Circles, Spheres & Spirals

Deepening Your Internals by Unifying the Spine, Kwa & Yao

22-27 August (Sunday to Friday)
Cubjac, Dordogne/South of France

Continuing Professional Development (CDP) Certificates are availmc-yogaable at every course Paul teaches on request.

This is a unique course designed to develop two distinct yet integrated tracks of study.

The kwa and the yao are responsible for generating power and initiating and guding the movement of the body.

Tai Chi Circling Hands

The first track is suitable for novices and advanced practitioners alike. Tai Chi Circling Hands is an excellent simple set of cyclical motions that provide the bulk of the physical and energetic benefits of more complex forms of qigong or tai chi without complicated choreography. Circling Hands sets the framework for learning, implementing and embodying the 16 components of internal power (known as neigong) without complicated choreography. Circling Hands naturally upgrades and improves your bagua or tai chi form by helping you embodying the essential elements of circularity and flow.

This group will focus on:

  • Horizontal turning and twisting work  as applied in Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body qigong
  • Vertical bending and stretching
  • Pulsing as applied in Marriage of Heaven and Earth qigong
  • Fusing all three together into the spherical motion present in all high-level qigong, bagua and tai chi movements.
  • Activating and integrating the kwa (the internal connection of the legs to the spine), spine and yao (the waist, the area between the top of the pelvis and the diaphragm)
  • Creating central equilibrium
  • Initiating movement from the three leaders.

Everyone is welcome to participate in this group regardless of present skill level.

Read more about Tai Chi Circling Hands.

mc-garden3Gods Playing in the Clouds Qigong

For experienced students, you will separate and combine more advanced neigong work within Gods qigong as it has been traditionally practised for millennia. Within Gods you integrate all 16 strands of neigong into one complete form.

Paul will focus on upgrading and refining your internals more than the form itself. Integrating and embodying circles, spheres and spirals into your neigong is the highest level of physical practice. This work unifies the body, chi and mind on a profound level, thereby generating a highly effective, healing and energising tool.

This group will focus on:

  • Natural and reverse breathing
  • Activating and integrating the spine, kwa and yao
  • Initiating movement from the three leaders
  • Opening and closing all the joints, cavities and soft tissue
  • Turning, twisting and spiraling soft tissue
  • Manipulating the macrocosmic orbit and the etheric field
  • Balancing the sphere and opening up the central equilibrium.
Knowledge of the external movements of Gods is helpful, but not required if you have a solid foundation in Energy Gates and Heaven and earth qigong.

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