Grandmaster Mingtang Xu’s Image Medicine considered one of the top Medical Practices in China

Mingtang's Image Medicine and qigong research at Kundawell Institute in Beijing, China is receiving much recognition and press from the Chinese government and media, as the government recently concluded that Image Medicine is the top medicine. Here is an article on Mingtang and Image Medicine recently published in one of China's most-read magazines.

Earlier this year, after visiting Seattle and presenting to Bastyr students and faculty, Mingtang was also invited to visit Dr. David Eisenberg, Director of the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center to discuss Image Medicine, the research and findings at Kundawell Institute and possible future collaboration. The National Institute on Health has also been in touch with Mingtang following this visit. In 2007, Mingtang presented on Qigong and Image Medicine at the Congressional Roundtable on Alternative Medicine chaired by Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and the former Thomas Lantos.

Current and Upcoming Classes, Workshops, Retreats and Events

Claire & Jeregtu's 2011 Fall & Winter Schedule

Sept. 2-4, Fri-Sun. Level 1 Workshop, Montecarlo, Monaco,
Sept. 4-10, Healing sessions, Montecarlo, Monaco,
For info. & registration: Sirpa Lehtinen

Sept. 23-25, Fri-Sun. Level 1 workshop, Ashland, OR. 
Sept. 26-Oct. 2, Healing sessions, Ashland, OR
For info. & registration: Beth Heller

Oct. 6-9, Thur.-Sun., Level 1 Workshop, Breitenbush Hot Springs, Portland, OR
Oct. 9-11, Sun.-Tues. Entering Image Medicine Workshop, Breitenbush Hot Springs, Portland, OR
For info. & registration: Breitenbush Hot Springs

Oct. 16th, Sunday, Speaker for the Service, Uniterian Universalist Church in Oklahoma City
Contact: Ellen Steely

Oct. 21-23, Fri-Sun. Level 1 Workshop, Windsong Dojo, Oklahoma City, OK
Oct. 15-26, Healing sessions, Oklahoma City, OK
Oct. 28-30, Fri-Sun. Level 1 Workshop, Lawton, OK
Oct. 31-Nov. 21, Healing sessions, Lawton, OK
Nov. 5-6, Sat.-Sun. Entering Image Medicine Workshop, Lawton, OK
Nov. 19-20, Sat.-Sun. Level 2 Workshop, Lawton, OK
Each Monday 7-9pm, practice sessions, Oklahoma City, OK
Each Wednesday, 7-9pm, practice sessions, Lawton, OK
For Info. & Registration: Gianna Pontoni

Dec. 1-23, Healing Sessions, Seattle, WA
Contact: Claire Johnson

Jan. 2-31, Healing Sessions, Corvallis, OR
Contact: Claire Johnson

Seattle/WA
Summer Practices and Classes

Let's practice Qigong together this summer! You can join free informal practice groups on Wednesday evenings at Greenlake in Seattle and The Botanical Gardens in Bellevue. Also, you can join Karen Fletcher for her Tuesday evening ongoing "Qigong with Trees" class.

In the Fall, Karen and Jean Clough will again teach Level 1 ZYQ @ Greenlake Community Center. See below for details!

Wednesday Evening Practices

Practices at Greenlake in Seattle and lovely Bellevue Botanical gardens will begin Wednesday, June 15th starting at 5:15 pm, at both locations.

After that the practices will alternate:

Wednesday, June 22 - Greenlake
Wednesday, June 29 - Bellevue
Wednesday, July 6 - Greenlake
Wednesday, July 13 - Bellevue
Wednesday, July 20 - Greenlake
Wednesday, July 27 - Bellevue
Wednesday, August 3 - Greenlake
Wednesday, August 10 - Bellevue
Wednesday, August 17 - Greenlake
Wednesday, August 24 - Bellevue
Wednesday, August 31 - Greenlake

Generally we will start with shaking, cleansing and gathering, Level 1 preparation exercises, then practice Big Tree and/or refining qi.

We're aware that this time and day won't work for many who would enjoy meeting. If you'd like to suggest a practice time and location for a group gathering, let us know! We'll try to help you arrange a practice.

Greenlake practice group will meet at the Bathhouse on the West Side of Greenlake.

Bellevue Botanic Garden practice group will meet at the field outside of the Park Store, or in case of rain, under the Japanese teahouse.

Tuesday Qigong with Trees

Qigong with Trees ~ Explore Your Earth Gym
Tuesdays at Green Lake Park - by the Bathhouse Theater
7312 W Green Lake Dr N Seattle, WA
5:30-6:30 p.m.

