Feature Articles:
Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong (Laohu Gong)
Laohu Gong (Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong) is from the Emei Zhengong (Mt. Emei Sage Style Qigong) school. Mt. Emei Sage Style Qigong combines the traditions of ancient shamanism, Confucianism, Daoism, classical Chinese medicine, and the martial arts. The elements of this style are rooted in the ancient world of Chinese shamanism, which is the source of all the classical Chinese traditions. In ancient China, shamans were respected as sages, and sages were shamans. This Tiger form will be able to help practitioner channeling the shamanic power and universal Qi, especially Zhengqi (righteous or correct Qi). Qi can be translated as vital energy or vital breath.
Intentional Space
Qi Gong is the process of exercising mental intent to direct one’s internal energy through the body. This can be used for a variety of purposes, as a self-healing technique, as a technique for healing others, as a martial art, and as a means by which you can enrich every aspect of your life. This article comes to Acupuncture.com from a long-time practitioner of Qi Gong who has discovered how to incorporate what Chinese philosophy has to offer directly into one’s lifestyle.
Life Energy, Part II
One way of using magnetic fields in therapy is to facilitate the healing of fractures in bone. Despite the fact, that conventional medicine in general still regard biomagnetic fields as non-existent or at least insignificant, it is fascinating, that a method based on these same fields has been developed. In Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF) a magnetic field is applied across the site of the fracture, which induces a weak electric current in the damaged tissue. The pulsating field mimic the natural electrical currents generated in the bone during movements and conveys information that triggers the regenerating activities of the body.
Life Energy: Part I
Within the alternative or complementary healthcare sector very often the word energy is being used. Many therapists claim to be modifying the patient’s body energy flow, balancing the life force, or even replenishing the patient with cosmic energy. And maybe this is what they do. But many practitioners, when asking them about the concept of energy, only have vague answers like: “Body energy is something flowing in the body”, or “it is the force that keeps us alive”, or “it is some kind of electricity”.
Events:
Stillness-Movement & Gift of the Tao Neigong, Medical Qigong & Taoist Medicine
Join Michael Lomax in the Chapel at Dr Shealy’s Holos Institutes in Springfield, Missouri and learn the lineage Jing Dong Gong Neigong system with the highly energetic Shamanic Shifting Gift of the Tao Movements. On Monday you will learn Medical Qigong & Chinese Taoist Medicine techniques.
Qigong Tui Na Workshops: Boulder, CO.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity! Donald Rubbo, a world-renowned healer, will share powerful, effective secrets to enhance your practice and benefit yourself and your patients. He will teach methods from old and new traditions: Old: Yin Style Bagua Qi Cultivation and Development Methods and Hand Techniques (also known as needleless medicine); New: Medical Qigong: Qi Cultivation & Development Techniques.
Awakening your Inner Nature: Mexico
Donald and Cheryl Lynne Rubbo, world-renowned healers, will share their powerful, effective methods to enhance your life and bring lasting benefit to yourself, your loved ones and the planet:
IIQTC Teacher Certification Level 1 (March 22-29)
The first of three trainings toward 200-hour Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC) Teacher Certification takes place March 22-29, 2012. Led by author, speaker, and master trainer, Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, this training intensive helps you to analyze and create the groundwork for your Qigong and Tai Chi teaching practice.
Briefs:
Eating Wild: Foraging Safely in a Modern World
In an expanding “foodie” culture, people go to great lengths to get the best ingredients, seek out the most aesthetic desserts, and buy organic. Less noted, though, is the forager movement: people who “eat wild” on a regular basis, supplemented by naturally growing, edible plants for which they search in their local communities, whether urban or rural.
Introducing Kechara’s ‘SNAP, PRAY, LOVE’ Altar Competition! [Global]
Kechara House, a Buddhist organization in Malaysia, under the guidance of H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche invites you and your community to participate in its ‘Shrine Competition’ called ‘Snap, Pray, Love’.
New Study Offers a Theory of Moral Behavior: Why the US Economy Collapsed
Why do some people behave morally while others do not? Sociologists at the University of California, Riverside and California State University, Northridge have developed a theory of the moral self that may help explain the ethical lapses in the banking, investment and mortgage-lending industries that nearly ruined the U.S. economy.
New Weekly Pod-Cast: Talking Tai Chi with the Teapot Monk
Well our dear friend from Spain, the Teapot Monk, author of the Manual of Bean Curd Boxing, master of gazpacho & Tai Chi is at it again. This week he launched a new pod cast series: Talking Tai Chi with the Teapot Monk. Fracturing the tyranny of distance, this new series promises to focus on Tai Chi, the internal arts, Taoism and the application of this ancient wisdom in the contemporary world.
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