Daoist Meditation and Qigong for Beginners: Chapter 1, Origins

Learning Daoist Meditation and Qigong practice requires you to understand Daoism as a system and thought and historical phenomenon.

Practices like Dao Yin, Visualization, Breath Work and Internal Alchemy have distinct theories and practices which have nuanced and complex relationships.

If you want to understand Daoist Energetic and Spiritual practices clearly and in precise detail it isn't enough to pick up an art and just practice, and eventually you will probably find you need to develop a clear understanding of the specific nature of these arts, how they developed, what they are used for, and what you can expect to get from them if you practice correctly.

The Daoist Qigong and Meditation for Beginners series is a special course based on the scholarship of Chen Yingning and Hu Fuchen, the greatest Internal Alchemy thinker of the twentieth century and China's most famous Daoist meditation historian respectively.

The series is composed of twelve individual classes delivered over three months from February - April 2024.

Each class looks at a different period of Daoist history in order to understand:

• what people practiced,
• how they understood the Dao,
• how to decipher their writings so we too can practice their methods,
• how ancient and medieval Daoist practice influenced modern meditation and Qigong,

and much more...

Normally these classes are offered as a package and would cost you $300, but I've decided that in order to help students who want to learn about specific periods of Daoist historical practice I would split the three months into twelve micro-courses to be posted each week after class for a low price of $45 per section.

What you get in this class:

In this first chapter of the course you will learn about the beginning of Daoist history during the Chinese Warring States Period.

You will see how the philosophers Laozi and Zhuangzi established the core ideas that would go on to become Daoist Meditation and Qigong practice as well as the essential breathing and focus methods which can be applied across the board to all Daoist Qigong and Meditation.

You will receive the class PDF which includes translations and interpretations of key areas of Laozi and Zhuangzi which illustrate the early nature of Daoist Meditation, Dao Yin and Breath Work as well as two lecture videos which include lessons about the nature of these practices and how to put them into practice.

Covered in chapter 1:

• the origin of Daoism as the philosophy of the ruling elites of ancient China,
• how governing the people and cultivating longevity are one method,
• the essence of Daoist Meditation in the Dao De Jing,
• Essential breathing methods,
• Sitting in Forgetting in the Zhuangzi,
• the first mentions of Dao Yin, Zhuangzi's critique and the foundation of the school of Pengzu.

This course is a great primer for:

• Qigong practitioners and teachers who want to better understand its origin in Daoism,
• students of Daoist philosophy who want to integrate meditation with the writings of Laozi and Zhuangzi in a way which is true to their philosophies,
• Anyone who wants to learn about the early history of Daoism from a non-sectarian perspective.

These classes have been well received by students including some who have studied Daoism for over twenty years with famous masters so if you are interested in the intersection of Daoist history and practice then this is the course for you so make sure to add it to your cart!