Taiji,
Qigong, and Qi Healing ~ An Exploration of Qi
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“In a healthy
body, energy circulates freely and abundantly. Deficiencies
or blockages in this flow can in time manifest as physiological
and psychological problems,” Jay says. “My work
as a qigong therapist is to determine the relative balance among
the five elements in the body, clear blockages, and restore
the full, natural flow of qi.” |
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Qigong, also
spelled ch’i kung, is made up of two Chinese words:
Qi (pronounced “chee”) refers to life force
or vital energy; it literally is internal energy, often
called bioelectricity, or breath-blood energy; it’s
both nutritive and defensive, both yin and yang, formulated
of air and food and essence. It is also the vibration that
is the source of both change and continuance. Gong (pronounced
“goong”) means work or effort, accomplishment
or skill cultivated through steady practice. Together, qi
+ gong refers to any practice intended to restore, circulate,
balance, or enhance personal life energy. It is an ancient
Chinese health care system, an art of mindful exercise that
integrates physical postures, breathing techniques, and
focused intention; it is the cultivation of internal energy
for various purposes: health or healing, martial power,
enlightenment. Taijiquan is a form of qigong.
Qigong practiced by individuals to improve their own health
and well-being is known as “internal qigong.”
A practitioner of “external qigong,” also known
as medical qigong therapy or qi healing, uses the principles
of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to heal others.
Jay Dunbar, PhD, has been practicing qigong and taijiquan
since 1975. He will demonstrate three styles of taijiquan
(t’ai-chi) and lead us in some taiji and both external
and internal qigong exercises—some designed specifically
to strengthen “guardian qi” for winter. And,
with a volunteer from the audience, he will conduct a qi
healing session: sensing qi blockages, combing them out
of the body, and sending qi into specific points on the
body to restore health and balance. Healing must occur on
an energetic level before a physical problem can truly be
corrected, he says. He will also discuss the principles
of traditional Chinese medicine on which these practices
are based.
Dr. Dunbar is the founder and director of the Magic Tortoise
Taijiquan School (www.MagicTortoise.com), based in Chapel
Hill, NC. His primary teacher was the late Master Jou Tsung
Hwa, but he has studied with many others, including Dr.
Yang Jwing Ming and Master Liang Shou Yu. His mentor in
qigong therapy and qi healing is Lisa B. O’Shea, director
of the Qigong Institute of Rochester, NY. He has offered
courses and workshops in many settings, including Duke,
UNC-Chapel Hill, the Kripalu Center, the N.Y. Open Center,
and the American Dance Festival. He was technical editor
of Tai Chi for Dummies (Hungry Minds, 2001), and he wrote
the foreword to Exploring Tai Chi by John Loupos (YMAA,
2003). He is on the Board of Advisers of the United States
Kuoshu Federation and serves as USKSF Director of Taijiquan.
His PhD is in Education from UNC.
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Calendar
of Events |
April
3 , 2008- Tiffany
Christensen
The Divine Healing of Dying
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May
1 , 2008- Susan
Reintjes
Unmasking your True Awareness
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June
5, 2008 - Psychic
& Healing Fair
Our annual fund-raising event
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July
3 , 2008- No
Meeting
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This Month's Angel
Door Prize
A 90-minute Qigong therapy session from Jay Dunbar—a
$65 value!
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SFF
Raleigh Mission
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At the Raleigh Chapter
of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship International, our mission
is to enhance the spiritual, mystical, and metaphysical awareness
and consciousness of our community by sponsoring programs
that facilitate personal growth and development and a holistic
approach to health and living.
Within the scope of our mission, we choose speakers who offer
a variety of views and philosophies, but SFF does not endorse
any speakers’ staements or beliefs. You are invited
to come with an open mind and depart with all that feels true
for you. |
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Thursday,
March 6, 2008 |
Location:
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Hall
3313 Wade Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27607
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Doors
Open: 6:45
PM
Lecture: 7:15
- 9:30 PM
Cost: $10
Seniors/Students: $8 with valid ID
Early Meditation: 6:30
PM
Cost: FREE |
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SFF Lecture Recordings
We generally record all of our lectures and you may purchase audio
tapes of most lectures from the late 1980's through September,
2006. For lectures beginning with September, 2006, lecture recordings
are now availble on CD.
Tape recordings
are $10 which includes postage.
Cassette tapes are available of most SFF lectures dating back
to 1988. They may be available for future events as well.
CDs are available in two formats.
Two disk audio CD
sets are $15
Because audio CDs are limited to a maximum of 78 minutes, if you
would like an audio CD of a lecture playable on any CD player.
One disk MP3 CD
is $10
If you would like a CD using the MP3 format (playable on your
computer and many new CD and DVD players but not on older
CD players), it will be on one disk.
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Our
meetings are held in the lower level of the newly re-modeled and
expanded
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Raleigh
at 3313 Wade Avenue in Raleigh. |
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Healing
Meditation
with
Lynette
Marks
(See
Below)
Time: 6:30 - 7:00
PM
Cost: Free
An
open guided meditation will be held at 6:30 PM in the Ralph
Waldo Emerson room (the upper
building, lower level) at the UUFR
The lectures begins
at 7:15 PM following the meditation. We look forward to seeing
you! |
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Healing
Meditation
with
Lynette
Marks
Time: 6:30
- 7:00 PM
Cost: Free
Come early and treat yourself
to the gift of a healing and centering meditation. The first
few minutes are focused on sending healing love and light to
Mother Earth and her inhabitants.
Lynette Marks will lead a guided
meditation focusing on the ascension of Mother Earth and the
ways in which we can help.
Lynette has been a full-time professional healer since 1994,
and Earth healing is a major interest of hers. She spent 2½
years in Arizona learning techniques for helping the Earth.
Her current practice includes massage, energy work, clearing
present and past life issues and attachments, working with crystals
and sound healing, and using advanced tachyon technologies—including
a chakra balancing system she developed using crystal bowls,
aroma therapies, and tachyon chakra discs.
Lynette has a master’s
degree in science education and, before becoming a healer, she
was a teacher and writer in a number of settings. Recently she
visited Panama with other arcing radial light (AL) instructors—a
spirit-guided adventure of wonderful proportions—and she
plans to return this spring with several other practitioners
to teach AL in Panama, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Lynette and Mark Hirschhorn have
produced a series of meditation and healing CDs—Embracing
Worthiness, Embracing the Divine Feminine, Embracing Empowerment—as
well as several music CDs; see www.AscendingMusic.com.
Learn more about Lynette and her work at www.BodySoulAndAngels.com.
Lynette and Mark live and work in Durham.
If coming from
the front parking lot, go down the steps between the two buildings.
There's an entry door on the right side of Peace Hall. Go in
this door and down the hall, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson room
is on the left at the end.
If coming from the back parking lot,
go up the steps between the main building, which houses the
sanctuary in front and Fellowship Hall in the rear, and Peace
Hall, the building to the left. Entry door will be on the left
a short distance up the stairs.
Please
arrive on time to optimize the energies of the group dynamic.
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