AUGUST 2026
TUESDAY 18 AUGUST
Evening Event: Soul Journey Qigong 1 and Gong Meditation at Løken Gård, Fetsund, and online live, 19.00-20.30
Warmly welcome to join us either at Løken Gård or online, live, to share an evening of deep stillness and healing of yourself and the earth. An evening when you let go of energies that hold you back and let yourself be filled with the original light of love - Munay.
Together we will practice Soul Journey Qigong 1 - The Initiation of the Heart to the healing tones of gongs and crystal instruments. This will be followed by a guided Gong Meditation when you can let yourself journey with the deeply balancing tones and vibrations from gongs, crystal singing bowls and crystal pyramids.
No previous expericence with qigong or meditation is needed!
What is qigong? "Qi" means "life energy" and "gong" means "method". Qigong originates from China and can be described as a meditation in movement. For thousands of years it has been practiced by the Chinese to create balance between body, mind and soul and thereby stay in good health. There are numerous different kinds of qigong. Soul Journey Qi Gong is a unique form created by Maria Løken - a blend of old eastern philosophy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and ancient shamanic wisdom. It consists of series of soft, slow, beautiful, simple and powerful movements made with a specific concentration for each movement.
By practicing Soul Journey Qi Gong you stimulate the circulation of "qi", blood and lymph in your body. You fill every cell in your body with fresh oxygen and you stimulate all your inner organs.
On a soul level, practicing Soul Journey Qigong can help you open up your heart and feel the oneness with nature and the universe. Feel the oneness with every part of creation. You can find your own light, your unique vibration of the original source of love.
The effect of the qigong practice is deepened and strengthened by the healing tones from gongs and crystal instruments played by Bjørn.
The qigong session will be followed by a deeply healing Gong Meditation during which you can let go of heavy energies that do not serve you anymore and bring in the original light of love from heaven and earth. The tones and frequences enter on cellular level in your body, help you open up and release blockings and tensions.
LEADERS: Maria and Bjørn Løken. Maria is the creator of Soul Journey Qi Gong, a Certified Instructor of Medical Qigong according to the Biyun method, a sound healer and a shaman. Bjørn is a professional musician, a percussion teacher and Professor of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music, a sound healer, a shaman and a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher.
DATE AND TIME: 18 August at 19.00-20.30
PLACE: The new course room in our barn at Løken Gård, Løkenveien 37, 1900 Fetsund (the barn with the red roof) AND ONLINE, LIVE! We will send a link to you who participate online 15 minutes before the start of the event. It is essential that you take in the sound through good headphones (on ear) or good loudspeakers to get the most possible out of the experience! You will nog be able to experience the sound of the gongs and crystal instruments through the cell phone!
SIGN UP: You sign up for the event by sending an SMS to Maria to +47 466 35 283 or an e-mail to picaflorlifeenergy@gmail.com at the latest two hours before the event. The spots at Løken Gård fill up quickly so to secure a spot it's best to sign up a few days before the event!
INVESTMENT: 400 NOK. To be paid by Vipps or Swish to the above mobile number by participants in Norway or Sweden. Participants in other countries can pay by PayPal.
TUESDAY 24 AUGUST
Free Try-out-session of Soul Journey Qigong 1 -
The Initiation of the Heart
Løken Gård, Fetsund AND ONLINE, LIVE, 19.00-ca 20.15
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LEADER: Maria Løken, Certified Instructor of Medical Qigong according to the Biyun method, Creator of Soul Journey Qigong 1-3, Sound Healer, Shaman
CO-CREATOR: Bjørn Løken, professional musician, Professor Emeritus of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Sound Healer, Shaman, Certified Instructor of Kundalini Yoga
PLACE: Løken Gård, Løkenveien 37, 1900 Fetsund AND ONLINE, LIVE!
DATE AND TIME: Monday 24 August, 19.00-20.15
SIGN UP: You sign up for the session by sending an SMS to Maria to +47 466 35 283 or an e-mail to picaflorlifeenergy@gmail.com
ABOUT SOUL JOURNEY QIGONG 1 - THE INITIATION OF THE HEART
In this try-out-session, Maria will tell you a little about Qigong in general and Soul Journey Qigong 1 in particular and then we will practice together to the tones from gongs and crystal instruments.
