We offer a series of special Qigong, Neigong, and Weigong programs. Advanced concepts are explained in everyday language, augmented with practice exercises, and demonstrated through practical applications that can apply to both Qigong health enhancement but also to self defense. This is the ONLY Qigong program available that teaches also the hidden protection aspects of Qigong movements and postures.
Most importantly, instruction will be given in HOW to feel the movements by using the deeper muscles, correct body mechanics, correct body alignment, and correct rooting. Information is also given on WHY movements are done so. Over 30 years of research and experience has been done to develop the course materials for this program!
Energizing Daoyin, Neigong, & Weigong
Boost your vitality, internal strength, rejuvinate your body, reverse aging, and more.
Is your life too fast paced or sedentary? Sitting for hours a day? Unhappy with your health and aging? Well, you can greatly Boost your vitality, internal strength, rejuvinate your body, reverse aging, and more with energizing Daoyin, Neigong, & Weigong standing and moving poses. You will achieve amazing physical, emotional, and spiritual self transformation!
All the classes are composed of various SIMPLE internal and external body conditioning routines. Chinese Daoyin, Neigong, and Weigong are a thousands of years old tested and proven system of efficient and effective standing and moving postures that build your health and vitality from the inside out. Get all the benefits of Yoga and Pilates without the complexity, boredom, and confusion. You will see results within just a few weeks. The postures and movements develop and maintain strength, flexibility, sharp reflexes, self-confidence, and self-control. Also, motor skills are greatly enhanced while releasing tension and trapped emotions.
There are four main types of health enhancing exercises and all people, especially seniors, need some of each:
- Endurance & Stamina activities, which build "staying power" and improve the health of the heart and circulatory system.
- Strengthening exercises which build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss.
- Stretching exercises to keep the body limber and flexible.
- Balancing exercises to reduce the chances of a fall.
These techniques and postural movements are done efficiently and effectively using core body mechanics and correct alignment. Efficiently and effectively means it will be done intelligently and quickly without wasted energy or efforts by using brute force.
This program benefits your balance and strength, cardiovascular and respiratory function, flexibility, muscle tone, muscular strength, joint strength, immune system, alleviate symptoms of arthritis and osteoporosis / osteopenia, stretch the body's soft tissues (muscles, fascia, tendons and ligaments), moves energy through body fluids (e.g., blood, lymph, interstitial, synovial and cerebrospinal); and gain positive psychological effects (boost self esteem, joy, etc.). Also, you will release both generalised stress and long-term, bound tension at each layer, which will free up the body's mechanisms that enable deep relaxation.
Physically, this program increases the mobility of the joints and promotes proper alignment, and the twisting motions common to the exercises detoxify the organs. Mentally, the concentration and self-awareness required in this practice are thought to result in deep awareness of body functions, and long time practitioners claim awareness of blood circulation, peristalsis, and subtle muscle movements, and improvements in peace and internal harmony.
The following is a list of our programs and classes:
Program 1 - Self Healing Foundamentals: Wei Gong, Nei Gong, Qigong, Dao Yin, Dao Yoga, and more
Conditioning - Promoting Wellness - Special exercises for lengthening and strengthening the body, from the inside out, from the ligaments, tendons, and joints to the external muscles. Also, core exercises for a strong body.
Level 1 - Building Vitality - Boost your vitality, internal strength, rejuvinate your body, reverse aging, and more.
Level 2 - Integrating Body, Mind, and Breath Energizing Daoyin, Neigong, & Weigong - Experience new levels of health, energy, and relaxation to integrate your body & mind.
Guided Meditation - Peace of Mind - Recharge your life to be free of physical, emotional, and spiritual burdens.
Level 3 - Self Transformation (Buddhist & Taoist Neigong) - Develop superior inner energy and strength using Buddhist Neigong methods.
Level 4 - Self Transformation (Taoist & Buddhist Neigong) - Develop superior inner energy and strength using Taoist Neigong methods.
Program 2 - Taiji Quan Internal Arts - Learn the original Shaolin, Chen, and Yang Taiji Quan arts.
Level 1 - Pre-Taiji Qian Qigongs - Learn the roots of Taiji Quan with Shaolin Qigong methods.
Level 2 - Pre-Taiji Quan Internal Shaolin Quan - Learn the Shaolin self defense forms that form part of the foundation of Chen and Yang Taiji Quan.
Level 3 - Taiji Quan Routines and other Internal Arts - Learn the various Old Chen and Old Yang Taiji Quan routines and related Internal Chinese Martial Arts.
Program 3 - Natural Chinese Internal Martial Arts & Self Defense - Learn the most efficient and effective Shaolin and Taoist Natural internal martial arts and Weigong conditioning.
