Qi Gong
The Weaver
In modern times, the prevailing winds of pressure, anxiety, and worry can easily blow us off course. Once adrift, our world can become chaotic and challenging. We struggle as we try to find our way back to peace. If you, at times, experience this kind of disconnection from your true self, you may find the remedy here with Sheng Zhen Qi Gong.
Think of yourself as an essential weaver, gathering your scattered strands of attention, feeling, and sensation. Through practice, you weave each back into your cohesive wholeness. Your purpose clarifies as you reconnect with the overriding life-pulse of unconditional love. Then your
motion finds its sacred order as you remember your true nature.
Gathering Your Attention
In Sheng Zhen Qi Gong, we recognize the source of all life as being unconditional love or awareness. The life-force pulsates throughout the universe, creating, sustaining, and dissolving all that exists. We live in this seamless ocean of loving awareness that graces us with our attention. It is our attention that we can call our own. It is our attention that stands behind all experience. It is our attention that can pull us out of a difficult circumstance, mood, or anxiety.
In the practice of Qi Gong, we purposely re-direct our attention back to our body, our heart, and our connection to this all-pervasive life-force. Through our motion we are returning to our natural state of being, where body, heart, mind, and essence are united. In this state of wholeness, we practice being at ease and in harmony with our environment. Settling into this natural motion, we remember that this is our truer state of being.
Riding the Wave of Qi
This life-force of unconditional love condenses into Qi, which then condenses into energy. Using our feeling body and our body motion, we invite the flow of Qi through us. Where there is a wave of joy, or kindness, there is the flow of vital life-force. Unconditional love and Qi are inseparable.
In Sheng Zhen Qi Gong, we emphasize opening our physical and feeling heart. Many of us have grown used to closing off our feeling body as a means of protection. The hardness in the chest stops the flow of feeling connected, the flow of fluids and the flow of Qi.
Living in the Flow
If you occasionally lose your sense of flow, this practice will re-establish it on all levels. You’ll learn to embody this natural healing state, through the practice of collecting yourself, feeling connected, breathing, and moving with ease. It will become your prevailing reality, a state you can always count on and return to, like a quenching oasis.