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On 7/4/2025 at 5:46 AM, Vajra Fist said:

 

It didn't really do anything for me too. I noticed a bit of a mellow feeling during forms, but nothing really carrying over into daily life. If anything, I found myself becoming a bit more irritable.

 

Some former members here were quite enthusiastic to point to earlier comments on how this system doesn't work for 'evil people'. With the implication being that I was an evil person. I wouldn't see myself like that personally, but who knows. 

Hi Vajra Fist,
Important points of clarification:  There is no inference or implication that "if the FP Qigong 'doesn't work' for someone, then that someone is 'evil'."
First of all,  I had never stated nor written that "Flying Phoenix Qigong doesn't work for evil people"---nor has any other instructor in Bok Fu Pai arts nor any of my in-person students.
What I quoted Grandmaster Doo Wai as having said is this:   "Evil people will not to practice Flying Phoenix Qigong."

• And I will elaborate upon this statement to explain exactly what GM Doo Wai meant based on my being in the room with him when he said it, and based on my direct experience in teaching FP Qigong since 1992:  

"Evil people will not continue to practice FP Qigong once they have tried it and felt its effects--because evil people DO NOT like the way FP Qigong transforms their body-mind to pristine health."

The implication is that FP Qigong works on everyone--to some varying extent.
The fact is that evil and corrupted people who are intent to continue doing evil, will not practice FP Qigong because they don't want to stop their ways--i.e., they don't want their nervous system reprogrammed to not do evil.  Evil people who have tried FP Qigong  cannot in all honesty deny that FP Qigong has some positive effect on the body-mind.  Thus they will spurn its practice.
• The implication ( and yogic fact) being that FP Qigong is so steadily transformative of the body-mind to a pristine (and at times blissful) state of health (homeostasis) that any person who is so bent on doing evil (and is thus so mentally bent by evil) will not allow any thing or influence come near that might unbend him/her.   
• The further implication being that there is no such thing as "original sin."
That's the reality that's experientially  proven by Feng Do Duk's Ehrmei Mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong.
That's the experience shared by GM Doo Wai when he said, "Evil people will not practice Flying Phoenix Qigong."

Relatedly, the physically healing and spiritually purifying effects of FP Qigong are so extremely powerful that after years of practice, one becomes thoroughly and deeply calibrated to discern and  recognize evil energy instantly (on a neurological level)--and even distinguish between different "grades" of evil.  In November 2024, I wrote this substack article about sighting in a public place and almost confronting a prolific serial killer, Lonnie Franklin Jr., in L.A in August 1995.  (This article was in follow-up to my Oct. 10, 2024  article about attracting and crossing paths with another serial killer 9 years earlier in 1986 [named Michael Player, aka. "The Skid Row Killer"] in the Miracle Mile district of L.A., and explaining how that earlier incident was my harshest lesson in anger management, resulting in me getting shot in the back with a .38 pistol and the shooter dying the same night.)
https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/seeing-the-grim-sleeper-in-my-very?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

In this substack article, I explained how I was able to instantly recognize this person (who later turned out to be Lonnie Franklin Jr., aka the "Grim Sleeper") the instant I laid eyes on him as I was checking out of a Ralphs supermarket in LA and he was 4 check stands away to my right.  When I wrote the article, I attributed my ability to instantly recognize him as a dangerous killer --AND knew that he had just killed someone--to my practice of the Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung system for 21 years up to the time of the sighting.

But I am stating here and now that I believe that my "ability to instantly recognize strong evil" was also attributable--to much lesser extent--to having practiced FP Qigong for 4 years, as of August 1995.  After 34 years of practicing FP Qigong, I now firmly believe that  long-term practice of FP Qigong enables the practitioner to access (turn on at will) the self-healing state of allostasis (self-healing) and slip into FP Qigong's uniquely sublime higher state of consciousness that enables one to readily perceive and recognize any type of animal consciousness (mental energy. intentionality, and yes, even spiritual energy) that is opposite in nature to the Flying Phoenix healing mode to an extreme. That is, as a side effect of FP Qigong practice,  one is conditioned to perceive and instantly recognize negative energy, destructive energy, destructive intent, evil karma, and ultimately "demonic energy."   Remember that FP Qigong is the health cornerstone of the vast Ehrmei Mountain Bok Fu Pai ("White Tiger")Kung Fu system, an authentic Taoist monastic tradition founded by Feng Do Duk (Feng Dao Deh) in 1644 that systematically trains warrior-healer-priest-exorcists.

I hope this clarifies.

Sifu Terry Dunn

P.S.    This is the link my earlier written article in October 2024 about my encounter with "The Skid Row Killer" on October 8, 1986:

https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/sifu-terry-dunns-tai-chi-for-health-ac0?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

On 6/22/2025 at 11:08 PM, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

Does that apply for all the levels of Flying Phoenix even the levels not made available to the general public?  Thank you.  I am still reading through the whole thread (about 100 pages left to read) but some of what i read i got confused on regarding those not-released Flying Phoenix levels, and whether some were martial.  Glad to see it discussed.

 

Hello BigSkyDiamond,
That statement applies only to the first level of Flying Phoenix, which consists of the12 standing meditations taught on Volumes 1 through 5, and 7 of  my Chi Kung For Health DVD series, plus 12 more "Monk Serves Wine" seated mediations that have not been published.   The second level of Flying Phoenix qigong, which consists of 9 standing meditations that has some postures and body mechanics most similar to Tai Chi Chuan, "crosses over" the border from purely healing energy cultivation  to cultivation of a versatile energy applicable to martial arts and any type of work or "kung." 

I hope this clarifies a bit.

Sifu Terry 

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On 5/28/2025 at 2:30 PM, Jeankes said:

ok, thanks!

Correct.  The speed of doing the breathing formulas can be slower that demonstrations on the DVD series.  But breathing must be totally relaxed and diaphraagmatic, natal breathing.  And silent  One should not hear air moving through your passages.

Also, the first 3 priming breathes should be full breaths--as long as you can do comfortably and silently.  I explained in the first year of the thread that these 3 breathes set the 100%  scale that you then use to do the following various percentage exhalations of each meditation's formula.

Enjoy your exploration of FP Qigong.

Sifu Terry

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On 5/16/2025 at 1:11 AM, DanC said:

 

On 5/14/2025 at 3:13 AM, DanC said:

Don't see alot of people talking about flash meditations, just curious how often people do them who have got to Vol 5....

The Flash Meditations on Vol. 5 work better if one has done all the FP Standing Meds. in Volumes 1, 3, and 4 first...and has the Volume 4 Long Form memorized and feeling its fine benefits.  I like to do them in the evenings very slowly--the first 4 meditations on Vol.7. Then I do one or two of seated MSW Mediations on Volume 2 or 7  before going to sleep (--except of course, you NEVER want to do the last med. on Vol.2 (90 80 50 20) at night--if you any intention to sleep!)

I remember that around Year 2 of this thread, someone posted that the Volume 5 meditations were like "bon bons".  They may seem like that to the uninitiated trying them for the first time without having mastered the preceding standing FP Meditations.  But if one has steadily worked through Volumes 1, 3, 4 and established all of the Meditations, when you get to Volume 5 meditations, you will FEEL their effects like nuclear longevity pills (tan).  

GM Doo Wai taught the " Fei Feng San Gung" ("Flying Phoenix Spiritual Power/Cultivation" ) system  to  me and my L.A.  cohort (from 1991 to 1998) in exactly the order as they are presented in the DVD series.  In fact, the last meditation on Vol.5 with (80 70 50 40 30) is NOT an FP Qigong exercise--but a primer meditation for Bat Din Gum (8 Sections of Energy Combined, a legendary martial Qigong system that GM Doo Wai said repeatedly was "more rare than the Do Do Bird"),   Out of respect and in reverence to his teachings, I placed that BDG meditation at the end of Vol.5 because that's when he taught it to me and to only two others in the learning circle.

All that is to say that the none of the five  meditations on Vol. 5 are "bon bons"!   LOL.

Enjoy your practice and stick with it.

Sifu Terry

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Hello all Tao Tan Pai practitioners, enthusiasts, and curious seekers:

The only way to know what Tao Tan Pai  ("Taoist Elixir Method")  Kung Fu and Nei Kung is is to practice it:

On 4/23/2025 at 6:21 AM, Miffymog said:

 

 

Celebrate this anniversary by learning Lu Tung Pin's Taoist Elixir Method ("Tao Tan Pai") 31 Basic Meditations System from Master Terry Dunn at this special 14-hour workshop on May 8, 9, and 10, at

 

Tao Retreat (Han Chinese Culture Estate), 33 Tao Road, Catskill, NY 12414

 

 

Hello to Flying Phoenix Qigong Practioners and practioners of all ancient authentic ancient systems of Qigong, Energy Healing, and Internal Energy Martial arts.

