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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
In Memoriam to Grandmaster Feng Zhi Qiang
This weekend was the supermoon, the one time of the year when a full moon coincides with its perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit. On Sunday I was on a call with Alan Peatfield in Ireland discussing a future project I was planning on Lao Tse’s “Tao Te...
Osteopathy and Healer Heal Thyself
It has been a while since the last post here because I was traveling. I recently presented to the American Osteopathy Annual Conference held in Kentucky. I was invited to give a lecture and workshop on 'Physician Heal and Maintain Thyself' where I spoke about my...
Dragon and Tiger Course Samples
In this short video (3 min 17 sec) Bill Ryan talks about how he came to practice Dragon and Tiger Qigong:
What is Dragon & Tiger Qigong?
Senior Energy Arts Instructor Bill Ryan talks about the three principles of qigong and gives a short demonstration of Dragon and Tiger Qigong. Bill also explains a bit about each of the seven movements and their benefits. Learn more about Energy Arts' Dragon and...
Year of the Water Dragon – Get into the Flow
At the end of last year, I suggested that people forgive. Forgive others and forgive themselves. And if you know you did wrong or someone else did wrong, forget the blame and emotional energy, let go and just don’t repeat it. For this Chinese New Year we are at a...
Bagua in Beijing
In Beijing last week I awoke super early and had the feeling I should go to the park to meet someone. I knew not who! It is important to follow your hunches in life. After rousing my wife, off we went to Tien Tan (Temple of Heaven) Park, where I used to learn and...
Learning Bagua from the Masters
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Bruce talks about learning from the Bagua Masters in Asia
Learning from Bagua Masters
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Visiting the Bai Yuan Guan – Taoist White Cloud Temple
Over 25 years ago, from 1985-6, my Taoist master used to send me to White Cloud once or twice a week. He gave me meditation practices, which I did at two spots here. At the time I lived only a 15 minute walk away. The Eight Immortals Upon arriving at the temple with...
Bridging East and West – China Radio Interviews
Please enjoy this interview by China Radio International (CRI) about Bruce's experiences in China in the mid 1980's. Born and raised in the USA, Bruce Frantzis spent a total of 11 years in China in the 70s and 80s. He was one of the few foreigners studying martial...
Notes from Beijing: Pollution, Building and Freedom
One astonishing sight is the pollution. Yesterday the sky was a nasty shade of grey, and you could barely see the sun through the soup. Yet I was told that it wasn’t that bad. Apparently there is “bad”, “very bad” and then there is “crazy bad”. The U.S. Embassy...
Updates from China: Lao Tse and Modern Values
The young man mentioned that it seemed as if foreigners are more interested and knowledgeable about old Chinese culture than most Chinese. He commented that nowadays, many of the youth are driven by money and consumerism, leaving behind culture and human values. The...
Dissolving Meditation vs. Relaxation
Dissolving the physical body and relaxing it is not the same thing. Often to explain this, I use the image of going from ice to water. Relaxation in the West is mostly understood as a mental or an emotional mood change. When we’re going from ice to water in Taoist...
Medical Qigong
Medical qigong
uses qigong to reverse or mitigate chronic disease and injury. Because most Chinese
physicians are familiar with the acupuncture meridian-line system, the vast
majority of China’s medical qigong programs are based on this. The focus is on
medical therapeutics, rather than spirituality or extreme physical or mental
prowess.
The Sixteen Neigong
Neigong (Nei gung) or “internal power” is the original
chi cultivation system in China,
which was also invented by the Taoists. The 16 neigong develop chi. Within the Energy Arts Qigong Exercise Program you learn these neigong components. You can also learn and place these neigong into any internal martial art such as tai chi or bagua.
Learning qigong is a means by which to realize
the potential of the 16 neigong to balance all of your eight energy bodies,
starting with the physical body. The heart of the Energy Arts Core Qigong
Program is training all 16 components.
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