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On 4/24/2021 at 3:08 AM, BluePhoenix133 said:

Hi Terry, i was still slightly confused because the presses are going to be a different number to the palms facing each other so i watched the DVD again in the break down i think you do 3 presses and 2 palms facing each other but when you do the whole thing after the breath percentage you do 4 presses and 3 palms facing each other followed of course by 2 pushes and 2 flat palm to clenched fists.

Also i think when you explained the presses you meant left palm on right wrist instead of left palm on right palm. Anyway i hope i am not being too pedantic, i really do love this meditation and i wonder why its called moonbeam splashes on water... got to call it something i guess.

Hi BluePhoenix,

 

Again, my apologies for taking so long to see your post and to reply.

 

In Moonbeam Splashes on Water, you do 3 presses (left palm on right) and the 2 rolling pushes (with the hands in light fists with rolled back and hands opening when shifted forward with right knee over the vertical line of the toes.)

 

Yes, I might have said "left palm on right palm."  That's a mistake--carried over from my then 24 years of  Tai Chi instruction in Cheng Man-Ching 37-posture  Yang style Short Form, where he presses palm on palm instead of left palm on right wrist done by everyone else in the Yang Cheng Fu lineage.

 

I'm glad your this perspicacious about this meditation.  And I'm glad you love it.  So do I.  And in my opinion, not enough FP people are practicing it because over all these years, there have not been enough questions posted about it.

 

The name of the meditation is more accurately translated as "Moonbeam Reflects On The Water".  But "Moonbeam Splashes On Water" is the name that GM Doo Wai always used for it.  So that's the name my peers from that era and I used.  As Sifu Hearfield had indicated years earlier on the thread and I've confirmed, FP Qigong and all the Ehrmei  Mtn. Bok Fu Pai internal arts are NOT based on the principles or the "map" of TCM but  are based on a different cosmology.  And in that applied cosmology, the positions of the sun and the moon are most important to the practices.  Not to get off-topic too far here:  but how one positions oneself and onto what, when, and where the moonbeam is allowed to "splash" (illuminate)--if not water--is relevant to high level occult practices in different magickal-spiritual traditions--the dark side of which, would literally scare the bejeesus / shit entirely out of the unitiated. 

 

But to stay on the Light side, practice Monk Gazing At Moon and "Moonbeam" and the other standing FP Meditations while gazing at or facing (with eyes closed) the moon--the fuller the better!

 

Happy New Year.

 

Sifu Terry

 

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On 12/19/2021 at 8:49 PM, Felecula said:

Thank you for responding so quickly! 😺I didn't know how else to describe it except for carbonation. I tried it again this afternoon and rather than the bubbling feeling, I heard what sounded like chimes in the distance. They were very pretty sounding, but I'm unsure of where they came from. 

 

I'll keep practicing and give updates, ask for advice, and so on! Thank you for the pointers and for the thread! 🐱

Felecula,

Congratulations!--hearing sound(s) that one isn't certain of their source(s).  That is one of the sure signs of correct meditation and that the body is truly relaxing.  All meditation / yoga traditions have side-effects of telepathy and clairvoyance.  My experience in Taoist and Buddhist monastic Qigong systems is that clairaudience is also an occuring and most interesting side-effect.  I believe that you are the first to report this phenomenon.  So congrats!

Not only does FP Qigong facilitated clairaudience enable one to hear sounds and human conversations that are at a great distance and tnat are normally not audible, but it may also open the channel to auditory dreams--i.e. dreamstates where information channels in only through sounds.  I myself have had only one auditory dream in my lifetime so far;  it came in 1980 and was extremely prophetic, to say the least.

About your experience of "carbonation" and the bubbling feeling:  that bubbling feeling that's like a churning or roiling is normally first felt in the tan tien, which is a great and mighty milestone to achieve in any system of Qigong.  But if you are feeling "bubbling"  in other parts of your body or throughout your body in general, that's a phenomenon I have not experienced.  And that is not to question nor invalidate your experience of the FP Qi cultivation one iota.  Everybody responds to the FP Qigong in their own unique way--on top of the common phenomena that FP practitioners have experienced and reported on this thread.

