Fall 2025 Workshop
Heaven and Earth Qigong
Opening, Releasing, and Strengthening the Body
with Paul Cavel
Chicago, October 16 - 19, 2025
Join in-person in Chicago or online from anywhere
In-person seats are limited. To secure in-person attendance, register now.
Join Paul Cavel's First Chicago Workshop
A unique opportunity to experience the transformative power of Qigong.
In this Workshop, under the expert guidance of Paul Cavel, you'll discover how simple, low-impact Qigong movements can penetrate the body to incredible depth. You'll release deep tension, open internal space, strengthen your body, and quiet your mind.
Heaven and Earth Qigong consist of two straightforward, yet sophisticated movements. Beginners can learn the movements quickly, often experiencing immediate benefits. The transformative power of Heaven and Earth Qigong springs from the Internal Practices ("Neigong") inside the movements.
With 30+ years experience in teaching Energy Arts, Paul is an expert at guiding students in how to discover and embody separate Neigong techniques, then how to weave them together into increasingly deep, powerful, and immensely beneficial practices.
Heaven and Earth Qigong is especially effective for helping you relax, balance, and quiet your body, mind, and Qi, supporting healing, and boosting vibrant health and energy.
A Special Invitation from Paul Cavel
Energy Arts Senior Instructor, author of The Tai Chi Space: How to Move in Tai Chi and Qigong (2017), and Heaven and Earth Qigong: How to Heal Your Body and Awaken Your Qi (2020) (coauthored with Master Bruce Frantzis).
Hi Everybody!
Thank you for considering my first-ever Chicago-based Workshop and thanks to my friend Chris Cinnamon of Chicago Tai Chi for inviting me.
I've taught Heaven and Earth Qigong throughout Europe and the US. I consider it a gift from the ancients, passed down over millennia, often in secret, from master to disciple.
Today, thanks to my teacher, Master Bruce Frantzis, we can share Heaven and Earth Qigong and its powerful Internal Practices ("Neigong") to a growing international community of practitioners.
In my Chicago Workshop, along with introducing and refining the physical movements, I'll guide you on how to incorporate successively deeper internal layers into your movements. This will include activating:
• Fascia to release deeply bound tension and generate softness and flow.
• Ligaments to improve joint health and move with fluidity and smoothness.
• Tendons to strengthen the body and generate power with less effort.
Balancing and integrating these Neigong threads will support health and healing, open new depths in your practices, and help you stimulate smooth, balanced, and powerful Qi flows.
Heaven and Earth Qigong bridges the beginning to advanced levels of internal arts training, yielding much more than a powerful form of exercise for health, healing, and relaxation. It is a journey into the systems, substructures, and layers of your body, energy, and mind.
In Chicago, I look forward to guiding you on that journey.
I welcome all experience levels to this Workshop.
New students will learn the movements of the Heaven and Earth Qigong form along with essential Neigong techniques.
More experienced students will receive systematic, in-depth instruction to build and grow their foundation in Neigong.
In-person space is limited. Register now to secure your place.
For those who wish to join virtually, we'll have plenty of room on Zoom.
For questions about the Workshop, you can reach Chris Cinnamon at chris@chicagotaichi.org
Looking forward to seeing you in October!
Paul Cavel
Energy Arts Senior Instructor
Founder, The Tai Chi Space
What You'll Learn
Two straightforward, yet sophisticated movements that work the entire body. The movements are especially effective for stimulating blood flow, quieting a busy mind, releasing tension, and improving mobility in the shoulders, upper back, neck, lower back, and hips.
How to access and move fascia, releasing tension, stimulating circulation of blood and Qi, and helping you develop more smoothness and flow.
How to access and move from ligaments, benefiting joint health, adding nearly effortless spring and fluidity to your movements.
How to access and move from tendons, developing strength and power with less strain.
How to initiate internal pulsing—openings and closings— to release the nerves and soften the body.
How to use the movements and Neigong to stimulate the flow of blood and Qi, relaxing and energizing the body, and promoting vibrant health.
Workshop Recordings Included
(6 months access)
Great for review and practice.
From Master Bruce Frantzis
Taoist Master, Author, and Founder of Energy Arts
“Paul is a gifted teacher who is able to embody the arts and break them down into easy-to-follow steps. I have seen him help others build extraordinary energetic foundations in their bodies.”
