CURRENT CLASSES & UPCOMING EVENTS
Qigong with Trees ~ lead by Karen
Tuesdays 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm - 7-week Summer series, June 30 thru August 18 at Green Lake Park (just north of tennis courts).
This class combines a qigong warm up with outdoor movement
(shaking, stretching, training with trees with the use of straps,
staffs, stones and our own hands, feet, and body). Fundamental
qigong exercise are practiced throughout. Some classes will also
incorporate one of ZY Qigong's foundational and most powerful
meditations (Big Tree standing meditation). Join us for an
invigorating and profound practice. Come practice with the Big Trees
at Green Lake!
Tuition: $10/class. RSVP with Karen beforehand
(206-713-5147 or
karen.dancingqi@gmail.com).
Level 1 with Jean and Karen
Wednesdays 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm - July 1 thru August 19 at Greenlake Community Center.
Tuition: $89. Call Greenlake to register at 206-684-0780.
China Intensive Group I with Mingtang
July 9 thru July 30 at various places in China
Tuition: 1600 Euros. See the China Intensives page for more details.
China Intensive Group II with Mingtang
July 30 thru August 27 at various places in China
Tuition: 1600 Euros. See the China Intensives page for more details.
Level 2 Practice Group with Jean
Mondays 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm at Meridian Park in Wallingford
This practice group is open to students who have already taken a Level 2 course. Email us beforehand if you would like to come.
See Schedule
page for more classes and workshops.
New!
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 Energy and Energy Medicine
(www.issseem.org).
The article is a transcript of Mingtang's keynote address
at the society's 2006 conference.
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.
EXISTING PROGRAMS AND STRUCTURE
1. Self Healing and Self Development Programs:
- Lectures draw up to 1600 and workshops draw more than 1000 in some countries.
- Yearly Shaolin Monastery Intensives in China draw about 400 students.
- College-level programs are at Ukraine National Academy of Science and in Russia.
- Over 40,000 students are outside of China; 10,000 are taught directly by Mingtang.
- Over 300 certified ZYQ instructors are teaching Levels 1-3.
2. Image Therapy:
- 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.
- Mingtang Xu 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.
- 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.
- Image Therapy has its own department in many Russian hospitals.
- Clinics are around the world, including Seattle, WA, USA.
- Image Therapy professional programs are in the U.S., China and Russia.
- 500 certified Image Therapy healers practice full-time worldwide. Some have scanning and healing abilities that match 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
Currently not open to the public.
PRINCIPLES: THE SIX PILLARS OF PRACTICE
- The simplest and most fundamental physical manifestation of exercises.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Supporting personal practice with teaching and healing, while the two professional aspects (teaching and healing) continuously encourage, expand and deepen the personal practice.
- 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.
ABOUT ZY QIGONG
Steeped in shamanic, Taoist and Buddhist practices, the Zhong Yuan Qigong (ZY Qigong) system integrates the physical, energy and spiritual anatomies. It is one of the most complete development systems in the world. Its teachings and learning come from the entire universe. Countless practitioners have realized ultimate freedom through ZY Qigong. During practice, students are assisted by these realized teachers.
What We Do
Our organization 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.
About Mingtang
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. 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.