Bruce will teach the Moving meditation practices passed down from his teacher, Taoist Lineage Master, Liu Hung Chieh. Liu learned Lao Tse's Water method of meditation with Taoist masters during ten years of concentrated study in the mountains of Western China. Before this he was a major disciple of Martial Arts lineages of both Wu style Tai Chi Chuan and Ba Gua Chang.

Beginners who have not learned a Ba Gua or Tai Chi form will be taught the basic ba gua circle walking technique, so that they can fully benefit from this meditation practice. Through Taoist meditation you can clear chi blockages and sharpen your intuition. You can apply these
techniques, for example, in self-healing and Chi Gung Tui na.

Bruce will teach two groups at once, switching between a beginning and a more advanced group. Possible topics to be covered: motion of the mind; Heart-Mind; healing your body and maintaining health; relaxation and inner peace; Taoist Breathing and opening the body's energy channels; inner chi flow techniques; accessing, removing and calming emotional, mental and psychic blocks to free the deeper parts of yourself; understanding stillness; and, Inner Dissolving techniques to convert chi into shen (spirit) and into stillness and Emptiness.

Possible tai chi topics to be covered:

• Ways in which the meditation method within Single Whip and the release of Fa jin is done to create and maintain a stage of deep silence within the Heart-Mind-when the energies of yin and yang either separate or combine.
• Working with the lower and middle tantiens and stilling the spine.

Ba gua has been practiced as a Moving meditation method in Taoist monasteries for over 4,000 years. Bruce will discuss the history, theory, and basic principles of ba gua as a meditation art, including its relation to the I Ching, China's Book of Changes. Depending upon which group you are in, teachings will emphasize:

• The basic form; you slowly and consciously walk in a circle, and occasionally change direction using simple, careful movements. This walking helps develop better balance, heightens energy, and focuses and quiets the mind.
• Advanced techniques in which you very rapidly walk the circle, frequently changing direction using complex movements, and seek to feel the one place in and outside you where there is stillness and Emptiness on the way to the TAO.
• Understanding and experiencing your relationship to the earth, the unseen world and the stars.

Prerequisites: Group 1-None; Group 2-Knowledge of ba gua circle walking or a tai chi form, and Taoist meditation.

Directions to Menlo College

Directions: Campus directions are available on Menlo College's website: www.menlo.edu or by calling the college directly: 650.543.3727.

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• San Francisco Airport - www.flysfo.com (approx. 25 minutes from Menlo College)
• San Jose Airport - www.sjc.org (approx. 25 minutes from Menlo College)
• Oakland Airport - www.flyoakland.com (approx. 45 minutes from Menlo College)

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