Meet Your Instructor
Paul Cavel, Energy Arts Senior Instructor
Paul Cavel is the principal of The Tai Chi Space, a school based in California and London. Paul focuses his teaching on the millennia-old Water Method, including Taoist neigong, meditation, qigong, Yang and Wu style tai chi and bagua.
Paul has taught Taoist energy arts since 1995, and in 2004 he became a senior instructor of Taoist Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis. Paul is one of only three individuals authorized by Master Frantzis to certify instructors in the Energy Arts System.
Paul is the author of two books, The Tai Chi Space: How to Move in Tai Chi and Qi Gong (2017) and Heaven and Earth Qigong: Heal Your Body and Awaken Your Qi (2020) (co-authored with Bruce Frantzis).
Paul's Books
Workshop Details
Course Schedule (All Times USA Central Daylight Time)
Thursday, October 16, 2025
9 am In-person registration
9:30 am - 4 pm with a 2-hour lunch break
Friday - Sunday, October 17 - 19, 2025
9:30 am - 4 pm with a 2-hour lunch break
18 hours total instruction
Course Location, In-Person Attendance
Chicago Tai Chi
180 West Washington Street, Suite 900
Chicago, Illinois, 60602
Located in the heart of the City Center, known as the "Chicago Loop." Convenient to transit, lodging, restaurants, parking, and world-class museums and attractions.
Online Attendance
We will stream the Workshop on Zoom, in interactive mode. Depending on your Zoom set-up, Paul will be able to see you, providing feedback and coaching as time permits.
Access to Workshop Recordings
Miss a session? Want to review what you learned? You'll have access to Workshop recordings for 6 months after Workshop.
Testimonials
"Paul reveals the layers of Heaven and Earth in ways where all levels of students benefit. He also explains both Eastern and Western anatomy in a practical way and relates it back to the practice”
- Pradeep G., MD, MPH.
The sensation of energy was effective, the guiding was excellent, and the humour of Paul was what I liked best about the course. My practice has improved enormously, as I have entered into the sensation of Qi and it is a huge difference from before where I was doing the movements almost mechanistically”.
- Valerie H.B.
“Paul’s teaching is amazing. He breaks down the complicated to make it easy”!
- Graham B., DO
“Paul always exceeds expectations. Even over Zoom his observations are spot on and his corrections insightful”.
- Oliver R.
"Paul’s teaching is world-class...the content taught was profound and Paul’s ability to convey, explain and order the information into a coherent progression through the retreat is a special skill in itself.”
- Mir A.
“Paul adheres to the principles of separate and combine. So he breaks down everything he teaches and then reconstructs.... this format allows one to better understand the journey and what experiences may occur in the future as we progress with our training.”
- JB, DO.
Workshop Fee
Heaven and Earth Qigong
Opening, Releasing, and Strengthening the Body
Workshop Package: $597
4-day Live Workshop
Thursday, October 16 - Sunday, October 19, 9:30 am - 4 pm CT
Attend Online or In-Person (Seats Limited)
Access to Workshop Recordings
Recordings will be available for 6 months after Workshop.
To Register, click the button below.
Disclaimer, Release, and Copyrights
Deep contemplation, physical contact, and the risk of injury and emotional stress are inherent in the practice of meditation, Qigong, movement, martial and other arts taught by Paul Cavel, The Tai Chi Space LLC, Chris Cinnamon, Chicago Tai Chi LLC, and associated certified instructors, and their assistants. This course is not for people with mental health issues and, if you have any concerns about your wellbeing, you should receive approval from your healthcare professional before attending this course. By registering for this course, you assume full responsibility for all risks of loss, damage, or injury of any kind that you may sustain; and waive and release any claim against Paul Cavel, The Tai Chi Space LLC, Chris Cinnamon, Chicago Tai Chi LLC, and associated certified instructors, and their assistants.
You may sit out of any practice or exercise as you like.
The names, materials, exercises and components, and teaching methodology used throughout the course are protected by copyrights and trademarks owned by Paul Cavel, The Tai Chi Space LLC, Chris Cinnamon, or Chicago Tai Chi LLC. Course content may NOT be reproduced in any form, sold, or otherwise used without expressed written permission.