By Shawn Cartwright
Guest columnist Sonja Alcon describes her experience with Cranial Sacral Therapy for SilentTao.com.
After more than 20 years I still love what I do. I have seen hundreds of people come with headaches, back pain, anxiety, stress, tooth pain, digestive disorders, whip-lash, learning disabilities… and so many other ailments that diminish quality of life for [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
This video shows the first movement of the Wudang version of the Eight Brocades Qigong (八段錦氣功, Ba Duan Jin). This movement is called “Pressing the Sky to Regulate the Triple Warmer” (雙手托天理三焦) or just “Pressing the Sky.” The video contains and English Translation of the original Chinese teaching by Wudang Priest Wang Li Sheng.
By Shawn Cartwright
Our new Chen Tai Chi Chuan DVD is now available. We’ve worked hard to bring you a DVD that is usable for beginners and interesting for more advanced practitioners. This DVD contains eight complete Tai Chi practice sets based on the original style of Chen Tai Chi as taught to us by Grandmaster Chen Quanzhong, [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Question: How can I start practicing Nei Dan? I am very interested in the foundation building practices.
Reply:
I understand that you are inquiring about the specific techniques of the Building the Foundation stage. I appreciate that you limited your question to that part of the practice. It is probably the stage of the practice that could [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Check out the new trailer for our Qigong Exercise DVD.
The video is designed to let you follow the movements in your own daily practice. It includes eight complete Qigong sets. These sets are the core forms in first level of the TCCII Professional Qigong Certification course series.
About “Moving with the Tao” Qigong Practice DVD
The Five Animal [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Congratulations to those who successfully completed their first Internal Alchemy (Nei Dan) course this past weekend!
Participants from all walks of life gathered in Washington DC on Friday to begin a three day intensive course in the highest level of Qigong training. This course, titled Cultivating the Spirit: Internal Alchemy, provided a comprehensive introduction to the [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
One of the questions we often get, especially around the Equinox and Solstice, is “When is the best time to practice Meditation and Qigong?”
There are indeed times the ancient Chinese considered better for certain types of practices. But the answer we give usually surprises them. “The best time to practice is whenever you can!”
“But, I’ve [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Most people want to be perfect. Not everyone, but most.
I recently took my 4 year old son to get pizza at one of the local re-developed town centers around Washington DC. These places, though very commercial, are often great fun for the young ones. That evening they happened to feature a local band which was [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
The Qigong State and Five Animal Frolics medical Qigong were part of the Qigong credit courses that we taught to holistic nurses at their annual convention this year. All forms of higher cultivation including meditation and Qigong benefit from the Qigong state.
This video introduces you to the Qigong state and the Five Animal Frolics form [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
Bagua and Xingyi (Pa Kua and Hsing I) are two of the most famous Chinese internal Kung Fu systems (after Tai Chi Chuan.) Bagua is generally based upon the eight trigrams of the Yi Jing (I Ching) while Xingyi is based upon the Wuxing (Wu Hsing) five element theory. Here is a demonstration of Xingyi’s [...]