Daoist Meditation for Beginners: a Historical Overview: Chapter 4, Jin Dynasty.

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 fourth chapter of the course you will learn about the Daoist practices of Ge Hong, a famous Daoist energy practice master who was the first to publicly explain the locations and geographical considerations of the three elixir fields as well as various visualization and meditative practices.

You will receive the class PDF which explains the division of the philosophical and self cultivation schools of Daoism during the Jin Dynasty period including how the philosophical school of Wang Bi and Guo Xiang added to Daoist knowledge and how Ge Hong revolutionized Daoist practices of energetic collection and movement through visualization and stillness meditation as well as how he developed the famous Wo Gu/Core Grasping practice mentioned in the Dao De Jing.

Covered in chapter 4:

• Wang Bi and Guo Xiang's Mystery Study School and its impact on philosophical Daoism and Daoist theory,
• The contributions of Ge Hong to Daoist energy practices,
• The original meaning of the Three Elixir Fields and all of their key points in the head, upper abdomen and lower abdomen,
• Organ visualizations which combine energy from the outer environment with the inner body,
• Translations of relevant sections of Ge Hong's book Bao Pu Zi.

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!