Keeping Your Brain Young
2026-06-10 18:00 - 2026-07-01 19:00 UTC | ONLINE
A sharp mind isn’t just about avoiding decline—it’s about thriving, even as the years pass. Cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient wisdom are revealing surprising ways to keep your brain vibrant, creative, and resilient. Here’s how to turn your gray matter into a lifelong superpower.
Flex Your Neuroplasticity
Your brain can rewire itself at any age. Learning a new language, picking up a musical instrument, or tackling unfamiliar challenges stimulates neuroplasticity and boosts BDNF, the protein that helps neurons grow.
Feed Your Gut, Fuel Your Mind
Your microbiome isn’t just about digestion—it communicates directly with your brain. A diverse gut ecosystem produces neurotransmitters, regulates inflammation, and supports memory.
Move, Dance, Energize
Exercise isn’t just physical—it’s cognitive. Activities that combine movement, coordination, and rhythm stimulate both brain hemispheres, enhance blood flow, and even improve mood. Practices like Tai Chi, dance, or Qigong engage subtle energies that may enhance neuroregeneration.
Sleep Deep, Dream Big
Sleep cleanses your brain of toxins, consolidates memory, and refreshes cognition. Dreaming isn’t idle: techniques like lucid dreaming or guided visualization can integrate emotions, spark creativity, and strengthen intuition.
Explore Subtle Energies
Emerging science hints that electromagnetic fields and quantum-level energy may influence neural function. Ancient practices like energy cultivation, sound resonance, and meditation may already be harnessing these subtle forces.
Connect, Challenge, Create
Social interaction, meaningful conversation, and creative outlets are vital. Engaging with others, sharing ideas, and expressing yourself artistically keep your mind sharp and your spirit nourished.
Join us start June 10 for a 4 week series on this and MORE to avoid the difficulties of an aging brain!
A thriving brain is no accident. It’s the result of deliberate mental exercise, gut-supportive nutrition, rhythmic movement, restorative sleep, subtle energy work, and rich social engagement.
Class will be recorded for those who cannot attend live!
Register before May 31 at noon for only $69.
Tuition after than : only $99
Register NOW!!

Weekly Wisdom: The Biology of Compassion
2026-08-12 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE
The Science and Spirit of Our Greatest Human Gift
When we think of compassion, many people think of kindness, generosity, or helping another person in need. These are certainly expressions of compassion. But what if compassion is something much deeper? What if compassion is not simply an emotion we experience, but a biological intelligence woven into who we are as human beings?
For thousands of years, wisdom traditions around the world have recognized compassion as one of the highest expressions of consciousness. Ancient healers understood that the relationship between people—the presence, intention, and connection between individuals—could influence healing.
Today, modern science is beginning to explore what these traditions have long suggested:
Our biology responds to connection.
The nervous system listens.
The heart communicates.
The immune system responds.
The brain changes through our experiences and relationships.
We are not isolated biological machines. We are living, communicating systems constantly influenced by the world around us.
This raises a profound question:
Could compassion itself be a form of medicine?
Throughout my decades as a physician, teacher, and healer, I have witnessed something repeatedly:
People often begin healing when they feel truly seen, heard, and understood.
Before a treatment.
Before a protocol.
Before a technique.
There is relationship. There is presence. There is compassion.
This is not simply philosophy. It is part of the biology of being human.
A Four-Week Exploration of Compassion
I invite you to join me for a four-week journey exploring The Biology of Compassion, where we will examine compassion through the lenses of science, healing, consciousness, and ancient wisdom.
Together we will explore:
Week One: The Neuroscience of Compassion
How compassion influences the brain, nervous system, emotional regulation, and our ability to connect with others.
Week Two: The Heart, Hormones, and Healing Connection
Exploring the relationship between compassion, stress physiology, inflammation, resilience, and the body’s ability to restore balance.
Week Three: Compassion as Energy and Communication
Exploring ancient perspectives of Qi, Shen, presence, intention, and the idea that healing begins when communication is restored.
Week Four: Living Compassion — Becoming a Healing Presence
How compassion transforms not only those we help, but ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world around us.

Compassion is not weakness.
It is not simply being nice. Compassion requires courage. It requires the ability to remain open in a world that often encourages separation.
It requires us to recognize that beneath our differences, every living being shares the same fundamental desire:
To be seen.
To be valued.
To belong.
Perhaps the greatest evolution of humanity will not come from gaining more information.
Perhaps it will come from remembering our connection.
I invite you to join me for this special four-week exploration of The Biology of Compassion.
Whether you are a healthcare professional, caregiver, teacher, seeker, or simply someone who wants to understand yourself and others more deeply, this series is designed to offer both practical tools and profound reflection.
Together, we will explore a simple but powerful idea:
Compassion may be one of the most important medicines we have forgotten how to use.
Reserve your place in advance and join us for this journey into the science, wisdom, and transformative power of compassion.
Tuition: $79 for registration prior to Aug 1. $99 for registration Aug 1 and after
Classes on Wednesday evenings 6-7pm ET LIVE on Zoom, Classes recorded and made available on the website page for the class to viewed for the next year.
LIVE CLASS DATES: August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 2026
Click here to Register!

Medical Clinical Qigong Therapist Certification
2026-09-06 09:00 - 2026-09-10 16:30 | Inner Strength, Inc., 825 Lovers Leap Rd, Leechburg, PA, 15656, United States
Our Medical / Clinical Qigong Therapist certification program is designed to empower you to make a difference in people’s lives. Whether you’re looking to open a clinic or offer holistic therapy sessions, our program has everything you need to succeed. At Inner Strength, we understand that you want to be well-rounded and work with the latest technology and science.
This is the first of 4 session for the year to obtain certification. Tuition covers all 4 sessions for the year. Tuition is $6300 covering all 4 sessions in the year. *Tuition includes in-person intensives (see “Program Dates”), small class sizes to insure direct access to Dr. Ted Cibik, and access to the online bonus materials. Tuition does not include transportation, lodging, meals, or any personal expenses incurred by students in attending any online or in-person components of a course.
This is also the FIRST STEP of the 3 year program to obtain your Doctor of Medical Qigong Certification.
Led by Dr. Cibik, a Dr. of Chinese Medicine and Dr. of Medical QiGong, our program provides a unique blend of Eastern and Western medicine. Dr. Cibik is a Traditional Naturopath who uses nutrition, exercise, and meditation in actively treating patients. He has been known for healing even the most difficult of cases and is the go-to Dr. for anyone in the energetic field of medicine that becomes ill themselves.
Certifications and/or Additional Materials included:

Medical/Clinical Qigong Therapist
Energetic Exercise Science
Energetic Blood Work introduction
Emergency Energetic Response introduction

BONUS MATERIALS
Access to all the 2021- 2022- 2023 Weekly Qigong Recorded lectures from Dr Cibik. Over 100 hours of rich content on specific Qigong and Taoist topics.
Join us at Inner Strength QiGong Courses and become a certified Medical / Clinical QiGong Therapist – and make a positive impact on people’s lives using the latest in energy medicine!
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2026 Medical / Clinical
Qigong TherapistCertification Program:

Quarterly 5-day Program Dates
Sept 6-10, 2026
Dec 5-9, 2026
Mar 6-10, 2027
Jun 6-10, 2026
