Introducing I Ching: A Workshop and Community Offering
LiLi 丽丽 Nacht, as part of her artist in residence at GlogauAir, has curated a series of community-based workshops to share knowledge and practices of care and resilience.
Her upcoming collaboration invites Lingji Hon to share her insights on 易經 I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of Oracles, gained through her lifetime of Taiji Quan practice. Taiji Quan is a Taoist healing art that embodies the principles of I Ching within a framework of energy and movement.
They warmly welcome you to join in this community offering, and hope that this timeless resource of wisdom, paramount “book” and pillar of Chinese culture, can serve as a healing medicine and path to navigate the challenges of life with integrity and empowerment.
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What exactly is 易經 I Ching? And how can consulting “the Book of Change” help us to move through life in a state of empowered autonomy?
This intensive workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to I Ching as a book of wisdom and how to use the 3 coin divination method to unlock its secrets. We will explore the meaning of its name, its origins in early Chinese cosmology, and its transmission through legendary figures such as Fu Xi and King Wen. The workshop will also delve into the system’s philosophy and it’s relationship to Taoism, the concept of archetypes, its symbolic hexagrams, and the law of eternal change and transformation.
Participants will also learn to consult I Ching with the three-coin method, to gain insight into our past, present and future, and how to move in harmony with the Tao. Each person will cast their own reading during the workshop, and time will be reserved for questions, discussion, and optional sharing of experiences.
Please bring three clean coins with clearly distinguishable heads and tails.
If the workshop fee is a barrier to your participation—please feel free to reach out at contact.lilinacht@gmail.com
About the facilitators:
Lingji Hon 韓靈芝 is a Berlin based Taiji Quan and Qigong teacher from New York City. She began studying with her father, Sifu Sat Chuen Hon, when she was 5 years old, and is a lifelong student of his school- the Dan Tao Center of New York. She has a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Middlebury College and la Sorbonne, and studied Modern Dance with Ellen Robbins, Hunuyan Taiji with Xiaowu Qin, Baguazhang with Yunuen Rhi, Butoh with Valentin Tzsin, and DIP Whirling with Ziya Azazi. Her practice lies at the intersection of art and healing, integrating her dance training with her background in Classical Yang Taiji Quan, her explorations in Taoist philosophy, Chan Buddhism, Queer Theory, and her journey through motherhood. She has been leading regular classes and workshops in Europe and the US since 2017, and taught as a guest professor and mentor for the dance department at the Universität der Kunst- HZT Berlin from 2020-2024. She believes ancient Chinese healing practices can serve as a powerful medicine in today’s world, as well as a vital tool for activism, empowerment and protection.
LiLi 丽丽 Nacht is a Chinese-American painter, performance artist, and educator based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in meditation, ritual, Daoist/Buddhist philosophies, and 山水 (mountain water) ink painting traditions. Nacht creates environments, abstract forms and fluid compositions that transcend the literal, inviting viewers into a space of reflection and connection with their inner world. Her work also engages with social practice, creating opportunities for people to gather and explore the tensions between chosen vs inherited identities, reimagine historical narratives, and foster collective unlearning. Nacht is a founding member of the MengCheng 梦城团 Collective, a queer collective of Asian-American artists from the American South with a focus on resource dissemination, archive making, intergenerational dialogue, communal healing, and empowerment.
