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As the foremost Western expert in Wu style tai chi and Yang style tai chi, holding direct lineages from China, Bruce Frantzis teaches six powerful qigong sets, as well as bagua zhang and hsing-i from the martial, health, and meditation perspectives.
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The Tao of Self-Discovery
If you want to find out who you are, you have to get behind anything and everything that has happened to you in your life. It doesn't matter what could occur. It doesn't matter what you might be experiencing at the present moment. It doesn't matter what you possess....
Birth of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan – Yang Lu Chan
In ancient China, the Chen village kept tai chi chuan a closely guarded secret for over a century and refused to teach it to a single outsider. Having a superior martial art such as tai chi chuan enabled the village to stay safe from marauding bandits and securely...
The Tao of Sex: Qigong or Meditation? (Part 2 of 3)
The Taoist sexual practices are categorized in two segments: Sexual qigong—techniques that increase the sensitivity and awareness of chi flows within yourself and your partner, including techniques that help you achieve many of the healing benefits of any chi...
Dragon and Tiger Qigong
Here is a nice video we put together a while ago giving an overview of the Dragon and Tiger Qigong set: Energy Arts instructors (Bill Ryan, Kurt Miyajima, Susan Kansky) demonstrate Dragon and Tiger Qigong Dragon and Tiger Qigong is the first of the moving practices in...
Tai Chi Meditation
Tai chi is commonly referred to as moving meditation. Tai chi’s slow, graceful movements can be used as a meditation to provide relaxed focus, to quiet the monkey mind and to engender a deep sense of relaxation that helps release inner tensions.
Taoist Energy Anatomy
Chi (qi) energy moves through specific pathways mapped by Taoist sages thousands of years ago. The energy anatomy diagrams show the chi flow through main right, left and central energy channels that are located deep in the body. Other important energy channels move in the body through meridians that have been charted by acupuncturists.
Energy Arts Certification Levels
There is no Western equivalent to the master/disciple system in China that provides students with the achievement levels of their teachers and teachers with criteria for advancing their students. We have instituted our own rigorous certification system to fill that void.
Bagua Zhang – Center of the Circle
By Jess O’Brien
Revolving around a central point is at the core of Ba Gua Circle Walking. Revolution after revolution, we continue to circle around a central point in space that remains stable and unchanging. With each rotation we find ourselves traversing the same ground as before, yet every time it is a new experience. We trace the same steps over and over but each second greets us afresh.
Qigong University
By Dan Kleiman
Do you remember your favorite college professor? Was he a wizened bookworm who would quote endlessly from the classics? Was she a fiery idealist who pushed sleepy, complacent students to forge a moral identity? Was he a wacky physicist who could barely keep his shoes tied, but couldn’t care less?
Meditation Is Not What You Think
I honestly believe that “we are spiritual beings enjoying a physical respite, here.” I also believe that ultimately, life is a spiritual quest …for wholeness, completeness and reconnection to our ultimate source! I believe the words of Jesus and Buddha and Ghandi regarding Meditation and “Thinking on these things!”
The Importance of Dragon & Tiger Qigong (Chi Gung)
By Senior Instructor Bill Ryan
Within the Energy Arts world, there is a lot going on with Dragon & Tiger Qigong (Chi Gung) these days.
Three of the exercises from the system are featured in Bruce’s new book, The Chi Revolution. Bruce’s next book, Dragon & Tiger Medical Qigong instruction manual, is at the printer. And perhaps most importantly, in March Bruce will offer the first instructor training he has ever held in Europe and the subject will be Dragon & Tiger Qigong.
The Art of Feeling Chi: Mind, Body, and Life Energy
By Senior Instructor Bill Ryan
Many people have trouble feeling their bodies.
Many people have trouble feeling their chi, or what I call “life energy.”
Why? There can be many reasons. But one common reason is that many people don’t slow their minds down when they try to feel.
Tao Meditation Practice
By Frank Iborra
Since the early 60’s I’ve been exposed to many different types of meditation techniques. Many were of a superficial nature used for stress and health, while others had spiritual attributes.From that experience, my general sense has been that what has crossed over from the east has been lost in translation or watered down, primarily to make the practices more acceptable to the general public.
What makes a meditative mind so alien to our culture?
Chuang Tse’s Fish (Part III)
By Alex Frantzis
Chuang Tse’s Fish (Part II)
By Alex Frantzis
While many differing interpretations for the Taoist texts (ie. The Book of Chuang Tse and Lao Tse’s Tao de Jing) exist, this article only concerns those that relate to Taoist meditation. Some concepts of Taoist meditation overlap with the Taoist view of how society should function (a core concept of the Tao de Jing), but this aspect will not be the primary focus. Instead, the aim is to explain the fish story, and prove it is not the only reference to Taoist meditation.
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