Qigong

August 19-22, 2014— 4 Day Qigong Healing Retreat with Master Jianshe Liu from China in Oceanside.
“Cultivating our Sunshine Mind”. This will be a small intimate group and an excellent opportunity to bask in the Qi-field with Master Jianshe. He is known for his amazing presence and ability to impart wisdom from the heart to help us expand our awareness and understanding of how we can live a more harmonious life. See online flier “click here” for more information.

Master Liu has been teaching Zhineng Qigong since 1991 as a lead teacher at the Huaxia Center in China. Jianshe traveled to Hainan to open a new center when the famous ‘medicineless hospital at the Huaxia Center was closed in 1998 by the Chinese government (along with all other qigong centers in China at the time). Their new center, the Hexianju Qigong Center opened on Hainan Island September of 2012  see www.Hexju.com. Students come from all over the world to learn this self-healing practice and bask in the powerful healing Qi-field there.

Zhineng Qigong was developed in the early 1980s by Professor Pang Ming, MD at a time when the Chinese government encouraged the popularization of Qigong in an effort to reduce medical costs and maintain good health amongst the Chinese population. Its exercises are relatively easy to learn and very effective and his methods spread rapidly throughout China.

Practitioners learn and practice a series of movements that make up a particular “method” or exercise. The daily practice of these movements increases vital energy and unblocks the energy channels of the body to bring about a free flow of Qi. Improved health is the outcome, since most illness is associated with insufficient Qi and/or blockages in its flow.

Zhineng Qigong uses both body and mind to enhance health and heal illness. A series of movements and postures are carried out in a meditative state of deep relaxation. Each series is part of a systematic method of practice that an individual can choose to follow more or less intensively, to cure illness or simply to remain in optimal health.

Numerous studies in China and internationally have demonstrated that the practice of Qigong improves lung capacity, improves the transportation of oxygen to the cells and their utilization of it, improves the functioning of the circulatory system, makes cardiac muscles more efficient, increases digestive juices, adjusts internal secretions and regulates the glands, increases bone density, slows aging and increases longevity.

While the first and most obvious benefits of Zhineng Qigong are an improvement in physical health and a sense of well being, its practice also has a powerful effect on the mental faculties. Many of its practitioners not only are cured of their illnesses and attain a much better level of physical health but also develop their mental faculties and can use them to benefit both themselves and others. Some become powerful healers, many are able to better achieve in their chosen field.

Zhineng Qigong can also be described as a form of moving meditation that lays equal emphasis on the body and the mind.  It involves both dynamic and static practices, i.e., both moving and still methods. It consists of an integrated series of methods and exercises that together work on the whole body and organs as well as the mind/spirit (Shen). Depending on an individual’s particular health problems it is possible to focus on particular exercises or parts of a method.