Learn Qigong

It is a comprehensive system combining breathing exercises, movement, and meditation developed over thousands of years in China to improve health, longevity, and well being. There are currently around three thousand types of Qigong being practiced in the world.

What is Qi?
It is Chinese for “life energy”, and according to Chinese medical theory, it is the animating power that flows through all living things. A living being is filled with it. A dead person has no more Qi. A healthy person has more than one who is ill. However, more does not always mean healthy. Health implies that the Qi in our bodies is clear, rather than polluted and turbid, and flowing smoothly, like a stream, not blocked or stagnant.

It is also this life energy that one senses in nature. Everything in the universe is vibrating, and moving. The smallest particle vibrates and moves, the earth itself rotates, as does our galaxy, and the universe is ever expanding. Human beings are part of nature and share Qi with the rest of the earth.

Gong literally means “work” or “benefits acquired through perseverance and practice”. Therefore Qigong is working with the life energy, learning how to control the flow and distribution of Qi to improve the health and harmony of mind and body