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QiGong Fundamentals
Essential Skills for Developing Stregth, Vitality, Inner Peace and Abundance



7pm August 1st till 5pm August 4th
Tao Centre Colwyn and at beautiful quiet places in the North Wales countryside


We all desire a fulfilling career, a loving relationship and radiant health
within a secure environment of peace and happiness.
Fairly simple needs, but we seem to have become masters of self-sabotage and we diminish our virtues of harmony, integrity,
generosity, wisdom and joy as we expand the emotions of worry, grief, anger,fear and impatience.
Our life can become a battle and we are easily weighed down with the problems of the world.

The problems of the world are too much for us to take on, so lets examine our own problems.
All the traumas we have lived through are still in the body as contractions.
These contractions are like barbed wire fences that keep us from being fully conscious of ourselves and our environment.
This Course is a first step on the path to clearing space in the body so we can realise our potential and manifest it.

We learn simple Iron Shirt Structure, allowing the body to show us what our individual perfect structure is.
We use this to unify our body and connect it deeply into the earth.
While practicing this we discover the possibilities of breath,
using the diaphragm to facilitate Complete Breathing to maximise the oxygen content in the blood.
We learn how to drink the energy of life.

We find our centre of gravity deep in the belly and begin to shift our home base from the head to this centre.
This is where we breathe to, whereartial artists and dancers move from, where singers sing from.
This area which we call The Lower Dan Tien is a portal into our core self,
it is a place rich in vitality and we learn Ocean Breathing to access this hidden treasure.

We discuss Taoist Five Element theory and use the Inner Smile to discover our five elements
and to connect with the intelligences of these elements that reside within our organs.
We utilise the Six Healing Sounds that vibrate in our organs releasing stagnant energy, tension and toxins.
We combine the Inner Smile and Six Healing Sounds with a Five Animal QiGong Form
which uses movements to stimulate the meridians, create movement of the organs and lengthen the tendons. Between each movement we smile into the organ intelligences grow the virtues that reside there.

We discover our Microcosmic Orbit, the bodies major Yin Yang meridians that include a fire
channel that rises up the spine and a water channel that flows down the front of the body.
We focus our awareness in these channels and become sensitive to the flow of chi circulating the body.
We become aware of our yin becoming yang, our yang becoming yin,
we feel the balance returning to our system.
We connect to earth, to nature, to solar and stella forces circulating
through our orbit to support our chi.

We learn about Sexual Health and bring our awareness to the Uterus and Prostate.
These deep, dark, areas of the body in our sexual centre are oftenunconscious spaces wihin us
where stagnant energy can be stored and can later manifest as health problems.
We shine the light of our conscious mind into these areas.

We become stronger and more able to resist illness and stress.
We connect with our sexual essence and circulate this to nourish our organs.
We learn how to integrate the practices in our daily lives.

These techniques/practices are used to allow us to sink our consciousness from the head to the belly,
reduce our thinking, and feel the the peace and vitality within.
we begin the process of clearing out the old, reducing our emotionals,
accepting in the new fresh life force of the moment and increasing our virtues.

we cover a lot of ground but some of the practices are very simple,
the emphasis is on bringing the essence of the practice into our daily life

although no previous experience is needed for this course,
these are powerful practices which you might use for developing chi and structure for healing or to enhance your martial arts practice.
a beginner will get immediate benefits and 'feel their chi flow' but an experienced tai chi or yoga practitioner will get more benefit.

for course information, reservations and general equiries contact
Barry at Healing Tao Britain, 7 Miners Lane, Old Colwyn, N.Wales, LL29 9HG.
phone: 01492 515776. mobile 07747 051311 e.mail: healingtaobritain@googlemail.com

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