 

From May 8 to 10th, I will be teaching a 3-day, 14-hour immersive residential workshop in:
A.   Tao Tan Pai (“Taoist Elixir Method“) Basic 31 Meditations;
B.   The 10 "Shen" Exercises of Tao Tan Pai  (A rare, truly spiritual Qigong subsystem that develops psychic intuition);
C.   Tao Tan Pai  5 Animal Kung Fu forms—Monkey, Crane, Snake, Dragon, and Tiger                     (For intermediate and advanced students:   

 

This workshop is in celebration of the 1,229th birthday of the Taoist Immortal (saint) Lu Tung Pin, the founder and patron saint of the Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu, aka the Golden Elixir School, and the author of "The Secret of the Golden Flower", a seminal Tang Dynasty text on Taoist Alchemic Yoga (neidan).   Tao Tan Pai is a martial, yogic, healing, and spiritual tradition that has been impeccably preserved across 24 generations and gave rise to the Quan Zhen ("Complete Realization" or "Totally True") sect, one of the two most important movements in the history of Taoism and Chinese culture.

The Tao Tan Pai 31 Basic Meditations (“TTP-31”) is an authentic and intact  ancient Taoist system of moving meditation and breath control—invented in the Tang Dynasty by Taoist Immortal (saint) Lu Tung Pin—that imparts good health, strong vitality and personal empowerment—by coordinating eyes, mind, movement, and breath according to an ancient alchemic formula that opens the heart, clears and focuses the mind and profoundly strengthens the body.  Regular practice of the TTP-31 series imparts a wide range of verifiable health benefits: improved circulation, respiratory power, metabolism, posture, bone strength, immunity, flexibility, agility, coordination, sound-regular sleep, higher energy levels, and profoundly increased resilience to stress and trauma.  Because the TTP-31 Basic Meditation Series empowers Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu and the TTP Healing Arts (acupressure, energy healing, and herbology) to supernormal levels of efficacy, it is the perfect energizing warmup and supplement for any sports or athletic activity, in addition to martial arts.  This video shows what 8 of the TTP-31 Basic Meditations look like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGt3C4cQfk&list=PLLnoZ9AAmn666z33oSXe9b7ZGWlf1PP35

 

<•> In addition to the TTP-31 Series and Tao Tan Pai 5 Animal Kung fu forms, during the last 4 sessions of the workshop (on Saturday and Sunday), I will also teach the Ten "Shen" Exercises, which is the next level of Tao Tan Pai Nei Gong that follows the TTP-31.  The "Shen" Exercises, which I have never taught before in a workshop setting (only privately over the past 40 years) is a system of 6 standing postures and 4 sedate seated meditations that specifically cultivates one's "Shen" Energy (Qi). which my favorite TTP senior classmate called, "the pure speculative aspect of action."  Building upon the vibrant health, integrated strength, and structural sensitivity conditioned by the TTP-31 Basic Meditations, the "Shen" Exercise System further integrates mind and body through calm and stillness and develops deeper jhanic absorption that simutaneously develops: 

(A) the physiological capacity to literally see all forms of energy that are not seen in the consensus reality (e.g., any person's past incarnations) and

(B)  psychic intuition, the ability to know in granular detail spatially distant events hitherto unknown in the past, in the present, and in the future.

• The Tao Tan Basic 31 Meditations Series utilizes an esoteric yogic methodology that is completely different from that used in  Flying Phoenix Qigong.  The Tao Tan Pai tradition and Flying Phoenix Qigong's encompassing Ehrmei Mtn. White Tiger tradition have very different origins, are historically unrelated and utilize different cosmologies.  They are different as night and day in terms of all three essential factors that determine any Qigong system:  (1)  "Xing" (Shape-form-posture(s) of the body), (2)  "Yi" (mental focus and visualization);  (3)  "Chi" or "Qi" -- esoteric breathing method.  Yet the TTP-31 serves as a superb foundational catalyst that deepens, enhances and prolongs all of the verifiable healing effects of the Flying Phoenix Qigong.   Because I am the sole living preserver of Ehrmei Mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong and I also happened to have learned the entire Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu and Neigong system for the 15 years prior to meeting Grandmaster Doo Wai in 1991, there is no other person on earth who can teach you how to practice the Tai Tan Pai Qigong arts to further activate the healing and restorative effects of Flying Phoenix Qigong.  (See the attached testimonials by workshop veterans Tony Arcuri and Spencer Lawrence after their first experience of TTP-31 Qigong followed by Flying Phoenix Qigong, and letter of reference by Dr. Emil Mondoa.)

 

• Complete details about this workshop's content--as well info about the beautiful Tao Retreat Center in Catskill, NY (including pics of its wonderful Szechuan food all made with home vegetables)-- are on this issue of my monthly Newsletter:

https://open.substack.com/pub/terencedunn/p/on-may-10th-celebrate-lu-tung-pins?r=5i7g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

 

or find at:   terencedunn.stack.com

 

I hope to see you in person in Catskill or on Zoom!   Please contact me here if you have any questions.

 

mitakuye oyasin,

(Lakota greeting and prayer that means “All are related,” “To all my relations,” and “Help and health to all my brothers and sisters.”)

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

 

P.S.  No.1  

TTP-31 Qigong Workshop Schedule  

7 two-hour sessions at these times (EST):

       Thursday: 3pm - 5pm; 7:30pm - 9:30pm EST

       Friday: 10am - noon; 2:30pm - 4:30pm; 7:30pm - 9:30pm EST

       Saturday: 10am - noon; 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

TUITION                                                                                                                                                           

$450 early registration extended all the way to May 7—or $65 per each 2-hour session.  $525 day of workshop—or $75 for each of the seven 2-hour sessions

• ZOOM PARTICIPATION:                                                                                                                                                                    $60 per 2-hour session or $385 for all 7 sessions.    

(Zoom log-on links will be emailed to registrants the day before the workshop begins)

 

 

• Please send payment via Paypal (to [email protected] or scan the QR code above) or send payment via Zelle (to [email protected]).

Postscript #2:   Reviews by two long-term FP Qigong Practitioners of the Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations System's impact and influence their Flying Phoenix experience:

 

2 Reviews of “Qigong For Health For First Responders” class
by Master Terence Dunn on March 29, 2020

(one hour of TTP Basic 31 Meditations + one hour of Flying Phoenix Qigong)

I felt a surge of tangible sensations coursing through my entire body, streams of subtle vibrations and
tingling with a particular focus in the chest and head areas. Unlike the typical calming, relaxing, and
sometimes sedative effects that I usually experience from Flying Phoenix Qigong practice, this pattern of
energy was more invigorating, enlivening, and longer-lasting. I was alert and full of energy with an
underlying sense of ease and contentment. Its effects were still mildly present three hours after the
practice session ended, and most surprisingly, after a heavy meal, something I haven&#39;t quite experienced
before even having attended a dozen intensive workshops. Although we only practiced basic exercises
from each system, my experience mimicked ones I’ve had practicing advanced meditations of Tao Tan
Pai Qigong and Flying Phoenix Qigong separately in longer sessions. I can only attribute these effects to
the thoughtful, specific, and unique combination of TTP and FP that was offered by Master Terry Dunn. 

--Spencer Lawrence, Jersey City, NJ

 

 

I’ve studied with Sifu Terry Dunn for 5 1/2 years at Eastover and any place else I could get the chance.
The major focus of that study had been Flying Phoenix Qigong and related Bak Fu Pai arts.  I’ve taken a
couple of workshops in Tao Tan Pai but never gave it any thought, devotion or practice.  Recently I’ve
partaken in Sifu Dunn’s Sunday class “Tao Tan Pai + Flying Phoenix Qigong for Peak Immunity...”  It
consists of one hour of Tao Tan Pai followed another hour of Flying Phoenix.  For the last 12 weeks I’ve
faithfully practiced TTP daily with profound results.  My lung capacity has greatly increased; my
inhalation and exhalation are longer and deeper now (something useful In this time of pandemic).  I’ve
noticed, too, that my heart rate has slowed down by 5 beats per minute.  
As to the synergistic relationship of these two seemingly unrelated disciplines, I’ll mention a few.  Tao
Tan Pai is the perfect warmup for Flying Phoenix Qigong.  It loosens both the body and mind.  It deepens
the relaxation response putting one in an altered state much sooner.  This state of relaxation is so deep that
by the end of Sunday’s class  I can barely keep my eyes open.  This is especially true of the Monk Serves
Wine series of exercises. My personal practice will forevermore start with TTP and end with Flying
Phoenix.
                                                                    --Tony Arcuri, Queens, NY

 

Postscript #3:     

 

^{Observations by Dr. Emil Mondoa of the differences between Flying Phoenix Qigong and Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations Qigong.}

 

