Self-Transformation 1: Foundations

This 4-day intensive will introduce participants to a brief overview of Chinese energetic medicine history & energetic terminology. They will be provided a basic level of understanding the three bodies (physical body - bones, muscles, tissues, cells), energy body (energetic seas, rivers, pools, and misty clouds), and spirit body (subtle radiant vehicle of the eternal soul). They will gain insight into the divine energy field of the eternal soul by exploring the soul’s yuan shen (original spirit), its divine nature and the five virtuous states as well as the acquired personality and its five emotional states (animal passions). 

Participants will gain basic understanding of energetic anatomy, physiology and the body’s internal organs and energetic channels. They will learn exercises for purging the body’s internal organs, energetic channels and tissues of turbid Qi and breaking up stagnation from deep inside the body’s tissue.

Students will become empowered with knowledge and udnerstanding of various Qigong exercises (including Dao Yin, sound vibration and regulation exercises) for detoxifying, strengthening and regulating the body’s yin organs (heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, liver) and confidently establish an effective daily workout practice.