Karolien Polenus & Yuxuan Cui
Body-based workshop with 2 daily energy routines routed in ancient natural healing traditions.
ENG | workshop | 1h30 | Warandepark (Parc de Bruxelles) | 33 euro (of vrije bijdrage)
Part 1: An Introduction to Energy Medicine by Karolien Polenus
During this session, Karolien guides you through a daily energy routine that lays the foundation for harnessing your body's innate healing energies. Delving deeper, the class is tailored to address specific areas that are tailored to your needs. These areas span a wide spectrum, from understanding and harmonizing the female cycle to fortifying the immune system, managing stress, and more.
Unlock the potential of your natural energies as they emerge as your ultimate healers. Through fundamental insights and user-friendly techniques, you will discover the art of mobilizing these intrinsic energies to serve your wellbeing.
Karolien believes that by offering knowledge and tools, we can foster a deeper connection to ourselves, enabling you to take charge of your own health and wellbeing. Embrace this opportunity to not just learn, but to empower yourself in the art of self-care and healing.
Part 2: Wu Qin Xi (Five Animal Frolics) by Yuxuan Cui
Yuxuan initiates a body-based workshop rooted in Wu Qin Xi (Five Animal Frolics), an ancient Chinese movement practice that emerged from traditional Daoist healing systems. It is a slow, meditative form of exercise that mimics the gestures of five animals — tiger, deer, bear, monkey, and bird. Far beyond performative imitation, it is a somatic language of empathy and attention. Yuxuan invites participants of all ages to engage in these gestures, creating a space for interspecies resonance and embodied reorientation.
This practice is not only a cultural offering — it is a healing gesture. In its essence, Wu Qin Xi reconnects the human body to non-human intelligence through motion, rhythm, and breath. In doing so, it enables a temporary suspension of anthropocentric control: the body becomes not a tool of dominance, but a vessel for sensing, mourning, and transforming. It opens space for participants to process collective fatigue, ecological grief, and sensory estrangement through non-verbal, intuitive movement. It is an act of both physical recalibration and mental renewal.
Join Karolien and Yuxuan on this transformative journey and empower yourself with the wisdom to cultivate and channel your own healing energies effectively.