June 22, 2022
To Whom It May Concern

Terence Dunn is an Ivy League-educated American who has dedicated his life to
preserving and teaching ancient Chinese internal martial arts and yogas. Forsaking
the corporate path, he has become something of a monk without a monastery. He
has a special gift to bestow the public.
I on the other hand am no monk and am a practicing physician who met Terry about
30 years ago before the internet age. At that time, I had completed a busy
residency and was pursuing an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania while
working full time and caring for a premature baby, our first daughter. Needless to
say, it was a challenging period and I was under enormous stress. I was looking for
something to manage my stress which was not a benzodiazepine or alcohol. That is
when a detailed flyer came in the mail (quaint now) about something called “Flying
Phoenix Heavenly Chi Meditations.”  After a little thought, I ordered the complete set
of 3 VHS tapes from Mr Dunn and was off to an interesting adventure. I figured
doing a few exercises could not be worse than going on anti-anxiety pills.
His teaching method was simple, direct and clear and after learning some basic
very slow movements, stationary postures and breath sequences it was possible to
follow along with eyes closed. It worked! From the very first day, I experienced a
relaxed calm for which I had no other explanation. For about 18 months after that, I
practiced at least 15 minutes every single day and over time, that relaxed calm
evolved into a pleasant buttery, honey-warm glow that pervaded my entire body
and mind and lasted all day. As a trained physician, I considered explanations. It
had to be endorphins, I thought. After all, it seemed to get rid of pain. Taoist and
Buddhist practitioners in China must have encountered a practice that floods the
body with endorphins and elevates the sense of well-being. The fact is, I have no
proven western scientific explanation and traditional chi theory is a parallel world
view. It is 30 years later, and I still practice. Not as consistently as before, but I
practice. I have introduced the practice to dozens of friends and relatives but no
one wants to invest 20-30 minutes a day to slow movement and breathing. They
give up without even trying. Perhaps a culturally familiar explanation would help.
In traditional Chinese medicine, these kinds of practices are considered medicinal.
In my personal experience, they are medicinal but not in terms that current science
understands or to which western culture is comfortable. Until that translation is
made, many people would continue to miss out on what in my opinion is the
greatest gift from ancient China.
In addition to Flying Phoenix, Master Terence introduced me more recently to Tao
Tan Pai, a totally different system of chi kung (qigong). If Flying Phoenix embraces
your being in a sweet warm, healing maternal embrace (without somnolence), the

feeling after Tao Tan Pai is an enhancement in executive function, focus and athletic
ability. I came across literature that suggests that if athletes actively visualize their
forms, it improves their performance over and above physical training alone. Tao
Tan Pai seems to be operating on that principle at an advanced level and provides a
reward that is qualitatively different but no less astounding from Flying Phoenix.
Again, it would help if these subjective experiences could be further studied and
made accessible. Right now it is available but not accessible mostly for cultural
reasons.

 

Sincerely yours,

Emil I Mondoa, M.D., M.B.A.

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On 4/23/2025 at 3:30 AM, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

Hi all, spent a few days in the Jordanian desert and managed to film myself doing Long Form (quite badly unfortunately!). It’s too fast and has a few mistakes as I was too focused on not slipping and falling off the cliff, please @zen-bear could you help point them out so others can learn what not to do!

 

It was fun filming anyway, check it out!

 

 

 

Hi Pak_Satrio,

Great that you were able to practice the FP Long Form in the Jordanian desert.  It looks beautiful and inspiring.
Great that you've learned the sequence of postures for the entire Long Form--even though you have  numerous serious errors in the postures and in the transitions between them.  But memorizing the entire form that best you can is a very big first step.

BTW, until you get the FP Long Form fully corrected and refined, do NOT discontinue your practice of all the preceding 7 standing FP Meditations on volumes 1 and 3.

Here are my comments to correct and improve your form.
1.  First of all:  start with a slight wider horse stance (ma bu):  feet two shoulders' widths apart.

2.  At 24 secs., your right jab over the left bridge is extending too far--dont' straight the arm that much.

3.  At 28 secs, after the Rt. Willow leaf palm on centerline, when you shift left and rotate clockwise and curve the left arm:  you're lifting the arm too high and also straightening it.  Wrong.  Move your left hand from the tan tien and keep the hand at waist level as you shift left and rotate clockwise.

4.   then when you turn waist right and circle the left arm clockwise, the arm is supposed to be curved.  But you are nearly straightening the left arm AND turning too far to the right.  The back of your left hand faces the right normal (wrong); just rotate right until back of left hand faces the front right corner (45º).

5.  At 38 secs, as you lower left palm towards the right hand at the tan tian:  keep for fingers together and cup the left palm very slightly.  And float the hand and forearm down softly--don't "push" the palm down.

6.  Your movements from 1:07 to 1:24 require too, too much correction and refinement to put into words here.  We'll cover the necessary corrections in your next private lesson...or if you can take next 3-day (14-hour) Flying Phoenix Qigong Workshop on Zoom.

7.  Your movement starting at 2:26 to 2:33 is WAY OFF mark.  Not in the form at all.  You swing your chest to left knee, across to right knee and then immediately upright into the PRESS,  You added an entirely new move with arms fully extended ( 2:30 to 2:31) that's not in the classical  Meditation!.   It is a very creative and interesting addition though!
8.  When you do your two "Presses" (left palm on right wrist) from 2:32 to 2;40, you are leaning forward too much on each one. Keep you back vertical the entire time.

9.  From 2:47 to 3:23:   On your 5 outward blocks with the forearms (thumbside edge leading), these are the errors:

     A.   Your elbows are too high and your forearms are angled forward too "flat" away from the body.
     B.   Your hands are not high enough.  Fingertips should be slightly above eye-level and can be up to the level of your hairline.  (Watch any of my 3 Youtube videos of the FP Long Form as reference,)

     C.   How you switch from one blocking forearm to the other (after traversing it 180º) is WAY OFF--and too long to explain here in writing.  The major corrections needed here will require private lesson time.

• Pak_Satrio:   That's all I time and energy I can provide for your corrections on this site.  All the corrections above can be made more easily during  a Zoom session.

Good work, nonetheless, on memorizing the FP Long Form choreography.  Memorizing the Form is, of course, the essential first step.   As Master John Fey said to me after I demonstrated the 6 Harmonies/8 Methods (Liu He Ba Fa)  form in Pasadena, CA before a large audience during World Tai Chi Qigong Day in 1985 (I had just learned the form from Dr. York Why Loo):  "Well, at least you know a complete Form."   LOL.

But now lets' tackle the corrections whenever you're able.

Note to all FPCK subscribers--as Bill Maher puts it:   

NEW RULE:

Feel free to post links to your FP Long Form performances on this thread---BUT NOT BEFORE you post a video of your demonstration of "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" ( the 2nd moving meditation on Volume 3).  One must become proficient in "Moonbeam" through lots of practice and refinement before starting practice of the Vol.4  Long Form.
I know for a fact that not enough FP practitioners are mastering "Moonbeam" before starrting the FP Long Form --because there aren't any questions being posted here about the practice of that meditation. 

SO EVERYONE, GET BUSY ON MOONBEAM!

Sifu Terry

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HAPPY WORLD TAI CHI QIGONG DAY!!! 

Celebrate WTCQD, by attending my free TAI CHI FOR HEALTH class (50 min.) and free FLYING PHOENIX QIGONG class (50 min.) at the Lenox Yoga Studio, 52 Housatonic Street in Lenox, MA. 2pm to 4pm EST.

I will also be demonstrating Tao Tan Pai ("Taoist Elixir Method") Kung Fu and Qigong, created during the Tang Dynasty by its patron saint, Taoist Immortal Lu Tung Pin. Tao Tan Pai is a different ancient Taoist monastic tradition of Qigong & Kung fu unrelated to the Ehrmei Mountain Bok Fu Pai (White Tiger Style) Kung Fu, which was created in 1644 by Taoist monk Feng Do Duk.

ZOOMABLE, of course:

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Time: Apr 26, 2025 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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On 4/4/2014 at 5:18 AM, Joolian said:

 

Hi Sifu Terry,

 

thank you very much for your answers! That has been helpful to me. I always enjoy reading your posts

 

Maybe I will substitute exercise #1 for the new one, because I don't have the time to do 4 exercises in the morning...But first I have to work on my morning sluggishness/sleepiness - because of it I do catch myself cutting the practice time down to 6 minutes per exercise :/ ... Should I first extend the practice time to a greater amount of time before learning a new exercise?

 

And, do I understand this correctly, that at some point in time others (non-practicioners) could also see my light?

 

Best,

Julian

Hello Julian,

I'm truly sorry that it's taken 11 years and 15 days to finally see your post for the first time and now answer your question about others being able to see your light.  I had missed and completely overlooked your posting that in the first week of April 2014  because that was precisely the time when I received the devastating news that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear my appeal of lower California appeals courts and CA Supreme court decisions refusing to hear my Writ of Certiorari seeking a retrial of my lawsuit in California against Dreamworks Animation for stealing my story, concept and characters for MY original kung Fu panda concept, characters (13 main characters) , and pilot story called "The Adventures of Zen-Bear, the Kung Fu Panda" that I had begun in 1991 and worked on for 9 years before pitching my project to the No,2 executive at Dreamworks Animation, a senior V.P. who reported directly to the "K" in Dreamworks SKG, inc..  All the public information in the court record of the first trial--including all of  my intellectual property work product and other registered evidence and testimony about proving the primacy of my creation of my characters, original concept of a kung fu-fighting panda bear, and elaborated story involving 12 other animal characters for children's books, for mulitple seasons of an animated  TV series, and my movie idea is mounted on this website that I created in 2016:  

http://www.kungfupandalawsuit.com/Timeline_Hotspots_New.html

 I lost a veritable fortune starting in June 2010 to file this lawsuit (seeking minimum damages of $20 million for breach-of-implied-contract) and bring it to trial in July-Aug. of 2011, only to lose at trial by a hair due to public corruption and being out-lawyered and  by DWA's dirty tricks law firm, appealing to the CA Court of Appeals in 2013, tghe CA State Supreme Court the same year, and then the US Supreme Court in 2014--all to of no avail.  Thus I was buried in four years of legal bills, 4 full years of having all my creative business momentum brought to a standstill (because no one creative can be productive while in a lawsuit ag, a Hollywood film studio),  and suffering from  cumulative fallout from losing the first trial in August 2011, and then have 3 appeals all the way to the SCOTUS to be heard.  That said, I'm sorry I couldn't answer your question when in posted it 11 years ago and half a month ago.

