. Experiencing this connection brings a deep sense of wholeness. You stand firmly on the ground, knowing that you are part of something larger. You are not separate from life; you are inseparably connected to it.

Through qigong, tai chi, and the creation of a healing collage, you make space for this connection. You experience how life continually moves between turning inward and reaching outward, between receiving and giving, between earth and heaven.

And so you return again and again to that one simple question:

How am I?

Not because there will ever be a final answer, but because life itself is a continuous movement. A cycle of growing, meeting, letting go, and beginning again.

We love heaven and earth. Again and again.

Qigong and Tai Chi, online
Wednesday, 26 August
Healing Collage, online
Friday, 28 August