Introduction To Qigong

Where I introduce the concept of working or playing with qi and what a qigong practice can do for you. I explain what qi (vital life force) is and how accessing, circulating and then storing qi in your body can do for you.

Our lower dantian (field of elixir, field of medicine) is an important energy field in body. This chapter takes the listener on a journey into that important area of our body and being and teaches how to fill that area with good, strong, clear qi.

By warming up our qi body we can open up our qi channels and make it easer to access the environmental qi field that we will be working with in our qigong practice.

Guan Yin, "She Who Hears The Cries Of The World," is an ancient image of the loving, compassionate nature of the universe. Many people in the West do not know of her origin as a male deity in India, who became a female deity in China! This guided meditation helps us to connect to her presence and fill our body and being with her healing nectar.

This simple, yet powerful qigong exercise is part of a longer qigong form called Great Spiraling Dragon Qigong. In this section we practice embracing the powerful yin essence of the moon as well as the powerful yang essence of the sun. The exercise combines movement, visualization and mantra.

Dao-In is a very ancient form of qigong. We have illustrations of this practice from 2,000 years ago. Dao-In is sometimes called Daoist Yoga. It combines stretches, poses and self massage. In this chapter we will using some of the Dao-In reflexology points on our faces and head to I

Chinese Essence Qigong, created by Chen Fuyin, is a full qigong practice, which includes visualization, movement, holding special energetic points and a brief mantra at the beginning. Solala learned it in 1993 on his first visit to China and has been practicing it ever since. It is a simple, easy to learn qigong form

In which we continue learning this simple yet powerful qigong form, including a simple qi massage of our five major organs as well as holding six important qi points.