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When you join Master Mingtong Gu for this special training, you’ll benefit by:
- Releasing the hold of stress and exhaustion on your ability to access energy
- Cultivating more energy for your wellbeing
- Opening energy channels that support healing underlying conditions that contribute to illness and stress
- Learning a personal practice to release stagnation and cultivate more energy that can be done at any age and ability over a lifetime
- Discovering more creativity by connecting within and shaping the greater capacity for resilience and joy
- Learning specific movements and sounds to connect with external energy of the universe for an endless flow of Qi
- Understanding the Wisdom Healing Qigong teachings on moving energy blockages that hold our emotions and our body in old, unhealthy patterns
- Exploring the power of the moving meditation of Qigong on our ability to focus and deepen the experience
- Starting a 50/100 Day Gong that delivers vibrancy for your life
- Learning movement and meditation to transform energy throughout the day to give a needed boost, and at night to support a deeper, restful sleep
Applying the daily practices of Qigong, you’ll learn to better prevent disease and develop the foundations for lasting, radiant wellbeing. You’ll also experience more connection and inner peace and a feeling of wholeness.
This course provides the joyful enthusiasm of Master Gu’s teachings together with the robust multi-media practice tools — including video, audio and text — needed for every student to start and maintain a personal practice.
To learn this healing practice, you’ll listen to the course presentations and follow along with the guided video and audio practices during class. Your personal practice is further supported by the video/audio practice sessions and materials available 24/7 at the class portal.
No prior experience with Qigong or energy practices is needed to participate in this course. Wisdom Healing Qigong is suitable for all ages and abilities and can be done sitting, standing or lying down. This form is highly supportive and compatible with other energy practices as well, including yoga, tai chi, acupuncture and meditative practices. Comfortable clothes are recommended, but special exercise clothes or mats are not needed.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 5:00pm Pacific
During the 7-week program, Master Mingtong Gu will joyfully guide you through the role of Qi energy and how to connect heart, mind and body to cultivate abundant Qi flow for your health, healing and daily life. Master Gu has selected Wisdom Healing Qigong teachings focused on energy abundance, and will guide you in the steps to explore this powerful Qigong lineage and to create your own Qigong practice for energy abundance.
Each weekly class session will build harmoniously upon the next and will include a pre-recorded video presentation by Mingtong Gu featuring the teachings, demonstrations, and/or guided movements, meditations and visualizations for that week. You can practice along with Master Gu as he demonstrates these practices and return to the recorded version when the class is over to maintain your practice.
Each video presentation will be followed by a LIVE Q&A session with Master Gu — a favorite feature! The Q&A invites students to communicate directly with this renowned master and to receive support for incorporating these teachings into their personal practice.
Practice Component: The deep benefits of Qigong come from practicing the sounds, movements and meditations yourself, so you can feel and experience their transformative effects. Each weekly session will help you to develop a practice of your own. Qigong for Abundant Energy & Health is appropriate for all ages and abilities and does not require special clothing or exercise equipment. If you are unable to attend live, you’ll receive class recordings, transcripts and supplemental materials so you can still experience the full benefits of the program.
Module 1: Cultivating Energy Through Wisdom Healing Qigong (November 22)
How can we cultivate greater energy to heal our body, mind and heart? Master Mingtong Gu will explore the role of opening up our energy, reestablishing our baseline and reshaping our capacity for greater health, happiness and creativity for ourselves and others. Instead of the mind thinking one thing, the body behaving in a contrary way and the heart feeling something altogether different from both, you’ll discover how Qigong provides alignment of and connection with the deep energy flow within and around you. When you access abundant energy, you’re better prepared to live your life and care for your health challenges. This session invites you to start or deepen a personal practice for abundance.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience a Qigong meditation for stress relief
- Explore the powerful lineage of Wisdom Healing Qigong and the 3 A’s to integrate and open connections of mind, body and heart
- Gain insight into how stress and worry are closing down your access to energy and causing energy blockages
- Discover a Spinal Bone Marrow practice from Wisdom Healing Qigong to help release the Qi blockages in the back and spine
- Learn Qigong fundamentals and how course materials, including the ebook and other bonus materials can support your learning and practice
- Discover the steps to start your own 50/100 Day Gong (a personal Qigong practice)
Module 2: Opening Your Heart to a Clear & Pure Purpose (November 29)
When we’re discouraged by our health, work or relationships, our ability to connect with our deeper purpose and to focus on it can become clouded. In this module, discover how to connect with the subtle energy within you and bring clear intention to a daily Qigong practice for your wellbeing and to foster pure purpose. The result is more vitality for creating and living.