 

Continue to enjoy your carbonation and let us know your FP practice evolves especially as  you practice the Vol.4 Long Form Standing Meditation ("FPHHCM")--auditory channeling and all!

 

Happy New Year!

 

Sifu Terry

 

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Hi Everyone,

 

I just answered a question posted by someone in a forum about Carlos Castaneda's teachings on Reddit (which I most recently joined) about whether "mirror gazing" was dangerous or hazardous. This is the expansive min-dissertation  I posted in reply, which also contains some esoteric info about "seeing" that I may not have yet shared on this thread:

 

Question:   I am being pushed to introduce mirror gazing into my practices.

 

 

Answer:   No, in my experience, there is no serious hazard or danger in doing mirror meditative gazing (as described in the Castaneda books...during those hours that he or don Juan described as the "crack between two worlds")--unless: (a) one is abusing drugs or alcohol and/or (b) one has a severe personality disorder or borderline psychosis or worse, to begin with.I have been practicing Chinese martial, yogic, and healing arts for 49 years and teaching them since 1983. My 3 specialties are Yang style Tai Chi Chuan and 2 authentic and complete Taoist monastic systems of martial, yogic and healing arts. In one of them, called Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method), after one has learned all the 5 animal kung fu forms (different from Shaolin 5 animals) and have mastered 4 increasingly powerful systems of Taoist Yoga, the 5th level meditations called the "9 Flowers" permanently relaxes and transforms the way that the person has been conditioned to see and uphold the consensus reality. I will give a partial spoiler: in the midst of this Taoist Yoga, while doing 9 exercises in front of a mirror, sooner or later, one suddenly sees one's karmic past lives change on one's face with every breath. One also begins to see any person's karmic past lives (and sometimes even progressive lives ) change on their face with every breath. One also is able to "see" the psychology of a person, and also his/her spirit. In high-level Chinese and Indian yogas preserved in warrior and priestly traditions, one also regularly sees discorporated entities. Yes, there are entities and there are possessions. This 9 Flowers Yoga is so power that if one were to practice it between the hours of 5 to 7pm standard time, one will die. Simple as that. The part of the "shift" into "seeing" that I'm not spoiling is describing how the colors that normally sees day to day transforms when one is in the mode of "seeing."

Also, btw, should one's vision ever shift to soft, gray-pink spongy finely black mottled cloud with no depth-of-field whatsoever, you are in serious trouble with organ failure having begun and will die if not treated by a great and saintly healer. Hong Kong kung fu films since the 60's ACCURATELY depict the hero's POV as he is dying in the scene defending his cause or protecting innocents or whatever. I can attest that that special effect in the 60's and 70's Run Run Shaw movies from Hong Kong accurate depict one's vision when one is in systemic alarm during one's death throes. Complete and authentic Chinese martial arts traditions will initiate an advanced student to the next level of Power by letting the student slowly experience his very own process of dying--brought on by an internal energy blow (using pure Qi and not physical force or "li") that gravely unbalances the energy system of the body, normally by infusing an organ or orb with a quanta of externally cultivated energy. That is how, in Chinese martial arts, a striving student is subtly compassionately bush-whacked into "using Death as an advisor." Like any near-death experiencer, once one feels one organ system shut down after another...and see the lights literally slowly go out--but then is brought back by a true master's Qi and Shen, one's island of the tonal is significantly cleaned, to say the least.

The other system of Taoist hygienics I preserve (solely, btw) is called Ehrmei mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong and it is a completely different system of hygienics with different yogic methodology. it also induces "seeing" at higher levels of practice. But the shift in seeing is not as dramatic as that brought on by the TTP 9 Flowers. http://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

This is a very long-winded way of telling you that, based on my experience, there is absolutely nothing dangerous about mirror gazing as described by Castaneda. We in Taoist traditions do it in a seated meditation position (half lotus normally) with a white candle placed between us and the mirror. Enjoy using Castaneda's methods of the polishing of your doors of perception. Once one's will or psychic focus ("Shen" in Chinese) is developed, one can hold a karmic past self in focus and commune with it, or one can talk to the spirit that stands behind another person--whether that person knows he/she has one or not.

