Daoist Meditation and Qigong for Beginners: Chapter 2, Warring States and Western Han Dynasties,

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 $35 per section.

What you get in this class:

at a glance:

• 1 PDF with the main lesson for the class,
• 2 lecture videos (1 pre-recorded and 1 from our live class),
• 1 instruction video on the practice of Wo Gu (Firm Grasping),
• 1 instructional audio podcast about the practice of Wo Gu.

In this second chapter of the course you will learn about the how early Daoist practitioners of the Warring States and Western Han Dynasty period adopted the principles of the Dao De Jing and Zhuangzi to form methods of breathing and Dao Yin (Daoist stretching and leading exercises).

You will see how Daoist ideas evolved by adopting the longevity principles contained in early Daoist teachings to the study of the human body through various physical exercises, breathing techniques, and postural methods of meditation designed to harmonize the energies of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity with the Dao.

You will receive the class PDF which includes a translation and interpretation of the key text Xing Qi Ming (the Tablet of Breath Activation) which is a guide to using inhalation and exhalation to merge the energies of heaven and earth in the center of the body. We will also review the contents of the Dao Yin Tu (Image of Dao Yin) in order to understand the early origins of Daoist stretching techniques as well as learning the Wo Gu (Firm Grasping) Exercise, a unique Daoist Meditation very effective in generating Qi in the center of the body through the use of the extremities.

Covered in chapter 2:

• Early Dao Yin Arts from the archaeological record.
• A translation of The Breath Activation Tablet,
• A modern Chinese interpretation of the Breath Activation Tablet teaching how to apply it to merge the Qi of Heaven and Earth.
• The Wo Gu/Firm Grasping exercise, how to practice it and what results to expect.
  

This course is a great primer for:

• Qigong practitioners and teachers who want to better understand its origin in Daoism,
• students of Qigong and Meditation who wish to better understand their origins in early Daoism,
• Anyone wanting to learn simple but powerful Daoist Qigong techniques which work quickly and have a strong impact on the energy and mind.

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!