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Distance class would involve qi projection to the students while they sit in Stillness-Movement along with a private forum for lessons and to ask questions and share with other class members. No webcam. Book in re-write as I decided to take a different direction with it.

Many years ago I decided to add a float tank to my clinic. Installed shower in separate room and was getting ready to order the tank when something came up about the building I was renting being sold. Never got around to it again. I would love to have a personal float tank. I would be concerned about using a public one with the high incidence of MRSA and other. High salt environment should be good but I would also want to see ozone and UV treatment of the water as well as wiping down of tank entrance, disposable foot mats, etc.

Not a simple yes or no as that would put emphasis of "lighting the fire" as the only thing the qi projection does. It is only one of the things. I have already said I do not think that a distance class is nearly as good as a physical one due to the one-on-one feedback when in person. In person can teach then correct movement whereas distance can't. Energetically, yes, the "lighting the fire" can be done distance wise. But remember that I have a 500 hour IN PERSON program for a reason.

A Seeker & Surfingbudda - Great job - good results! It is really a blessing to be able to help others. Here is one I recently did: Client: 12 year old male Symptoms: Could not walk, could barely stand. Severe foot pain. It was determined that likely there was a foreign object lodged inside the foot. Surgery was only a last ditch option due to expense. Therapy: Medical Qigong for 3 days twice a day. Day 1 first session, client able to stand and walk to his food. Day 2 still some pain but after first session obvious pain relief as client was able to put more weight on the foot and walk about. An hr after the first session on day 3 the foreign object came out of the foot. The next day this horse was back to normal.

Umezuke, The "closedown", as listed in the book, can be done at any time independent of everything; it is a qigong unto itself. Certainly a good thing to do multiple times a day. It is mandatory to be done when doing sitting Stillness-Movement. It is not mandatory to be done after Gift of Tao movements. Eugene, The Stillness-Movement system is listed in the book. I would suggest reading the book before attempting practice. Many are able to make good progress from practicing this way. Practice Gift of Tao alongside the sitting. The practices complement each other. In a way, Gift of Tao is reverse engineered Stillness-Movement. Then, at some point, attend a workshop.

We get to where we practice 24/7. There are no bad times to practice. We bless our food so we are definitely practicing when we sit down to eat. Don't like eating unblessed food. What does it feel like to you when you practice between 1- 3? It is 1-3 somewhere when it is morning elsewhere when it is evening somewhere else. Lots of people have a downtime between 1-3; practice can renew.

A couple of things. Am not "lax" about drinking. Personally follow middle path. For me that is usually a single beer at mealtime with 2 being the usual limit. What happens is that when one has too much alcohol or other substances the person loses control of the Qi. When we cultivate the ability to do wai qi liao fa this is not a good thing. Advocate the middle path to students is what I do. On MA. I personally practice some Hsing I along with my Stillness-Movement, sometimes a bit of Chen Pan Ling Tai Jee, and sometimes a bit of other kung fu. I am NOT a Martial Artist and just play with these for a bit of physical exercise. Also a bit of qigong running, mild weight lifting, and rebounding. I have written on this in my blog. There are many students who practice MA along with Stillness-Movement and Gift of Tao. One of my senior students, who also occasionally posts here, is an 8th Dan Kempo Master. He only practices Stillness-Movement & Gift of the Tao for Neigong, but also practices Martial Arts in a big way. Perhaps he will swing by here and comment. My point was that one would have to look long and hard to find other qigong that was as efficient as the complete system of Stillness-Movement and it boils down to the "why" as to should we practice something else. Martial Arts is practiced for a complete other reason. While some of the internal arts do have built in qigong practices the main purpose is to be able to perform martially (else why call it "martial" to start with). OF COURSE the Stillness-Movement practice will enhance WHATEVER else one does, including MA. So best to look at efficiency when choosing what to practice. I will shoot kempomaster an email and see if he has time to drop by and comment on this. Other. Yes, Stillness-Movement goes far beyond simply putting awareness on Dan Tian.