 

Happy Holidays to all.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

 

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7 hours ago, Felecula said:

Hi! Today I was doing FP and my legs were feeling carbonated. It was like energy was bubbling in them, if that makes sense. I'm hoping it's a good sign! 

 

This was the practice I was doing: https://youtu.be/JlVGrCW0QqI

Hi Felecula!

"Carbonated" sounds good to me! --i.e., you experiencing good results from the capstone Long Form Standing Meditation.  You're the first practitioner in all the years I've been doing and teaching FP Qigong (since 1991) to use the word "carbonated" to describe the allostatic energization.  Thank you for that contribution!

Keep on practicing the Long Form capstone (eventually, no pressure, try doing 2 rounds back to back with any duration of a break in between).   That will accelerate your cultivation so that you'll eventually feel carbonated form head to toe.  He carbonation of the ALL the matter inside the skull, as described in previous posts over the years, is absolutely sublime and blissful.  GM Doo Wai accurately described it as a "washing" sensation.  I can attest that it's a deep, gentle cycle.

 

Happy Holidays.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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23 hours ago, Earl Grey said:

Clarifying with Sifu Terry brings this: earplugs are fine, ambient music or sound in the background is fine.

 

Earphones, however, due to radiation in them, are probably not a good idea due to structural sensitivity when doing Flying Phoenix.

Hi Earl Grey,

Thank you for your good answers to Zouina's question about wearing earphones while practicing FP Qigong.

 

In general, it's best to practice in silence when one is learning the FP Qigong meditations.  Once one has memorized the breath control sequences and can perform the postures or choreographies of the moving meditations with eyes closed and has become "saturated" and familiar with the specific energizing and rejuvenating effects of each FP meditation, then it's fine to have ambient noise or music in the background or coming in through earphones.  However, it's not optimal to be wearing earphones and filling your auditory channel with info while learning FP Qigong and feeling its effects at the onset.  One of the effects of any form of meditation is to "clean the doors of perception" as per Aldous Huxley (which, btw, is how the 60's rock group The Doors got its name), and FP Qigong is one helluva cleanser that you don't want to obstruct.

 

Another reminder of the warning that I've posted throughout the years of this thread:  be sure to practice in a quiet and secluded space free of any forms of interruption in any form.  But by all means, do not ever practice in a space and time where you can be bumped, knocked, physically impinged upon in any way, for being jolted while in the deeply relaxed allostatic state induced by the FP qigong where every organ system is sensitized will damage your body's internal energy system and cause serious internal injury and disabilities.

 

Also, while we're on the topic of earphones filling the human auditory channel--and as a basic healthcare tip:  remember NOT to have an active smartphone next to your head or on your body for any extended period.  While there has been no definitive science that has proven any trends of increased head and neck injuries due to cell phone use over the past 20+ years, I believe,  based the science I've read to date, that smartphones today emit more low-frequency non-ionizing radiation than ever before because they are transmitting and receiving more complex data than ever before.  So to be safe, always turn on the speaker mode of your smartphone when conversing or use wired or Bluetooth earphones or  headsets instead of putting the phone next to your ear.  If you have to talk directly into a smartphone, tilt the phone away when you speak and bring it closer when you listen.  That's because a phone emits more radiation when its transmitting data than receiving date.  And every millimeter counts; the emitted radiation  decreases logarithmically the farther away you hold the phone.  [Flashback:  moreover, my accidental research in a Las Vegas hotel casino  back in the early 1990's had me observing hundreds of people coming out of a huge cellphone manufacturers' convention put on by Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Apple, etc....and practically every single person with a visible phone was wearing wired headphones.  I figured then that that  industry knew something about dangers of cellphones that we consumers didn't. ] I still feel the same way today.

 

At any rate, to play it safe, make sure that you practice FP Qigong free of any radiation-emitting electronic devices.

