Some days, chronic pain is not a dramatic event. It is the hand you use to push yourself out of bed. The familiar pinch when you turn to check traffic. The shoulder that has been hovering near your ear since approximately the Reagan administration. If you live with ongoing pain,
Return to balance:
physically, emotionally & spiritually.
There's You, and then there's "The best of You!"
I believe this best version of you is already here.
It hasn’t disappeared. It hasn’t abandoned you. Sometimes it’s simply buried beneath years of stress, pain, tension, old injuries, emotional patterns, and all the ways we learn to brace ourselves against life.
At Qiworks, my work is about helping you find your way back.
For more than three decades, I’ve been fascinated by the relationship between the body, mind, breath, energy, and the connective web we call fascia. And if there’s one thing all those years of working with people have taught me, it’s this:
Your body is not your enemy. It’s communicating with you.
Pain and tension are often more than problems to get rid of. They can be messages—clues pointing toward patterns your body has learned and continued to practice. Because the body becomes what it practices.
Through myofascial bodywork, Qigong, conscious breathing, movement, and awareness, we begin exploring those patterns together. Not by forcing the body to change, but by creating the conditions for it to remember another possibility.
More space. More movement. Less effort. A quieter nervous system. A deeper relationship with yourself.
And perhaps most importantly, we practice something different.
Instead of rehearsing tension, we begin rehearsing calm.
If you’re here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I work one-on-one with clients at Qiworks in West San Jose. Each session is different because each person—and each body—is different. I listen with my hands, follow what your body reveals, and allow the session to unfold from there.
If you’re farther away, you can still explore these principles through my classes, workshops, writings, and online teachings.
Wherever you begin, the intention is the same.
I’m not here to “fix” you.
I’m here to help you listen more deeply to the remarkable intelligence already within you—and perhaps discover that the balance you’ve been searching for isn’t somewhere out there waiting to be found.
It may simply be waiting for you to come home to it.
Welcome to Qiworks.
Let’s see what your body has been trying to tell you.
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What is Qigong?
There are three aspects of any Qigong exercise: The physical movement or position of our body, our breath and the intent or visualization.
Physical
Our body is our vehicle through which to experience this physical realm.
As we practice a Qigong exercise, Qi moves more dynamically through our body, and our inner observer awakens as Qi animates each cell.
Through our sensory nerves, we begin to feel its effects.
“The body becomes what it practices.”
Breath
The breath drives the Qi.
The tempo and volume of energy are controlled with our breath. When we change the pace and depth of our breath, we adjust the engine which moves the Qi.
Altering its speed and strength allows us to sedate or energize, according to our needs of the moment.
Visualization
Our imagination inspires the mind, and the mind directs the flow of the Qi.
Through visualization and intent, we strengthen the Qi's ability to clear, circulate, and cultivate optimal health.
“The body becomes what it practices.”
About Albert Perry
I’ve spent more than three decades listening to bodies.
And if there’s one thing they’ve taught me, it’s this:
The body is always trying to find its way back to balance.
Sometimes it just needs a little help remembering the way.
I’m Al Perry, a Medical Qigong therapist, bodyworker, teacher, author, and lifelong student of what makes us human. For more than 37 years, I’ve worked with people experiencing pain, restriction, stress, and the feeling that something simply isn’t moving the way it should.
My work combines myofascial bodywork, Qigong, conscious breathing, movement, and an understanding of the energetic body. But I don’t really think of these as separate techniques.
They’re different ways of having a conversation with the same remarkable human system.
I don’t believe I heal people.
That may sound odd for someone in the healing profession to say.
I believe you heal you.
My job is to listen, observe, feel, and sometimes ask your body a better question.
Pain is rarely just an isolated spot that needs to be “fixed.” The body is interconnected through fascia, movement, breath, nervous system, emotion, awareness, and energy. Pull on one thread and something may respond somewhere you never expected.
That’s why no two sessions with me are quite the same.
I’m not interested in forcing your body into somebody else’s idea of correct. I’m interested in discovering what your body has been practicing—and helping it discover another possibility.
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