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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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Recent Posts
Healing Energy Therapies: A Taoist Perspective
The healing of others is one of the five basic applications of Chi Gung, the other four being one’s own health and healing, martial arts, sexual practices, and practices to address the rigors of meditation. Tui Na is the general term for all the hands-on therapies developed by the Taoists, and in some form is a part of most acupuncture school curricula.
Bagua Movements 2
By Lee Burkins
Bagua Movements 1
By Lee Burkins
Words from the Tao Te Ching speak of the space within the walls of a vessel as being useful. The human body is like a vessel and the space within our body is therefore useful.
Blood and Fluid Circulation in the Legs for Edema and Varicose Vein Sufferers
By Senior Instructor Jamie Dibdin
Bagua: Why Practice This Old and Obscure Art? Part 2/2
By Senior Instructor Paul Cavel
Single Palm Change and Beyond
Last month we left off discussing the minimalist’s camp-doing nothing and being absolutely content-but how do you get there? Once you have an understanding of and become proficient in Bagua Circle Walking, you can then progress to the Bagua Single Palm Change.
Bagua: Why Practice This Old and Obscure Art? Part 1/2
By Senior Instructor Paul Cavel
Bagua zhang is a pure Taoist energy art primarily practised by those interested in the I Ching or Taoism–having been derived as a physical manifestation to realize the teachings of the I Ching. That is, ba gua is an embodiment of the universal principles of change.
The Tao of Sex: Feeling Your Life-force Energy (Part 1 of 3)
Making love is like cooking a three-course meal. Ideally, you want to make sure all the needed cooking utensils and ingredients are accounted for and working in the kitchen. Everything is present. First comes the appetizers, or foreplay, which can become a full meal...
Taoist Seasons – Late Summer – Earth Element
By Matthew Brewer
The Long Summer
The fifth season is late summer or Indian summer. The Chinese call it Long Summer (chang xia). Its
element is earth. The Chinese element ‘earth’ 土 (tu) holds the same place as the Hindu element ‘akasa’ or
space. It is that which holds and contains everything. It is the bedrock which allows everything else to be.
It’s primary function is integration. By holding everything it allows all of the apparently separate things of
existence to recognise their non-difference.
Taoist Seasons – Summer – Fire Element
By Matthew
Brewer
Taoist Seasons – Autumn – Metal Element
By Matthew Brewer
收之道
Taoist Seasons – Winter – Water Element
By Matthew Brewer
Winter – The Dao of Storage
藏之道
Taoist Seasons – Spring – Wood Element
By Matthew Brewer
Why Buddhism and Hinduism Are Well Known, but Taoism Is Not
All branches of Buddhism and Hinduism came out of India, regardless of whether they ended up in Tibet, Southeast Asia or even Africa. Both religions carried the Indian perspectives on reincarnation and the idea that relationships between the individual and the...
Chuang Tse’s Fish
Derived from Interviews with Bruce
Frantzis
Qigong Tui Na Healing
By Susan Kansky
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