SPECIAL QIGONG PROGRAMS
2023
We have updated our program schedule for 2023. So, please look there for our Qigong programs and links to descriptions and venues.
Caring for Body and Mind Retreats
Introducing a New Series - The Caring for Body and Mind Retreats
To be able to live a healthy, contented, and long life - who wouldn’t want that? The practice of caring for ourselves has been part of the Taoist arts of health and longevity for millennia. With increasing demands in our everyday life, self-care is more relevant than ever in helping us meet life’s challenges as well as appreciate gifts of good living.
In many ways, self-care can be understood as a form of Preventative Medicine. We take care of ourselves so that health problems can be minimized. Our life energy is ours to nourish and protect. Our consciousness is ours to enrich. Our lifestyle is ours to direct.
Join us in a new series of retreats that feature the Three Taoist Pillars of Self-Care -Qigong, Meditation, and Lifestyle. Nourish your life energy with qigong practices, enrich your consciousness with meditation, enhance your awareness with outdoor activities, and learn how to develop a lifestyle that embraces simplicity, clarity, and stillness.
What you will get in this Series
- Instruction in Primordial Limitless Gate (Xiantianwujimen) Qigong.
- Instruction in forms of Taoist meditation that support the practice of qigong.
- Exploration of Taoist classics pertinent to the practice of the Taoist health arts.
- Tools for living a lifestyle that supports physical health and mental well-being.
- Awareness training in the natural environment.
- Experiences of sharing and appreciating a community of practitioners like you.
All instructions and guided practices are conducted by an authorized instructor of Xiantianwujimen Qigong.
Who can benefit from this Series
- First-time participants who would like to be introduced to Qigong levels in an enhanced way that incorporates qigong and Taoist meditation with a focus on lifestyle.
- Those who wish to review what they have learned and would like to receive instruction in forms of Taoist meditation that support qigong practice.
- Veteran practitioners who want to experience qigong, meditation, and lifestyle in a retreat setting.
What you will take away from this Series
- Qigong practices that will help you build and maintain a healthy body.
- Meditation techniques that cultivates mental clarity and support the flow of internal energy.
- Lifestyle tools that will help you live a life of balance, clarity, and simplicity.
Caring for yourself in your own time, in your own space.
Programs in this Series at this time
- Taking Care of Your Body and Mind with Qigong and Taoist Meditation - an enhanced Qigong 1 and 2 Retreat
- Strengthening Your Generative Energy and Building Bone Marrow with Qigong and Taoist Meditation - enhanced Qigong 3 Retreat.
Karme Chöling. Barnet. VT. USA.
What does it mean to live a healthy and peaceful life? It means having a relaxed body and a peaceful mind. How do we attain a relaxed body and a peaceful mind? It is by understanding and knowing how to take care of ourselves.
With increasing demands in everyday life, self-care is more important than ever in helping us to meet life’s challenges as well as appreciate gifts from good living.
Qigong, meditation, and lifestyle are the Three Pillars of Self-Care. When body is relaxed, energy or qi will flow. When mind is peaceful, it will embrace qi and strengthen the body. When we live a simple life, the beneficial effects of physical health and mental well-being will be enhanced.
Whether you wish to get started on improving your physical health and mental wellbeing, or want to review what you have learned previously, or would like to participate in a deeper and more enriched qigong environment that integrates qigong and meditation with living a healthy lifestyle, this program is for you.
This retreat features:
- Taoist approaches to nourishing the body with instruction in the 6 Basics of Primordial Limitless Gate Taoism, the 9 Self-Massage, the 12 Devas, and selected Zhangzhuang Standing Qigong postures.
- Taoist meditation Ding Guan (Observation in Stillness) and Basic Strategic Meditation for cultivating a peaceful and intelligent consciousness to support the cultivation of internal energy.
- Discussion of Taoist guidelines for living a simple, healthy and balanced lifestyle.
- Taoist techniques of refining awareness and sharpening of senses to support Strategic Meditation
- Nature walks designed to enhance appreciation of the natural world and tuning into its energies.
- Practice of constructive contemplation through readings and discussion of Taoist classics such as Nourishing the Essence of Life and Being Taoist.
There are no requirements.
This retreat can be used to fulfill the requirement necessary for Qigong 3.
Strengthening Your Generative Energy and Building Bone Marrow – a 2-day enhanced Qigong 3 retreat.
Karme Chöling. Barnet. VT. USA.
Strengthening generative energy (jing) and building bone marrow are the keys to living a long and healthy life. Qigong, meditation, and lifestyle are the Three Pillars of Self-Care that can help us move through life with vitality and health.
The practice of qigong can help us build strength in our muscles and bones, regain flexibility in our tendons, and cultivate generative energy (jing), which is the foundation of youthful vitality.
When forms of Taoist meditation that support the cultivation of generative energy are practiced, sexual and creative energy will be strengthened. When qigong and meditation are supported by a lifestyle that focuses on replenishing generative energy and strengthening bone marrow, we will be able to enjoy a life lived well.
This retreat features:
- Techniques for strengthening generative energy (jing) and building bone marrow using with Huatu Five Animals Qigong, The Immortals’ Guide to Breath Regulation and Self- Massage, and Red Phoenix Calisthenics.
- Instruction in a special technique for nourishing generative energy.
- Using qigong to strengthen muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- Using Zhangzhuang Standing Qigong to build a reservoir of internal energy.
- Instruction in Taoist meditation Nei Guan (internal observation) for enhancing awareness of energy in the body.
- Instruction in a form of Taoist meditation for conserving and nourishing generative energy.
- Discussion of a lifestyle that nourishes generative energy.
- Practice of constructive contemplation through readings from the Taoist classics: Nourishing the Essence of Life and Being Taoist.
- Requirement: Qigong 1 and 2
This retreat can be used to fulfil the requirement necessary for Qigong 4.