Hi Folks,
Welcome to the re-launch of the Bagua Mastery Program. First I want to thank those who bought the program before and also to all those who helped produce the program.
It took over five years to produce the 36 DVDs, 16 CDs, 1000+ pages of training guides and a soft-cover book, Bagua and Tai Chii, published through North Atlantic/Random House.
For those who buy the Bagua Mastery Program I want to mention three important points:
#1 Stepping Up to Your Personal Best: One of my roles this lifetime has been to bridge authentic teachings from China to the West. For many years I saw that the art of
bagua was degrading in the West. I didn't want the knowledge I learned while in China to disappear. I felt a strong obligation to carry the tradition forward. The Program is a compendium of all of my training PLUS it is specifically taught in a way to learn step-by-step in the easiest way possible. When I was in secondary school I ranked in the bottom 5% for physcial fitness. I overcame those limitations through practice and discipline. I truly believe that if you really want to learn bagua you can do it and do it well.
Bagua is an moving art form that has been evolving for thousands of years. It is a precise system for health, martial arts and meditation. When you learn something you can decide if you want to dabble or if you want to go deep. If your reading this now it is likely that you want to go deep to bring excellence into your life. The Bagua Mastery Program is for those who ask themselve: "How can I raise the level of my internal arts?", "How can I use bagua to build my health and chi?" and "How can I bring excellence into my practice? This leads to my second point...
#2 Building Your Foundation: After teaching over 20,000 people, I have found that a lot of people want to skip over the fundamentals. They want something new rather than drilling the basics. Many never build their foundation. I see this time and time again. I see practitioners who have been working for many years but sadly their form is poor. Although I understand wanting to add more techniques/palm changes/moves/secret methods, in opinion it is a failure strategy, especially with an art like bagua.
A weak foundation creates gaps. A gap in martial arts can be deadly because it gives an opponent an opening. A health gap compromises and/or injures the body. Then there are spiritual gaps where you lose awareness or focus and thus go into an unconscious state.
Why am I mentioning this? The Bagua Mastery Program is designed to help you create a rock solid foundation with bagua and the internal arts. We will initially focus on rootingi, grounding and lower body work. We will initially focus on the Single Palm Changei, the most powerful movement AND the basis for every other palm change. We will look at how to integrate the 16 neigong. Only then do we go into the Water Palm Change and the Earth Palm Change. There is great power when you build an unshakeable foundation. This is how excellence is acheived.
#3 Bagua is Powerful Spiritual Practice: I am a huge fan of martial arts and if that is why you practice bagua this program will give you what you need. Bagua practitioners are also known for superior health well into their eighties which is amazing. Although bagua zhang is primarily known as a martial art and for its health benefits, it was initially used as a moving meditation in Taoist Monasteries. This is the actual source of bagua that predates the martial applications. The monastic tradition is what my teacher Liu Hung Chieh learned and directly passed down to me. Within each module you will also receive guided Taoist meditations to be used while you walk the circle. This took a lot of extra work but we did it so you can experience bagua as a spiritual practice as well.
The monastic tradition to my knowledge has never been shared in the West and is a unique way to practice bagua. As you probably already know the word bagua means eight trigrams and is directly linked to the I Chingi, Book of Changes. Bagua is the system to learn how to manifest the energies of the universe through your body. Bagua gives you an exercise to move energy and work with your eight energy bodies. It helps you transform your consciousness.
I have endeavored to make this the most comprehensive learning guide ever
created for bagua. I am committed to teaching the classical tradition in a form
that is non-diluted and at the highest standard possible. So whatever your interest in bagua - martial arts, health, meditation or its
relationship to tai chi - I think you'll find something of great value in this
program.
Bagua is something I am passionate about and if you are too I hope
that you will enjoy and benefit from this program.
Everything furthers,
Bruce Frantzis
Founder, Energy Arts Inc.
Bagua Mastery Program Highlights
The Bagua Mastery Program Contains 12 Content-Rich Modules
During the Program You Will Receive:
> Over 1000 pages of Step-by-Step Training Materials
> 36 DVDs taken from our LIVE Bagua Instructor Trainings
> 16 CDs with Guided Practice Session on Audio CDs
> Special Bonuses (see below)
> Access to member-only Forums
You will receive the 12 modules in two shipments:
>>>>>Delivery # 1: Modules 1 through 6
>>>>>Delivery # 2: Modules 7 through 12 (sent on ~April 1st)
What You'll Learn in the Bagua Mastery Program
Module 1 - Bagua Foundation Building
Module 1 starts by explaining the context of bagua and how to use this program. One of the most important elements is knowing how to warm up your body, so you start by learning the Bagua Internal Warm-up Method. This is a powerfully effective approach to getting a larger return on your practice time.
