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Qi Gong (chee gung) comes from China and is a form of body-energy cultivation for health, healing, vitality, and longevity. The most commonly practiced type of Qi Gong is a gentle movement meditation which utilizes breathing and focusing the mind for the intention of gathering, cleansing, circulation, and storing vital life energy. Medical Qi Gong also can be in the form of energy emission from the practitioner to the client as a healing modality.
Because the body, the energy system, and the spirit are intimately connected, cultivation of body energy positively affects all of the three treasures.
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Three Tan Tien Practice
This practice is a beautiful flow that focuses on cultivating each of the Three Treasures: body, energy, and spirit. |
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Dr. Huang’s Shao Lin Practices
This is a series of 12 simple and separate Qi Gong movements that strengthen and cultivate the Lower Tan Tien (the energy field that nourishes the physical body and essence). |
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 Dancing Cloud Hands
This is a beautiful T’ai Chi Qi Gong flowing practice which is designed to develop the healing energy of your hands.
Qi Gong for Weight Loss
Excess body weight is a sign of many things, but energy imbalance is certainly one of them. This class combines Dr. Huang's Shao Lin Qi Gong for general clearing and rejuvenation of the body-energy system, as well as incredibly simple yet powerful Qi Gong techniques for reducing hunger, cravings, and firing up the metabolism. These techniques really work and are for any fitness level and age. You will be amazed at how quickly and efficiently this Qi Gong will work for you to beat emotional eating, cravings, and stress!
Classes
Classes are held at various locations and times throughout the year and range in price according to the format of the class. All Qi Gong classes included theory and background of Qi Gong. Please check the class schedule on this website.
Dr. Cai of the Navy Hospital in Beijing, China, once said: “The Spirit is like a goldfish in a bowl. The bowl is the body and the water is energy (qi). If the water is cloudy and polluted, it is difficult to see the luminous golden fish, even though we know it is there…that is why we practice Qi Gong, to find out ‘who you are,’ to have mind freedom and spirit freedom. It is difficult to connect directly to spirit, but easier to connect with energy, and then spirit.”
Benefits of Self-Healing Qi Gong
By Ken Cohen
Experimental evidence suggests the following healing effects of qigong exercises and meditations:
• Cardiovascular: Lower resting heart rate; normalized EKG, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels
• Respiratory: Slower respiratory rate, improves gaseous exchange, significant benefits for asthma & bronchitis
• Immune System: Better targeting of antigens, significant anti-cancer effect
• Circulation: Improves microcirculation, prevents vascular spasms, very helpful for angina, migraine, and Reynaud's Syndrome (cold hands & feet)
• Brain: Improves cerebral blood flow, less incidence of stroke; reduction in frequency and intensity of seizure disorders; slow, high amplitude brainwaves suggest relaxed and integrated state of consciousness
• Musculoskeletal: Improves posture, balance, strength, stamina, flexibility
• Chronic Pain: Significant pain reduction from all causes, including injury, surgery, arthritis, fibromyalgia
• Mental Health: Decreases: stress response, Type A, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, depression. Improves memory and interpersonal sensitivity
• Longevity: Improves: blood pressure, vital capacity, cholesterol and hormone levels, kidney function, mental acuity, vision and hearing, skin elasticity, bone density, immune function, digestion, balance, flexibility, strength, libido. Destroys free radicals (major cause of tissue degeneration) by stimulating activity of superoxide dismutase |
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