But here now is the answer to  your question,  "And, do I understand this correctly, that at some point in time others (non-practitioners) could also see my light?":

• Yes, at some point in time, non-practitioners will be able to see the cumulative Flying Phoenix Healing Qi that you have steadily cultivated through your practice, which you call "your light"--even though most or all of them are not practitioners of Qigong or Yoga.

The very first kind and most common recognition by others (non-practitioners or "everyday people") of your FP yogic cultivation is their "seeing" your  very "clean" aura.  It often happens when you enter a public place like a restaurant or coffee shop, and almost every head in the room turns to look at you.  It's similar to the instinctive and instant turning ones head and upper body to look at a person that you have just sensed as having entered the room--especially if your back is facing the entrance.  All my FP Qigong students within their first six months of weekly classes (and regular daily practice) have sooner or later reported this head-turning phenomenon whenver they went to a public eatery right after class.  This phenomenon of  everyday people  seeing  "your light" is a very common and regular occurrence.

But the more background and experience any person has in any style of authentic Yoga, meditation, or quiescence, the greater potential he or she has of  instantly seeing your FP-charged aura---as a natural side-effect of their practice(s).

And you can be sure that whenever you began to see the distinctive, signature "blue light" that accompanies concentrated and long-ter FP Qigong practice,  more everyday people and certainly more yoga-meditation-qigong practitioners will be seeing your pristine blue-radiating aura.

I hope you've already discovered most of these features about Flying Phoenix Qigong that I've described.

Please let me know how your practice has progressed over the years and about the effect or impact that the FP Qigong has had on your life.

Best,

Sifu Terry

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On 1/8/2025 at 5:01 PM, EFreethought said:

 

So if someone is past their 30s, is Five Dragons off limits?

 

EFreethought,

No.  Tao Tan Pai students can learn the 5 Dragons Meditation at any age--so long as they've done all the  prerequisite Kung Fu (5 animals forms) and Qigong (TTP "Basic" 31 Meditations, Shen Exercises, Six Stars, and 9 Flowers), which takes a good number of years.  I just mentioned in passing that my classmates and I who got good results from the 5 Dragons  Meditations learned  this Capstone Qigong Set while in our 20's and 30's.  I learned it at age 24.  Just in time to keep my energy level and immunity very high during two years of graduate school in Boston, MA.  I've practiced the 5 Dragons ever since with varying regularity.   In the past 8 years after I moved from SoCal to New England with its  colder winters full of ice and snow, I've practiced either the full orthodox version of the 5 Dragons (which takes 50-55 minutes to complete)  or its 3/5 version (about 40 minutes to complete--that my classmates and I instinctively created successfully)  on a daily basis.   There is also a classical (not modern) 1/5 distilled version of the 5 Dragons that can practice 

When one has completed the entire Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung system, ending with the 5 Dragons, and practiced the latter for 4-5 years or longer , one has cultivated a profound super-abundance of  internal energy fueling one's  Tao Tai Pai Kung Fu to a super-normal level.  That internal energy is available to use--if one has properly and equally trained one's Shen Qi--to displace the indigenous energy of any of an opponent's vital organs located in the torso or head, but without a crushing or penetrating physical blow,. All that's needed is a palm or back of the wrist (Crane's beak) touching the skin above an organ and the adept then crunching his toes to activate his fingertips--or simply coughing--in order to fa-jing.  All ordained Tao Tan Pai priests, of course, are also versed in restoring the normal healthy energy balance of the subject after being disabled using this Nei Kung.  After having completed the Tao Tan Pai Neig Kung, if one has learned the TTP energy healing, one is capable of rendering the TTP "Energy Balancing" treatment, which generally normalizes all minor energy imbalances in a patient and heals a wide variety of disease symptoms.   (I have taught this  Tao Tan Pai technique of Energy Balancing in the NCCAOM-accredited course titled "Medical Qigong I" at Emperors College in Los Angeles from  2013 to 2022).  My favorite senior school brother (da-sihing) and spiritual benefactor, the ven. John Davidson who was the first-generation senior student of Taoist priest Share K. Lew in America (and who visits me on occasion from the other side, believe or not), taught me and another classmate  how to safely transfer one's ENTIRE 5 Dragons'  field of energy in an emergency to another person with low vital signs and who is close to dying of chronic illness or natural causes--in order to stave off death for a day, several days, or longer (given that the subject has not any suffered catastrophic organ damage or failure). 

So that is the very profound, high level of kung fu and energy healing art that  the TTP Nei Kung enables.

Sifu Terry Dunn

To all FP Practitioners:

Reminder that today and every Sunday from 3pm to 4:30pm EST I will be teaching my weekly Intermediate/Advanced Qigong class that covers:
A.    Tao Tan Pai ("Taoist Elixir Method") 31 Meditations (a complete system of Chinese Yoga in and of itself  that accelerates and prolongs the healing effects of FP Qigong) 

B.    Tao Tan Pai 5 Animals Kung Fu forms and weapons.  Each TTP Form is a Shen-driven Qigong exercise.

C.    Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong

       1.  Essential form corrections and refinement of "Moonbeam Splashes on Water" (on Vol.3) and  "Long Form Capstone Meditation" taught (on Vol.4)

       2.  Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong - Level 2  (9 standing meditations).

Login URL:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87650026839?pwd=YkslBzNMFYgZBfJEmpnXFjbWCBIMys.1  

Reminder to all FP practitioners:

Today from 2:00 to 3:30pm EST, I am teaching a beginners' class in Tao Tan Pai ("Taoist Elixir Method") Basic 31 Meditations followed by 45 minutes of FP Qigong. 

This is an excellent opportunity to learn the TTP-31 and the Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga (a classical distillation of the TTP-31 into 5 essential meditations).   Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung is totally different from FP Qigong in  terms of yogic methodology, as it is highly shen-driven while FP Qigong is very Shen-passive.  Yet all levels of the Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung traditiion serves as a superb foundational catalyst that enhances and prolongs the healing effects of the Flying Phoenix Qigong.

Here is the Zoom log-on information and the tuition info:

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See you soon on Zoom!

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On 3/21/2025 at 3:43 AM, Boreas said:

He told me that apart from some Liver Yang rising, qi in my back meridians started to disperse horizontally.

As for the pains, as I've wrote a few posts before, it's been almost two years that my middle and upper back are painful and nothing seems to do the trick to reduce it. With that, I have regularly acute pains in my lungs that my doctor could never explained as well because, same as my back, they are 100% healthy according to all tests.

So, if those pains are coming from a more energetic angle, I just wanted to be sure that I wouldn't "fuel the fire" by continuing qigong practice...

Thanks for the additional info, Boreas,
What the acupuncturist said describes energy quality and movement tied to the liver.
Liver, as per 5 Element Theory is tied to the element of Wood and emotion of anger.

Acute pains in tne lungs is associated with the element Metal and the emotion of grief.

Did you suffer some incident 2 yrs ago that caused you grief and  great anger?

You can try a little bit of FP Qigong at a time (5 to 10 minutes)...and see if it has good effect.  If it exacerbates any of the pain symptoms, then or course stop.

Good luck,

Sifu Terry

P.S.   Pain in the upper and middle back and in the lungs are of two types of "body syndromes" in my school/set theory of holistic healing and counseling that is anchored by hypnotherapy (Kappasian, as in John Kappas, founder of Hypnosis Motivation Institute (HMI) in Tarzana, CA--where I trained and was certified in the mid-1980's.)  If you want to do a consultation via Zoom, you can contact me at [email protected]

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Antares.

You wrote:

15 hours ago, Boreas said:

Hi everyone,

 

Sadly had a few tough weeks and I had to draw back on basically everything (from qigong practice to sport)...

 

On another side, I met a new acupuncturist a few days ago (one that apparently studied directly in China) and he told me that for him, I was checking the box for the beginning of a deviation and that I should avoid qigong practices for the time being.

From what I read in this thread, FPCK doesn't follow TCM rules so, can I still continue to practice or better put it aside and wait that everything is back into place before starting again? 

 

Thanks and wishing everyone a nice end of week 😇

Hi Boreas,

I don't quite understand what your acupuncturist had diagnosed you as having when you wrote:   "I was checking the box for the beginning of a deviation..."

Where is the "deviation"?  In what part of the body?

• What presenting problem or type of pain(s) do you have that caused you to seek treatment from an acupuncturist?

Unless you are having symptoms that prevent you from doing the FPCK breathing formulas and/or that make assuming the basic postures such as  Monk Holding Pearl, MHPeach, and Monk Gazing At Moon painful, then hold back from practice.  But FP Qigong is  so mild, so restorative and stress-dissipating that you can continue practicing it so long as you are feeling its calming, energizing, and  rejuvenating effects.   And should any of the standing FP Meditations become difficult or painful, then practice the seated Monk Serves wine seated Meds. in Volumes 2 and 7.