You will also learn the Bagua Dynamic Stepping System, the foundation for bagua walking techniques. All serious students want to start by practicing and perfecting straight-line walking.
As part of Module 1 you'll receive the following print documents:
Introduction: How to Use the Bagua Mastery Program [34 pages]
Learning Bagua: Physical, Energetic and Mental Principles [23 pages]
Bagua and the Sixteen Neigong [45 pages]
Bagua Skills: Twisting [21 pages]
Bagua Internal Warm-up Method [65 pages]
Building a Foundation for Bagua: A Dynamic Stepping System [91 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Overview [43 pages]
Module 2 - Bagua Circle Walking
Circle Walking can give your body all the aerobic exercise it needs. It brings up a vortex of energy from the earth through your body, which energizes, nourishes and strengthens your body from the inside out. It also sets the stage for using Circle Walking in Taoist meditation.
In Module 2, we’ll transition from straight-line walking to Circle Walking basics. You’ll spend some time learning the basic footwork for walking a clockwise and counter-clockwise circle.
As part of Module 2 you'll receive the following print documents:
Learning to Walk the Circle: Circle Walking Basics [35 pages]
Circle Walking adn Taoist Meditation: Intermediate Meditation 1 [16 pages]
Module 3 - Bagua Body Unification and Direction Changes
The simplified turn for changing direction while Walking the Circle will be taught in this Module. It works out the basic kinks of getting used to reversing direction—including maintaining your balance and not getting disoriented. The complete turning method is the fundamental technique of reversing direction germane to bagua, and will be taught in Module 7.
My strategy here is to ensure that when you begin focusing on the Single Palm Change posture and Dragon Body that you have a solid foundation. Otherwise, you’ll build in a destabilizing force that can make all future complete turns unbalanced and break the flow you generate while walking.
You will also learn the Bagua Body Unification Method in this module, which is comrpised of three exercises. Many move their bodies with very little internal connection, so these unification exercises will firmly connect all parts of your body in a relaxed way without causing physical tension. Unification exercises open up key energy channels in the body and provide a simple and relatively concrete path for your mind to enter into your body.
As part of Module 3 you'll receive the following print documents:
Bagua Body Unification Method [84 pages]
Circle Walking Basics: Changing Directions and Important Considerations [54 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Intermediate Meditation 2 [13 pages]
In Modules 1-3 you will receive over 528 pages of pure content...with hundreds of diagrams.
Module 4 - Bagua Energy Postures
In Module 4, the circle of learning begins anew. You will learn my Bagua Energy Posture Series. A bagua energy posture involves the position of your arms while you Walk the Circle being relatively fixed in relation to your body, so they do not move in space. Bagua energy postures, like the standing postures of tai chi, hsing-i and qigong are used to develop a strong foundation for all moving practices in the world of chi.
In Module 4, you will learn the first four postures of the series. Although many dozens of bagua energy postures are widely practiced, all derive from the complete system of two-hundred static arm postures within the Taoist monastic tradition. Each posture opens up specific energy channels within the body. I designed my energy postures series, consisting of twelve in total, to open specific energy channels in a progressive manner and connect chi flows in very deliberate ways to help you advance to the Single Palm Change.
As part of Module 4 you'll receive the following print documents:
Bagua Applications: Tai Chi - Shifting Weight from the Back to the Front Leg [12 pages]
Bagua Energy Postures [130 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Intermediate Meditation 3, Parts 1-3 [18 pages]
All bagua energy postures are designed to serve three primary purposes:
1. Physically open and strengthen particular areas of the middle or upper body.
2. Seamlessly connect, integrate and open different parts of the arms with all parts of the torso, spine, head, waist, hips and legs.
3. For intermediates, connect specific energy channels and flows within the physical and etheric energy bodies.
Module 5 - Bagua Single Palm Change Posture
Holding the palm posture of the Single Palm Change (SPC) while Walking the Circle focuses and develops the chi of the body, mind and spirit more than any other independent single technique in the world Taoist chi arts. It has tremendous value on every level from health to spirituality.
