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Hello BigSkyDiamond, That statement applies only to the first level of Flying Phoenix, which consists of the12 standing meditations taught on Volumes 1 through 5, and 7 of my Chi Kung For Health DVD series, plus 12 more "Monk Serves Wine" seated mediations that have not been published. The second level of Flying Phoenix qigong, which consists of 9 standing meditations that has some postures and body mechanics most similar to Tai Chi Chuan, "crosses over" the border from purely healing energy cultivation to cultivation of a versatile energy applicable to martial arts and any type of work or "kung." I hope this clarifies a bit. Sifu Terry https://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html terencedunn.substack.com

Correct. The speed of doing the breathing formulas can be slower that demonstrations on the DVD series. But breathing must be totally relaxed and diaphraagmatic, natal breathing. And silent One should not hear air moving through your passages. Also, the first 3 priming breathes should be full breaths--as long as you can do comfortably and silently. I explained in the first year of the thread that these 3 breathes set the 100% scale that you then use to do the following various percentage exhalations of each meditation's formula. Enjoy your exploration of FP Qigong. Sifu Terry ttps://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html terencedunn.substack.com

The Flash Meditations on Vol. 5 work better if one has done all the FP Standing Meds. in Volumes 1, 3, and 4 first...and has the Volume 4 Long Form memorized and feeling its fine benefits. I like to do them in the evenings very slowly--the first 4 meditations on Vol.7. Then I do one or two of seated MSW Mediations on Volume 2 or 7 before going to sleep (--except of course, you NEVER want to do the last med. on Vol.2 (90 80 50 20) at night--if you any intention to sleep!) I remember that around Year 2 of this thread, someone posted that the Volume 5 meditations were like "bon bons". They may seem like that to the uninitiated trying them for the first time without having mastered the preceding standing FP Meditations. But if one has steadily worked through Volumes 1, 3, 4 and established all of the Meditations, when you get to Volume 5 meditations, you will FEEL their effects like nuclear longevity pills (tan). GM Doo Wai taught the " Fei Feng San Gung" ("Flying Phoenix Spiritual Power/Cultivation" ) system to me and my L.A. cohort (from 1991 to 1998) in exactly the order as they are presented in the DVD series. In fact, the last meditation on Vol.5 with (80 70 50 40 30) is NOT an FP Qigong exercise--but a primer meditation for Bat Din Gum (8 Sections of Energy Combined, a legendary martial Qigong system that GM Doo Wai said repeatedly was "more rare than the Do Do Bird"), Out of respect and in reverence to his teachings, I placed that BDG meditation at the end of Vol.5 because that's when he taught it to me and to only two others in the learning circle. All that is to say that the none of the five meditations on Vol. 5 are "bon bons"! LOL. Enjoy your practice and stick with it. Sifu Terry ttps://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html terencedunn.substack.com

Hello all Tao Tan Pai practitioners, enthusiasts, and curious seekers: The only way to know what Tao Tan Pai ("Taoist Elixir Method") Kung Fu and Nei Kung is is to practice it: This is a last minute reminder and encouragement to attend my 3-day, 14-hour workshop teaching Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations + 10 Shen Exercises + TTTP Kung Fu Forms this Thursday through Saturday that I'm giving at the lovely Tao Retreat Center over the hill from you in Catskill, NY. I wasn't sure if you knew about this workshop from my free monthly Newsletter. Here is the link to the workshop description: https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/on-may-10th-celebrate-lu-tung-pins?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false What's different about this TTP-31 workshop from all previoius ones is that I will be teaching the Ten "Shen" Meditations (during the last four sessions of the workshop--starting with the afternoon (2:30 to 4:30pm) session) and also Tao Tan Pai 5 Animal Kung Fu forms (to my intermediate students.) The "Shen" Exercises are truly remarkable. I have never taught them before in a workshop setting on either coast. (Only a couple of times over the past 40 years to my most advanced students). But just within the past 3 weeks, I had the revelation that it's time to teach the Shen system to anyone who's ready for them. The 10 Shen Exercises imbue one with the knowledge of the difference between Ching Qi (metabolic energy) and Shen Qi ("the pure speculative aspect of action"--as per my favorite sr. classmate). "Shen" in Chinese means "(a rising) spirit." The entire Tao Tan Pai Nei Gung system is all about--and only about-- cultivating Shen Qi and Ching-Qi separately and the putting them together to manifest Qi. The Shen exercise are a relatively easy to learn system of 6 standing postures and 4 sedate seated meditations that specifically cultivates "Shen" Qi. Building upon the health, integrated strength, and structural sensitivity conditioned by the TTP-31 Basic Meditations, the "Shen" Exercise System more deeply integrates mind and body and simultaneously develops (A) the physiological capacity to literally see all forms of energy that are not seen in the consensus reality (e.g., any person's psychology, their past incarnations, and present spiritual guides) and (B) psychic intuition, the ability to know in granular detail distant events hitherto unknown in the past, in the present, and in the future. (Take this with 18 shakers of salt for now; but if you do them, they'll deliver such results!) I can almost guarantee you will feel something especially deep, extraordinary, and lasting once you finish the 10 Shen Exercises. It will takes the effects of the Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations to a higher level--and also one's Flying Phoenix Qigong practice will never be the same after the Shen practice. TUITION • LIVE ATTENDANCE: $450 early registration for 7 sessions—or $65 per each 2-hour session (ENDS today) $525 day of workshop—or $75 for each of the seven 2-hour sessions • ZOOM PARTICIPATION: $60 per 2-hour session or $385 for all 7 sessions (Zoom log-on links are below) • SCHEDULE FOR THE 7 WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Thursday: 3pm - 5pm; 7:30pm - 9:30pm EST Friday: 10am - noon; 2:30pm - 4:30pm; 7:30pm - 9:30pm EST Saturday: 10am - noon; 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST Contact me at [email protected] with any questions. Sifu Terry Dunn