Step into your Strength and Vitality! This is a unique practice combining the fundamental and powerful practices of Qigong with natural running, stone training, staff stretching and tree-training with ropes.

Trees, rivers, mountains, wildlife, and Nature are naturally exuberant. Their strength interwoven with all life and grounded in our Earth's massive Qi. And Qi - our vital energy - is in some languages also translated as JOY!

This is a 'new' yet ancient, original, most natural practice in our own EARTH GYM - and our Earth Gym is everywhere! Join us for an invigorating and profound practice with the Big Trees at Green Lake!

Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Tuition: $10/class.
RSVP with Karen beforehand (206-713-5147 or via meetup)

Here's a 14 min. interview on the Dr. Pat Show where Karen speaks on Qigong and Exuberance. And here's a short youtube clip.

Fall Level 1 ZY Qigong with Karen and Jean

Practice and refine your Level 1 training in this 8 week class with teachers Karen Fletcher and Jean Clough.

Class begins mid-September. $89 for all 8 weeks. September 21- November 9, 2011 Beginners and experienced folk alike are welcome!

Wednesdays 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm @ Green Lake Community Center, 7201 East Green Lake Dr. N, Seattle, WA 98103

To register call Green Lake Community Center at 206.684.0780.
Or register online (after August 9th) at: Seattle Parks and Recreation Website

THANK YOU! And we wish you a joyful, wonder-ful summer, with lots of good qi for you and our whole community~. Sincerely, Jean

See Schedule page for more classes and workshops.

BOARD/COMMITTEE NOMINATION FORM

We invite you to nominate yourself or others to serve on the Board. We ask all nominees to complete the nomination form themselves in order to insure that all nominees are truly interested in joining the Board and understand the commitment involved. In addition, the nomination form serves as a resource for the current Board Members to get to know and evaluate the individual nominees and to see how they might fit the requirements of the Board for the upcoming term of office.

Board Member Nomination Form

ZY QIGONG HOSTS TOP-LEVEL MASTER CHINESE MEDICINE DOCTOR/HERBALIST FROM CHINA

Dr. Zhao Fuxue is one of the first of China's recently certified top-level Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors to come to the United States. Last fall China had its first nationwide certification examination for all doctors practicing Traditional Chinese medical massage, acupressure, and tuina. Only 85 doctors in all of China were awarded lifetime certifications for their expertise. Grandmaster Xu Mingtang and ZY Qigong invited Dr. Zhao to come to the U.S. this summer for teaching and consultations. ZY Qigong was honored to host Dr. Zhao and help people benefit and learn from his expertise, knowledge and mastery. Here is more information and photos of his visit.

We will be inviting Dr. Zhao back and intend to invite other top-level doctors to the United States, creating future successful exchanges.

Note: Karen Fletcher is studying with Dr. Zhao now in Zhengzhou, China and has started a blog with regular updates on her learnings and adventures with Dr. Zhao, his family and friends. See Karen's blog.

WHAT IS ZY QIGONG?

Steeped in shamanic, Taoist and Buddhist practices, the Zhong Yuan Qigong (ZY Qigong) system integrates the physical, energy and spiritual anatomies. ZY Qigong is an ancient and complete healing and self-development system, a practice to cultivate the connectedness of the human being with the universe. It combines movement, breath, and mindful meditation to activate, store and focus qi or energy for personal cultivation and healing self and others. ZY Qigong is simple, safe, and easy to learn, yet it is a powerful transformational tool for achieving wellness, wisdom and enlightenment. One can access and utilize this energy immediately and reach the power of an adept in a comparatively short period of time.

You will feel qi (your life force) in your own body and in your own spirit. The power of this practice is transmitted with assistance from more than 7000 years of realized teachers. ZY Qigong is a path that can bring you all the way home. For those experiencing spiritual emergence or emergency, those looking to improve health or develop their spirit, this practice has much to offer. It has discarded unnecessary cultural elaborations, retaining only the methods that really work. It is currently practiced by more than forty thousand students worldwide and has trained hundreds of ZYQ teachers and Image Therapy healers.

About Xu Mingtang

Xu Mingtang is the current grandmaster of a system that is more than 7000 years old. He comes from an ancient Shamanic family that has contributed to the founding of Zen Buddhism in China, and has been closely associated with the Shaolin monastery. As one of the foremost teachers and healers in Chinese medicine today, he has set up clinics and seen patients in Asia, Western Europe, the Middle East and North America, and has transmitted this system to more than 30,000 students. Xu Mingtang was educated in China as a practitioner of traditional medicine and ZY Qigong by his father, and as a computer scientist at the most prestigious universities in the People's Republic of China. He founded a degree program at the Oriental Culture and Medicine Academy at the Ukraine National Academy of Science in Kiev, where he also teaches and treats patients at his private clinic. He currently divides his time between here, the new Seattle clinic and Shaolin Monastery in China, as he travels the globe as an author, speaker and teacher of ZY Qigong. Read more about Grandmaster Xu Mingtang here.