Special 1 day Workshops and 2-3 day Seminars - an ongoing series of events featuring specialized topics in the internal arts.
See the following for detailed Program descriptions:
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News
Dr. Oz endorses Qigong!
“If you want to be healthy
and live to 100, do Qigong .”
- Dr. Mehmet Oz
Dr . Oz , Oprah's favorite MD, was asked out of all the health practices that one could do, what was the one practice that he would choose and recommend people practice to stay healthy. His response: If you want to be healthy and live to 100, do Qigong. He added that Qigong reverses the aging process.
On another Oprah show, Dr . Oz interviewed a couple who had been very overweight with many illnesses. Previously, he started them onto a program of better nutrition and a Qigong practice. They lost much of their excess weight, improved their energy, decreased most medication, and slowed their aging process. These improvements are attributed to Qigong and eating better.
Sustainable Health Care - The Problem:
"US health care costs stem from an overdependence on high-tech allopathic medicine and pharmaceuticals that treat symptoms; the bureaucracy and paper work of dealing with numerous insurance companies; the threat of malpractice lawsuits; and greed. The current US health care system is set up to make profits for investors rather than to heal… [we] must accept responsibility for our health by making health-promoting choices daily and seeking true preventative care that assists the body's innate healing ability. Therapies other than drugs and surgery need to be available through Medicare and insurance plans… The current system in the US depends upon sickness and high-tech solutions in order to make a profit. Our very economy is dependent upon the health care industry as it now stands. A November 2006 article in BusinessWeekOnline says that '…health care has become the main American job program for the 21st century, replacing, at least for the moment, all the other industries that are vanishing from the landscape.' " Robert J. Zieve, MD in The Townsend Letter (www.townsendletter.com) - February/March 2007.
Program 1 - Self Healing Fundamentals: : Wei Gong, Nei Gong, Qigong, Dao Yin, Dao Yoga, and more
Experience new levels of health, energy, and relaxation
In this program the foundational material for learning self healing will be taught.
Your results for participating in this program will be:
Proper breathing methods will be mastered.
Proper body posture and alignment will be mastered.
Basic self healing methods will be mastered.
You will be able to integrate your body and mind.
You will feel healthier, stronger, and more energetic.
Qigong is an ancient practice of movement and meditation that helps heal the body, improve flexibility, balance the emotions, and lift the spirit. The practice involves simple movements and coordinated breathing.
The curriculum for Program 1 includes the following Taoist & Buddhist Self Healing Qigong material:
Conditioning - Promoting Wellness
• Stretching, conditioning, and strengthening - a series of special exercises done for lengthening and strengthening the tendons and ligaments; stretching the body's fascia; and boosting lymphatic system. Result: awakens body, invigorates joints, and boosts blood, glandular, and lymphatic circulation.
1. Shaking to clear and Arms Swings
2. Wei Gong Stretches (top to bottom)
3. Shoulder Blade Qigong
4. Spinal Chord Breathing exercise
5. Lymphatic Pumping Swings
6. Tiger Tendon exercises & Eagle Claw exercises
7. Tea Cup exercises
8. Clasped Hands Spinal Stretches
9. Double Dragons Going Out to Sea qigong for muscle/tendon development
10. Balancing exercises
11. Pelvic exercises
12. Overhead & Horizontal squatting exercises
13. Abdominal Standing exercises
14. Dynamic Static Taoist Neigong (11 exercises)
15. Chang E Flies to the Moon Qigong
16. Tong Bei conditioning exercises
Level 1. Building Vitality
Introduction - Foundational Preparation
Foundational movements that prepare one for the later lessons.
• Proper Posture & Alignment - clear and precise instruction on muscle-skeletal structural alignment and postural positioning. Result: enhances endurance during standing meditation and moving Qigong.
• Wuji Standing Meditation - classic Taoist meditative standing Qigong used for developing deep breathing, circulating Qi and blood through the body, grounding, cultivating Qi, centering, emptying the mind, and using intention to move Qi.
