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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.
Energy Arts Blogs bring practical advice on esoteric topics. From frozen diaphragms to Dune philosophy to martial arts masters, the Energy Arts Blogs page is as diverse as it is useful.
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Beginners Tai Chi
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 learn, so can you.
Some degree of challenge makes most recreational activities more fun, interesting and alive. But all worthwhile activities that produce both short- and long-term benefits usually have continuing challenges.
Locating the Cause of Poor Breathing: Frozen Diaphragm Syndrome
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 very...
Qigong Energy Healing
Qigong Energy Healing or qigong tui na (Chi gung tui na) is a special branch of Chinese medicine designed to unblock, free and balance chi in others. You learn to project energy from youir hands, voice and eyes to facilitate healing.
Heaven and Earth Qigong
You won’t get a better initial introduction to qigong/chi gung/chi kung or tai chi than Marriage of Heaven and Earth Qigong.
As the most popular exercise in the Energy Arts Core Qigong Program, Heaven and Earth Qigong provides a real taste of what tai chi can do for you without the time investment tai chi requires. This simple, repetitive exercise is great for getting your chi moving.
Energy Gates Qigong
Energy Gates™ Qigong is a 3,000-year-old self-healing qigong
(chi gung) system from China.
This qigong practice is for those who are serious about learning tai chi,
qigong or any form of energy work.
Energy Gates Qigong is a part of our core qigong program because it teaches the fundamentals of how to activate and harness chi, your life-force energy, to improve health, reduce stress and reverse the effects of aging.
Learn Qigong
The path to learn qigong can help you feel, move and work with energy in your body. It is a powerful way to become more fully alive and conscious.
Although qigong is gaining popularity in the West, there are hundreds of styles, many different teachers and also many different definitions of what qigong is.
Click here to read the article: What is Qigong
Longevity Breathing: A Wise Man Breathes from the Heels
Breathing is at the heart of Taoist arts and other Eastern practices, such as yoga and Buddhist meditation. Breathing well is also a key to success in Western athletic sports, including running, swimming, football and tennis. Leading up to the Instructor Training this...
The Year of the Tiger, Tiger Bones & Standing Qigong Practices
We are now getting ready to enter the Year of the Tiger and there are several things that I think are helpful for you as an update. The first one is that we are nearing the end of winter, so within a month from now, during the winter period of time, the most valuable...
Shengong: SpiritWork on the Meditation Path
When you learn to read and write there is an assumption that you already know the alphabet. Likewise, when you are practicing qigong, bagua or tai chi you are mainly learning the basic ways in which chi works in relation to health, chi development and internal power...
Gifts of Teaching Tai Chi, Longevity Breathing and Energy Arts
Hi folks, We get a lot of comments that come into our office. Many send in their thanks for the work and for our instructors teaching tai chi and qigong. I wanted to share an email we received recently and to again thank my instructors for their commitment to...
The Dune Litany: Fear is the Mind Killer
A lot of people don’t know this about me, but when I was young I was an avid reader. I could read a 500-page book in a day and a half or two and actually digest it. Then, I went through a long period where I didn’t read at all, especially not in English. I didn’t...
Should your left or right hand go on top in qigong and meditation?
I am responding to a common question that was asked to me about why you would put one hand in front of or on top of the other in qigong or meditation positions where this is required. First in my personal opinion, for most people its not that strongly important which...
Tai Chi Tipping Point: Will Tai Chi Go Viral?
Everybody who has been involved in tai chi in the West for the past 10-15 years has known that tai chi is probably going to reach a tipping point were it really reaches the masses; where tai chi really becomes known to the public rather than being some strange...
Tai Chi Secret #8: The 7 Stages of Learning Tai Chi
7 Stages of Learning Tai Chi Having taught tai chi and qigong to more than 15,000 students, I have come to a deep understanding of seven distinct stages that my students have gone through in learning and adopting tai chi into their daily lives. Energy Arts offers...
Tai Chi Secret #5: The Five Traditional Levels of Tai Chi Masters
Tai Chi Secret #5 There are traditionally five levels of credentials and competence for tai chi masters. Contrary to popular belief tai chi does not have black belts or other obvious visible signs of competence. Nevertheless, in China, there is a long-established...
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