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Strengthen Your Immune System, Enhance Your Flexibility, Heal More Effectively and Achieve Deep Inner Peace With The Ancient Power of Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong

Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong is a uniquely potent practice designed to bolster our health and deepen our spiritual connection to universal energy. Lineage holder, Master Zhongxian Wu provides detailed instruction in this powerful Mt. Emei Sage Style 24-movement Qigong form, which combines the traditions of ancient shamanism, Confucianism, Daoism, classical Chinese medicine, and the martial arts.

The tiger is a symbol for shamanic power and for Qi, especially Zhengqi. Physically, Zhengqi is represented most strongly by the Lung, which prevents pathogenic Qi from invading the body. The Lung governs and energizes all the meridians of the body, helping us to achieve and maintain a high level of resilient well being.

Regular practice of Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong:

Awakens energy and consciousness in your body to feel more alive and more grounded Develops your shamanic healing abilities to effectively alleviate others suffering Opens your energy gates and meridians to achieve long lasting, buoyant health Allows the free flow of Qi to connect with universal energy and attain deep levels of tranquility

Connects you to nature s deepest healing powers to rebound more strongly from past health challenges

Strengthens your immune system to better protect you from disease

Enhances your flexibility and mobility to enjoy easier, pain-free movement

Relaxes your body and mind to reduce unwanted tension and stress

Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong includes:

Shaking Practice The Ritual of Heart Shaking focuses the body and Shen on the universal vibrations we are experiencing. This is a way to awaken energy and consciousness in the body. This movement can help us open our energy gates and meridians the energy channels in the body. It allows the free flow of Qi to connect with universal energy in moving into the basic Qi state. In the Chinese shamanic Qigong practice, shaking is like an inner dancing and drumming to access our inner great medicine energetic rhythm for healing and achieving Enlightenment. Shamanic Tiger Qigong Movements Movement 1 Return to the Great Primordial Qi Helps you awaken your original life source, creating and nourishing the Zhengqi, life force. This movement opens the body and enables us to connect with the Universal Qi. It also helps us learn about the union of the physical body and the spiritual body. Daily practice strengthens the vital energy and is good for rebuilding one s life energy from a state of weakness. Movement 2 Sleeping Tiger Wakes Up Releases Qi stagnation and strengthens the Liver function, improving the flexibility of the whole body. It helps us to awaken and to understand the energy in our deeper layers that energy which is usually never accessed or used by the conscious mind. By doing this form, we will become deeply aware of the presence of the special treasures of the body: Jing, Qi, and Shen. Movement 3 Tiger Wags Its Tail Enhances the Zhongqi, the central energy of the body, and includes the Earth element and its harmonizing function. Good for any digestive or Earth pathology. Movement 4 Tiger Emerges from the Cave Helps open the four spiritual gates in the body: the two hips and the two shoulders. By circulating the energy in the lower Dantian, the energy of the body unites with universal energy. This results in unification rather than separation. The movement is good for the Heart function or any disease of the limbs. Movement 5 Tiger Displays Martial Power Connects us with the harmony of Universal Qi and is excellent for dispersing Qi stagnation in the body. Also helps strengthen Kidney and Liver Qi and harmonizes Lung and Liver

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110606 in DVD
• Published on: 2006
• Released on: 2006-04-06
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Format: NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 65 minutes

About the Actor
Master Zhongxian Wu was born on China s eastern shore in the city of Wenlin in Zhejiang Province. He began practicing Qigong, calligraphy, and Taiji at an early age. Inspired by the immediate strengthening effects of this practice, Master Wu committed himself to the life-long pursuit of the ancient arts of internal cultivation. He devoted himself to the study of Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, Chinese calligraphy, and ancient Chinese music over the next thirty years, studying with some of the best teachers in these fields.

Master Wu is the lineage holder of four different schools of Qigong and martial arts:

18th generation lineage holder of the Mt. Wudang Dragon Gate style of Qigong (Wudang Longmen Pai) 8th generation lineage holder of the Mt. Emei Sage/Shaman style Qigong (Emei Zhengong) 7th generation lineage holder of the Dai Family Heart Method style of Xin Yi (Dai Shi Xinyi Quan) 12th generation lineage holder of the Wudang He style of Taijiquan.

In China, Master Wu served as Director of the Shanxi Province Association for Somatic Science and the Shaanxi Association for the Research of Daoist Nourishing Life Practices. In this capacity, he conducted many investigations into the clinical efficacy of Qigong and authored five books and numerous articles on the philosophical and historical foundations of China s ancient life sciences. Since he began teaching in 1988, Master Wu has instructed thousands of Qigong students, Eastern and Western.

In 2001, Master Wu left his job as an engineer in Xi an, China, to come to the United States to teach Qigong. For four years he served as Senior Instructor and Resident Expert of Qigong and Taiji in the Classical Chinese Medicine Department at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his work at NCNM, Master Wu was a sub-investigator in a 2003 Qigong research program sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently, Master Wu presents trainings and workshops for professionals and the general public in Qigong and Taiji and on topics related to the classical Chinese arts. Vital Breath of the Dao Chinese Shamanic Tiger Qigong (Laohu Gong ) is Master Wu s first Qigong book in English. Master Wu is committed to bringing the authentic teachings of Chinese ancient wisdom tradition such as Qigong, Taiji, martial arts, calligraphy, Chinese astrology, and Yijing science to his students. In addition to his classes, workshops, and seminars, he offers a long-term Qigong and Taiji training program that provides a strong foundation for the study of shamanic Qigong, internal alchemy, Taiji and Qi-healing skills, including classical Chinese energy techniques, medical Qigong, and martial arts applications.