• Cultivating Energy Awareness - illuminating instruction on how to be more fully aware of how energy moves through the body, how it feels to move energy through the hands, and how to understand and direct energy through intention. Result: opens mind-body awareness. Includes:
- One Finger "Zen" / Chan Qigong (with sound);
- Qi Generating Neigong:
Stand in Wuji and Wuji Qigong (Weaving Like a Palm Frond in the Wind)
Cultivating Qi exercises & Rub Belly exercises
Water Pump Qigong movements
Air, Fire, Water, Earth Qigong (Tai Chi Commencement)
Vertical Arms Circling Moving Qigong
Arms Embrace Heaven Qigong movements
Horizontal rolling exercises (Swimming on Dry Land, Figure 8)
• Moving Qigong - short Qigong movements to enhance the flow of Qi through integrating breath, movement, and intent using Whole Body Breathing Qigong. Includes:
La Qi - Pulling Qigong
Connect Lower Dantien; Draw In and Project Qi
Ba Duan Jin (Eight Section Brocade)
Tai Ji Qigong (18 Postures - 108 movements)
Opening the Energy Gates - Spinal Stretch - Cloud Hands - Inner Dissolving
Tai Ji Swings (3) - Constant Bear
Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Wood element)
Bend Bow, Shoot Arrow (Metal element)
Twisting Snake and Dragons Qigong movements
Taiji Ruler Circling exercises
Blossoms in the Spring - sitting Qigong
Lian Gong - 36 exercises.
Guided Meditation - Peace of Mind
Unique Qigongs with guided meditation used for letting go of stress, tension, anxiety, and inability to relax; giving up negative feelings in the organs; attracting spiritual energy for manifesting positive outcomes.
Features a blend of physical, emotional, and spiritual Qigong with guided mediation that includes:
1 - Taoist Zhuan Zhang (Standing Post exercises);
2 - Microcosmic Orbit & Macrocosmic Orbit Qigong;
3 - 150 Breath Standing Qigong;
4 - Three Centers Guided Meditation;
5 - Healing, Purifying, and Manfesting Meditation techniques;
6 - Six Healing Sounds.
• Buddhist & Taoist based Qigong movements to transform physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Some of the most important Qigongs one can practice to change their life. Includes:
Ji Ben (Foundamental) Qigong - 8 postural movements
Shaolin Yi Jin Jing (Muscle-Tendon Changing) for building a strong body
Shaolin Xi Sui Xing (Bone Marrow-Brain Cleansing) for emotional cleansing
Shaolin Luohan 18 Gong - series of movements for creating powerful body
Luohan Strikes Golden Bell - series of movements for creating a shield around the body
Taoist Jing Li Liu Gong (Standing Stillness - 6 exercises)
Taoist Standing Yi Jin Jing
Floating Hands - Play with Ball exercises
Walking - Stepping Qigong methods
Dragon Dao Yin - 4 sections.
• Posting - lower body movements for achieving superior balance.
• Step In, Step Out - Upper & lower body movements for achieving skillful
maneuvering
ability while moving.
• Walking Qigong Patterns - a series of stepping movements used with upper body Qigong movements. Includes:
- Walking on Clouds;
- Snake Walking pattern;
- Lion Walking pattern (Mo Cha Bu - Rubbing Steps);
- Crane Walking pattern.
• Turning methods - methods for turning around to reverse direction.
Level 4 - Self Transformation (Taoist Neigong)
• Taoist & Buddhist based Qigong movements to transform physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Some of the most important Qigongs one can practice to change their life. Includes:
Taoist Posting
Taoist Clapping
Taoist Dragon Horse (Long Ma Gong)
Taoist Immune Qigong - 4 postural movents
Taoist Back Stepping Peacock movements
Taoist Qi Pian Quan Shen (Sealing & Magnifying Body)
Dragon & Tiger Meridian Therapy Qigong - 7 exercises
Spiraling Energy Body (Fire element) - Yi Quan 8 postures
Immortals Playing in the Clouds Qigong (Earth) series of postural movements
The focus in all the classes is on opening both your body and mind. On the physical side, works on flexibility, range of motion, and easy movements to open and lengthen all parts of your body. Movements also stimulate all the major energy systems in your body. To open your mind, we'll teach you an effective stress-relief and relaxation technique, plus a simple Qi energy awareness practice.
Various Qigong methods are taught, some simple and easy to learn standing and moving movements. Aids in connecting the mind with the body. These exercises are very ancient and are both Taoist and Buddhist influenced.
Example Beginner Qigong Routine: Ba Duan Jin 八段錦 (8 Section Brocade):
As an introduction to Taoist Qigong, some simple and easy to learn standing and moving movements are taught in a series of eight postures. Aids in aligning, stretching, conditioning, balancing, and strengthening the body. This exercise is very ancient and is both Taoist and Buddhist influenced.
Hold the Sky with Both Palms
Draw Bow to Shoot a Hawk
Touch Heaven and Earth
Looking Backward
Wag Head and Tail
Opening the Spine
Punch with Tiger Eyes
Raise Heels.
