Mindfulness for Life 21-Day Experience
Seven Harmonies Qigong System
With Meditation & Mindful Movement Educator
Terry J. Hodgkinson
A seven-movement Qigong system created to help you embody mindfulness through gentle movement,
breath awareness, energy flow, and grounded presence throughout the Mindfulness for Life journey.
A Personal Note from Terry
The Seven Harmonies Qigong System has grown out of many years of personal practice, teaching, study, and direct experience with meditative movement. It reflects my deep appreciation for Qigong as a way of bringing mindfulness into the body, not as an idea alone, but as something felt through breath, posture, rhythm, and awareness.
This practice has been shaped through decades of study within Daoist and Buddhist traditions, as well as teachings and influences encountered in Canada, India, and China. Over time, these movements have become more than physical exercises. They have become a living practice of returning to centre.
In the Mindfulness for Life journey, Qigong offers a way to embody what you are learning through meditation, reflection, and daily awareness. The movements are gentle, accessible, and designed to support grounding, energy flow, emotional steadiness, and a deeper connection between mind, body, and breath.
My hope is that these instructional videos help you practise with confidence and ease. Whether you are new to Qigong or returning to it with experience, may these seven movements become a quiet companion, guiding you back to presence, balance, and inner harmony.
Seven Harmonies Qigong as Moving Meditation
As one of the four core components of the Mindfulness for Life 21-Day Experience, the Seven Harmonies Qigong System brings mindfulness into gentle movement, breath awareness, and embodied presence.
Qigong, meaning “energy cultivation,” is an ancient Chinese practice that combines slow movement, breathing, intention, and awareness. Unlike strenuous exercise, Qigong emphasizes softness, fluidity, and inner listening. As the body begins to settle, the mind often becomes more spacious, and the breath begins to move with greater ease.
This video instructional course includes nine videos: one introduction to Qigong and the principles behind the practice, seven individual tutorial videos teaching each of the Seven Harmonies movements, and one final flowing sequence that brings all seven movements together.
Each movement offers a different doorway into harmony. Together, they support the relationship between inner and outer awareness, above and below, movement and stillness, mind and body, intention and breath.
Within the Mindfulness for Life program, Qigong is offered as a form of moving meditation. It helps you experience mindfulness not only while sitting quietly, but while standing, breathing, moving, and returning to centre in the living rhythm of everyday life.
How to Use the Qigong Video Component
The Seven Harmonies Qigong video component is designed to be simple, supportive, and easy to follow. You do not need previous Qigong experience to begin. Each movement is taught with care, giving you time to understand the posture, breath, intention, and feeling behind the practice.
You may choose to move through the videos slowly, learning one movement at a time, or return to a single video whenever you feel drawn to a particular harmony. Some days, your practice may be brief and quiet. Other days, you may wish to spend more time moving, breathing, and settling into the flow.
The purpose is not to perform the movements perfectly. The purpose is to practise with awareness. Let the body soften, let the breath guide you, and allow each movement to become a doorway back to presence.
Within the Mindfulness for Life journey, these videos support the body-mind connection. They help you release tension, restore balance, cultivate steadiness, and bring mindfulness into movement rather than keeping it only as a seated practice.
Understanding the Nine-Video Sequence
This Qigong video component includes nine instructional videos created to support both understanding and embodied practice.
The first video introduces Qigong and the foundations of the Seven Harmonies system. It explores the relationship between breath, movement, awareness, intention, and energy cultivation. It also offers a simple understanding of how emotional strain, tension, and imbalance can affect the body, and how mindful movement may help restore greater ease and flow.
Following the introduction are seven individual tutorial videos, each dedicated to one of the Seven Harmonies Qigong movements. These videos guide you step by step through the physical movement, breathing pattern, mindful intention, and energetic quality of each practice.
The final video brings all seven movements together into one flowing sequence. With less explanation and more continuity, this practice allows you to move from learning into rhythm, from instruction into embodiment, and from separate movements into one unified flow.
Together, the nine videos create a complete learning path. You are guided first through understanding, then through each individual movement, and finally into a full practice that can be returned to again and again.
Lineage & Roots of the Practice
The Seven Harmonies Qigong System has been shaped by Terry J. Hodgkinson through more than four decades of personal practice, study, teaching, and reflection. It is influenced by Terry’s long-standing interest in Daoist and Buddhist traditions, mindful movement, meditation, breathwork, and the living relationship between body, mind, and awareness.
This practice quietly honours several streams of influence. Toronto represents the modern teaching context where these practices have been shared, refined, and offered to students over many years. Pune reflects inner cultivation, meditation, and contemplative depth. Wudangshan points toward the classical Daoist roots that have long inspired Qigong, internal arts, stillness, and harmony with nature.
The movements are not presented as technique alone. They are offered as a living practice, refined through experience, teaching, and personal integration. Each movement carries a particular quality of harmony, supporting the relationship between inner and outer, above and below, mind and body, movement and stillness, breath and intention.
At its heart, Seven Harmonies Qigong is a practice of returning to centre. It invites you to move gently, breathe fully, listen inwardly, and reconnect with the quiet intelligence of the body.
Continue your Mindfulness for Life journey through deeper study, guided listening,
or the complete four-component experience.