Because Dragon and Tiger Qigong is a simple and effective qigong practice, it is taught to students at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine. Tracing the meridian lines helps our students to become more sensitive to both their own and their patients' chi and enables them to become better acupuncturists.
Hi Dan,
Yeah, he touched on both of those methods. We did center to periphery after bringing everything to the Tan Tian, to let everything expand and contract from there.
We also did a lot with the legs to help lead the energy up from below.
I think both are aspects of the Spiraling Energy Body training.
The sequence as I understand it:
Opening the Energy Gates teaches you all gates alignments downward flow and dissolving.
Standing Chi Gung begins to incorporate all of the above within the standing postures.
Spiraling Energy Body is when you bring energy up into the standing postures, as well as spinning each energy gate, dissolving outside yourself and eventually connecting all the spiraling pathways.
Then you move on to Heaven & Earth.
Standing Chi Gung is sort of a middle ground between Energy Gates and Spiraling, from what I can tell. It contains everything from Energy Gates, and you begin to introduce things from Spiraling within it.
Energy Gates becomes Spiraling the instant you open your eyes and shift onto the balls of your feet. From there you've entered into new territory.
Jess O