Other Qigong routines
Coordinate Body, Mind & Breath
In all the classes, the focus is on physical coordination that will teach you how to use your body in an integrated fashion and on coordinating movement, breathing, and mental concentration to increase the benefits you get from Qigong. Combining these three elements creates a synergistic effect, allowing greater levels of health enhancement and fitness, while also boosting the immune system.
Active & Passive Combined Qigong examples:
1. Constant Bear Qigong – This exercise works the waist, hips, and legs using a combination of turning and weight shifting.
2. Reverse Bear Qigong – This exercise adds in ‘silk reeling' (staying connected as weight transfers from one side to other).
3. Embrace the Pearl Qigong – Standing exercise done without movement in order to focus concentration with breathing. Accumulates and restores energy in body.
4. Lifting Water Qigong - tool for learning relaxed arm movement using deeper muscles without tension.
5. Snake Spiraling Qigong - increases mobility, flexibility, and coordination of arms and torso, while relieving muscular tension.
Rooting and Energetics
In all the classes, Rooting is the single most basic concept in all of neigong and internal martial arts. Rooting involves keeping both a physical and an energetic connection to the ground for stability, balance, and centering. Also, focus on giving you the experiences of working with Qi both inside and outside of the body.
1. Isolated Spine Stretch - develops awareness of the upper body structures, primarily the spine.
2. Waterpump Qigong - develops awareness of the lower body structures, the hips and legs.
3. Three Circle Qigong – standing neigong for rooting and and actively circulating Qi throughout the body.
4. Universal Post Qigong – neigong for physically and energetically developing rooting in legs and feet, while being single weighted in Cat Stance.
5. Circling Hands Qigong – various advanced exercises for rooting the lower body while in Bow Stance and spiraling the upper body circulating Qi (Cloud Hands, Wave Hands Like Clouds, Flower Hidden in Mirror, etc.).
Wai Dan Methods, by focusing on the meridian “water pipes” help keep energy flowing smoothly through the body for health, stress relief, and well-being. They use the limbs to encourage smooth qi flow through the meridians . As qi builds up in the limbs during practice, it will eventually flow back through the meridians to the internal organs to nourish them. Any excess of qi in the meridians will be “siphoned”; off into the vessel “reservoirs”; for storage. Level 1 primarily uses Waidan methods.
Nai Dan Methods, by focusing on the vessel “reservoirs” help develop abundant energy for the entire body. They use primarily torso movements, especially in the major joints such as the shoulders or hip sockets, and/or mental concentration to generate and store qi in the reservoirs . As abundant qi becomes available, it will “overflow”; the reservoirs into the meridians, helping to clear out obstructions and smooth out qi flow. Levels 2 -4 primarily use Naidan and Waidan / Naidan hybrid methods.
Program 2 - Taiji Quan Internal Arts - Learn the original Shaolin, Chen, and Yang Taiji Quan arts.
Level 1 - Pre-Taiji Qian Qigongs - Learn the roots of Taiji Quan with Shaolin Qigong methods.
1 - Shaolin Chan Yuan Gong (Shaolin Coiling Exercises)
2 - Shaolin Luohan 13 Postures Gong
Level 2 - Pre-Taiji Quan Internal Shaolin Quan - Learn the Shaolin self defense forms that form part of the foundation of Chen and Yang Taiji Quan.
1- Shaolin Song Tai Tzu Chang Quan 32 postural movements
2- Yuan Hou Quan (Ape Monkey form)
3 - Xie Quan (Slanting form) early version of Chen TJQ
4 - Rou Quan sets (Yi Lu, Er Lu)
5 - Rou Quan Da Lu set 108 postural movements)
Level 3 - Taiji Quan Routines and other Internal Arts - Learn the various Old Chen and Old Yang Taiji Quan routines and related Internal Chinese Martial Arts.
1 - Silk Reeling exercises (Chen TJQ) & Coiling exercises (Yang TJQ)
2 - Old Yang Taiji Quan
3 - Old Chen Taiji Quan Yi Lu
4 - Old Chen Pao Chui
5 - Old Wu Taiji Quan
6 - Bagua Zhuang Circle Walking Mediation - 8 postures
7 - Xing Yi Quan - Five Elements, 12 Animals, Linking form.
The curriculum for Program 2 includes the following Life Transforming material:
Preparation Exercises:
1. Preparation Qigong -
• Stretching and conditioning exercises.
Important Internal Exercises -
• Opening/closing the kua – Taiji Swings 1-3
• Rooting exercises (follow ground path)
• Peng Jin exercises (rubber ball power)
• Whole Body exercises
• Spiral movement exercises (silk reeling energy).