Besides the formation of the palm itself, a palm posture also includes how your arms and torso both externally and internally mold or morph to hold the palm position. Together they are called the Upper Body Palm Posture. Both strongly influence all aspects of your body-energy-mind while walking This module focuses on learning to hold the Single Palm Change Upper Body Palm Posture while Walking the Circle and changing direction using only the simplified turning method.
In addition, you will learn Postures 5 and 6 of the Bagua Energy Posture Series.
As part of Module 5 you'll receive the following print documents:
Bagua Applications: Twisting and Coiling Silk in Tai Chi [10 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Intermediate Meditation 3, Part 4 [6 pages]
Single Palm Change Palm Posture: The King of All Postures [48 pages]
Module 6 - Bagua Dragon Body
The Dragon Body is distinct to bagua. It should only be learned after stabilizing the Single Palm Change posture. The Dragon Body’s form has the following two qualities as you Walk the Circle: Waist turns toward the center of the circle; and the Torso maintains the four points and all of the other alignments of the preceding sections.
In this module, you will learn how to safely turn your waist into the center of the circle in incremental stages. In addition, you will learn Postures 7 and 8 of the Bagua Energy Posture Series
As part of Module 6 you'll receive the following print documents:
Bagua Applications: Creating an Elastic Body [4 pages]
Bagua Dragon Body [34 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Intermediate Meditation 4, Parts 1-3 [16 pages]
Module 7 - Bagua Complete Direction Change & Advanced Energy Postures
In Module 7, you will learn the complete footwork for changing and reversing the circle’s direction. First, you use a toe-in step to turn your torso from the waist and shrink your body into itself, toward your body’s centerline. Then, you use a toe-out step to turn your torso to the outside of your body’s centerline and in the opposite direction
from which you started.
I teach the classic bagua method for changing direction, as traditionally it has shown itself to be the best way to develop the expansive energy qualities of mud walking in the legs, allowing the chi to circulate all the way to the toes. After these two qualities are stabilized in a practitioner’s body, the toe-out step is incorporated into bagua energy postures and the Single Palm Change with more complex combinations of waist turning and straight-stepping, toe-in and toe- out footwork.
You will also learn the final four postures (9-12) in the Bagua Energy Posture Series. These four postures develop your energetic body to its highest level, opening up and working with the channels of your body. So they should only be practiced by intermediate practitioners who have a solid grounding in the first eight postures.
As part of Module 7 you'll receive the following print documents:
Circle Walking Direction Change: Complete Footwork [108 pages]
Bagua Applications: The Calligraphy in Bagua [6 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation: Meditation 5, Parts 1-2 [8 pages]
Module 8 - Bagua Single Palm Change Warmup
In this module, you will learn a physical and energetic warm-up that will help make the Single Palm Change one single, fluid movement as you change directions while Walking the Circle.
The central goal of the Single Palm Change warm-up is to integrate arm movements with foot movements as you Walk the Circle. Later, because you’ll be familiar enough with the movements already, changing direction won’t be so overwhelming.
As part of Module 7 you'll receive the following print documents:
Single Palm Change Warm-up and Transition [120 pages]
Circle Walking and Taoist Meditation; Meditation 5, Part 3 [10 pages]
Module 9 - Bagua Heaven Palm Change and Changing Directions
All of the techniques and principles in the previous modules will now be applied as one integrated whole while you Walk the Circle and change direction using the Single Palm Change. This module puts all of the components you have learned together so you can do the Heaven Single Palm Change. Once you have reached this module, you'll have already built a solid foundation from which to learn the Single Palm Change.
Module 10 - Bagua Water Palm Change and Roll the Ball
The Water Palm Change trains the complexity of the spiraling arm actions. Although they are best learned through live instruction (due to the often hidden complexity within its arm and waist movements), learning to perform this palm change well has immense value.
Module 11 - Bagua Double Palm Change
The Bagua Double Palm Change is represented by the second triagram of the I Ching, known as “earth” (or kun in Chinese). It signifies the essence of yin energy as the prime yin or soft power generation method of bagua.
Module 12 - Bagua Wind Palm Change
The Wind Palm Change develops the spinning techniques of bagua whereby the practitioner’s body spins like a whirlwind.
