Qigong

QIGONG :——–Life Energy Cultivation, is a practice of aligning BODY, BREATH and MIND for health, meditation and martial arts training.

With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy and martial arts, QIGONG is traditionally viewed as a practice to cultivate and balance QI (chi) or what has been translated as LIFE ENERGY.  According to Daoist, Buddhist and Confucian philosophy, respectively, QIGONG allows access to higher realms of awareness, awakens ones ‘true nature,’, and helps develop human potential.

QIGONG practice typically involves moving meditation, co-ordinating slow flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing and calm meditative state o mind.  It is now practised throughout China and worldwide for recreation, exercise and relaxation, preventive medicine and self-healing, complementary and alternative medicine, meditation and self-cultivation and training for martial arts.

Over the centuries, a diverse spectrum of QIGONG forms developed in different segments of Chinese society.  Traditionally, QIGONG training has been ESOTERIC and SECRETIVE, with knowledge passed from ADEPT MASTER TO STUDENT in lineages that maintain their own unique interpretations and methods.  Although the practice of QIGONG was prohibited during the CULTURAL REVOLUTION of the 1960s, it was once again allowed after 1976, and disparate approaches were merged and popularised.  Since a 1999 crackdown, practice of QIGONG has been restricted.  Many practitioners find QIGONG, with its gentle focused movement, to be more accessible than seated meditation.