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.

China 2010: Xizhou Chinese Medicine

Day 8, Friday, April 23 (Xizhou)

          Today, before breakfast, Shawn continued teaching us the old Chen Style Tai Chi.  He does the original form, the one that dates back several hundred years.  He told us that we will notice a difference in the form when we watch videos of other Masters as most of them [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]