Also, do not practice FP Qigong in any location that is spiritually active--unless you know with absolute certainty that the place is sacred!

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

 

Sifu Terry

 

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On 9/13/2020 at 1:05 AM, centertime said:

I think It would be a good idea to collect what health problems Flying Phoenix helped so far and which exercises were used and how long and make a list/table, may be even a graph.

Some other people did it for other Chi Kung.

 

Hello Centertime,

My apologies for taking one year and 2 months to respond positively to your excellent idea.

But I've been far out of pocket due to my overwhelming work on a massive business project compounded by having to adapt to the "new abnormal" lifestyle brought on late last year by Covid.   I have been slowly catching up on the backlog of good postings and suggestions that have gone unanswered by me or Earl Grey.

 

Taking a survey of all FP Qigong practitioners' healing experiences and mapping what health problems FP Qigong has helped would be a most interesting and valuable record to create for the growth and preservation of the art.  The type of survey I'm thinking of would be professionally designed--as by some one with a Master's in Public Health (MPH) who is good at survey-taking and  biostatistics.

 

I will bring this up with Earl Gray and Dr. Emil Mondoa, one of my workshop students since 2017 who's an emergency room physician in Bear, Delaware.  To anyone else who is in medicine or public health, your ideas and suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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11 hours ago, ridingtheox said:

Day 99 of a long form daily practice.   Each  day  has produced  energy flows that often surprise.    I  will finish very close to my 81st birthday.   Commitment and persistence produce incredible energy.  

 

 

HAPPY 81st BIRTHDAY IN ADVANCE, CHARLIE!!!

 

Sifu Terry

On 11/15/2021 at 2:16 AM, LumenOfTime said:

Hello there!

I would like to ask if one could use FPCK in a somewhat loud environment, as there are often the sounds of cars and loud vehicles across my home. Another question is would it be possible to listen to any music/white noise while doing FPCK?

Hello LumenOfTime,

 

Miffymog, although he started practicing FP Qigong recently, is correct in stating that it's okay to experiment with music and a low level of background white noise when one is practicing FP Qigong.  He also shared his experience of being extra sensitive to background noises when he first started FP Qigong practice.  FP Qigong not only sensitizes hearing, but it does the same in not only restoring, but enhancing the function of all the sensory apparatus:   eyesight, taste, smell, tactility, and the totality of brain function.  All this structural sensitivity is imparted by the process of allostasis that FP Qigong induces in a big way.  That is why I constantly warn and admonish all FP practitioners--at all levels of experience--to always practice is a safe, secluded, quiet environment where there is absolutely no potential or threat of being subjected to loud noise, extreme temperature, or any type external physical contact or impingement.  If you get knocked hard while doing any of the FP meditations, because FP Qigong is so sensitizing and deeply restorative, that impact could seriously damage your internal energy and damage the nervous system and organs.  That is why I haven't certified any instructors in FP Qigong, for any instructor in FP Qigong must be able to heal serious energy sickness---and that requires years of training.

 

When I teach first-time beginners in my classes and workshops or in the first class of my FPCK courses for Emperor's College of TCM, it's always taught indoors and with no music or any other type of sensory stimulation...because I want each student to clearly experience--on a cellular level--how each FP meditation effects his/her mind and energy body.

 

Again, the unique feature of FP Qigong is that it requires no visualization(s) whatsoever to impart its wonderful health benefits.  Once the practitioner is in the correct posture of a particular meditation and has correctly done the breath-control sequence, one can mentally go anywhere and engage in any form of mentation.  One will derive the same restorative, healing effects as anybody else who as done the same FP exercise correctly.  Very, very few Qigong arts--if any-- outside of the Ehrmeishan Bok Fu Pai tradition work this way.

 

Bottom line: background music is fine to play any time one practices FP Qigong, once you've become very familiar with the effects of each FP meditation (become "saturated" in it).  But it is best to practice in silence when one is learning each FP Qigong exercise for the first time.  Of course, if your home /abode has uncontrollable street noise coming in, then you just have adapt to it and find the quietest place in your dwelling to practice.