What You Get In Each Monthly Module:
PDFs, Audio, DVD and Online Content
1. Detailed Training Guides
Bagua Mastery Program Full Course
All instructional and supporting informational material is presented in-print with an accompanying binder where you can include your personal notes, such as from live trainings. Each module contains pictures, images and graphic aids to provide a complete explanation of each technique.
Intermediate-level material is typically offered in separate sections within each document. Regardless of whether you are new to bagua or an intermediate practitioner, all other material is meant to be read by everyone.
2. DVD Instruction from the Bagua Instructor Training, Bagua Wind Palm Event, and Bagua Earth Palm Event
Live footage from my Bagua Instructor Training and other demonstrations by me and my Senior Bagua Instructors will help you learn various techniques and components of bagua and the Single Palm Change.
In each delivery you will receive over 12 hours of live footage (more for the second delivery). The instructor training is special and Bruce has held only once in the last ten years. Bruce has never before offered DVDs from his LIVE trainings.
Participants paid over US$6,500+ to attend this four-week training, wind palm and earth palm events
3. Guided Audio CD Practice Sessions
Each module includes guided audio practice sessions on CDs. You can copy them to any MP3 device (ipod, iphone) or you can listen to them directly. I’ve recorded two levels of guided practice sessions for each module to help you learn the components taught in that module. The first is for everyone and the second is for intermediates only. If you’re not an intermediate-level practitioner already I recommend you save the intermediate sessions for later when you have a stable foundation in the basics or you’ll be wasting your time.
4. Teleconference
During this program Bruce will offer a teleconference where he will answer questions given to him by members of the program.
5. Member-Only Bagua Forum
Access to a member-only online forum that is moderated by senior Energy Arts bagua students and where Bruce will answer questions about the Bagua Mastery Program. From time to time we will post addtitional bonus and relevant material directly to the forum for members.
Two Additonal Bonuses plus Discounted Shipping
Bonus #1 - A Copy of Bruce's Book:
BAGUA and TAI CHI: Exploring the Potential of Chi, Martial Arts, Meditation and the I Ching [240 pages]
Discover the Taoist chi practices that power the internal martial arts of bagua and tai chi. Inside the slow-motion movements of tai chi is a sophisticated mind/body/spirit practice. Derived from the I Ching (Book of Changes), bagua is unique in its circular movements, spiraling energy, and unpredictable changes of direction. At the core of both of these arts lie practical ways to understand change and how energy flows within the universe.
Drawing on insights from his main teacher, Lineagei Master Liu Hung Chieh of Bejing, China, Bruce reveals how how you can use these powerful arts to:
> Promote vibrant health and well-being
> Build chi power for fighting applications
> Cultivate meditative awareness
> Relax all aspects of your being
>Flow smoothly with change
Dr. Alan Peatfield, Ph.D., Lecturer in Archaeology at University College Dublin, Ireland
Bonus #2 - Free Meditation Book
The Great Stillness - TAO Meditation Vol. 2
Body Awareness, Moving Meditation and Sex Qigong
In this second meditation volume, Bruce guides you through energy practices unique to the Taoist Water Meditation method, including how to:
> Feel your internal energy and make your body conscious
> Perform circle walking as a form of moving meditation
> Use Inner Dissolving to go beyond your everyday thoughts and resolve inner demons
> Have more vibrant sex and make it a meditative experience...
- Elizabeth Whitney, Yoga Journal
"Frantzis has spent most of his life studying various martial arts, meditation, and traditional Eastern healing systems. His fluency in Chinese and Japanese has allowed him to pursue thse arts to an unprecedented depth for a Westerner."
- Clarence Lui, contributing writer, Inside Kung Fu
Plus Discounted Shipping
To minimize the shipping costs we are offering to Pay at least half the cost:
- FOR US CUSTOMERS: YOU PAY JUST $11.50 AND WE WILL COVER THE REST FOR BOTH DELIVERIES (WE COVER OVER 50% OF SHIPPING COST)
- FOR CANADA CUSTOMERS: YOU PAY JUST $20 AND WE WILL COVER THE REST FOR BOTH DELIVERIES (WE COVER 50% OF SHIPPING COSTS)
- FOR INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: WE WILL CHARGE JUST A FLAT RATE OF $50 FOR BOTH DELIVERIES (WE COVER 65% OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CHARGE)
Bagua Mastery Program Relaunch Offer
You will receive:
> 1000+ Pages of printed content
> 16 CDs of Audio Content and Guided Sessions
> 36 DVDs from the Bagua Instructor Training
> Access to the Bagua Mastery Program Forum and Teleconferences
> Bonus 1: Bruce's Tai Chi and Bagua Book - $24.95 Value
> Bonus 2: The Great Stillness TAO Mediation Vol. 2 Book - $20 Value
> Discounted shipping for the entire program - $25 to $80 Value - Billed on first shipment
> Shipment #1 (Modules 1 through 6) sent immediately
> Shipment #2 (Modules 7 through 12) sent ~ 2 April 2012
> This is the last opening of the program until 2013
> Billed in Three Monthly Payments of $295
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What Others Are Saying...