Yes one can make good progress as you see from the other posts. There is no need to add other qigong(s) as this is a fully integrated system that has an extremely high efficiency. Taking the time to add something else instead of putting that same amount of time into continuing the practice could be detrimental instead of helpful. "May be we don't really need something difficult and look for something "powerful" like kundalini yoga or Iron Shirt Q." Stillness-Movement IS powerful as well as simple. A system with the practitioners having in the workshop only 2 days of practice (even those who have never practiced a bit of it), that can enable people to project energy (wai qi liao fa) and have 70% to 100% results in removing complex pain patterns through that energy projection, IS powerful. Many systems don't accomplish that in years of practice. Very Good!

"Can anyone that works this system please share what they have gained and exp doing this long term?" Personally, I have seen much benefit to the practices. Perception. Initially, a definite increase in perception. Ability to see energy at a much more detailed level within 3 months of initial practice. Healing. An increase in healing abilities with the ability to manipulate Qi (wai qi liao fa) - the very first day of practice; which was shifted after 3 days, then 3 months, then 3 years, then 9 years etc; it keeps on shifting. With the ability to help others. I stay in awe of the results of the wai qi liao fa. Simply far beyond any other type of healing that I am aware of. Personal health. Wow, for me this was huge. Due to car wrecks and falls with severe injuries, I could barely walk when I started practicing neigong. Also, I had huge problem in wrists and arms due to breaking both of them and couldn't open my arms up to full extension and couldn't grasp/hold much with my wrists/hands. Now I can. I also don't get colds or flu. Note here that I am not saying a person that practices will never get colds or flu, but we certainly see enough anecdotal evidence to support a statement that most who practice have less colds or flu, and if they do get them tend to recover fast. Movement benefits. One of the things that the Gift of the Tao movements do is opens the energy gates of the body. I don't think people understand the huge need for this and how stagnant the majority of people are through the various energy gates. For me, this continuous opening helps negate the injuries I have had such as both rotator cuffs torn and various other tendon tears and bone breaks. The movements help keep soft flowing muscles, like a cat. Other benefits for me are the continuous opening of the channels and all the orbits that the practice enhances as well as the activation, opening, and balancing of all the energy centers. Awareness. Awareness of other worlds and conscious interaction. Falls into the sleeping qigong/dreaming qigong aspect of the Stillness-Movement practice which becomes a part of daily life. For us, it becomes a fact that we are multi-dimensional beings. Learn from own interaction instead of what someone says. As an electrical/acoustic engineer specializing in wave propagation and electromagnetic fields, I was just as doubtful of the ability of a practice to do such things as anyone here who has posted negatively about neigong and medical qigong. For me, one of the single most important aspects of this system is that it helps each person, on their own, to arrive at realizations - NOT what the teacher says - but for themselves. This was huge for me. It did require a certain leap of faith to dedicate the time to practice but the results were so quick that the leap of faith was not very long. Taoism. Another important aspect for me was to learn intimately, for myself, the real meanings behind the various Taoist terminology which was/is rooted in energetics. Before I started practicing, my concept of these terms through reading was so far off of what they actually are that it would be funny if it were not so sad. An example is "wu wei". Now, through the practice, "dancing in the wu wei" is a tangible and real aspect of the practice and helps keep me in awe of Tao. More on health. One extreme thing here. I definitely think I would not be alive if it were not for the practice. The Gift of the Tao moves were extremely helpful making a difference in a very low period of my life. In particular, one of the moves was given to me when I left my body while in intensive recovery in the hospital. It is the DNA move in GOT I. Ability to project calmness. For me, this has been one of the more important aspects of the practice's outcome. Humanity, as a whole, has lost the ability and desire to tune into calmness. To have peace in one's life is an amazing thing. In clinic, it has been truly a blessing to observe this effect in clients.

