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Thanks again everyone. if you use Instagram you can check out my page @officialeffortlessqigong Would love feedback. I’m just getting it started and taking a Instagram marketing course from Rachel Pederson.

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@Grateful Dead It changed my life as well. I’m was teaching in person classes here this winter. I’m a seasonal worker for at least one more summer so in person isn’t an option until next fall. But, online has worked. I sold a high ticket offer this winter. My goal is to sell 5 this year. It takes a lot of work. That’s it. And, it won’t happen over night. Most yoga/ qigong teachers don’t make it full time. But, I can. I want to develop a practical and grounded Qigong practice. This summer I am also taking a mindfulness coach certification and a breathwork certification.

@Something Funny Thanks. Qi isn’t inherently airy fairy once studied and felt. But, concepts in it I think are.

Thank you a lot for your time. My ambition is larger than my means. Patience… @integral thank you a lot. I’ll consider that as I go forward. I gotta take these skill sets and ideas and make them my own, while being outcome oriented and helping people.

Qi is simply your aliveness. Which, yea is mythical because we don’t know how it started. It’s immortal because it gets handed off indefinitely through human reproduction, and it self organized into a human being. Qigong affects the emotions via the physical and mental movements which change the energetic flow of the energy. Stretching for example lowers physical and emotional stress. When you do that, you feel better changing the emotions. “Qi” is emotions, it’s also metabolism, or bioelectrical energy running through the fascia and it’s the charge the moves through the nerves too. It’s also consciousness. “Qi” isn’t a reductionist notion. It contains both material and non-material aspects as it’s rooted in a philosophical model that reality is made of consciousness. I agree that yeah, we don’t need to be attached to the magic side. Like, Mantak Chia level Cosmic Qigong. Those visualizations do help the practice and the subjective experience though. When you practice Qigong it feels like swimming through a sea of energy. So, even though I don’t fully understand it, and science does t prove this field of energy around the body it is felt in the practice.

Qi ball is done because it feels very real. The idea of there being the “lower tan tian” is common through Qigong texts and schools. Again, feels very real. Super Centering, grounding, and you can feel the energy you generated in the palms and belly. That’s the Qi. What’s happening is mysterious I don’t know. I feel it. I didn’t for the first month or two but. I do these days. It can leave you feeling super centred, grounded and energized though. @Hojo New mind body science and trauma research suggests emotions are held not just the brain but the body.

@integral I am basing my understanding on my certification. My teacher Lee Holden has taught Qigong for 35 years and is a westerner. He is also an acupuncturist. He knows what he is talking about. In healing sounds you exhale with “haaaaaaa” to clear heart energy. Then you hold the hands in front of the chest and smile into the heart, with a red light. To tonify the heart energy associated with either impatience and hatred or love compassion. Each organ has its own sound, colour, emotional polarity etc, which can vary depending on teacher/ lineage. This practice feels very good. I don’t do energy healing on people. Not yet anyway. I teach you to do it yourself.

@Elliott Thank you!

Yes, Okay! Qigong is a weird space. So much value and bullshit.

@Leo Gura I help people clear stress and tension and improve their energy. I also teach energy management (The power of full engagement) and Learned optimism/ adversity quotient in the beta program along with the daily Qigong routines I customized for her. I am essentially trying to teach people how to remove chronic stress in mind and body so they can live better lives. I realized this has to be done somatically through movement, breath, mindfulness and also cognitive behaviour, journaling etc. Really, I teach the Qigong and inform and coach on the other stuff. Provide tools. Qigong is a great practice for this. How to develop inner peace, relieve stress, have more energy, clear physical tension and stress. I am by no means “stress free 20 4 7. Most of my stress right now is dealing with all this ambition!!!

@Leo Gura I don’t know man. I’m all fucked up over here. Is this true? Is that true? Am I deceiving myself? I need some rest, a digital detox and some time with a journal. I feel it in my heart I wanna teach stress and energy management, Qigong, Breathwork, acupressure.

@Leo Gura I am not sure what you mean by the visualization thing exactly. Qigong is more of an exercise.

@Staples That’s easy to say. But, putting in tonnés of work and having to work a 9-5 on top of that? No way. Money has to be considered. I am not throwing out all of Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Qigong theory. But, certain claims like in all fields don’t make sense even to like normal people.

@Leo Gura I’m confused as fuck what I’m doing next. I mean, I’m not stupid. Or at least completely stupid at all times Qigong is a fantastic exercise with many benefits. The feeling of the energy is very real. But, the healing sounds practice? The associated with certain organs and movements? I don’t buy it. I get benefit from Qigong and acupressure. But, these aren’t like “hard” sciences or practices. Which, makes sense due to their traditional and “holistic” nature. But, like who am I to “create a more truthful system”. I sort of just want to get out of poverty. I honestly just want happiness, fulfilment and success and a feeling of alignment and integrity with what I am doing. I wanna be creative too. I like practicing Qigong and recording the videos. It’s super peaceful, relaxing and feels good. People I teach in person love the classes and get a lot of benefit from them: improve sleep, pain, etc… But, it’s these ancient maps and certain system like “healing sounds” even though it feels really really good. Does it really associate with the Organ?? Or is it just a nice purging and tonifying breathing and mindfulness practice. I am by no means throwing “Qi” in the trash. It’s a useful philosophical tool and subjective experience. But, idk.