mexico
March 13-15, 2012: Chi Nei Tsang 1 in Mexico

Spring Break on the Riviera
Nayarit Mexico
Chi Nei Tsang 1: March 13-15, 2012
A 3 day Fundamentals class for the first time ever in Mexico. Join us for 3 days of class then head to the beach. Beginners welcome, no experience necessary.

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Fundraising Project for 2012

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Articles

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Chi Nei Tsang; Taoist Abdominal Massage, Internal Organs Massage and Chi Cultivation Practices, by Caryn Boyd Diel

Balancing The Body With Qigong
, by Caryn Boyd Diel
  Benefits of Qigong Practice

Qigong:
– Reduces Stress and shifts blood enzymes to a healthy ph
– Slows aging
– Strengthens the Immune System
– Enhances Emotional Well Being
– Relieves depression and anxiety
– Reduces pain and allergies
– Creates strengh and flexibility
– Speeds the healing from any illness
– Increases one’s capacity to take a full breath’
– Promotes restfull sleep
– Reduces fatigue and mood swing
– Is appropriate for all ages

Go to www.Qigonginstitute.org and you will find over 2,000 scientific studies which prove that qigong will heal almost any chronic disease with no harmful side effects.

For thousands of years humans have explored the deeper meaning of balance.  The beauty of a Zen painting is that the object is just a little out of balance and yet, the background is perfect.  This is an apt metaphor for our lives.  We constantly seek to re-balance the body, mind and sprit in a world that seems to be spinning off of its axis.  And all the time we do not notice that the background of human nature is perfection.  Taoist practitioners knew that the human body was a microcosm of the larger universe.  The ebb and flow of energy in the bodies is similar to that of the ocean and river tides, the phases of the moon, the migration of animals, and the growth of plants.  Becoming still enough to feel and see the flow of chi, or life force energy in the body, gave them a powerful tool for affecting balance and health.  Taoist masters unlocked the secrets of living a long and vital life in the human body, not for the sake of living forever, but in order to attain spritual evolution in a healthy body.  Many of our beautiful, flowing Qigong forms have been handed down from these masters, and today we are discovering how to balance our lives with some very simple, yet powerful meditative movements.  Qigong is moving meditation.
 
Let’s take a look at the word: Qigong.  It is made up of two Chinese characters: Qi or Chi, meaning air, or a universal energy that permeates and flows through everything; the breath that we all breathe, and Gong, which represents the effort or practice of learning to interact with chi and cultivate it for healing.  Qigong is a mediative practice of moving chi through and around the body to affect balance, heal certain ailments and improve overall health. There are thousands of Qigong forms.  There are Martial forms of Qigong, like Bone Breathing, or Bone Marrow Washing, and Tan Tien Qigong, which come from the Iron Shirt Tradition.  There are Spritual forms of Qigong, like Primordial Qigong and Dream practices.  The Alchemical branch of Qigong includes meditations such as the Inner Smile and 6 Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, and Fusion of the 5 Elements.  There are also Medical Qigong forms, like the ones I learned at the Xi Yuan Hospital in Bejing, which balance the organs’ energy.  And there are specific forms to strengthen the Liver, like Jade Woman.  

Many Qigong forms include slow meditative movements, yet the most advanced forms do not require movement, only the directing of the chi through the organs and meridians of the body to affect balance of chi flow for optimum health.  Chi takes on many qualities.  It can be vibrant and of high quality or stagnant and charged with low level energy.  We individually live with chi that is either enlivening and in balance, in excess, or deficient.  With conscious practice, observation and quiet reflection, we can learn to evaluate and work with our chi level and how it flows through our bodies.  We gather chi from the air, food, water and from sleeping.  Our thoughts and emotions also affect the quality of chi.  Qigong practice teaches us to purify, cultivate, circulate, store and project chi for healing.  As we become still like the practitioners of the past, we become more attuned to where we are out of flow, or out of balance.  As we move gently with Qigong, the breathing becomes deeper and the mind quiets.  The blood shifts back into a more balanced ph, which allows for deeper meditation.  Life events and emotions become less intense as the body and its glands and organs find new balance and fill with the higher virtues that we were born with.

By Caryn Boyd Diel

 

Maui, Hawaii Retreat December 19-23, 2012
Energy Medicine & Chi Nei Tsang classes in Maui, Hawaii. Learn while being in beautiful Hawaii. details

CNT Retreat at Pagosa Springs, Colorado October 4-7, 2012
For both the CNT retreat and the Qigong and Meditation retreat at Pagosa the retreat times are 9am to 8pm daily. details

Santa Fe
Qigong and Meditation Retreats in Santa Fe:
January 14-16, June 22-24, 2012 details