Remember:  I was vetted and cleared by the I.R.B. of Cedars-Sinai Medical center in L.A. in 1999-2000 to write the first in-hospital Qigong protocol in American medical history for the Dept. of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery to accelerate the recover of acute-care pot-operative patients (who had major heart, lung and back surgeries...having their chests replumbed.).  This content of first of its kind protocol was 80% FP Qigong.

Good luck.

Sifu Terry

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On 3/19/2025 at 6:30 AM, Antares said:

Xing =  yuan shen = original spirit = innate nature

 

https://tibetan.tripod.com/ch-phoen.htm

That what I mean by Xing strengthening - activation of our inner mind

 

Antares,

The Chinese term you've defined as "yuan shen = original spirit" does not have a functional role in the practice of FP Qigong.  After you've experienced the salient health and spiritual benefits of FP Qigong, you can philosophize and celebrate the sublime restorative and "spiritually calibrating" (my coinage) effects of long-term FP Qigong practice any way you like.  As I've told all my student in both Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung (created in the Tang Dynasty ad correctly attributable to Taoist Immortal Lu Tung Pin [and I will be proving it to academia soon]) and in FP Qigong, once you practice either one or both of these arts correctly, you can go out and write your own Tao Te Ching!!

GM Doo Wai never mentioned "yuan shen" in all the years that I trained with him--in any context.  Not in the context of FP Qigong or any of the other Ehmei Mtn. Bok Fu Pai internal energy arts.   Yes, it does means "original spirit."  The primordial spirit that one is born with that is constant and unalterable. 

But there are definitions like this floating around on the internet --parts of which that I happen to STRONGLY disagree with:

"The concept of Yuan Shen is the primordial original spirit that you are born with, and it is the foundational core personality unaffected by the experiences of life. It is the essence of our being and the source of our vitality, which is deeply related to the concept of returning to the source."

I strong disagree with the first phrase in bold.  Because this hokey definition complete negates the concept of karmic evolution and growth, as any Buddhist initiate will tell you.

"Essence of our being and source of our vitality"--yes that is the most commonly held meaning for yuan shen by Taoists.  But I think that it is so general to be almost meaningless--unless you provide a specific context.  Yuan shen as essence of one's existence.  But the "source of vitality" varies from one Taoist or Buddhist tradition--or even Hindu tradition--to another.
For example, in the Tao Tan Pai ("Taoist Elixir Method"--aka, the "Golden Elixir School") tradition that is correctly attributed to Taoist Immortal Lu Tung Pin (Lu Dengbin), the patron saint's most spoken and written "source of vitality" is "the Circulation of the Light"aka, the Microcosmic Orbit as he outlined in "Secret of the Golden Flower."  And beyond health, enlightenment, and immortality, Lu Tung Pin's most transcendent and most powerful alchemic potential realized is what happens when "

Yuan Shen as the source of our vitality?   Yet it was  never mentioned once by GM Doo Wai in all the years I trained with him starting  in 1991.

There are numerous sects of Taoism and the concept of yuan shen is used to varying degrees from one to the next.

It's a nice term to have in one's holistic otr spiritual vocabulary.  But, again, it has no pivotal role in the practice of the Ehrmei Mtn. Bok Fu Pai internal arts.

Another example of yuan shen never being mentioned by high masters:   in the 45 years that I have studied Yang Tai Chi Chuan in the Cheng Man-ching lineage, not one of my teachers--the late General Abraham Liu, the late Master Benjamin Lo, nor my current teacher the great Grandmaster William C.C. Chen ever mentioned yuan shen. 

I (on my own), however, did come to experience and realize through my mind-body ("Xin") (--not xing) the universal truth and meaning of the very first passage of the Tai Chi Classics:   

"Tai Chi comes from Wuchi and is the Mother of Heaven and Earth;  In movement it separates, in stillness it fuses (congeals)."

And that experience that occurred in 1984 and transformed me forever.  And has kept me on the Tai Chi Chuan path.  I felt like I was struck--not really "struck,"  but suddenly inhabited and filled 100% by a bolt of soft lightning.  My entire body was electric and comfortably fluid and not hot in temperature.  And at first, I did not know how to move my body in that state.  Then I learned how to use my shen and will myself to move in that state--which brought into play the precise teachings of Master Ben Lo that I heard over and over and over again in his summer retreats in La Honda, CA:                               "The minds moves the Chi;  the Chi moves the body."   

• If you master Tai Chi Chuan and attain this ability,  "The mind moves the Chi; the Chi moves the body and the environment...", then you will also come closer to knowing the meaning of "yuan shen."

Finally, that passage that you quoted that begins with, "The two fundamental terms... "  was NOT written by Grandmaster Doo Wai !!  He does not speak like that nor does he write like that.
That passage is from an article written by a David Sorenson on a website called "tibetan.tripod.com" that was created by the Hudlin Brothersº--who I had introduced to GM Doo Wai around 1993  and brought into the learning circle in L.A. (that I created around GM Doo Wai in 1990). 

"The Taoist Monk Fung Doe Duk's Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Meditations is supposed to be the key that unlocks the energy within our body and subconsciously activates our inner mind to generate and balance the positive energy within our own body. The result is an illness free body with healthy, balanced, positive energy that enables its practitioners to use that energy to heal others. The Goddess informed the Monk that the meditations were sacred Heavenly meditations and that he was to be very selective of whom he was to teach them."

This paragraph is generally accurate.  And it sounds like a translation of GM Doo Wai's semi-broken English.   But it does not explain in any insightful manner how--

"The Flying Phoenix Qigong 'pushes the brain back' (as GMDW slowly moving his right index finger over his head from the hairline back towards the crown) and activates the body's self-healing faculties." 

                                                                      --Grandmaster Doo Wai, 1991

(--which I happen to have recorded on SVHS video when he was teaching me the advanced Monk Serves Wine Meditations.  I may finally post this video sometime in the future.)

Bottom line:  be careful not to use terminology that you read about that is NOT grounded and based in  your direct yogic experience of practicing FP Qigong.  Because as we learned by the early 1980's after we had been practicing the Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung for about 10 years under  GM Share K. Lew' personal supervision:   

                                               "The only real truth is the experienced truth."

     (Hence, the similarly minded Bruce Lee advised:  "Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear."

The semantic map (language) that one uses must precisely match the yogic territory (experience) that one wants to talk about.  Using the wrong map--such  as "xing" meaning "inner mind" that is activated by Qigong...  only breeds confusion and wastes time.

Sifu Terry Dunn

P.S.  btw, that website from where you excerpted the passage from the David Sorenson article about Feng Do Duk and the spiritual gifting of FP Qigong, etc. was created in the late 90's by the Hudlin Brothers, who were old friends of mine from my college and grad school years whom I later introduced to GM Doo Wai in 1993, and invited into the learning circle of instructors that I had created around GM Doo Wai in 1990.  Well, by 1997, one of the students I had invited into the training circle played GM Doo Wai in such a debasing, Hollywood-like manner that the spirit of GM Doo Wai's teachings completely changed, and the window of learning that I had created around GM Doo Wai closed.  I departed without a word.  And the person who caused this window of transmission of sacred knowledge to be closed prematurely--by 20 years, per my estimation-- has had a karmic debt to bear ever since.  The fact that all the other links on this old and unattended website, tibetan.tripod, are dead should tell you something about the  seriousness and discipline of its keepers.  Still the Sorenson article about FP Qigong is not all that bad.  I give a grade of "B-" (also for its bad grammar).

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18 hours ago, Antares said:

I am not sure we need Moon for MGM progress. My opinion is that moon has more symbolic meaning here. We have yin (nature) and yang (life) and symbolically this is moon and sun. MGM seems to be xing strengthening mediation but nature of xing is light. Ordinary person' Xing has more yin quality and symbolically can be associated more with moon, so it depends how much MIng (life) one has.

   

Antares,

You are purely speculating about the symbolic meaning vs. literal meaning of "Moon" in the name "Monk Gazing At Moon"--without having any direct FP Qigong teachings from GM Doo Wai or from his senior students such as myself.  Plus you are imposing other irrlevant semantics with your belief of what "xing strengthening meditation" is and then saying relatedly that "nature of xing is light."
What Chinese character are you referring to when you say "xing"??   Which one of the four tones in Chinese is used in pronouncing the "xing" that you mean?    (4 tones means 4 different meanigs.)    I take that romanization "xing"  to have its most widely used meaning:  the shape-form of the body, as in Xing-I Boxing.

MGM seems to be xing strengthening mediation but nature of xing is light. Ordinary person' Xing has more yin quality and symbolically can be associated more with moon, so it depends how much MIng (life) one has.

• Besides not know what on earth you are trying to say here, I do know that it is 100% IRRELEVANT to the practice of FP Qigong.  As I've told every student who's attended a live class or workshop with me since 1992, leave ALL YOUR BELIEFS about other styles and methods  of Qigong and Yoga at the door when you practice FP Qigong.   You do NOT need to believe in anything to benefit from FP Qigong.  You just do the posture and do associated percentage breath-control formula correctly...and the Flying Phoenix of Feng Do Duk will teach you what you need to know.

