If you are interested in this online class please email DRMICHAEL@BODYMINDHEALING-TAICHIQIGONG.COM, The day before the class, and Dr. Michael will send you the Zoom link for the class the night before.

In this ongoing Qigong/Tai Chi class you’ll be initiated into Bodymind Healing Tai Chi and Qigong practices that Michael synthesized from three decades of training with some of the world’s most respected masters of Tai Chi and Qigong.

During the current COVID pandemic, we will have an online Zoom class that will focus on Tai Chi’s Four Dimensions (self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self-defense, and changing one’s life stance psychologically). Each Saturday we’ll focus on one or two Tai Chi movements as well as immune enhancing, resiliency building (Wei chi), and parasympathetic nervous system enhancing practices from Bodymind Healing Qigong.

What is Bodymind Healing Qigong?

Bodymind Healing Qigong is a physical exercise system, a Self-healing pathway, a spiritual practice, a method of transforming one’s life stance, a way to find our ground in the midst of the emotional crosscurrents of everyday life, and an initiatory tradition. It is grounded in psycho-neuroimmunological and quantum biological research and may become a practice that will stay with you for a lifetime.

These Eight systems of the Bodymind Healing Qigong (Short Set) include:

Set 1: Standing Meditation Qigong: (Yi Chuan, Zhan Zhuang, and Wuji)

A. Standing like a Tree
B. The Circle that Arises from Stillness
C. Holding Golden Balls in the Waters of Life
D. Finding your own Stance- Opening the Golden Ball of the Heart

Set 2: Dispersing Stagnant Chi

Set 3: Ocean Wave Breathing

Set 4: Tai Chi Ruler: A.) Change Fingers into Straws in the Garden of Eden and (B.) Pouring Honey

Set 5: Stretching Qigong (Selected Dao Yin exercises): Abductor and Psoas Stretch; Moving a Snake through your Joints, Dipping your Hands into the Waters of Life, Opening your Heart to the Heavens: Spiraling Qigong to find the Aesclepian staff, Opening the beam of the light connecting heaven and earth.   

                                                                                                           

Set 6: Ancient Taoist Healing the Internal Organ Exercises

A. Wood: Gall Bladder meridian, Buddha Holds up the Heavens,

B. Fire: Heart, Opening the Heart, Sound Ha,

C. Earth: Spleen, Crane Walking, and Flying, Sound Huh,

D. Metal: Lung, Arrow to the Heavens; Lung chi scooping and slurping up, then swinging down with palms behind the back palms up sound shhh,

E. Water: Kidney Yin, outstretched palm to the side, Sound Whoo; Kidney Yang, sound Chir Yee; Yi Chuan Dragon,

F. Wood: Liver, as in Tai Chi Shoulder Stroke, Sound SSSF. Wood: Liver, as in Tai Chi Shoulder Stroke, Sound SSS

Set 7: Yi Chuan Walking Meditation Qigong

Set 8: Wuji Standing Meditation Qigong

Over time students can choose which elements of the practice are most important to their lives. For example, if you’d like to focus on Tai Chi, you can learn the traditional 108 movements, the long form of Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan, along with various two-person (push hands) practices. You’ll learn how every Tai Chi movement has four levels of purpose: self-healing, spiritual unfoldment, self-defense, and changing your life stance. This perspective is discussed in Michael’s book (Secrets to Living Younger Longer: The Self-healing path of Qigong, Standing Meditation and Tai Chi) where the theory is put forth that Tai Chi/Qigong stems from a long-lost lineage where these four dimensions were an integrated part of the practice. If you’d like to focus on medical Qigong, Michael teaches various dimensions of these practices including the five animal forms of Medical Qigong.

*Please also inquire about Bodymind Healing Qigong Certification programs, tailor-made to your unique needs.

Directions (during non COVID Times): .When COVID times end, we all look forward to resuming in-person classes in Contra Costa County, California.

Michael Mayer, Ph. D., has been practicing and teaching Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong for many years in addition to being a psychologist in private practice. Michael was certified as a master Tai Chi instructor by the American Tai Chi Qigong Association and has presented his integrated system of body-mind healing, at many hospitals and at universities, conferences and, workshops. He was a keynote speaker for the National Qigong Association and is the author of 20 publications on bodymind healing. Click Below for more information.