Daoist Meditation and Qigong for Beginners: Chapter 3, Eastern Han and Cao Wei 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,
- 1 lecture video containing the week's lesson,
In this third chapter of the course you will learn about the Laozi Steele, the first written record of the concept of the Dantian/Elixir Field in Daoist history, the impact of Wei Huacun, the founder of the Highest Clarity Sect of Daoism and innovator in the field of Daoist visualization practices and about Wei Boyang's Can Tong Qi, the first Chinese Alchemy text.
You will receive the class PDF which includes key information about the early nature of the Daoist conception of the energetic body, how visualization practice differs from early studies such as Dao Yin and Breathwork covered in weeks one and two, and how early alchemists began to conceptualize the importance of the bivalent nature of the human mind.
Covered in chapter 3:
- Wang Chong's Lun Heng Dissertation on Ghosts, an early rationalist philosophy of Yin and Yang which sought to answer mysterious questions with logic rather than superstition,
- A translation of relevent sections of the Steele of Laozi, the first document to mention the Dantian,
- A section of Wei Boyang's Can Tong Qi discussing the nature of the mind in Alchemy practice,
- Translated sections of the Yellow Court Internal Illumination Classic describing the nature of the energetic physiology of the human body,
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 more information and context about the nature of energetic body and mind in Daoist and Qigong practice.
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!