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Oriental College - Independent University for Qigong based studies
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Qigong and Taijiquan |
| Qigong is certainly not only the slow and
gentle moving of your body to unstress. |
| Meditation |
| Meditation is more than just contemplating. |
| Massages |
| We use both contact and no-contact massage
and we instruct people |
| Acupuncture |
| Specific role in helping to maintain good
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| Therapies |
| Medicine is the manual for body and mind. |
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What is Qigong & Taijiquan?
Qigong is a box of tricks. It is a series of techniques and
theories that can be seen as a manual for right use of mind
and body. Qigong is certainly not only the slow and gentle
moving of your body to unstress. This level of application
is called `heil gymnastics' and is part of medical Qigong.
Medical Qigong itself can be determined according to two approaches:
1. Exercise Therapy
In this form of Qigong you will get certain exercises to cure certain diseases,
for instance: headache, backache, swelling of liver, depression etc. The exercise
aims at regulating qi and blood flow in the channels and thus at correcting physical
or mental disturbance. The workingmethod and the prognosis are slow but fairly
good. Regular Qigong as is mostly practiced in the west belongs mostly to this
category, but aims at achieving a general balance and recuperation of essential
power substances (Jing). Not every method is equally suitable to everyone.
2. Qi Therapy
In Qi therapy the therapist uses his or her Qi power to regulate the flow of
Qi and blood within the channels, the size of the functioning of your organs
or the spaces between your joints or other functions of body and mind, next to
the self exercising of the client. Traditional Qigong methods for diagnosis like
the bodyscan can be used by the therapist for this. The Yin Yang Center specialises
in this kind of medical Qigong. Our Oriental College / International Qigong Academy
is one of the few schools in the world where this way of medicine can be studied
and exercised academicly.
Qigong is mostly a science though, in which there is place for intuitive insight,
factual knowledge and physical & mental exercise. Along these you develop
step by step control over the energy processes that shape your thinking, feeling
and health. Next to this you learn to recognise difference and sameness between
mind and body through a.o. diciplining of your soul (ling), (a technique for
harnessing spiritual or soulpowers that are prerequisite for developing scan
capabilities, unition with nature as it is etc). Because these techniques do
not only teach you how to communicate with yourself, but also with others and
your surrounding (not allways verbally), Qigong can be called a communication
science as well. Qigong works at a variety of energetic levels. Everything between
heaven and earth is connected to the learning proces. One can therefore discern
internal practice and external practice. Internal practice is to regulate and
strengthen the internal Qi's. External practice has as a purpose to learn produce
external qi and control this, as well as creating a continual exchange between
the qi insode your body and outside it to stay pure. With advanced students this
leads to the energy transference of Qi/information (or function control). This
is a nuclear part of The Qigong learning proces. The personal experience with
this proces from your teacher is determining the results that you can achieve
as a student (unless you are a natural talent, a feedback mechanism from nature
to prevent quality loss of human capacities). Ask your teacher at all times if
he or she can share this direct Qi experience with you without you having to
do anything for it. This will help you to achieve a high energy level in a shorter
time, and also to become independent more quickly in controling your energy.
Qigong is an instrument for transforming blockages inside your body-mind system
and your life as a whole. It is a yeasting proces in which you will gradually
find out what is the reality behind your reality experiencing. Technique is for
this of more importance than form. Qigong teachings contain traditionally yoga
(baduajin or other styles for musscle and tendon transformation), meditation,
polarity exercises, dynamic movement practice, trancework and theory. As a whole
there are more than 30.000 Qigongs in existence. Progressing from general practice
for personal development does Qigong offer a large amount of applications isn
different fields of professional activity. In that sense Qigong is a science
for the future, a.o. because it teaches you to deal properly with the hightened
speed of 21st century life, without slowing down yourself. The Yin Yang Center
does not only teach people in companies, but also teaches to apply the aquired
skills directly in work or worksurroundings.
Qigong (and the subscience of Fengshui) is the oldest ergonomic science in the
world. It teaches you how to adapt to your surroundings, instead to adapt your
surrolundings against high costs to you.
Qigong is supposed to accentuate your personal individuality and stimulate your
capacity to be critical. Because Qigong is proceswork can qigong practice without
proper guidance after a shorter or longer time of practice be harmfull for your
health. Like the classics state: 'If it can't harm, it can't benefit!'.
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