Qigong For Troubled Times - by Solala Towler

COURSE

Qigong For Troubled Times

With Solala Towler

Our world is going through a massive pandemic that affects us all. It may be that we or someone close to us is sick or we have lost our job and livelihood due to the national shutdown of businesses. We may be feeling isolated and fearful. This course is designed to boost your immune system and teach you ways to soften the emotional and physical blow of these stressful times. It is in times like this, when we are specially challenged, that practices like qigong and meditation are most helpful. Qigong works on three levels, affecting our physical, mental, and even spiritual health. These practices go back thousands of years and are a part of what is known in China as "Yang Sheng" or nourishing life practices - sometimes called "long life practices" - designed to help us lead long and healthy lives. Over the next 10 days you will be offered a range of physical practices and emotional techniques to help you ground in your body and regulate your nervous system, promoting both a joyful and easeful existence.

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Meet your Teacher

Solala Towler
Eugene, OR, USA

Solala has been studying and teaching the Taoist (Daoist) arts for over 30 years and has 14 books published in 6 languages, including Tales from the Tao, The Tao of Intimacy and Ecstasy, Practicing the Tao te Ching, Chuang Tzu: The Inner chapters, and Cha Dao: The Way of Tea. He teaches qigong and sound healing at conferences and workshops around the United States and leads study trips to China. He is founder of the sacred music ensemble Windhorse and has recorded a number of CDs dedicated to meditation and relaxation music, which have been used in many qigong DVDs.

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10 Days

4.8k students

4.8 stars

12 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Introduction To Qigong

What is is this mysterious, miraculous, and marvelous practice called qigong? What are we doing when we do qigong? What is its roots and how can it help us with our modern day problems and concerns? How can it help us in troubled and challenging times? In a sense, we are stepping out of our mundane, limited sense of reality and opening ourselves up to a richer, wider and deeper form of experience. We are allowing what is infinite to be contained by what is so finite: our own bodies. When we do our practice, our form, our breathing, our visualizations, our movements – we align ourselves with our own origin, our own divine birthright. We are allowing ourselves to become “empty vessels,” ready to be filled with the energy of the universe itself.

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Lesson 2

Immune System Qigong

It is always a good idea to work on your immune system, yet even more at this time. I will give you some special points on your body to massage, which will help support and build your immune system.

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Lesson 3

Daoist Inner Light Practice

This is a lovely practice for bringing in golden healing light to anywhere you have disease, pain, stress, or toxicity in your body and to release it all into the air as black smoke. We also go a little further to experience yourself enveloped in a luminous egg of golden light and how to then turn that light outwards and send healing qi and light out into the world, to anyone you know who is sick or in pain or anyone else in the whole planet who is suffering from the current pandemic.

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Lesson 4

Grounding/ Rooting Qigong

The more deeply grounded and rooted we are in the earth, the stronger and more emotionally and energetically balanced we will become. Wen you are grounded and rooted deeply into the earth, the easier it will be to recover from stresses and the challenges of life, especially in this extremely challenging time.

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Lesson 5

Gathering Qi From The Sun, The Moon & The Four Directions

This is a practice of gathering elemental qi from the sun, the earth and each of the four directions. We can then use this gathered qi for making us stronger, more healthy and more highly functioning human beings.

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Lesson 6

Great Mother Meditation

One of the ways the ancient Daoists described Dao itself is that of the Great Mother. In this session we will open a deep connection to the source of all life, here symbolized by the Great Mother. We will experience ourselves as being connected on a very deep level to the source of all life, the Great Mother. In the second part of the practice we will experience ourselves as mothers, whether we are female or male. We will experience ourselves as giving birth to our new and true selves (Zhen Ren), letting go of anything that holds us back or keeps us from shining forth as the radiant, healthy and powerful being that we truly are.

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Lesson 7

Nature Qigong

It is by connecting our own sense of being to nature in a very real way that we can strengthen our own qi body and feel more at peace in our hearts and mind. Yes you can do qigong with trees! Trees have a kind of energy and even intelligence that we can tap into to strengthen our own qi. Here are several ways to practice qigong with trees.

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Lesson 8

Organ Balancing Practice

Each of our five major organs — liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidney/adrenals — have various attributes associated with them, in what in Daoism is called "wu xing" or five transformational phases. This includes the color, season, direction, element, as well as positive and negative energetic qualities. This practice is an internal qigong practice to balance, strengthen and detoxify each organ, thereby boosting your whole energetic and emotional system.

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Lesson 9

Small Heavenly Orbit Qigong

This is a very ancient practice, the Xiao Tian Zhou, sometimes called the Microcosmic Orbit. What many students don’t know however, is that there is a very specific way to set up the orbit. In this session I will teach how to open up 12 important energy gates or qi cavities in your body. Only when they are all open will you be able to successfully circulate your qi up your du mai, which runs up your back, and down your ren mai, which runs down the front of your body. This is a somewhat advanced practice, but I wanted to include something for the folks who are already familiar with qigong practice.

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Lesson 10

Spiraling Dragon Qigong

This is a lovely short qigong form from the sacred Daoist Wudang Mountains. In it we embrace the yin energy of the moon and the yang energy of the sun. We create the sacred lotus flower mudra in front of our celestial (third) eye, and then become dragons soaring into the sky. This form is a way to go from being a hidden dragon (wo long) to becoming a flying dragon (fei long)!

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Recent Reviews

Linda

January 19, 2026

Thank you for this wonderful course and all you do!

Akire

March 26, 2024

This is a great course to come back to daily, and easy to follow. Thank you!

Pauline

February 21, 2024

Have thoroughly enjoyed this course, I have had a long break away from Qigong and didn’t realise how much I was missing it, this is a beautiful short Qigong Form which I shall definitely be practising daily. Many Thanks 🙏🏻

Jeff

February 8, 2024

Thank you. ♥️♥️♥️♥️🐧

Valentine

October 24, 2023

Thanks so much! Is the Empty Vessel magazine still in print? I've been practicing qigong for many years but lived your class and always learn something new...blessing to you.. V

Tito

April 10, 2023

Hard to follow the practice without seeing. Enjoyed the meditations.

Josephina

April 9, 2023

Very nice course

Cy

November 1, 2022

S’adore cette voix 🙏🏻🕊🐢🦋🙌🏻

Victoria

July 2, 2022

This course is a fantastic intro to Qigong that met me as a beginner and took me deep enough that I no longer feel like an outsider, gifting me both mind and body practices to improve the flow of qi in my life. Solala, thank you so much.

Mayasah

May 24, 2022

I plan to revisit this course and also check on whether there are offerings where I live.

Beth

May 20, 2022

Too bad we couldn’t see the movements performed. I appreciated the course, however. Thank you.

Steve

March 27, 2022

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Solala. A beautiful practice that I will return to again and again, releasing into my daily awareness. 🙏🏼🙂

Saulaman

January 8, 2022

Incredible 10 day practice... Thank you Solala

Paul

November 25, 2021

A great introduction into this ancient spiritual practice

Jenny

October 28, 2021

Thank you for a great informative course 🙏🏼 I will be looking for your teachings online as well as returning to this wonderful course.

Rui

September 1, 2021

Great teaching! ✨ It would be great if the information was a little more slow!

Carolyn

June 14, 2021

Very good!

Jules

June 5, 2021

Love qigong and this is easy to follow ❤️☯️

Katie

May 29, 2021

Thank you , solala 🙏. I am now starting again, but will stop to do a longer practice each lesson. You are a good teacher 🥰

Gulis

May 20, 2021

Wonderful. Thank you.

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