Dragon Tiger Qigong Workshop
Health and performance enhancement technique
Saturday 25th February 11 - 4pm 2012
Get an simple, clear introduction to Qi Gong and see and feel why Qi Gong is so powerful as a health and healing modality This simple set is one that we have used at my studio since 1997-8. I pioneered the introduction of this set to the College of Chinese Integrated Medicine in Reading, UK. The UK's leading Acupuncture College.
Dragon ( Long ) Tiger ( Hu ) is incredibly simple in design and although no where near as deep working as the Hun Yuan Qi Gong of the studio, it is simple enough to allow the old and infirm, or people with chronic body problems to begin a practice and gain great benefit. As a typical medical Qi Gong which can be used by people recovering from a transplant or from COP, heart disease or any obstructive disorder.
The term medical denotes that the exercise was at some point taken up by a hospital as part of a health regime for patients, especially in recovery.
The first Qi Gong clinic was opened in Beijing in 1956 by Master Hu Yao Zhen ( 1879-1973 ) and it was through his work that the term Qi Gong became popular throughout China.
Those who are able bodied and want to simply work with Aura of the human form can learn to do so immediately. This Qi Gong is ideal for acupuncturists who want to work with their energy and improve their needling, intentionality and their ability to move energy beneath the needle and through the meridian system.
Also manual therapists and Physio-therapists can use this set to help avoid burn out and to release any stagnation accumulated form working long hours with people who have depleted energy.
This workshop is suitable for people who want to deepen their practice or for beginners to have try out the set.
Suitable for beginners or those who already know the Dragon Tiger set.
Long Hu (Dragon Tiger Qi Gong ) is a relatively simple seven movement set that provides a way method which allows the practitioner to focus on the felt sense of ones immediate Qi (Chi field - Aura)
Our nervous systems and our minds can be attuned to sensing our life giving Human energy field. This field has been observed for millenia by varied cultures of the world both East and West, in China, India and ancient Greece.
In the 20th Century many people in Western Science such as Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and Dr. Wilhelm Reich researched the aura of the Human energy field. Back in 500 B.C., the Pythagoreans believed that there is a universal energy pervading all of nature. They taught that its light could effect cures in sick patients.
The ancient Chinese 2500 B.C developed a methodology that allowed anyone to cultivate an awareness of this field as a felt sense phenomena and this led to movement systems that promoted self awareness and an increase in vital energy and blood flow. Masters of such arts could act as catalysts for the releasing of blockages in a patients field, simultaneously influencing the cells and tissues of another being. The power of the treatment had much to do with the personal strength of the masters own energy field and his good will and intent. A master's personal energy field is trained much like an athlete would train his physical body. In reality all fields are interrelated and a master of considerable practice can sense blockages in another person.
The beauty of Qi Gong practice is that one can learn to work gradually over time to become more integrated with self and others in a positive way that benefits all. Qi Gong is a construct, an idea that can help those who feel they have no control over circumstances or their health. Qi Gong is a mindfully based movement system utilizing natural motion with deep breathing.

