Partner with Bright Beings Academy: Qi Gong Provision for PCNs, Trusts and Local Councils

Partner with Bright Beings Academy: Qi Gong Provision for PCNs, Trusts and Local Councils

Qi Gong At The Bright Beings Academy
November 24, 2025•9 min read

If you are responsible for social prescribing, healthy ageing, community wellbeing or prevention in your area, you’re probably facing the same pressures as everyone else:

  • Rising demand in primary care and urgent care

  • Increasing levels of long-term pain, fatigue and anxiety

  • An ageing population who want to stay independent, but lack safe routes into movement

  • Loneliness, carer strain and staff burnout

You may already have walking groups, talking therapies and hobby-based groups in place. What’s often missing is a gentle, evidence-informed movement offer that works for people who are stiff, tired, fearful of falling, housebound or anxious – and that can be delivered both online and locally.

That’s where partnering with Bright Beings Academy comes in.

In this guide, you’ll see how we can provide Qi Gong programmes for your PCN, Trust or local authority – from small pilots to fully commissioned services – and how this links directly to NHS personalised care, social prescribing and healthy ageing goals.

For a full overview of Qi Gong in social prescribing, you can explore:

Why add Qi Gong to your local offer?

Qi Gong is a gentle, low-impact movement and breathing practice that can be adapted for older adults, people with long-term conditions, carers, housebound patients and those with anxiety or low mood.

From a commissioning point of view, Qi Gong helps you:

  • Fill a gap between talking-focused offers and high-intensity exercise

  • Provide a low-risk, high-relational intervention for multiple conditions at once (MSK, cardiovascular risk, anxiety, sleep, loneliness)

  • Offer an option that is accessible both in-person and online

  • Build a programme with outcomes you can actually evidence

You can see the evidence base summarised in:

And you can see local, real-world outcomes in:

What Bright Beings Academy can provide

We can work with you in three main ways, which can be combined depending on your geography and priorities.

1. UK-wide live online Qi Gong

A core, scalable offer for:

  • Housebound and shielding patients

  • Rural residents and transport-poor areas

  • Carers who can’t leave the person they support

  • People with anxiety, agoraphobia or low confidence

Delivered via Zoom, these live online Qi Gong classes are fully guided, beginner-friendly and accessible standing or seated:

They fit naturally into your social prescribing pathways, as detailed in:

2. Local community Qi Gong in New Malden and Chessington

For systems covering the Kingston / New Malden / Chessington (KT3 / KT9) area, we already run two well-established community classes that can be integrated into your local offer:

These classes grew out of the charity-funded Brighter Living project, which demonstrated improvements in quality of life, flexibility, mood and connection for older adults in the area:

3. Co-designed pilots and bespoke programmes

Alongside existing classes, we can co-design pilots tailored to your local priorities, for example:

  • Healthy ageing programmes targeting falls risk, balance and confidence

  • Long-term conditions groups (e.g. MSK, long COVID, fatigue)

  • Mental health and nervous-system regulation pathways

  • Carer wellbeing sessions

  • Staff wellbeing programmes for primary care, community teams or council staff

Programmes can be delivered:

  • Fully online

  • Fully in-person (where geography allows)

  • Or in a hybrid model, combining community hubs and remote access

For a deeper dive into how Qi Gong supports mental health, loneliness and anxiety, see:

How a partnership typically works

Every system is different, but most partnerships follow a similar pattern.

Step 1 – Discovery conversation

We start with a short call to understand:

  • Your population and priorities – e.g. older adults, carers, long-term conditions, rural inequality

  • Your existing social prescribing and wellbeing offers

  • Your data and reporting requirements

This helps us decide whether to start with:

  • A small pilot tied to one PCN or locality

  • A broader online offer linked to multiple practices

  • Or a mix of online and local community classes

Step 2 – Co-design of programme and pathways

Together, we:

We also align messaging with your existing personalised care language, using:

Step 3 – Light-touch evaluation and reporting

From the start, we agree on simple, meaningful metrics, such as:

  • Self-rated pain, mobility and fatigue

  • Falls confidence and balance

  • Sleep and mood

  • Loneliness / connection

  • Attendance and retention over 6–12 weeks

We can model questionnaires on the Brighter Living evaluation:

so you receive both numbers and participant stories for your PCN dashboards, Trust reports and funding bids.