I am not sure we need Moon for MGM progress.  
Please do NOT guess.  I have stated on this thread in the past that FP Qigong does NOT utilize any principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) or its set theory as a map --i.e., no need to meridians, hours of the meridians,  law of noonday-midnight.  None of that  is necessary or relevant to make FP Qigong work or to understand how it works.  I did explain on this thread--and I shall repeat it here:

that the FP Qigong system--along with all the other Ehrmei Mtn. Bok Fu Pai internal energy arts DO RELY on the position of the sun and the moon.  Being aware of where the sun and/or the moon are in the sky is extremely important in the advanced practice of FP Qigong and all Bok Fu Pai energy arts, including its deadliest arts.   So for beginners, just follow what GM Doo Wai taught:   

         Practice Monk Gazing At Moon while gazing at the moon in the night sky.

••>  And as I advised at various points in this thread, practice when the Moon is low on the horizon so you don't have to crane your head upwards and bend your neck to look at it.

FP Qigong is totally self-explanatory.  All you have to do is practice enough.

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On 3/17/2025 at 12:50 AM, Antares said:

 

I did 5 60.... in forest under blue sky. After I have it done I rubbed palms and put them on closed eyes and there was bluish light inside my head. Sunlight seems to magnify FP energy for I did not have this effect when did 5 60... in room.

 

Interesting if MHPearl can be done in horse stance. Garry says the same meditation in SYG can be done in horse stance. Also I read on the forum he did some sort of horse for one hour but not sure which one. Also in SYG they do this one seated version before standing version of it so interesting to experiment how it would work if to do Pearl  one after the other one.

Hello Antares,

Which FP med. are you referring to when you said, "I did 5 60..."?

Nice that you saw the blueish light inside your head.  Because I'm very "visual" in how I interpret and represent my experience, I see a very bright, flourescent sky blue light saturate the inside of my eyelids and then fill my head.  

...so interesting to experiment how it would work if to do Pearl  one after the other one.

 • If you want best results from FP Qigong in terms of healing and restoration, do MGMoon in the shoulder-width stance as taught on the DVD.  Master Monk Holding Pearl, MHPeach, and Monk Gazing At Moon first, and especially Bending the Bows and Wind Above the Clouds  on Volume 1.  Then you can experiment with variations in stance for MHPearl.

But there's actually no need to "experiment."  Within the FP Qigong system, the Monk Holding Pearl mudra IS done in the 2-shoulders' width horse stance.  It's done in the fifth posture of "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" and it is done again in the very last posture.   And this ending posture can be held for minutes on end until one takes the 3 closing breathes.  The Monk Holding Pearl posture done in the horse stance occurs again in the fifth posture of the FPHHCM Long Form Capstone Meditation ( Volume 4).

If and when you experiment, by doing Monk Holding Pearl in a wider and deep horse stance for long periods of time--i.e, upwards of 15 minutes, you will find that it will  cause  lower body, back and shoulder/upper arm tension in beginners, and will snaps you into martial mode--if you have had any previous kung fu experience.  The classical horse stance is used in practically ALL KUNG FU systems that ever came out of China.

In the Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong (9 Standing moving meds.), a wider 2-shoulder width stance is used in all except two of the meditations..  BUT this Advanced FP sub-system it is NOT a purely healing Qigong like the level I presented in the DVD series.  The Qi that it  cultivates is both healing and "athletic/martial" in nature.  

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On 3/15/2025 at 9:37 AM, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

Did anyone do Monk Gazing At Moon with the full moon last night?

 

There was a nice clear sky in London for once so I had a nice session

Last Friday the 14th, I recovered from my first day of moving furniture and belongings almost single-handedly from old my abode into a new one 12 mi. away--by doing Monk Gazing At the Moon in the moonlight after doing the Capstone Long From 2x, and then doing 3 of the advanced Monk Serves Wine seated meditations (on Vol.7).   In total, I spent 3.5 days moving, finally completing the laborious task yesterday at about 5pm (--while getting only 5.5 - 6 hours of sleep on each of those 3 nights.)   Of course, over those 3.5 days, I did what I always do in the mornings:  Tao Tan Pai 5 Dragons Meditation (will be discussed in the Taoist Elixir Method Kung Fu thread);  the TTP Dragon kung fu form;  the Bok Fu Pai Kung Fu System's "Eagle Claw 10-Hook Attack Form";  my 4 favorite "8 Sections Combined" forms:  Sections 3, 4, 5 and 8. 

This is the FP practice regimen that I used last  night to fully recover---and feel 100% today from the moment I woke up:

1.)  FP Standing Long Form (vol.4) -- two times, back to back. -- 30 min.
2.)  Monk Gazing At the Moon while gazing at the moon and having my entire body illuminated by the moon's light - 14 minutes.

3.)  The third advanced MSW seated meditation on Vol. 7  (70 50 20 10)  -- 15 min.

4.)  The fourth advanced MSW med. on Vol. 7  (70 60 40 5) - 10 min.  

5.)   The first Adv. MSW med. on Vol. 7 (50 20 10) --aka, "the Sleeper" - l4 min.  (holding the last 5 postures (mudras) for 10 breathes each).

For best results, take a hint:  spend the equivalent amount of time outlined above--i.e., 83 minutes-- on your personal FP Qigong practice, however you compose it.

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On 3/3/2025 at 12:00 PM, Chirising said:

I know that the volumes aren’t available for streaming out of fear of piracy. I was wondering if that could be mitigated by having the buyers name watermarked on the video?

 

Those of us in EU have to pay double for the DVD’s because of import duties. It’s still doable, but it just seems like money thrown in the wrong direction.

Hello Chirising,

I know that the import duties charged by most European countries can get quite steep.  
 

 I was wondering if that could be mitigated by having the buyers name watermarked on the video?

Unfortunately, I putting the buyer's name in a "watermark" on each video title would be quite impossible/prohibitively time-consuming.

In the 90's and aughts, I used a very expensive first-generation Avid video editing system to cut the CKFH DVD series..  Since  about 2016, I've been using Adobe Premiere to edit my Youtube videos and future DVD titles.  As far as I know, there is no rapid means to put a watermark on every frame of each volume of the CKFH programs;  it requires some real-time editing and then requires spending  more time to render the new watermarked footage.  And to do this for every customer who wants to buy a digital file would require me to hire an assistant editor.  

Actually, I am in the process of building a subscription-based streaming platform (that will probably use the Vimeo format) that will give access to all the CKFH DVD titles at reasonable cost.  However, the video resolution of the streamed content won't be as high as that of a DVD played on a disc drive.  This streaming platform won't go online until the latter half of this year to do huge pressing obligations I have to prepare to teach my 3 specialties at a top American university and its School of Public Health.

The physical distance between  U.S. and Europe and each European country's import duties do create added expense--and especially now and in the future with the moronic, Russian-owned US president stupidly starting trade wars with all of America's trading partners with his tariffs, including China.   But given the verifiable restorative power of this authentic and intact Taoist monastic system of  Qigong that will serve one for a lifetime (ask ridingtheox and others who posted in the early years of this thread) ---plus the programs' exceptionally high production values (all filmed on location in Death Valley, CA and shot by my friend the cinematographer Mike Hoover, who has 14 Emmy's [mostly for hard news] and 2 Academy Awards for documentaries), and scored by music professor Robert Scott Thompson (regarded in the U.S. starting in the 90's as "the king of ambient music", most viewers and reviewers have said that there is nothing like the CKFH DVD series on the qigong/ yoga market in terms of quality.

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On 2/20/2025 at 11:57 AM, Boreas said:

Thanks a lot for your long answer!

 

1) Already something here, I always have something like 30 minutes to an hour maximum between my morning session of FPCK and working on my voice...

For the rest, except maybe 2 or 3 days, I managed to practice between 45 minutes and 1h in the morning (Vol. 1+ last MSW from Vol.2 some days) and a rotation between meditations from rest of Vol.2 in the evening (more or less 45 minutes)

 

Regarding aerobic exercise, I walk everyday, go for a 5k three times a week and do some calisthenics at least 2 times a week.

 

2) As said above, I tend to practice almost everyday BTB but never to the point of doing it 18 times, I must say.

 

3) As I'm not seeing a lot from first two volumes, I thought that it wouldn't be useful to go further and learn new forms but I can definitely try it!

 

4) Sadly, as I'm living abroad, time of the Zoom classes don't work for me

 

5) Thanks for the informations regarding private sessions. I'll keep them in mind if this troubleshooting doesn't produce results

 

And regarding your question about how long I've been singing classically, about 15 years now. On one side, breath and muscles attached to it are indeed quite strong but I wouldn't say that I'm in some satori while singing... I'm focused on the present moment but don't think there's sense of "high" in it.

 

Thanks again for all your insights and I'll give this another shot!

Hello Boreas,

You're welcome.  I'm glad to hear that you've been practicing FP Qigong so regularly.

Thanks for sharing the amount of aerobic exercise that you have in what sounds like a pretty healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

Good that you're practicing BTB every day while doing (Vol. 1+ last MSW from Vol.2 some days).

But sorry to hear that the time zone difference doesn't allow you to participate in my Zoom classes.

My further suggestions:

1.)   Perhaps once a week or once in a longer while, make extra time and do a set of 18 rounds of BTB.  Or if time is limited and doesn't permit inclusion of the other standing FP meditations, just dedicate one of your practice sessions to just doing BTB, one other stationary standing Meditation, plus your favorite seated meditation.

