Obstacles to Inner Cultivation - one - Audience Consciousness - Part One - audio

The most important obstacle for modern practitioners of Embodied Spiritual Cultivation is called Audience Consciousness. Here is part 1 of 4 parts. Enjoy! Feel free to connect if you have any questions. Course link: https://somadaoqigong.com/nei-gong-year-one-opening-your.../ #spirituality #innerpeace #meditation #qigong #neigong

It seems like a good idea to begin this conversation by asking, did human beings ever have inner peace? Every spiritual tradition and culture that I've ever had a chance to encounter deeply, all have an origin story. If it’s the garden of Eden - or at the beach near the ocean during the last ice age, or coming from some primordial world beneath this world. https://somadaoqigong.com/nei-gong-year-one-opening-your-meridians-and-dan-tian/ What is it that is lost with this descriptive imagination of our loss of innocence? A recurring context in many ancient and mostly indigenous traditions, is a distinction between cultivating resources or power or medicine for your people, including yourself, your family, your extended family, and those who are in need, And/or cultivating resources power or medicine in a way that is over or against others. Imagine a life of collaboration, reciprocity, service, belonging, recognition, respect and opportunities to both learn and eventually lead. There is an innocence there because all that is asked is to show up, be present. Be generous, be generative. Be relational. Or, to simply commit your existence, and everything you are for your people. Accepting others in every way you would wish to be accepted as yourself.

The Shaolin Muscle Tendon change, or Yi Jin Jing 易筋經 is one of the most well known and sought after systems of Qi Gong in the world.  If you have not heard of the Muscle Tendon Change, and its sister practice Bone Marrow Washing, they are elements of one of the most profound and effective approaches to embodied awareness, physical fitness, Spiritual cultivation, and meditation traditions on Earth. They are famous for improving health, vitality, Martial Arts capacity, enhancing Qi sensitivity and awareness, boosting Neuroplasticity, and increasing both longevity and quality of life in your elder years.  For Qi Gong practitioners and teachers, this system is one of the last remaining intact traditions that still combines early Indigenous Daoist Animistic practices and the Shaolin Monastery’s development and precision over the last 1500 years. #shaolinkungfu, #shaolin #qigong #longevity    https://somadaoqigong.com/shaolin-strength-and-longevity-qi-gong-yi-jin-jing/  

Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part Two   Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part One    

Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part One   Bi Gu - Metabolic and Spiritual Fasting - Part Two

In this episode, Ravi and Michael talk about Qing Zhi Bing, or the Psychology and Psychiatry of TCM.   Here is the link:   https://somadaoqigong.com/embodied-psychotherapy-spiritual-recapitulation-and-traditional-chinese-medicine/

In this episode, Ravi and Michael talk about Medical Qi Gong, Consciousness, and different approaches to Hands-on-Healing.   This Course is for those with a few years of Qi gong experience.   Here is the course link:   https://somadaoqigong.com/enhancing-your-qi-gong-healing-abilities/   Here is a link for the 2 year 500 hour full program   https://somadaoqigong.com/500-hour-medical-qi-gong-therapist/   Healing is Innate – A First Healer Story  The State Between Appreciation and Recognition (the origin of language) Qi Interaction Skills – Ting Jin, Yi Nian, De Qi, Fa Qi, and Nei Yang Gong Practice Bu Que – Restoring Wounds (Yours then theirs) Exercise – restoring clothing An Empowered Qi Ball – Open and Close Lao Gong and Wai Gong The 5 Phases (Elements) and Yin/Yang Balance Restoring Qi and Jing Jin (collagen) Exercise Two – restoring clothing A Fractal Manifold Cosmology and Ontology Ling, Hun, Shen – coherence and configuration (What is moving through?)  Science Story – building muscle and imagination/intention Yi Zhi – and the trickery of moving qi Modern Dopamine/cortisol and serotonin/acetylcholine imbalance There are Two Kinds of Healers (Hand Tremblers and Singers)    The Hun of the First Healer  The Four Recapitulation Doorways Exercise Three – (Ting, Dong – Li, Xing, Tong, Fa) Embodiment, Distress, and Affective Disorientation (Qing Zhi Bing) Stories and states. Grounded in the Soil (As a Healer) Qing Jing is a necessary state for Healing        

This week, Ravi and Michael talk about applying Qi Gong (Dao Yin) principles and practices therapeutically.    There is a 10 Month course called Therapeutic Qi Gong beginning June 4th - at 6:00 pm - PST   There is a free LIVE webinar, on Saturday, June 1st at 9:00 am. A recording will be linked here soon.   Here is the course link: https://somadaoqigong.com/therapeutic-qi-gong-a-ten-month-journey/    

In today's episode, Michael and Ravi have an in-depth conversation about the Qi Gong practice called the Yi Jin Jing.   TAP HERE for part One.   Here is the link to the course - beginning April 17, 2024   TAP HERE to Learn more about the Qi Gong Teacher Training Course TAP HERE to see Michaels's Patreon Page

In today's episode, Michael and Ravi have an in-depth conversation about the Qi Gong practice called the Yi Jin Jing.   TAP HERE for part Two.   Here is the link to the course - beginning April 17, 2024     TAP HERE to Learn more about the Qi Gong Teacher Training Course TAP HERE to see Michaels's Patreon Page