Bai Hua, a student of Liu Hung Chieh, was Beijing-educated. I met Bai Hua in Hong Kong and was lucky that he was an extremely articulate Mandarin speaker because I spoke only Mandarin. I shared an apartment with Bai Hua for a time and he had as strong an influence on...
This advanced neigong (nei gung) practice teaches you to dramatically raise your energy levels and master how chi moves in circles and spirals throughout your body. It helps you increase the speed with which chi circulating in your body; it is necessary for psychic...
Gods Playing in the Clouds Qigong is an advanced program incorporating some of the oldest and most powerful Taoist rejuvenation techniques. It is the only qigong program that Taoist Lineage Master, Liu Hung Chieh, practiced daily to enhance his personal longevity...
Bend the Bow Spinal Qigong is an advanced program that focuses on strengthening and regenerating the spine. This powerful qigong set incorporates neigong components for controlling the energies of the spine. Bend the Bow Spinal Qigong trains you in advanced neigong...
Taoist Lineage Holder Bruce Frantzis demonstrates the energies of the single, double, and smooth palm changes, along with how they are used in martial arts fighting applications. This footage was taken from Bruce’s Bagua Double Palm Change event in Atherton,...
Meditation is an age-old system for resolving the essential spiritual challenges of living a life in a human body. Meditation has been used for thousands of years by every religious tradition to create life-sustaining rhythms and give people a way of finding peace,...
Energy Arts is dedicated to offering the most comprehensive tai chi, qigong (chi gung), internal martial arts, breathing, and meditation programs on the planet. On this page, you will find a complete overview (10 pages) of what Energy Arts and Bruce Frantzis teach....
The Taoist science of how energy moves in humans comes from the 16 components of neigong, or internal energy system. Breathing plays a primary role in the system, is the foundation for all of the other neigong components and is the first neigong component. This page...
Tai Chi is considered a low impact exercise, but there are many other low impact exercises such as aerobics, many forms of dancing and walking. So what exactly is the advantage of practicing tai chi over other low impact exercises? What is the difference between...
Clearly, the earlier in life you start practicing tai chi (taiji), the greater your physical and mental capacities will be in old age. However, many people basically ignore their health until the natural healing and physical capacities of youth start to wane....
There is virtually no other martial art system or style, internal or external, that has combined and seamlessly integrated the whole pantheon of martial art fighting techniques in one package as effectively as bagua zhang (ba gua chang/pakua chang). In bagua zhang,...
Hsing-i chuan (Xing yi quan, Shing yi chuan), like bagua (ba gua, pakua) and tai chi, is an internal martial art. Each of the three internal martial arts has their own distinct characteristics and flavor. Hsing-i could be considered the most direct and yang practice...
Bruce Frantzis is a Taoist Lineage Master with more than 40 years experience in Eastern healing systems. He is the first known Westerner to hold authentic lineages in qigong, bagua, tai chi, hsing-i and Taoist meditation. Bruce trained for over a decade in China and...
The best way to study Energy Arts programs is to attend a retreat or workshop, or take a class with one of my Certified Instructors. I personally certified all Energy Arts Instructors, passing down the Taoist methodology for teaching students the easiest and most...
You Can Learn Tai Chi Although tai chi/taiji is not especially easy to learn, it is not the most difficult exercise to do either. Half of China’s 200 million people who successfully learned and currently do tai chi every day began after age fifty. If they can...
The simple fact is that most people do not breathe well. There are numerous studies on the effects of poor breathing on your health. When a person doesn’t breathe well it contracts their body, and induces tension and stress . . . so learning to breathe well is...