Question:  Because you're doing the last MSW med. on Volume 2 (90 80 50 20) every morning,  have you discovered yet that it lives up to its nickname, "the Waker-upper"?

2.)   As I'm not seeing a lot from first two volumes, I thought that it wouldn't be useful to go further and learn new forms but I can definitely try it!
• Yes, try doing the moving meditations, Wind Through Treetops and Moonbeam Splashes On Water on Volume 3.

3.)   I make this suggestion with the same yogic intuition that had me suggest that you try Vol.3:   

Since you've been  practicing Vols. 1 and 2  regularly:  If you're not feeling any energy effects from the seated MSW meds. on Volume 2, instead of doing the last meditation on Vol.2, try the 5 seated MSW Meditations on Volume 7, one at a time, in the order they are presented.  And add one of them to your daily practice.   They are more advanced meditations; four of the five on Vol. 7  are more complex in choreography--and thus are  longer meditations---than the Vol.2  MSW meds.  But these Vol.7 MSW meds. are very beautiful and more powerful than the preceding ones.  

4.)  I also second Pak Satrio's recommendation to concentrate on basic standing FP Meds.:  Monk Gazing At Moon, Monk Holding Peach, and Monk holding Pearl.  Together they form one pillar of FP Qigong.  Bending the Bows forms another pillar.

 Good luck and keep us abreast of your progress.

Regards,

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On 11/21/2010 at 12:21 PM, Fu_dog said:

After One Year

 

It was just a little over one year ago when I made my first post regarding the Flying Phoenix system. I would like to provide my observations after one year.

 

First a little background. In November of 2010 I arranged a call with Sifu Terry to discuss the system, as I felt it had promise, however there were some things I wished to have clarified and wanted to speak with him directly. My first impression, in addition to having some technical questions answered, was that Sifu Terry had a strong belief in the system, as passion for teaching it. I felt very good about this. I began to practice in earnest. By the way, please keep in mind that when I began practicing I had just celebrated my 55th birthday.

 

I practice FP on the average of 30 minutes per day, however, on the weekends I practice sometimes for 90 minutes to two hours, taking Sifu's advice to practice your entire routine in the sequence presented in his DVD's.

 

Here are my observations after one year:

 

(1) The energy I feel in FP is stronger than any other system I had practiced. I am convinced the breathing sequences to begin each exercise are a differential factor towards this energy generation. No other system I had practiced had this, and I had practiced a number of qigong systems prior to Flying Phoenix.

 

(2) The most tangible benefit to FP practice is my appearance. Most of the wrinkles on my face have receded to smooth, and I look noticeably younger. Some wrinkles that were on my face for 5+ years have nearly vanished. This, to me is amazing. Nearly everyone who knows me I comments on this.

 

(3) I now use the appearance of my face to gauge my level of practice. If I am practicing "enough", then my face looks smooth, younger as a general condition. If I am not getting enough practice, then the wear starts to show, and this tells me I need to practice more.

 

(4) My libido has increased. Nuff said. ;-)

 

(5) The practice of Flying Phoenix washes away built up stress. I work some long hours in a high pressure environment. The FP exercises just seem to clean away the stress.

 

(6) I sleep more soundly. The second of the Basic Seated FP exercises and the first FP Advanced Seated are especially good to do before sleeping.

 

(7) I have not been sick, except for one cold, and I got that in March of this year. Coincidentally, that came on the heels of the only period over the past year where I had gone for a little more week without practicing, due to a brutal work/travel schedule. Since then, I practice daily, and have had no hint of any illness. I honestly believe had I not had the lapse in FP practice, that there is a good chance I would not have caught that cold.

 

(8) After one year, the practice of FP has truly become a "moving mediation". With practice that is what it has become. There have been several questions on the board about the parallels between FP and meditation. I can tell you that with more practice, the FP exercises become quite meditative. There is a peace and calmness experienced during the practice that is really quite special, however, at the same time there is this really nice experience of the Flying Phoenix energy. It makes the FP meditative experience quite unique.

 

(9) During the movements, I feel as if I am moving my hands through a "thick" qi (that's the only way I can describe it), and this feeling, in turn, slows my movements. It's as if the Flying Phoenix energy itself provides me feedback as to the correct speed of my movements, which is quite slow by the way.

 

(10) I often feel during the seated FP movements, that the hair on my arms is standing on end. Other posters have mentioned this feeling as well.

 

(11) I have a mental calmness about me now that is more pronounced than a year ago. I am not sure if I would 100% contribute that to the practice of FP, however, I feel for sure that it is a significant contributing factor.

 

(12) As FP exercises are practice one after the other (with a small break in between as prescribed by Sifu Terry), the energy builds with each additional FP exercise practiced. At least for me, the Flying Phoenix energy doesn't peak and level out. I feel a cumulative energy with each successive FP exercise.

 

 

I will stop there for now. Perhaps in another 6 months I will provide another progress report. I still have not learned all of the exercises as taught by Sifu Terry on his DVD's, so there is much more to look forward to.

 

I would like to offer a special thanks to Sifu Terry and also to Sifu Garry for your contributions to this thread.

 

Warmest Regards,

 

Lloyd

 

Edited for spelling.

Here is Fu_Doggy's post of Nov. 21, 2010 that I mentioned in my reply to Boreas (above), in which Lloyd gives his report at the one year mark.  I recall in another email that Fu_dog said that he had 7 years of experience with Qigong prior to his starting FP Qigong.

Many thanks again if you see this, Fu_Doggy!

17 hours ago, Boreas said:

 

17 hours ago, Boreas said:

Hi everyone, 

 

Coming back after a few months of practice and I'm starting to think that something doesn't click between me and FPCK... Managed to learn and practice first two volumes everyday for last 4 months but really nothing to show for it…

I went back reading the thread and I saw that breathing exercises should be avoided with this chi kung and I realized that with my job (opera singer), I do breathing exercises everyday, some of them looking a lot like pranayama. Could it be the reason why I don’t feel any tangible results after that much time?

 

Thanks a lot for any insights and wishing everyone a nice week!

Hello Boreas,

Welcome back to the FP forum.  I have several suggestions to help you experience the tangible energization and common restorative effects of FP Qigong:

1.)   It shouldn't matter that you're doing breathing exercises daily (that look like pranayama).  But trying doing FP Qigong a good 3-4 hours before or after you've down you exercises to support your singing. 

• Questions for you:   Over your 4 months of practicing FP Qigong, what was your daily training schedule like?  How lont did you practice?  Did you practice more than one session day?  Did you work through FP Meditations in the 2 DVD volumes in the order they were presented?

Regarding "regular" exercise:   do you do any type of aerobic exercise (besides the breathing exercises for your singing)--such has walking, jogging, swimming, yoga, weight training, tennis, field sports,  etc.)?   I ask because other physical and athletic activity can  affect your FP Qigong development in different ways.  I've trained professional athletes-- such as the L.A. Lakers in 2000-2001.

2.)  Have you done on any regular basis:  the "Bending the Bows" meditation 18 times in a set--and at slower and slower and slower speeds?  If not, then I recommend doing more Bending the Bows--in sets of 18 on a regular basis.  18 repetitions of BTB is a long and powerful concentration of mind and body, which lives up to the word "gong" in Qigong--which is the same character in Chinese as the "Kung" in Kung Fu.  To get the Qigong to work, one has to put in the time and diligent effort, day in and day out--but without strain or obsession.

• As I described in Year One of this thread, Bending the Bows was the breakthrough exercise for me.  After just a couple of months of practice under GM Doo Wai's close supervision, not only did I feel profound energization and rejuvenation with every practice, but because I had done 11 years of Tai Chi Chuan with Gen. Abraham Liu and taken 11 consecutive summer retreats with Master Benjamin Lo, my Tai Chi Chuan completely filled out and transformed.  Every form movement and every maneuver in Push-Hands was more spontaneous and effortless. 

• Several other FP practitioners had discerned early on this thread that Bending the Bows is a cornerstone exercise of FP Qigong.

3.)   You might try to learn and practice the moving meditations in Volume 3--"Wind Through The Treetops" and "Moonbeam Splashes On Water"--especially if you don't do regular exercise.  Even though there are upper body movements in the Vol.2 seated Monk Serves Wine meditations, GM Doo Wai stated emphatically that the standing FP moving meditations are more powerful than the seated ones.  "Moonbeam" looks in some elements like Tai Chi, but is done 3x more slowly than typical Tai Chi form speed.  And "Wind Through Treetops" is a uniquely powerful healing meditation with a balanced tilt-back posture that  naturally reorganizes energy flow.

4.)    If you've read this thread thoroughly, you will recall that I posted my discovery  back in 2013 or 14 that the basic level of the other Taoist monastic system of Qigong I preserve, the Taoist Elixir Method (Tao Tan Pai), called the Tao Tan Pai 31 Basic Meditations (henceforth "TTP-31"),  just happens to serve as a superb foundational catalyst for FP Qigong that amplifies and prolongs the restorative effects of FP Qigong.  TTP-31 is a completely different style of  Qigong using a totally different yogic methodology (as different as night and day), this catalyzing/accelerative effect of TTP on FP Qigong was confirmed by both GM Doo Wai and a high yogin in an Indian tradition (Oneness Meditation) who works full time as amedical clairvoyant.

