Dragon and Tiger Qigong is a 1500-year-old self-healing medical qigong system based on the principles of acupuncture. It can be practiced by virtually anyone regardless of age or health and is one of the most beneficial sets ever developed. Over this two-week course you'll have the opportunity to go for instructor certification. Join us in Hawaii!
The following video is an overview of some of the basic principles of Tai Chi Push Hands or Tai Chi Tui Shou.
In the Fall we are going to be releasing a Tai Chi Mastery Program, which will include a video program on tai chi push hands or tai chi tui shou that is relevant to all tai chi styles including the Yang, Wu and Chen Styles of tai chi.
The push hands videos will be a complete program in itself showing beginning to advanced methods. This will be a comprehensive system that can integrate into any tai chi training or ciriculum. Currently we have about 30 hours of footage but this is only about half of the program – we have not yet filmed the advanced segments. I feel push hands is one of the most important practices you can do if you are learning a tai chi form or immediately after you learn a form. It is also fun to practice.
For those who may not know about push hands, you work with a partner in a series of exercises. It enables you to learn and feel the 8 core energies of tai chi integrating them into you body. Although most view push hands as a martial art practice, in reality it rapidly increases your energetic sensitivity and is thus useful for health, healing and martial arts. It is also an extremely effective at increasing sensitivity for the bedroom arts, something I have dedicated an entire chapter on in an upcoming book.
We will be releasing more videos on push hands in the coming months. Please watch, share and comment – this helps spread the knowledge.
Grandmaster Feng Zhi Qiang and Master Bruce Frantzis
This weekend was the supermoon, the one time of the year when a full moon coincides with its perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit.
On Sunday I was on a call with Alan Peatfield in Ireland discussing a future project I was planning on Lao Tse’s “Tao Te Ching,” and talking about how our kids were doing. Then he told me he’d heard that my Chen style tai chi teacher in Beijing, Feng Zhi Qiang, had just passed away the previous day, on Saturday May 5th. I felt as if I’d just been punched in the stomach.
After the phone call I lay in bed unable to sleep for several hours. This news put a hole in my life and I felt overwhelming sadness. I had great personal affection for Feng, something considerably more than the ordinary bond between teacher and student. After the last time we met at his home this past December in Beijing, the hope was that I could go back to China and study with him for a few months.
Grandmaster Feng Zhi Qiang and Master Bruce Frantzis
In Beijing last December, I had the good fortune to visit Tai Chi Grandmaster Feng Zhi Qiang. Feng taught me Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Push Hands and Hun Yuan Qigong in the 1980s and 1990s. It had been about 13 years since our last meeting.
Master Feng’s daughter Xiu Fang picked us up at a Beijing hotel and drove us to her father’s new apartment, an hour away from the city center. Feng Xiu Fang also teaches tai chi. During the car ride, she mentioned that outside China, she mostly teaches in Japan, just as her father used to. She also sometimes travels to Europe and America.
Xiu Fang mentioned that when teaching her father’s tai chi which he personally learned from the famous Chen Fa Ke, she emphasizes health at all levels. Naturalness and circularity, everything returning to its source in its natural time, are also important components of her teaching. Read More
It has been a while since the last post here because I was traveling. I recently presented to the American Osteopathy Annual Conference held in Kentucky.
I was invited to give a lecture and workshop on ‘Physician Heal and Maintain Thyself’ where I spoke about my experience working as a Qigong Tui Na practitioner in Chinese medical clinics. I also spoke about the techniques that Chinese doctors use to regenerate themselves while working with patients.
For those of you who may not know, Wikipedia says Osteopathy “emphasizes the interrelationship between structure and function of the body and recognizes the body’s ability to heal itself; it is the role of the osteopathic practitioner to facilitate that process…The osteopathic medical philosophy is defined as the concept of health care that embraces the concept of the unity of the living organism’s structure (anatomy) and function (physiology).”
Osteopaths look at the body as a whole system with each part effecting the other. Osteopaths are board certified medical doctors and can also specialize although many go into family practice.
In my opinion Osteopathy is on the cutting edge in the medical field in terms of body-centered therapies.
My lecture at the American Osteopathy Annual Conference focused on what physicians can do to protect and maintain their own bodies as they treat patients. It is common for many healers to become tired and drained by their work, NOT just from long hours worked but also from emotional, mental and other types of negative energy carried by patients. In China, doctors are specifically taught to mitigate this by learning a variety of self-regeneration methods to protect and maintain their own body. This is often done by practicing qigong and other similar types of exercises. Read More
I wanted to announce that we are offering three scholarships for the
Dragon and Tiger Qigong Instructor Training this June in memory of
Richard Amarnick, a long-term Energy Arts student who recently passed.
You can read more details about the scholarships here:
Richard was a man of strong integrity and perseverance. He liked to
help people whenever he could and his help was always appreciated.
He will be sorely missed.
We have officially opened the Dragon and Tiger Qigong online course. Senior Instructor Bill Ryan will take you through the seven movements in seventy days – or ten weeks. Of course, you can go through the program at your own pace too. You can check out details and signup here:
We are going to keep the launch open for a short time and then close it down so that Bill can take the first group through the program. Grab your spot and make the Year of the Water Dragon your best ever.
In this video Senior Energy Arts Instructor Bill Ryan talks about the three principles of qigong and does a short demonstration of Dragon and Tiger Qigong where he explains a bit about each of the seven movements.
We will be launching the Dragon and Tiger Online Course with Bill Ryan within the next day.
At the end of last year, I suggested that people forgive. Forgive others and forgive themselves. And if you know you did wrong or someone else did wrong, forget the blame and emotional energy, let go and just don’t repeat it.
For this Chinese New Year we are at a time when it really pays to look over a long period of time and start changing what we all do so that things can work out much better for the long haul.
The Year of the Water Dragon is a special type of energy that only occurs every 60 years. It interesting that this falls during 2012, the supposed end of the world or the dawning of a new global spiritual awakening depending on whom you talk to. I want to give you a few perspectives on the Year of the Water Dragon that you may find interesting. Read More
Hi folks, Its has obviously been a big year. The biggest thing about the holidays in my opinion is to be kind and share your love with others. Forgive everyone you can in every way so that the time the New Year comes you won’t be holding onto anything. This is a great meditation. If ... Read More
Hi folks, A short post to say we are relaunching the Bagua Mastery Program for a limited time. We have printed an initial 100 units. We are closing the program before the New Year and will not reopen until 2013. Here is the link: Bagua Mastery Program Launch Everything furthers, Bruce Share on Facebook
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