To build a strong foundation, three Shaolin Qigong moving methods are taught that are part of the Shaolin Rou Gong system:
Shaolin Rou Gong 少林 柔功 (Soft or Supple Exercises) System
Shaolin Rou Qong is also known as Shaolin Taiji Quan.
1. Shaolin Liu He Gong 少林 六合功 (6 Harmony Exercises)
Composed of 6 sets of special walking qigong movements that unite breathing methods, acupuncture points and meridians, body mechanics, and self defense movements. The 6 Harmony movements are considered the primary foundation to all long fist applications, and the main starting point for the internal version of Shaolin martial arts. Each of the 6 exercises covers different vessels and meridians of the body (such as the Lungs, Spleen, Liver, Triple Burners, Heart, and Kidneys). The main function of the 6 Harmony is to:
- relieve anxiety, stress, and depression;
- aid in mental health;
- balance the emotions;
- cleanse stagnation in the body;
- increase respiratory capacity;
- strengthen the joints and ligaments of the body;
- and begin to correctly use Shaolin body mechanics that bridge to Tai Ji Quan (swing, sink, and point).
Single Hand Pushes Mountain -- Dan Shou Tui Shan (lungs)
Wind Swings Willow -- Feng Bai Yang-Liu (spleen)
Chest center hugs Moon -- Huai Zhong Bao Yue (liver)
Hide Tiger posture (single palm presses down) -- Fu Hu Shi (triple burner)
Lift Palm to Sky -- Tuo Tien Zhang (heart)
Subdue Dragon & Tiger Palm -- Jiang Long Zhang (kidneys).
2. Shaolin Chan Yuan Gong 少林 禪圓功 (Zen Circular Exercises)
Composed of a series of 8-10 demanding internal movements and postures. These movements are made to:
- teach one to connect the upper and lower body into one functioning unit;
- stimulate and balance the body's meridian channels;
- strengthen the waist / hip (kua in Chinese) inguinal fold area;
- improve posture and back/spine structural problems;
- increase internal strength and stamina;
- generate energy;
- and bridge between Shaolin and Tai Ji Quan (such as Brush Knee Twist Step and other movements);
- self defense version of the exercise set exists as well.
1. Avoid (evade) Sun, Hide (conceal) Clouds -- Bi Ri Zhe Yun (6x)
2. (Greet) In the Wind, Wipe Dirt -- Ying-Feng Hui Chen (6x)
3. Forcibly Split Hua Mountain -- Li Pi Hua Shan (6x)
4. Move against Water-row (current) Boat -- Ni Shui Xing Zhou (8x)
5. Autumn Wind Sweeps Leaves (Twist Waist move around Hips) -- Qiu Feng Sao Ye (Niu Yao Zhou Kua) (8x)
6. Shake Body Sway Shoulders -- Yao Shen Huang Bang (8x)
7. Forcibly Pull Nine Bulls -- Li La Jiu Niu (8x).
3. Shaolin Luohan 13 Gong 少林 罗汉十三功 (Arhat 13 Exercises)
Composed of a series of 13 complex movements and postures. The movements:
- emphasize the correct way to use the internal concepts of Yielding, Sinking, Absorbing, Transferring, and Pointing energy for both health and self defense.
- combine the powers of meditation and movement into one smooth practice
- are vigorous and feature special stepping patterns that are a bridge to Tai Ji Quan and Xing Yi stepping methods.
- are made to enhance emotional health, vitality, muscle tone, internal strength, and internal cleansing of the bowels.
- are a link to ancient Taoist methods also known as the Tai Ji 13 Gung, and Buddhist yogic movements originally from India.
- also a powerful self defense set containing all these movements and some additional transitional movements that feature the full 18 Luohans.
Old Monk Chops Wood
Lazy Drapes on Coat
Sleepy Monk Lies on Pillow
Double Hands Push Mountain
Wind Shakes the Lotus Leaves
Luohan Bears the Flag
Seven Star Striking Fist
Hug Tiger's Head
Roll Hands, Push Palm
Luohan Sifts Flour
Snake Flashes Tongue
Insert Incense
Old Monk Carries Basket on Arm.
After learning and MASTERING all 3 Rou Gong sets, the student will be able to have the CORRECT body mechanics and internal energy development and movement necessary to truly understand and perform the most ancient and traditional methods of the Shaolin system and support a strong foundation for mastering the other internal arts of Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi, and Ba Gua Zhang.
After this preparation, you will learn the roots and foudational exercies that form the basis for the Chinese Internal Art of Taiji Quan. You will learn the Chen, Yang, and Wu styles.
Program 3 - Natural Chinese Internal Martial Arts & Self Defense
Learn the most efficient and effective Shaolin and Taoist Natural internal martial arts and Weigong conditioning.