Publications

Diagnosis and Healing of Energetic Disease - This article was printed in Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Energy and Informational Interactions. This is a peer reviewed scientific journal published by the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. The article is a transcript of Xu Mingtang's keynote address at the society's 2006 conference.

Qigong An ancient art can be useful for maintaining general health in a modern, complex world - This is an interview with Claire Johnson from the October 26, 2009 edition of The Lawton Constitution.

What We Do

Our organization, a 501(c)(3) non-profit (We accept donatations; our EIN is 26-3280910), is one of many groups that teaches ZY Qigong worldwide. Its purpose is improved health, heightened creativity, and deepened understanding of oneself in relationship to the world. For many teachers and practitioners, the ZY exercises embody the most essential elements of Qigong. Their unembellished techniques are easy-to-learn, yet powerful; with practice, students advance to new levels of accomplishment, understanding and well-being. Read our mission statement here. To make a donation, please download our pledge form.

PRINCIPLES: THE SIX PILLARS OF PRACTICE

1. The simplest and most fundamental physical manifestation of exercises.
2. An ancient comprehensive framework enables one to experience the four states of being: the relaxed/stability state, the deep calm/blissful state, the pause/emptiness/all-connectedness state and the wisdom beyond knowledge - non-dual state.
3. An open system allows spontaneous and non-doctrinal teaching to adapt physical, energetic and spiritual tools from all parts of the world which support specific points in the process of one's development.
4. The balance in the practice offers structure to bring stability and support to build a long-term practice with the openness and flexibility to develop inner awareness and intuition which sparks spontaneous leaps in the practitioner's experiences.
5. Supporting personal practice with teaching and healing, while the two professional aspects (teaching and healing) continuously encourage, expand and deepen the personal practice.
6. Integrating the self with the world, ZY Qigong allows one to manifest the practice of presence, awareness and connectedness into their surroundings, the society, our environment and the universe, attaining total sustainability.

EXISTING PROGRAMS AND STRUCTURE

1. Self Healing and Self Development Programs:

1. Lectures draw up to 1600 and workshops draw more than 1000 in some countries.
2. Yearly Shaolin Monastery Intensives in China draw about 400 students.
3. College-level programs are at Ukraine National Academy of Science and in Russia.
4. Over 40,000 students are outside of China; 10,000 are taught directly by Grandmaster Xu Mingtang.
5. Over 300 certified ZYQ instructors are teaching Levels 1-3.

2. Image Therapy:

1. The Kundawell Medicine Research Institute, in the center of Beijing, occupies 2.5 floors above the Red Cross of China and Handicap Association of China; is across from Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital; offers individual healing programs, especially research for conditions that "currently have no known treatment for"; offers two to four year professional programs for Traditional Chinese Medicine with emphasis in Image Therapy.
2. Grandmaster Xu Mingtang was invited by congressmen Tom Lantos and Dennis Kucinich to discuss the topic of "Life Extending Alternative Medicine" for the US Congress Alternative Medicine Caucus in June of 2007 in Washington, DC.
3. Mingtang Xu was invited to make the keynote address for the 2006 International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) in Boulder, CO. He discussed his latest findings on bio life that cause cancer and challenged scientists to find a way to verify his findings. His speech is published in the ISSSEEM journal volume 17, number 1.
4. Image Therapy has its own department in many Russian hospitals.
5. Clinics are around the world, including Seattle, WA, USA.
6. Image Therapy professional programs are in the U.S., China and Russia.
7. 500 certified Image Therapy healers practice full-time worldwide. Some have scanning and healing abilities that match Xu Mingtang's.

CORE CURRICULUM OUTLINE

I. Self-Healing and Self-Development

Level 1. Lower Dantian: The relaxed state

Level 2. Middle Dantian: The calm state

Level 3. Upper Dantian: The pause state

Level 4. Direct Transmission

Level 5. Three levels of soul development

II. Qigong Healing: Image Therapy

Level 1. Energy scan and healing through the hand

Level 2. Symptom scan and healing through the body

Level 3. Cause scan and healing through the third eye

III. Knowledge and Ability Transfer

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