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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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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...
Benefits of Qigong
Loosens the Muscles and Builds Power
Qigong works with the muscles quite differently than the typical exercises practiced by Westerners. Aerobics and vigorous stretching build strength and flexibility; chi gung and other internal exercises build effortless power and looseness.
The feeling of strength, of being “pumped up,” obtained in Western exercise is actually due to muscular contraction, that prevents the free flow of chi, even though such exercise may give you the extreme flexibility to be able to do leg splits, for example.
WHAT IS QIGONG?
Qigong (chi gung, or chi kung) is a form of gentle exercise composed of movements that are repeated a number of times, often stretching the body, increasing fluid movement (blood, synovial and lymph) and building awareness of how the body moves through space. When you...
TAI CHI AS MEDITATION
Tai chi has been called moving meditation. Most often in the West we think of meditation is something that is to be done while sitting cross-legged, or in a chair. Moving meditations, however, are very useful. If you can learn to meditate while moving, then you can...
TAI CHI FOR HEALTH
In 2007, according to the US Census Bureau, 45.7 million people in the U.S. (15.3% of the population) were without health insurance for at least part of the year. As Baby Boomers reach the age of 50, America, like many developed nations, faces a healthcare tsunami of...
Tai Chi Styles (Practices)
Choosing the appropriate tai chi style is one of the most important decisions you will make once you decide to practice. Most beginners think of tai chi as just one art form and don’t realize the multitude of styles available. Even if you’re already practicing a...
Benefits of Tai Chi
Tai Chi for Body Support Tai chi’s gentle, non-jarring movements support bodily functions in three basic ways: Tai chi trains the major ligaments that serve as the springs of the body. Anatomically, the human body is kept upright by ligaments, not bones, as is...
Common Mistakes in Tai Chi
In this video, I talk about some common mistakes that people make when doing tai chi. If you find yourself doing some of them, no worries...it is all a road and by recognizing any of these in your form you can move to your true potential. Good practicing, Bruce...
Improving the Flow of Qi in Tai Chi
In this blog, I talk about increasing the flow of qi in your tai chi or qigong form.
Relaxation in Tai Chi
In tai chi, you must relax three things. Relaxation is the hallmark of great tai chi yet many people are way too tense. Watch the video here:
Tai Chi and the Lower Tantien
In this video, I talk about the importance of the lower tantien in tai chi and also for general health and vitality. The lower tantien is the place all the energy circuits pass through.
Bonus 3 – Dissolving Meditation Intro and Practice
Standing
and dissolving is a more advanced method of sinking qi. In
sinking qi you take any bound, tense or condensed energy of your body from a
state of a solid to a liquid and release it, allowing it to flow down the body
and release into the earth. In
dissolving you take the bound energy in the body from a solid to a liquid and
then complete the process by changing its state into that of a gas and
expanding any bound qi outside of your physical body to the edge of your
etheric field. Then, it will naturally recycle into your body-energy matrix and
be neutralized.
New Zealand Travels and Qigong Tui Na Teaching
I was recently in New Zealand and wanted to share some of my experiences while traveling. New Zealand is a beautiful country, one that I have wanted to travel to for a long time. In this blog I talk about the qi glowworms, the Maori festival, Kauri trees and the...
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