Soul Journey Qigong 1 consists of five series of simple, soft, beautiful, slow and powerful movements with a specific concentration for each movement. The movements and the concentration help you connect on a very deep level with the earth, the water, the mountains, the wind, the trees and the universe. You can feel the oneness with the whole of creation. The program takes around 40 minutes.
This method is a unique form of Qigong, a beautiful and powerful blend of the wisdom of the East, ancient shamanic wisdom (mainly from the Q'ero shamans in the Andes, descendants of the Incas) and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
On a physical level by practising Soul Journey Qigong 1 you stimulate the circulation of blood and lymph in your body, you soften and strengthen muscles, joints and ligaments and you make the life energy, Qi, flow freely in the 12 energy meridians that are connected to the main inner organs in your body.
On a spiritual level you can find your way back to your own light. You center yourself, connect with all the lay lines and water lines on earth, cleanse and strengthen your magnetic field. You connect with the original life energy from the source of life and spread it through the spinal liquid to every cell in your body. And by cross-connecting and balancing the two sides of the brain, you create harmony within and open up for your intuition and creativity.
The whole program takes around 40 minutes to practice but you can also choose to practice just one or a few series of movements.
When you take a course in Soul Journey Qigong 1, the course material includes a video recording of the method (made in the Blue Mountain Hall in Oldedalen) in which Maria shows the whole program accompanied by the deeply healing tones from Bjørn's playing on gongs and crystal instruments. She also gives spoken instructions to the movements. This is to help you practice the method at home.
During the course, Maria will also introduce you to energy medicine, how we can come in balance by working on a deep energetic level with ourselves.
Each session ends with a deeply relaxing Soundbath to the tones from Maria's voice toning and playing on crystal singing bowls, crystal pyramids and gongs.
Sometimes Bjørn will be joining us and play on the Gongs and Crystal instruments during the Qigong practice, which deepens and strengthens the effect of the qigong. And at the end of those sessions, Maria and Bjørn will give a deeply relaxing and cleansing Guided Gong Meditation.
27-30 AUGUST
The Way of the Shaman - Deepening Course 3
This course is the third one of five for you who have already done at least one but preferably two rounds in our Medicine Wheel, The Circle of Light, and now wish to deepen your own soul journey and learn more about how to use the healing techniques of the Q'ero Shamans in the Andes with clients or on yourself. To open up your intuition more and more. To remember more of your origin in the stars and your soul's mission in this lifetime. To awaken the shaman within you and start walking the shamanic path in a deeper sense.
NB! You need to take the Deepening Courses in order, starting with Course 1 and continuing with Course 2 etc. so you cannot jump in any time like in the Medicine Wheel.
In part 3, the main focus is the Death process. You will learn how to perform "The Little Death Ceremony" when we lift the soul up from the body and let it hoover above the physical body for a while. You will also learn how to do "The Death Ceremony" in which we send the soul to the other side for a little while and then bring it back. Moreover we will share with you how to perform the Death Ceremony on someone who has died, to help that person go into the light.
Another focus during this course is on learning how to give three of the Initiations of the Pleiades - Alcyone, Maya and Asterope - in the traditional way of the Q'eros.
In part 3 of The Way of the Shaman, individual shadow work will also play an important role when we work with the Death process and the Initiations of the Pleiades. We will also continue doing exercises to open up your intuition more.
LEADERS: Bjørn and Maria Løken.
PLACE: Løken Gård, Løkenveien 37, 1900 Fetsund
Fetsund is situated 30 kilometers east of Oslo. You take the train from Oslo S to Lillestrøm and Bus 480 or 490 from Lillestrøm Bus Station to bus stop "Løken" in Fetsund. The bus stop is right next to the farm.
DATES AND TIME: 27-30 August. We start at 10 on Thursday and finish at 15 on Sunday. There will be evening work during the course.
INVESTMENT: 5500 NOK. To be paid by bill before the course begins.
SIGN UP: You sign up by sending an sms to Maria to 466 35 283 or an e-mail to picaflorlifeenergy@gmail.com To secure a spot on the course you will need to pay a registration fee of 1500 NOK that will be deducted from the final bill. We will e-mail you our bank account number as soon as you have let us know that you wish to participate.