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Kundalini practices and Qigong practices can go hand in hand very well and can be mixed if the practitioner is experienced enough. Dr Glenn Morris' "Kundalini Awakening Process" that was very popular here on this forum for many years is actually a proof for this. Two of its main teachers Santiago Dobles (Vajrasattva) and Susan Carlson (Shaktimama +) have been contributors to this forum. Tao Semko is now doing the main teaching and is excellent. I used to be a private student of Santiago and had a Kundalini awakening due to his training - Susan was also present when it happened. Tao Semko give some excellent explanations about the interrelations of these systems: Kundalini: Hindu chakra system vs Taoist dan 'tien system - Pt.1 / Tao Semko (youtube.com) Kundalini: Hindu chakra system vs Taoist dan 'tien system - Pt.2 / Tao Semko (youtube.com) (1413) Kundalini: The Thrusting Vessel in Chinese Medicine - Tao Semko - YouTube

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Maybe a bit late but hopefully still helpful: If you do Zhineng Qigong you usually start with "Lift Qi up and pour Qi down" and you can do three centers merge" after it. This is usually enough for beginners. You can do some of the additional exercises of level 1 when you feel like it but these two are the core exercises of level 1. PS: You have to build a qi-field before you begin the practice. Building the qi-field is a key element in Zhineng Qigong. Doing "La Qi" is one of the additional exercises that helps you to master this skill.

Hu Yaozhen, one of the founding fathers of modern Qigong had an interesting solution to this problem. He would put the lower Dantian above the Huiyin and the middle Dantian at the point between navel and Mingmen, just as it is done in Zhineng Qigong. While a large number of modern Qigong texts situate the middle Dantian in the chest, it is interesting to note that in some older texts it is located in the abdomen as Hu teaches. For example in the Yuji Qiqian, an anthology of the Daoist Canon written circa 1029, the middle Dantian is associated with the middle jiao, the abdomen, and the area "below the heart".

@Lo2022 Yuan Tze used to be one of the top students of Pang Ming. His main style for many years was Zhineng Qigong but he had already worked at developing his own style when he met Doctor Pang. As his ideas and Doctor Pangs Ideas were very similar, he stopped working on his system and just practiced Zhineng Qigong. He was the head of the cancer ward in the famous Huaxia clinic that was very famous for treating clients that had already been given up by Western and Eastern medical professionals. In the clinic they even had one case of a kidney regrowing after qi-treatment. It was Yuen Tze who had done the healing. A couple of years after he had moved to New Zealand he had an awakening experience and then finished the work on his own system. It is influenced by Zhineng but has many unique elements of its own. He added central channel work and a heart healing method which Zhineng Qigong did not have in his old 3-level form. I once talked with an awakened teacher about him who is clairvoyant from birth. She said that his depth of humbleness was inspiring. A good sign in my book.

According to Chinese Sports Council, Zhineng Qigong is the most powerful medical Qigong system in China after testing over thirty known styles. In the 80s and early 90's Dr Pang's Huaxia clinic had up to 1,5 million visitors that all needed to have the following requirements: They needed to be considered unhealable by Western as well as Eastern medicial standards. The success rate of the clinic was 95%. Dr Pang arranged the system according to levels of difficulty or complexity to learn. That's all. You also can not judge the system by its form as it is probably one of the main teachings of this system and that is that consciousness is fundamental not qi cultivation. So in Zhineng, the physical movements are only means to gain an experience of the unified field and enter the Qigong state (Rujing/"empty but not yet empty"). Especially its newest methods like "Mingjue training" have this emphasis. The methods help you to enter a state of pure consciousness in which you do the movements. The old system of levels is based on older teachings of Dr. Pang and are still widely taught. His newest findings have a stronger emphasis on the training of heart and consciousness. Cultivating qi is not the most fundamental; cultivating one’s spirit is. Mastery of qi is really achieved through mastery of consciousness. Dr. Pang Ming Founder of Zhineng Qigong and Zhineng Qigong Science

SigmaTropic, when you are referring to your system, which system of cultivation do you practice?

Zhineng Qigong is one of the most powerful Qigong styles there is. Zhineng Qigong is considered according to the Chinese Sports council (and they tested well over thirty styles) to be the most powerful in healing. One of the reasons why Zhineng might have felt "soft" to some first time practitioners is that Zhineng Qigong works with Hunyuan Qi which is very pure and vibratory high in quality. Also Zhineng Qigong is to my knowledge the only Qigong style where building a Qi-field with higher energy information is openly taught to enhance the practice. Knowing to build a Qi-field supercharges the practice. Its founder Dr Pang Ming is easily at the level of other great masters as Yan Xin e.g. One speciality is the consciousness-training in Zhineng Qigong which leads to the mastery of your consciousness and the energy within the brain to a very high degree. Also Zhineng Qigong is one of the few styles were the training of super-abilities is openly taught and encouraged. At the highest level, healing and transformation happens through consciousness transference alone wich can lead to miraculous healings: Dr. Pang is showing this ability in this video here. Good luck trying this if you still rely on Dan-Tian-Qi: (443) Zhineng Qigong Instant Healing by Dr Ming Pang 智能气功庞老师握手实录 - YouTube Here is a video of the removal of a bladder tumor in 2 minutes which was filmed in the Huaxia clinic of Dr. Pang: (443) Zhineng Qigong Dissolved Tumor 智能气功化瘤子 - YouTube

I seem to have a change in my practice, too lately and that is that GOT I and GOT II do only have mild effects on me. I do feel a bit more with certain movements but the effects are very mild compared to the beginning. It is a bit better with SECA/BDE but still no comparison to the beginning weeks. However I do make constant progress with SM sitting and standing and that is why I stopped GOT I and II and concentrated more on SM. Taking a break is part of the path. I do test myself on GOT I and II from time to time but the effects quickly wear off after some days. I seem to be more of the SM-type :-D But as I said, taking a break is part of the path. Maybe you brought up some deeper issues that need to be digested .A teacher and friend coined a nice word for it - psychic furballs :-)

You DO have? Great! I was thinking about joining the programme, too. We'll have to discuss this in more detail, Ya Mu. You got mail :-)

I was attending in spirit so to speak and I felt quite a lot of energy during this particular weekend. Guy's what have you been doing on the 16th?? That was the day I felt the strongest. I felt the energy continuously the whole day. I felt the other days, too but this day was by far the strongest for me. I even thought I had seen glimpses of what had happened during the workshop in my meditation. Sadly I forgot to write down what I had seen. Would have been nice to check whether my perception was correct or not.

He doesn't need to. German beer is the best beer in the world anyway

Thanks a lot Friend. Yes, this was my impression already that the shielding is part of the transmission. Just wanted to make sure I supposed correctly. It is very interesting what you say about tests in dreams. When I was practicing Tenaga Dalam some years ago, I even had to fight in dreams. I remember one dream where I was taken to a colloseum and had to fight what looked like a Daoist Master in my dream. He wanted to test my abilities and mentioned that he had "heard" of me. I could defeat him, thank god My teacher at that time gave quite a weird explanation. He was convinced that this had been a place of power that was obviously near the place I live. The place was obviously curious about the "new guy" in town and wanted to see what I am up to.

I am glad you liked it. Its an exercise from my toolbox that I always pull out when my energy is out of balance. I like "stuff that works". PS: Have a look at Glenn Morris' exercise as well if you don't already know it. Great preparational exercise for any Qigong-session and very useful when your system is out of balance as well.Its especially good for situations where you emotionally release or have emtional Qigong-reactions. Puts you in a good mood very quickly.