Living Connected

Begin Here! I’ll introduce the philosophy of Living Connected, show you how the course is organized, and help you get the most from your experience.

Discover how the foundations, morning practice, and seasonal teachings work together so you can move through Living Connected with clarity and ease.

Explore your relationships with yourself, others, nature, and Source, and discover how each relationship shapes and nourishes the others.

The Five Elements are one of the maps we will use throughout Living Connected to understand the movement of energy within us and around us.

Take a quiz to see which elements you align most with.

Explore the Six Phases based in Chinese Medicine and how Connect, Release, Nourish, Build, Circulate, and Integrate guide the movement of energy through every practice. Heavily influenced by YOQI’s Six Phases of Qi Gong.

Learn the alignment, movements, breathwork, and energetic intention of the Living Connected Morning Practice step by step.

A foundational 20-minute recorded practice to awaken your body, move your Qi, support circulation and lymphatic flow, settle your nervous system, and begin your day with greater presence.

Living Connected includes Qigong and gentle movement, breath awareness, meditation, guided imagery, sound, reflection, and seasonal nourishment. These practices are intended to support your relationship with your body and inner wisdom. Your body remains the authority.

Living Connected has grown from many streams of wisdom, teaching, relationship, and lived experience.

Living Connected is an educational and experiential wellness program created by Kelly Lee of Kelly Lee Bodywork. It includes teachings and practices drawn from Qigong, Chinese Medicine, meditation, breath awareness, gentle movement, guided imagery, sound, seasonal nourishment, personal reflection, and intentional living.

Connect is the first phase of Living Connected. It carries the grounding energy of Earth and invites us to arrive within ourselves before deciding what needs to change.

Nourishment is at the heart of the Earth element. In Chinese medicine, the Spleen and Stomach help us receive food and transform it into something the body can use. These organ names describe a broader system of functions, including digestion and the distribution of nourishment.

In Chinese medicine, Late Summer belongs to the Earth element, the season of ripening and gathering. Gardens offer their harvest, the light begins to shift, and we have an opportunity to recognize what has grown in our own lives. Earth teaches us to receive nourishment and give it a useful place within us.

This lesson brings your attention into the physical body and invites the body to become a place of listening.

Scanning and sinking are related practices, yet each serves a different purpose. Scanning helps you notice what is present. Sinking helps your body receive support and soften unnecessary effort.

The last lesson established the physical body as a place of listening and support. Now we widen the scan to include the energy body.

Your abdomen is a center of nourishment and transformation. It is also a place where you may hold tension without realizing it. Morning self-massage offers a few quiet minutes to soften through the belly and care for this part of yourself before the day begins.

Wuji is the foundational posture we return to throughout Qi Gong. It gives us a balanced place to begin movement, pause between exercises, and settle at the end of practice. Through small adjustments, we learn to feel supported while releasing unnecessary effort.

Wuji gives us a place to settle. Opening the kua helps us carry that steadiness into movement.

The kua is the area of the deep hip folds where the legs meet the pelvis. Learning to soften here allows the pelvis to move more freely over the legs, helping us bend and shift our weight with less unnecessary effort.

This practice brings what you learned in the tutorial into a complete flow. You’ll explore how the kua connects your legs with your center, allowing you to shift your weight and move while staying rooted in the ground beneath you.

The Lower Dantien is a center we return to throughout qigong. Located deep within the lower abdomen, below the navel, its name means “elixir field.” In the traditional teaching, it is a reservoir where we gather and cultivate vitality Qi. Bringing breath and attention into this region helps us develop a familiar sense of center that carries into movement and meditation.

This tutorial helps you translate the previous lesson into something you can feel in your own body. I guide you through the breathing movement, using the hands as gentle feedback while you develop a connection with your lower center.

This seated practice builds on Lower Dantien Breathing. In the Qi Gong tradition, activation helps cultivate and gather Qi in the lower abdomen. The outward breath carries the intention of releasing stagnation, while attention returns inward to nourish your center.

The Inner Smile is a Daoist meditation that brings warmth and appreciation into your relationship with your body. You offer yourself the quality of attention you might offer someone you deeply love.

Many of us notice our bodies most when something needs attention. This practice gives appreciation a place in that relationship, too. A small smile helps express an inward message: I am here with you. Your life matters to me.

One of the deepest intentions behind Living Connected is to help you build a relationship with yourself that you can trust. The teachings offer support as you learn to recognize your own experience and make choices that honor your life.

This practice brings the teaching of Listening Within into the body. Gentle movement prepares you for the standing postures, where you explore receiving support and guidance while staying connected to your own experience.

This Earth Flow is an invitation to return to your center, feel the ground beneath you, and deepen your trust in yourself and in the universe.

As the days shorten and the leaves begin to fall, nature offers us a rhythm to explore in our own lives. We turn inward, gather our energy, and notice what matters most. We carry the grounding and trust we explored in our Connect phase into this next season: Release.

As we begin Fall and Release, take a few minutes to notice what you are carrying through the four relationships of Living Connected: yourself, others, nature, and Source.

Fall invites us to notice what is changing around us and within us. The light shifts, the air may grow cooler or drier, and our needs may change with the season. Begin by noticing the Fall where you live and how you are responding to it.

Release tension. Nourish your energy. Begin your day feeling connected.

Before the day asks anything of you, give yourself a little space to breathe and feel.

This guided practice weaves together body tapping, shaking, humming, mindful breathing, and flowing movement. We make room to release what feels heavy, receive nourishment, and gather our energy for the day ahead.

Grief can arise whenever something meaningful changes: a relationship, a role, our health, or a future we imagined. In Chinese Medicine, fall and the Metal element invite us to recognize what matters, honor what we miss, and explore what we’re ready to release.

This guided practice offers space to meet grief, change, and emotional tension through your body. Rooted in Chinese Medicine and the Metal element of fall, we’ll explore Qi Gong, breath, and sound to soften tension in the shoulders and jaw, move the chest and ribs, and invite a more comfortable breath.

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