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Kitchen Qi
Where Food and Qigong Meet to Create
5-Elements Cuisine
Date: February 1, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: 15 Ice Glen Rd, Stockbridge, Ma
What to Expect:
Qigong Practice (30-45 mins):
Open your Energy Gates with an energizing Qigong session.
Seasonal Cooking Class:
Create delicious, kidney-supporting dishes with 5-elements cuisine.
Fun and Deep Discussions:
Learn how food and Qigong combine to support your energy, emotions, and health in every season.
A Nourishing Menu:
A full, delicious, nourishing meal that supports our kidney organ system during the winter season.
Final menu not yet available.
Winter has its own rhythm — slower, quieter, more inward.
KitchenQi Winter is a chance to honor that rhythm with a morning of movement, connection, and cooking that supports the Kidneys and the Water Element.
It’s informal, grounded, and heart-centered.
We move. We breathe. We cook together.
And everyone leaves feeling steadier and more themselves.
What We’ll Do: Warm-up + Shaking + Qigong
We start gently, waking up the body and shaking off whatever you don’t need to carry. Fear is the emotional signature of an unbalanced kidney and shaking helps us—well—shake it off!! It’s simple, light, and surprisingly effective.
Then, we'll do a beautiful healing practice called The Four Energy Gates:
These are easy movements you can use every day to feel calmer and connected:
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Gate 1 is the Large Intestine 4 acupuncture point on the hand — it supports immunity + letting go
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Gate 2 is the Heart Center — it is soothing and a pure dose of self-love
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Gate 3 is the Lower Dantian — brings you back into your center
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Gate 4 is the Gallbladder point (upper hip) — restores flow and ease
Combined with Qi Marching, you'll be literally marching into the kitchen open, energized, and ready to cook up a storm!
And the playlist is Magnifique!!
Cooking Together
We’ll be chopping, mixing, mincing, stirring, laughing, smiling, and feeling the love while we cook a nourishing, winter-friendly meal using foods that support the Kidneys and Water Element — broths, beans, greens, shellfish, warming spices and something sweet.
You’ll Leave
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In love with each other
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Feeling a sense of calm and community
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Completely relaxed, balanced and nourished
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With a knowledge of the 5 Elements Consciousness Framework
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With an understanding about the importance of being in alignment with nature
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With simple practices and recipes you’ll want to cook and shar
Join Us
If you’ve been craving warmth, grounding, clarity, or community this winter, KitchenQi is a beautiful opportunity. It’s real, it’s relaxed, and it meets you exactly where you are.
Come as you are. Leave lighter, freer, and full of Qi.
No previous qigong or cooking experience necessary—all are warmly welcome!
* Special Appearance at the Berkshire Botanical Garden:
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April 4, 2026 - Spring - will be held at the Berkshire Botanical Garden
Meet Your Facilitator
Carole Murko
My own path to loving myself is still unfurling. The tools that have helped me are meditation, qigong, energy healers, shaman, plant medicine and herbalism, conscious eating, and more.
I pursued certifications to deepen my understanding of healing and I am now teaching these and helping others.
I am a healer. A coach. A love activist. I teach you how to create the best version of yourself through neuroscience, nutrition, and qigong.
My hallmark program is Dr. Joe Dispenza’s neuroscience-based change program, CHANGE YOUR MIND…CREATE NEW RESULTS. I teach this within corporations to corporate leaders and their teams, to entrepreneurs, to individuals (one-on-one), and retreat-style to groups. The program is designed to create a fundamental understanding of how our brain and body work so you can begin to master your thoughts to create your future. To master yourself. In my humble opinion, it is mind-blowingly effective when participants practice the tools and experience the transformation that changes their lives, their organization, and their health.