Hi Eugene, To make it a bit clearer, the movements CAN be learned via DVD. The Stillness-Movement internal has been done by many from just the book. IMO doing it this way is just as good as anything else out there taught by dvd and better than much that is available. To receive the full training requires in person. Simply the way this is taught. "Transmission" is a word I never much use. In our system the teacher projects qi to the student to accomplish many different things which include creating a dan tian, opening energy centers, removing blocks, burning filters... up to simple pain relief. It also includes passing on of energy based information. My full program is 500 hours training. Graduates of this program are able to perform wai qi liao fa at a very high level. This is comprehensive training. I may do a distance class in 2013. This will include energy projection but it is not IMO as good as going to a workshop since there is no one-to-one interaction. We do discuss things on a private forum. I think there is bound to be some good qigong in the UK. Search and I do believe you will find. I may or may not return to teach in the UK. I have been asked to. Better for you to find someone locally if you don't wish to travel. Best of luck to you.

Best answer by Jeff post number 6. Good advice from oldgreen post #8. Umezuke, I sent you a personal email.

Thank you for being respectful. Quite a pleasant change from recent forum activity. A very long time ago I was introduced as a qigong master by three different teachers, once directly to government party leaders of China in front of over 5,000 people. However, I don't stand on ceremony because I know the most important thing is not what I can do but what my students can do. I have introduced more than one of my students as qigong masters because they are. And the proof of any system is in the students themselves. What RV in referring to is that in my workshops I tell students to call me Michael. Some of them alternate, depending on the setting, between Michael, Master Lomax, and Teacher Lomax. All are OK with me but you are welcome to call me Michael. I think you will do well with the Stillness-Movement. If it wouldn't spoil your Christmas, allow me to go ahead and send the DVD's you want then whoever is getting them for you for Christmas can pay me for them then. Let me know via email if you want to do this.

There are more than one type of standing form of internal arts as well as external muscle development. Zen type meditation differs from ZZ differs from other neigong standing forms differs from isotonal form. So the answer here is that results vary just a whole heck of a lot. I think most forms would help with calmness although isotonal perhaps less so; some forms would go deeper into the calmness. The energy component depends on the form as well as what other energetic practices one is doing. Standing can be an awesome thing. Decide what you want to learn and give it a try. When I first learned standing Stillness-Movement form I actually thought I was not going to like it as much as sitting. That quickly changed and I like both. One can accomplish much with standing. As far as energy centers go some forms work these much more than others.

"At that time the false accusations were the order of the day, and if you did something that was good, was distorted until it looked bad." Seems like not much has changed. He doesn't post here much anymore but mjjbecker probably knows a bit about Hu's daughters. I think one of them and Master Wang published a small book together.

Creation's post was a good one, there are a few more stories out there. Somewhere is my favorite about what happened when several of his students tried to lift him up when he told them he was unable to get out of bed - hilarious. I don't have a link to it. Been a long time since I heard it; I could possibly paraphrase it if you can't find it. Master Wang was a one of a kind during his generation just like Master Hu was in his. They both said the key is the powerful internal qigong (neigong) practice (Sitting & Moving) and the ability of all practitioners of his system to perform wai qi liao fa and for all teachers of the system to be able to perform a higher-level variance of wai qi liao fa where one of its aspects is geared at attunement of the students to specific vibrations that enables them for themselves to tune into a specific portion of heaven energetics. There is no question that such practices are the epitome of qigong. Someone ignorantly posted that all qigong systems are equal. Not at all true. Master Hu was known as the father of modern qigong and credited with coining the term "qigong", possibly by himself and possibly along with a group of his peers.

Good! Wu Wei is really something that can only be experienced. Pretty amazing, eh? Also glad you were able to see the sick qi. You are doing well with the system!

The book has been sold out, out of print for quite a while, of course it did not sell for that amount retail, it was listed for $24.95 It really irks me that scavengers have been selling it for so high a price; the reason I released it on kindle for $9.95. But I guess the scavengers will do what they do, eh?

