Qigong — A Gateway Through the Mysterious Pass

Gateway Through the Mysterious Pass Roger Jahnke, OMD Originally Published in Yang Sheng at http://Yang-Sheng.com   Heart/Mind Qigong: Gateway Through the Mysterious Pass With excerpts from The Healing Promise of Qi by Roger Jahnke. OMD Published by Contemporary Books, A Division of McGraw-Hill, April 2002   At the Nine Clouds Mountain Qigong Sanatorium near the […]

A Qigong Poem for Friends in Qi — Cosmologic Love

This is a ramble in appreciation of those who cultivate — the deep Qigong Community — who share cultivation values. It was composed over some years to share what I sense is some of how QiLove presences through us as we deepen our sense of the real. Its a Qigong Re-Birth-Day Poem too. COSMOLOGIC LOVE […]

The Three Treasures of Qigong and Tai Chi: Unity, Harmony, Diversity

The Three Treasures: Unity, Harmony, Diversity Excerpted from The Healing Promise of Qi, McGraw-Hill, Dr Roger Jahnke, OMD Join our Free Membership Library for more inspiration – http://IIQTC.org/member   Dao gives birth to the boundless, eternal One — Wuji (Wu Chi), The Two emerges creatively from the One — Tai Chi (Taiji), The Three arises dynamically […]

Breath Practice — The Amazing Benefits of Breathing!

BREATH PRACTICE — Breathing correctly is not only important for feeling better, living longer and disease prevention —  it also to our mood and performing at our best. Ancient cultures were very focused on health sustainability and empowerment,. Pranayama from the Yoga and Ayurveda tradition and Qigong from tradition of traditional Chinese medicine are both very […]

Your Body Has Miraculous Self-Healing Abilities

YOUR BODY, in cooperation with your mind and spirit, is marvelously blessed with miraculous self-healing abilities. The body is the temple of your life. Mind and spirit are the dwellers within the temple. Mind and spirit maintain the temple. Mind’s intelligence and spirit’s inspiration vitalize and quicken the body. The three together — body, mind […]

Encouragement from Ancient Masters

The ancients  assumed that the body was a reflection of the Spirit. Rather than the body having and energy, the universal energetic of the self develops a body. In this context there is not question as to whether we are eternally energetic in nature. Thus, the practice of Qigong supports us in re-associating with the […]

Endorphins: Qigong Is as Good as Chocolate

Emotions occur in the mind and body. Emotional states accompany the synthesis of neuropeptides, the chemicals of the emotions, sending them flowing to various parts of the body. This explains why we feel profound restfulness when the mind is contented, a queasy stomach when we are anxious, or a racing heart when we are in […]

Part I: Qigong — Awakening and Mastering the Profound Medicine Within

In the 1600’s the social, scientific and philosophical history of western culture experienced a radical shift. The work of Newton and Galileo revised our world. For thousands of years, humans were locked in the stagnation of the Dark Ages, with little advance since fire, the wheel and the sword. Then, in less than the life […]