Qi Gong Essentials:

Growing your personal energy

- Fundamentals of Posture
- Natural Breathing

- Soft Movement
- Visualization

Qi Gong, often pronounced "Chee Kung",  is a healing art that is used effectively in hospitals across China to cure everything form cancer to eye problems. Qi Gong translates into "cultivating personal energy" or Qi. It has been described as a practice of stillness and balance, a consciousness-raising activity, a cultivation of intelligent life-energy and a harmonious integration of human beings with nature.

Focus of Qi Gong

The main focus of Qi Gong practice is to release stagnant internal Qi or energy and to absorb positive Qi through physical movement and visualization.

Qi Gong consists of specific techniques that purge, tonify and balance the body's internal and external energy fields. Qi Gong practitioners train posture and breath. They practice visualization, turning the consciousness inside the body, and focus on developing a tranquil interior and humble exterior.

Qi Gong practitioners believe that the best way to prevent or cure disease is to establish an energetic balance between the body's energy field and the Universal or Cosmic energy field.

Benefits of Qi Gong...

- Lowers the demand for oxygen
- Increases greatly the lungs capacity to absorb and store oxygen
- Helps normalize the white blood count
- Lowers blood pressure, pulse rates and metabolic rates
- Raises endocrine systems capabilities
- Bolsters the immune system
- Repairs and adjusts the nervous system
- Adjust and promotes circulation of blood and Qi
- Develops intelligence potential
- Produces optimistic and happy attitude towards life

To succeed at Qi Gong you must develop...

- Belief in the benefits of Qi Gong
- Discipline (Daily Practice)
- Imagination: Clear & focused interior perception of sensory awareness
- Spiritual perception: dissolves ego
- Tranquility, the best condition to increase internal true Qi and promote its circulation.
- Respect for oneself and others

Points to remember when practicing Qi Gong:

- Feet rooted to the earth, crown of head touching the sky

- Relax: No Hurray, No Worry

- Smile from the Heart

- Be open with the Universe

- Keep the movements soft, continuous and effortless.
- In doing the exercises, stay within your natural ability.

Why practice Qi Gong? 

When we are weak, we build up blockages in the body's meridians/channels, which impede the flow of blood and Qi.  Practicing Tai Chi Qi Gong helps to clear blockages, harmonize the Qi in the organs, improve blood circulation, enhance our immune system and delay aging.  

The practice of Tai Chi Qi Gong improves health by breaking up blockages in the flow of chi, thereby restoring energy balance.

 Some benefits of Tai Chi Qi Gong:

- Promotes relaxation

- Reduces stress

- Improves concentration

- Cultivates mental alertness

- Strengthen muscles and bones

- Helps improve balance

Some studies show that Tai Chi Qi Gong can lower blood pressure and heart rate as well as ease arthritis pain. It can help prevent osteoporosis, thus reducing the incidence of falls, making it particularly beneficial to women.

Tai Chi Qi Gong is accessible to people of any age. In fact, it is particularly beneficial to the elderly and those with impaired motor skills. Moreover, no special clothes or equipment are required, and you can practice at home.