Qigong for Health and Healing
健身气功调理课
本课程以中医气学理论为基础，通过基础功法的练习与调气，达到祛病健身的目的。
基本功法包括：开合拉气法，捧气贯顶法。
在功法练习中穿插中医气学文化知识学习。
TEACHERS
Master Peng Haitao
Peng is a practitioner with over 20 years of experience teaching Qi Gong and treating patients. He studied directly with Dr. Pang Ming, the founder of Wisdom Healing Qi Gong, for many years, and has also completed a three-month solitary retreat. He has successfully used Qi practices to heal himself, and to cure patients with chronic pain, neurological conditions, immune disorders, and developmental delays. He is known for his wisdom, generosity, and humility as a teacher and a doctor
Shelley Ochs, Ph.D.
Shelley has a Masters degree in Clinical Chinese Medicine and a doctorate in the History of Chinese Medicine and Medical Literature. She has been a licensed acupuncturist since 2001, and specializes in treating anxiety, depression, gynecological disorders and chronic pain. She is also a professional translator of Chinese medicine texts and the author of many articles on modern and classical Chinese medicine. Most recently, she compiled and translated Chinese Medicine and COVID-19: Results and Reflections from China (Shelley Ochs and Thomas Avery-Garran. Passiflora Press, 2020).
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE CLASS
Qi Gong is the branch of Chinese medicine that makes direct use of the Qi flowing in the body, the mind, the immediate environment, and the larger universe to heal us on many levels. It can be practiced alone or in groups or with a practitioner/teacher, but it always involves activating the natural healing processes that all human are endowed with.
It is important to remember that all of these methods work because Qi is both “energy” and “matter.” Qi is not some mysterious force discovered by the Chinese. Neither is it something that only highly-realized people can perceive. Qi is simply a way of understanding, and talking about, how and why all things and events in the universe are connected. When we think about this deeply, we run into some roadblocks because not all of the cause and effect relationships are obvious to us. We may initially find the claim that we can move the Qi in our bodies, and even in other people, simply by focusing or activating our consciousness, to be a rather fantastic. Many see this as a form of mysticism. In fact, it’s not meant to be.
If we delve into the concept and the practices associated with Qi in Chinese cultivation literature over the last 2500 years, we find many sophisticated, and often conflicting, answers. However, modern Qi Gong practices are a combination of ancient and modern. They are rooted in Chinese civilization, but also stand on the firm ground of direct, repeatable experience that modern people can understand. We are also finding common ground in the new fields of consciousness studies and contemplative science. The founder of Wisdom Healing Qi Gong, Dr. Pang Ming, for example, has devoted much of his life to experimentally exploring and trying to explain “why” the Qi Gong movements, visualizations and meditations have been effective for healing diseases in so many people. He himself admits that he does not yet have a complete, or completely satisfying, answer. However, his own practice over the last three decades has led him to some working hypotheses that many of us find both insightful and effective.
In this 5-session class students will gain an understanding of how and why we practice Lifting Qi, a 15-30 minute set of movements and visualizations. Every class will also include sitting meditation, creating a Qi field and focusing healing Qi on each participant one-by-one.
No previous experience is necessary and all questions are welcome. This is a modern, wellness practice with links to mindfulness, positive psychology and consciousness studies.
Dates: Fridays 10:30-12 on Nov. 20, 27; Dec. 4, 11, 18
Place: Beijing Mindfulness Centre
Tuition: 1000 for 5 classes
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