Exactly. Kempomaster: Good work. I bet those who felt real energetics for the first time had wondrous expressions on their face.

Absolutely agree. Some forms don't do much at all and are merely calisthenics, not that calisthenics are bad, they just don't do much for an energy body. We do a calisthenic form of "qigong" as a physical warm up before we do energetic forms of qigong. It is very helpful for the physical body therefore good. Personally, I wouldn't call them qigong but someone did.

Worth repeating, over and over... This is why I prefer preparations done by respectable companies with professional herbalists and PH.D chemists on staff. I am very leery of lay herbalists who speak of certain preparations. Those ingredients are not found in the respectable modern herbalists manufacturers. Unfortunately, in your country, these products that are safe are now illegal whereas it is legal for a person to be ignorant and eat or take harmful preparations. In a way it is like the legalities have the distinct possibility to drive people to make uninformed decisions if they wish to explore natural remedies.

Good post! And good Quote. Referencing the quote, unfortunately, due to dynamics and prevalence of ignorance (or "cultivated ignorance" as RV said in another thread), repetition is necessary to get any particular thing across to all but the self-reliant thinking person (assuming they actually think and are willing to broaden their awareness). And then it is only a small percentage that will get their head out of the sand and broaden their awareness. I do think teachers are always glad of the small percentage.

It is a shame. Especially when England represented some of the early pioneers of natural medicine. Somewhere I have on my shelf a book by the doctor from England who was considered one of the founders of modern naturopathic medicine. As it was written a LOONG time ago it is probably worth a good deal of money. I wouldn't part with it due to the fact it was given to me by my teacher. The story I wrote above in an earlier post about the doctor throwing a chair through a patients window in order to give them fresh air was this particular doctor. I am afraid with the current attitude in the USA that many natural supplements, including herbal medicine, will be regulated to death; fueled by those special interest groups representing pharmacy and other large corporations. As a side note, how many understand that, in the USA, the single largest monetary contribution fighter against legalization of medical marijuana is the liquor lobby? The majority of physicians are for it.

The problem with people making their own herbal potions is that it can certainly be a complicated process. However, certain herbal remedies can easily be grown in ones yard. But I was appalled when I learned the UK would not allow herbal formulas from facilities meeting international standards of testing and production (tested for pesticides, etc). The Chinese herbal formulas are actually quite controlled, at least those purchased from reputable companies, and can certainly do a lot of good. I personally purchase Golden Flower Herbs manufactured in Taiwan. Kan Herb Company and Chinese Modular Solutions are two companies in the USA who have extremely high standards - I also use their products. The regulation topic reminds me of the fairly recent thing in the USA of massage therapy licensing. It ended up that currently most states in the USA require licensing. The arguments were that it would protect the public from harm and lead to licensed massage therapist being respected and decrease prostitution and allow the massage therapists to file and collect insurance. But the truth is that prior to licensing there is not one single documented case of anyone being hurt from massage therapy. The truth is that massage therapist are not respected any more or any less. The truth is that prostitution will happen anyway. The truth is that the largest benefits of the regulation were the massage schools who now charge upwards of $25,000 to teach people how to rub someone; incidentally the schools were the single largest pusher of the regulations. The truth is that in order for a person to really keep up with and file insurance requires them to hire a full time employee, paying them 20-30k per year or more. Great benefit to the public and to the massage therapists, eh?

"the shenanigans cited are evident in all traditions" "God is great, Beer is Good, and People are Crazy"

Exactly! I probably shouldn't do it but I usually refer to them as Doubly Blind studies. THIS is why I advocate history of use as a much more accurate form of evaluation. It has proven itself over and over whereas double blind has a track record that is not pretty; only look to the info link I posted of the failed harmful drugs that allegedly passed double blind studies. edit: Oh, and I agree with you about the fact it really would not make much difference for complementary therapies to pass these type of studies.