 

I will add this recommendation, which, to the best of my memory,  I have never made before on this thread nor during my long history of teaching FP Qigong since 1992:  Learn and memorize every exercise in the entire  FP Qigong system in silence and without sensory stimulation--including Moonbeam Splashes on Water (Vol.3) and the capstone Long Form standing meditation (on Volume 4 that bears the name of the system,  the "FPHHCM")--in silence. ( For that is how GM Doo Wai trained me and my classmates in the early 1990's.)  Be able to do every sedentary and moving FP meditation with eyes closed before you start practicing with music or other sounds in the background...so you can feel the full sensitization and parasympathetic tone.

 

Good discussion.

 

Wishing all excellent continuing FP practice.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

 

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On 2/15/2021 at 6:18 PM, Vajra Fist said:

Agree with this completely. Its definitely one of the most uncomfortable ones, in that the breath percentage is easy to mess up, and the arm movement is relatively tiring. But also, I found it quite excellent at breaking down tension in the neck and shoulders. But yes, definitely feels more like a practice session in itself, than a quick and easy warm up.

Hello Vajra Fist,

 

Sorry to take 8 months to reply to you comment, but my life and workload has been that extremely heavy.

 

"But yes, definitely feels more like a practice session in itself, than a quick and easy warm up."

 

In my classes (but not on the DVD volume), I always tell my students in live classes that the 3 "warm-up" meditations (at the start of Vol.2) are not really "warm-ups" per se, but very powerful conditioning exercises.  GM Doo Wai did not refer to them as "warm-ups";  so it was my fault for categorizing them as such for the purposes of the DVD program.  They are different, of course, because they do not involve pre-choreographed sets of movements that are repeated  7x.  But because each one has an esoteric breath-control sequence, especially the 5  60 80 40 30 Med., each is a powerful Qigong practice in and of itself.

 

I hope you are continuing to practice this particular meditation along with the other 2 "warm-ups".

 

Sifu Terry

 

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On 9/25/2020 at 3:11 PM, asavakkhaya said:

Today I received Vol 1 & 2 and started of with learning BTB. It felt great!

 

But a question came up. Is it ok to wear gloves when practicing forms where the fingers usually touch? I like to practice in the forest, but it's getting colder nowadays. So without gloves my hands get a little cold. That in itself is not a problem for me, but i suspect cold hands might be bad energetically while doing FP.

Asavakkhaya,
So sorry to take a year and one month to answer your question...but here it is:  It's quite alright to wear gloves while practicing for several reasons:  

1.  For the vast majority of FP Qigong practitioners, covering on the hands will not reduce the neuro-physiological and energy effects of the various mudras one is assuming.
2.  If there is any diminishment of the yogic effects of particular exercise, that is a nominal price to pay to void exposing oneself to cold wind, cold rain or freezing elements while one is in the highly sensitive and vulnerable allostatic condition induced by the FP meditations.

3.   The circulatory benefits of FP Qigong will warm up cold hands under normal circumstances over time or, for many, instantaneously.

Again exposing oneself to extreme cold is not advised under an circumstances, especially while doing FP Qigong.

 

btw, there are certain Qigong exercises in other systems such as in Tao Tan Pai Basic 31 Meditations, in which one uses shen Qi to direct energy to specific parts of the body such as the spine, the head, or (most frequently) the hands.  FP Qigong  warms or cools the entire body uniformly as needed to bring it back to homeostasis.

 

Let us know how you are doing with FP Qigong during this next cold season.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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Hello again to all Flying Phoenix Qigong practitioners:

 

Next Friday through Sunday, October 1 through 3,  I will be teaching my first 3-day FP Qigong workshop since October of 2019.  This first workshop of 2021 will be on Flying Phoenix Qigong and will cover all the FP meditations on Volumes 1 through 7 of the Chi Kung For Health DVD series.