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Thus, if you learn the Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga (5 exercises) correctly, and practice it prior to FP Qigong, I am quite certain that you will start feeling the FP Healing Qi.  Also, during the FP Qigong training in the second half of each Saturday class, I teach a  9-posture Wuchi progression exercise from Sum-I or I-Chuan (the internal system of Xing-I Boxing) ,  which deeply refines the Wuchi form throughout the entire body--and greatly supports doing-and-feeling-- "Monk Gazing At Moon"  and other Bok Fu Pai Qigong arts.

     a.   One can learn the  TTP Short Form Power Yoga along with the entire TTP-31 Series by attending my weekly Saturday basic Qigong class (2:00 - 3:30pm EST) in Lenox, MA--which I just resumed.  This class is Zoomable, of course. 

See the second video in my previous posting announcing the classes  (roman numeral II.) to see what TTP-31 looks like.  And click the same link here for fee information and the Zoom links for those public classes:

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To get a head start in this class with the TTP Short Form Power Yoga, you can start practicing to the first three moving exercises seen in this "8 Excerpts of TTP-31" video" (from start to 5:30), which are Meditations #1, #2, and #4 of the TTP-31.   (#3 not shown on this video).  Then you can learn TTP#3 and TTP#18 in the Zoom class, which will complete the TTP Short Form Power Yoga.   

• •> The first exercise called Circling Palms is done in four sets of 8 repetitions;  the 2nd "Crane Spreading Wings" is done 8x;  the 3rd exercise on the video is done 8x. :

    b.  You can also schedule an hour-long private lesson with me online so that I can  correct your form if necessary and give you more advice.  It's always easier to make recommendations when I see can exactly how you're practicing the FPCK.

My fee for private lessons in FP Qigong and TTP-31 Qigong is $240/hour.

My fee for private lessons in Tai Chi Chuan (all levels) is $220/hour

(Contact me at [email protected] for private lessons.)

•  How long a career have you had in the opera?   I ask because if it's been a good part of your life already,  your "not clicking" initially with the FP Qigong might be because you've developed such strong respiratory power geared towards/supporting your singing and are able to attain such blissful states of mind-body integration (satori) through your "highs" as an  opera singer that you don't notice the sublime FP Healing Qi when it's generated and is circulating.  That's just a wild outlier hunch.   

[ On a few rare occasions over the decades, I have met advanced yogins and yoginis and high masters in Tai Chi and Qigong who are so thoroughly mind-body integrated and with mental concentration perfected that they  are always in  higher states of consciousness (HSC) and affecting the physical environment without moving their bodies.  But every master with whom I've shared  the FP Qigong have  definitely recognized that the FP Healing Qi as a distinct "flavor" of purely healing Qi different from the yogic energy of their respective arts. ]

5.)   Or it might be that you need form corrections.  The normal way to learn any authentic Qigong system like FPCK is, of course, to take classes in person.   For this age of remote learning can go only so far.   Fortunately, FP Qigong lends itself to at-home, remote learning because it is so safe and user-friendly.  But FPCK is a high yogic art, and to progress beyond an intermediate level (unless one has extensive experience in a related internal art like Tai Chi Chuan) one has to get private, one-on-one instruction.   And as Pak Satrio posted last Saturday, as far along and well-practiced as he is (approaching 3.5 years), the  few corrections I gave him in his recent private lesson resulted in substantial breakthroughs. 

• Everybody responds differently and uniquely to the FP Qigong.  Sometimes if it doesn't immediately "take," as FPCK thread-starter "Fu Doggy" nicely described in a post of how he gave it a break for some time.  Then he had a clarifying phone conversation with me, then he resumed his practiced and perservered,  and then Lloyd came out to L.A. from Orlando, FL for private lessons.  And then his Flying Phoenix took off.    See his post of  21 November 2010 - 09:21 AM--which I just found and posted below--  in which he describes how the break-through came for him and in which he gave  his observations at the one-year mark and describes 12 very salient and profound health transformations!:

Lloyd McClelland:

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Posted 21 November 2010 - 09:21 AM

At any rate, I think that the my above 5 recommendations/guidances above should help you to attain tangible salient results from FP Qigong if you persevere with them.  Please keep us all abreast of your progress.  

Good luck in your practice.

Sifu Terry Dunn

P.S.   Btw, I love classical music, am a huge balletomane, and have a good taste for opera. I've trained a good number musicians in L.A. during my years of teaching there (1983 to 2017)--both instrumentalists and vocalists.  My vocalist students include a 2x Grammy winning  R&B soul singer-composer who is a melodic genius behind 3 new genres he created ("Alternative R&B, psychedelic soul, and avant-soul) and who made Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential Americans when he was 25 yrs. old, being described as a "breakout talent" with "breakout vision."  Also in the 1980's a dated a virtuoso violinist in the L.A. Chamber Orchestra (a prodigy who went to Eastman School; debuted before the National Orchestra at age 14(!)--that plays all the L.A. Operas.  Thus, over 3 years I developed a quite taste for opera. 

º And I'll use opera to make this simile to hopefully inspire you to continue exploring  FP Qigong with Vol. 3 moving meditations, at least (--and anyone can quote me on this):  the quality of music in opera is so much better (higher) than that in musicals that it is like the difference between Flying Phoenix Qigong or  Tao Tan Pai Qigong and the vast majority of systems of "modern" Qigong or non-classical Qigong that I've come across and observed since 1982--i.e., qigong exercises and "systems" created after 1970.  And I do say  "the vast majority"--and not all--so as not to over-brush and insult any legitimate systems out there.  But if a Qigong system doesn't have a lineage of masters that dates back generations to a veritable yogic genius and saint such as a Lu Tung Pin (creator of Tao Tan Pai) or a Feng Dao Deh (create of Flying Phoenix Qigong), you're at risk of wasting time on what Tao Stillness called "mere calisthenics" and what I call downstream hokum--as is printed as a warning on the back of all my CKFH DVDs published in 2004.

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ATTENTION ALL FLYING PHOENIX CHI KUNG PRACTITIONERS:

After a 4-month hiatus related to moving from upstate New York back to the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, I have just resumed my schedule of basic ZOOM classes of my three specialties:  Flying Phoenix Qigong, Tao Tan Pai Qigong, and Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, plus an Intermediate Qigong Class in which I teach basic Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu forms and then Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong. 

I.  Thursdays, 7pm to 8:30pm EST:   Tai Chi Chuan- Yang Short Form 

A beginners' course that teaches the 60-part Short Form created by my teacher, Grandmaster William C.C. Chen, a senior disciple of the late Prof. Cheng Man-ching.  Each class begins with 25 minutes of classical warm-ups and conditioning exercises drawn from my vast repertoire that includes Gen. Abraham Liu's 3 classical Yang style exercises; Master Huang Sheng Shyan's 5 Loosening Exercises that I learend from his sr. disciple, Master James Lau King;  Qing Dynasty Imperial Guard Exercises that I learned from Master George Xu;  and a complete system of Chen style chan-su-chin exercises that I learned in the late 1980's from master John Fey.  This is what the 60 Form looks like:

II.  Saturdays, 2pm to 3:30pm:   "Qigong For Health First Responders"

– A beginners' class consisting of 45 min. of Tao Tan Pai Basic 31 Meditations ("TTP-31") + 45 min. of Flying Phoenix Qigong  (All the material on Volumes 1 to 5 of my Chi Kung For Health DVD series)-- In which beginner students feel the catalyzing/accelerative effect of the TTP-31 on the Flying Phoenix Qigong's healing effects from the very class.  Also excellent opportunity for experienced FP practitioners to receive refinements and form corrections.  
This is what 8 of the TTP-31 Meditations looks like (plus a demo of the TTP Cane Form (my favorite foundational TTP exercise at that the end):   

III.  Sundays, 3pm to 4:30pm -- Intermediate Class:  Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu  + Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong.   The first half of this class is devoted to refining the practice of the TTP-31, learning the basic Tao Tan Pai 5 Animal Kung Fu Forms (tiger, dragon, snake, crane, and monkey), and learning  Tao Tan Pai's 11 Shen Exercises.  This is a complete and discreet system of authentic Shen-gong that when practiced after one has proficiency in the TTP-31 Basic Meditations, expands every mode of ESP, and enables one to "see" in the Castanedan sense of the word.   

In the second half of each class, we refine the essential FP Meditations, "Moonbeam Splashes on Water" and the capstone Long Form meditation, called "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation" (taught on Volume 4 of the CKFH DVD series), which gives its name to the system.  Then  I teach the  Advanced Flying Phoenix Meditations (9 standing meditations) and introduce you to elements of 10,000 Buddhas Meditation, a profoundly powerful Bok Fu Pai health and martial Qigong system consisting of 54 Meditations organized into 3 sets of 18 exercises.  (one of these 10K Buddhas Meds. is seen in this workshop footage at 29:50  on this FP Qigong overview):

• Complete details about each course's content and fees is on this issue of my free monthly Newsletter:

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•If you are in western Massachusetts or are coming some time in the future,  you are welcome to attend these classes in person at the Lenox Yoga Studio, 52 Housatonic Street, Lenox, MA. 

I hope you will soon join us on Zoom.

Sifu Terry Dunn

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