Step 4 – Scale, adapt or embed

After an agreed pilot period (often 12–24 weeks), you’ll have:

  • Clear data on who attends, what changes, and where it fits best

  • Feedback from link workers, clinicians and participants

  • A sense of how Qi Gong interacts with other local offers

From there, you can:

  • Scale up online delivery to more practices or localities

  • Add new community classes in priority neighbourhoods

  • Embed Qi Gong into specific condition pathways (e.g. MSK, long COVID, mental health)

  • Extend provision to staff wellbeing or carer support

How this aligns with NHS and local priorities

Partnering with Bright Beings Academy supports:

  • Personalised Care & Social Prescribing – giving people real choice and control, with offers that work for those who are anxious, housebound or in pain

  • Healthy Ageing & Falls Prevention – building balance, strength and confidence in older adults through low-impact movement

  • Mental Health & Anxiety – offering a nervous-system-first tool that complements talking therapies and medication

  • Loneliness & Community Connection – creating predictable weekly anchors where people feel seen, welcomed and part of something

  • Prevention & Self-Management – helping people learn simple practices they can continue at home between sessions

You can see all of these threads woven through the cluster:

FAQs for commissioners and programme leads

1. Do we need new venues or can we use existing spaces?

We can work with your existing community venues (hubs, church halls, community centres) where appropriate, or focus on online delivery if space is limited. For Kingston, New Malden and Chessington we already have established venues at:

2. How do clinicians and link workers know who to refer?

We provide a clear referral guide and red-flag checklist, based on:

This covers mobility, medical stability and mental health considerations, plus simple scripts to explain Qi Gong in plain English.

3. What about people with multiple long-term conditions?

Many of our current participants live with multiple conditions (e.g. arthritis, cardiovascular risk, low mood, post-viral fatigue). Qi Gong is designed to be:

  • Gentle enough to adapt for complex needs

  • Structured enough to help with confidence, breath and pacing

We always emphasise that Qi Gong complements usual care, and encourage participants to check with their clinician if they are unsure.

For condition-focused overviews, see:

4. Can we use your impact report in our bids and business cases?

Yes. You are welcome to reference the Brighter Living evaluation as an example of local, community-based Qi Gong improving flexibility, quality of life, mood and connection for older adults in Surrey:

We recommend pairing it with the broader evidence hub:

5. Where can our teams find all your social prescribing resources in one place?

The easiest “control panel” is this pair:

These pages link out to all the condition hubs, local pages, online offer and evidence reports.

Next steps

If you’re exploring Qi Gong provision for your PCN, Trust or local council, the simplest next steps are:

From there, we can co-create a small, focused pilot and grow steadily from real outcomes, real people and real stories in your area.

I look forward to connecting with you in my next post.
Until then, be well and keep shining.

Peter. :)

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Peter Paul Parker is a Meraki Guide and Qi Gong Instructor who helps empaths, intuitives, and the spiritually aware heal emotional wounds, embrace shadow work, and reconnect with their authentic selves. Through a unique blend of ancient practices, modern insights, and his signature Dream Method, he guides people towards self-love, balance, and spiritual empowerment.

Peter Paul Parker

Peter Paul Parker is a Meraki Guide and Qi Gong Instructor who helps empaths, intuitives, and the spiritually aware heal emotional wounds, embrace shadow work, and reconnect with their authentic selves. Through a unique blend of ancient practices, modern insights, and his signature Dream Method, he guides people towards self-love, balance, and spiritual empowerment.

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