Tendon and Muscle Transforming Practice (Yi Jin Jing) or Clearing the Small Universe
This practice comes from the Shaolin Temple’s traditional method called the Tendon and Muscle Transforming Practice (Yi Jin Jing). It was originated by Da Mo also known as Bodhidharma, who created many health and martial Qigong forms for the monks. Sometimes Tendon Changing is taught as a martial practice; some teach it as a healing […]
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 […]
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 […]
What are we? – Primordial Energetics
What are we? Think of it this way, we are only one part substance while we are probably, at minimum, 4 parts non-substance. This means that the senses we use to determine “what we are” and what we are experiencing are only detecting one of our 5 parts while the senses that we use to […]
The Most Profound Medicine
Neurological Aspects of Immune Function In the classic tradition of Western science it has been thought that the immune system was an autonomous self-regulating system, operating on its own. A tremendous amount of research has demonstrated that this view was incorrect. Mental emotional states have been found to effect resistance to disease and infection. (60) […]
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 […]