In this module, you’ll:
- Attract abundance into your life through a Heart Opening Meditation for cultivating purity of purpose, health and creativity
- Practice acceptance to revitalize your body, creativity and stamina
- Learn the Qigong tools of G.R.A.C.E. for deeper practice
- Discover a “wake-up” practice to re-energize and access a clearer focus on your deepest purpose
Module 3: Awakening the Flow of Energy in the Spine (December 13)
A resilient, flexible spine opens your capacity for creativity and health. In this module, Master Gu will guide you to improve the alignment and flexibility of your back.
Your spine not only connects your brain with the rest of your body, it affects the entire energy flow that shapes the quality of your health and increases your joy and sense of peace.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Practices that open your spine for the free flow of energy
- The Bending Spine Movement and the Awaken Vitality Method, which strengthen your central nervous system
- How to nourish your brain through the practice of Haola, when you feel exhausted or depleted
- A stress-relieving practice to relax your spine, back and legs, and undo unhealthy posture
Module 4: Deep Compassion & Forgiveness in the Heart (December 20)
Forgiving yourself and others is essential to your health and happiness. An Inner Smile awakens a deeper level of compassion and loving kindness. In this module, Master Gu will delve into the Wisdom Healing Qigong compassionate teachings that can help release the stories you carry in your body, heart and spirit.
In this module, you’ll discover:
- Healing sounds for your heart to release suffering caused by resentment or anxiety — and increase your joy and sense of connection with others
- A guided Inner Smile Meditation to bring you deep contentment
- Wisdom Healing Qigong compassionate teachings that help release energy blockages of past stories, making room for peace, love and understanding
Module 5: Gathering Abundant Energy (January 3)
With the pace and stress of modern living, we can lose connection with the life energy that flows around and within us. We can become isolated, disconnected from our inner selves, families, environment and the universal life force. This week, you’ll discover a key practice for circulating Qi (life force energy) by gathering this energy to flow within you and back out to the world. This practice is especially helpful for people challenged by chronic or acute conditions, emotional depletion, and/or who care for others as a caretaker, health professional or parent.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover how to connect to internal energy with external universal energy through movement and the gathering of energetic flow
- Gather and expand Qi to release blockages and stagnations to promote healing and wellbeing
- Expand your awareness and connection to life around you by practicing a balanced standing posture for the intentional gathering of life energy
- Discover the Lift Chi Up, Pour Chi Down Open and Close method of Wisdom Healing Qigong
Module 6: Digesting Abundant Energy With Centeredness (January 10)
Aligning your body to digest Qi is valuable for your own health and wellbeing as well as for aiding in the positive transformations of our planet. This week, you’ll be invited to bring discernment into your life, so you can better open to releasing old habits that no longer serve you. Unhealthy choices drain our vitality and block true comfort on a physical and energetic level.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the Qigong healing sounds for the digestion system, which help release worry and awaken centeredness and thoughtfulness
- Learn to release the mind from data overload and over thinking
- Discover how to drop your “story” by transforming energy
- Transform energy from worry to ease and relax your digestive system
Module 7: Abundant Energy for Self, Family, Community & Our World (January 17)
What would you like to do for family, friends and the world, if you had the energy? In this final module, you’ll integrate Master Gu’s teachings on Abundance Energy and the threads of the physical, emotional, and spiritual abundance. He will gather the entire course teachings and integrate them into one practice.
In this module, you’ll:
- Open your vertical energy flow to nourish your organs, bones and muscles and release blockages
- Review in class, the entire home practice with all the movements integrated into one guided practice
- Discover how to apply abundance that is being cultivated through Qigong practice, helping you realize new vitality and compassion in service to others
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