practice of Ba Gua Zhang over these last two decades with Master Bruce Frantzis has given me a depth of understanding and tactile experience with martial art and a profound discovery of how to be a human being in an ever changing world. Ba Gua helped release the rigidity of my body and mind to reveal the empiricism of what one may call the Soul’s cosmic connection to the ever flowing force of life that we all exist in." Lee Burkins, Colorado Martial Arts, http://www.ColoradoInternalArts.com
"In every seminar with Bruce we are always impressed how much deep and valuable material he is presenting in a down to earth, practical and understandable way. We highly can recommend his teachings."Ralph Heber and Elisabeth Woersing, Senior instructors of Energy Arts, practitioners of Martial Arts, Qigong and Tai Chi for more than 20 years, Tai Chi Schule Ulm/Neu, www.TaiChi.de
"When I met Bruce Frantzis in 1997 I already had studied martial arts from the age of twelve. Impressed by his teaching and his deep knowledge in the martial arts and energy work I decided to continue studying with him since that time. For my further development in the martial arts this was a very big step. With the launch of this new program Bruce is offering one more possibility of passing down his knowledge."Olaf Rolving, Zendocan, http://www.zendokan.de
"Some
thirty years ago, a whirlwind martial artist named Bruce Frantzis
introduced me to the arts of bagua and tai chi and revealed how they
support and enhance one another. As my interests evolved - from martial
arts to health and healing to meditation and the Tao - Bruce
continuously unveiled for me new possibilities within these arts. There
has not been one day in the past 30 years that I haven't been amazed by
and deeply grateful for the depth and vastness of Bruce's knowledge,
the clarity and openness with which he teaches, and his dedication to
pass on these arts at the highest levels possible to new generations of
practitioners."Bill Ryan, Toward Harmony Tai Chi & Qigong, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, www.TowardHarmony.com
"Over the years I have primarily studied qigong and meditation with Bruce, so whenever I have the chance to learn bagua from him directly, I'm thrilled that I can pour all of the internal work he teaches in other contexts into a circle-walking practice. Doing ba guai enhances the other areas of my practice and working with different speeds and changes has helped me access things inside that I probably never would have otherwise." Dan Kleiman, Program Director, Brookline Tai Chi, www.BrooklineTaiChi.org
"Bruce Frantzis has a unique way of teaching that goes to the very core of your being, whether you are learning internal arts for fighting, health, or spiritual development. He is a true catalyst, bringing about dynamic changes to your physical body, chi, mind and spirit as your skills increase. Generous and compassionate, he communicates from the heart and is appropriately challenging on every level!"
Patrick Foley and Jane Launchbury have studied with Bruce and his Senior Instructor Brian Cooper since 1991. www.longwatertaichi.co.uk
"The Art of Bagua has helped me to fill in the gaps in order to come to a deeper understanding for the Art of Aikidoi. In Practicing the Circle Walking of Bagua, I can focus on developing the inner capacities of my body. By learning the neigong (nei gungi) of Bagua I have discovered the neigong of Aikido." Anita Köhler, 5th Dan Aikikai,http://www.aikido-dojo.de
"I have had the privelege of studying with bruce over the last 8 years. Bruce is a true treasure of Taoism in the west. His teachings have been essential in my developing an understanding and practical ability in the internal martial arts, healing and meditation. He helped me understand how they function and how they interrelate. He really gets this stuff, and he helps others to really get it, too. For people who are seriously interested in developing their own internal capacities as far as they can go, the Bagua Mastery Program is going to be invaluable, whether you study tai chi, bagua, any martial art, any healing method, any meditation tradition, or would just like more tools to live life well. It’s just that good."Richard Shapiro, Two Trees Internal Arts, www.twotreesinternalarts.com/
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