Understanding Taoist Classics


Interpreting the Ancient Codes

Interpreting the ancient codes shrouding the esoteric Chinese arts is one of the great challenges facing any serious student or teacher of Taoism. Download the free paper now.

Journey to China 2011

This weekend TCCII and 20 of our closest friends will be heading to China for an unforgettable travel, learning and training experience. This is no ordinary tourist trip. Sure, we’ll see the Terra Cotta warriors and a few other famous sights. However, we get off the beaten path and enjoy the temples, markets and [...]

Qigong Exercises and Forms

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 [...]

Qigong State and Five Animal Frolics Presentation at AHNA Convention

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 [...]

One with Nature with the Holistic Nurses

We recently returned from the American Holistic Nursing Association’s (AHNA) annual conference. This year it was held in Colorado Spring, CO, a small town situated at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Although better known as the home of NORAD and several military bases, it also boasts some great hiking and mountain scenery worthy of [...]

Harmonizing Yin and Yang Qigong Certification Course

Today 26 students completed the “Harmonizing Yin and Yang: Growing with Nature through Qigong Practice” professional certification course. The nurses in the class received 6 CNE credits while non-nurses earned 6 hours toward their Qigong certificate.

This course is unique in that it also taught the theory as well as the practice of Qigong. The participants [...]

Critical Care Nurses Learn Medical Qigong

Critical care nurses learn the ancient Chinese healing art of medical Qigong. They learned how to integrate mind, body, and spirit for self-cultivation and healing others.

We taught Tai Chi and Qigong to critical care nurses who were holding their annual convention in Washington, DC. We had a full class of very enthusiastic Qigong students. For [...]

TCM Diagnosis and Treatment in China

This morning we practiced Tai Chi and Qigong before our morning medical Qigong and certification lecture.

The main activity today was a TCM diagnosis and treatment by professors from the local TCM University in Dali, China. They used traditional pulse, tongue and facial reading to diagnose everyone in the group. Afterwards, those who wished received acupuncture [...]

Five Elements, Tea and Qigong in the Mountains

Today we started the formal classroom part of our program. We are teaching our group Qigong and Tai Chi every day and they are experiencing various traditional Chinese medicine treatments. But this trip is special in that we are also teaching them the theory behind the practices. We started with a lecture on the five [...]

Ancient Qigong Meets Modern Credit Course

Nurses, physicists, biologists, business people, yoga practitioners, spiritual healers and others from many different parts of the country and walks of life came together this past weekend to learn about the ancient Chinese art of Qigong.

We just completed our first professional credit course in Qigong. The class was completely full!

The course came about because several [...]

Why Free Healing is Never Free

A student recently asked me a question about why the eastern healing arts are not offered for free in the US like they are in China and India. You could tell by the emotion in her voice that it’s the type of question that really seriously bothered her.

She asked, “How can these Reiki people charge [...]