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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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Bagua Zhang Fire Palm
Here is a short, introductory video about the Bagua Fire Palm. In it, Bruce discusses Bagua's history as a spiritual development system, as well as its evolution into a martial art. Bruce also discusses topics from a previously held workshop held in San Francisco....
What is Tai Chi?
There are many different ways to answer the question, "What is tai chi?" Tai chi (also taiji) was developed in China as a very effective martial art. When referred to as a martial art it is called, 'tai chi chuan' (translated as 'grand ultimate fist'). Most people,...
Bagua Meditation
Bagua (Bagua/Pakua) has two main traditions. In the West, the better known is its martial art tradition, usually called bagua zhang. Less well known is its spiritual or monastic tradition. This post explores the spiritual tradition of bagua and how it can be used for...
Internal Martial Arts for Health
BAGUA FOR HEALTH Bagua Circle Walking is the central and foundational solo exercise of bagua zhang (ba gua chang/pakua chang). The greater the skill you develop in Bagua Zhang Circle Walking, the greater your chances of realizing bagua’s physical, martial and...
Internal Martial Arts Practices
BAGUA PRACTICES 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...
Benefits of Internal Martial Arts
BENEFITS OF BAGUA All forms of bagua zhang (pakua chang) are designed to increase and balance your chi (qi). You may choose to learn bagua zhang for five primary applications: Martial Arts Health and/or high performance Longevity and regeneration Healing Meditation...
What are Internal Martial Arts?
What is Bagua? Bagua zhang (Ba gua chang/Pakua chang) is an internal energy art even more ancient than tai chi chuan. Developed some 4,000 years ago in Taoist monasteries primarily for health and meditation, Bagua zhang techniques are based on the I Ching, an ancient...
Taoist Breathing
Why Learn Breathing? Western and Eastern medical practitioners consider good breathing habits to be essential components of health. Unfortunately, most people have poor breathing habits. They take shallow breaths, only use a portion of their lungs, even when they...
Taoist Meditation For Health
Learning meditation is one of the most important decisions that you can make during your lifetime. Whether you are eight years old or eighty, the decision to meditate regularly starts in motion an accelerated process of spiritual unfoldment. Meditation can be defined...
Advanced Taoist Meditation Practices
As you practice of mediation, your first four energy bodies (physical, etheric, mental and emotional) will start to stabilize. Developing and working with these first four energy bodies provides you with a solid foundation to go deeper and take meditation to more...
Benefits of Taoist Meditation?
Eight Principles of Laozi’s water tradition The following eight principles are fundamental to Taoist sexual qigong and meditation; they lie at the core of Laozi’s (Lao Tzu's) Water tradition. A complete treatise on these and other important relevant principles would...
What is Taoist Meditation?
Meditation is the only practice used by virtually every genuine spiritual tradition throughout the ages to look inside and discover our innate nature.Meditation leads us to the timeless questions:Who am I?Where did I come from?What is my purpose here on Earth?How can...
Qigong for Healers
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 your hands, voice and eyes to facilitate healing. In order to learn to heal others,...
Qigong for Health
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...
Qigong Sets (Exercises)
The Energy Arts Qigong Exercise System makes your body more conscious by increasing your internal awareness, moving chi and activating your acupuncture meridians.  Five of the qigong sets are linked to the Five Elements: Wood, Earth, Water, Fire and Metal. These...
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