 

Zoom participation:

Although the vast majority of FPCK subscribers live outside of New England--and the U.S., for that matter, I want you all to be aware of this workshop because all eight of its 2-hour sessions can be accessed via Zoom at the lowest tuition ever.   This workshop will be an excellent opportunity to give yourself the immersive experience of FP Qigong practice--6 hours on Friday, 6 hours on Saturday and 4 hours of training on Sunday.  All joining us via Zoom can ask all the questions they want to ask about FP Qigong training, plus all participants will receive feedback on their Qigong form throughout the workshop by yours truly.

As participants in my 3 weekly Zoom classes (FP Qigong, Tao Tan Pai Basic 31 Meditations,  and Yang Tai Chi Chuan) since Feb. 2020 know, the normal class fees for a single 2-hour class is $40; an 8-class series costs $280; the  16-class series is $500.  But for this coming weekend's workshop, as indicated below in purple text, the entire training of 8 two-hour sessions can be taken for $210, or any individual class can be accessed for $30. 

 

Below is the information pasted from my Newsletter,  terencedunn.substack.com

 

I hope to see many of you there online next Friday.  If you questions about the workshop training, feel free to post questions here.   

                                                                                                                                                               

mitakuye oyasin

("Lakota prayer that means "To all my relations" or "All are related" or "Help and health to all my brothers and sisters") 

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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A.   OCT. 1 - 3: FLYING PHOENIX HEALING QIGONG

(“Fei Feng San Gung”) is a rare and powerful medical Qigong system that was created more than 400 years ago by renowned Taost monk Feng Dao Deh of Ehrmeishan that normally imparts tangibly energizing and rejuvenating effects and deep meditative states of consciousness with remarkable swiftness--within 40 to 60 minutes of practice.  In this workshop, you will learn 80% of this authentic Taoist monastic system of hygienics –comprised of 8 standing and 24 seated, stationary and moving meditations that imparts a wide range of salient health benefits: improved respiration, circulation, metabolism, neuro-muscular function, balance, flexibility; higher energy levels, increased bone strength, stronger immunity, and the allostatic reversal of many signs of aging. (Time limitation of a weekend workshop permits only 7 of the 8 Standing meditations and only 8 or 9 of the 24 “Monk Serves Wine” seated meditations to be taught.)

 

Flying Phoenix Qigong imparts its remarkable health benefits through a yogic mechanism that brings all the organ functions of the body under the regulation of the subconscious mind. In each Flying Phoenix Meditation, this super-regulating process and energy cultivation is brought on by (A) an easy-to-do breath-control formula followed by (B) a meditation in repose or a serene moving meditation using repetitive natural movements that are done three times slower than typical Tai Chi form speed. The esoteric breathing formula that precedes each Flying Phoenix meditation ignites a specific flow of Qi in the body; the concomitant posture and movements circulate this Qi through specific orbs of the body. A unique feature of this yogic mechanism is that it requires no visualization whatsoever. Flying Phoenix Qigong is easier to learn and practice than Tai Chi and its health benefits are tangible, visible, profound, and more immediate.  Practitioners have found that the most remarkable quality of Flying Phoenix Qigong is that it s allostatic (restorative) effects continue long after one’s practice has ceased.

"Flying Phoenix Qigong practice significantly elevates parasympathetic tone.  90 minutes of practice of this Qigong is restorative in real time and over time afterwards."                                                           ^{--– Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, M.D., M.P.H., IOC Dip. Sp. Med.  Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Public  Health Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology}

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                                    Workshop schedule:   

This weekend workshop consists of 8 two-hour sessions with 3 sessions on Friday, 3 on Saturday, and 2 on Sunday at these times:

Friday:  11am - 1pm; 3pm - 5pm; 7pm - 9pm

Saturday:  10am - noon; 3pm - 5pm; 7pm - 9pm

Sunday:  10am - noon; 2pm - 4pm

Tuition:

$295 early registration

$330    day of workshop

$45      for each of the eight 2-hour sessions ($40 / session prepaid) 

** Zoom participation:  $30 per 2-hour session or $210 / all 8 sessions

• Please send payment via Paypal (to [email protected]) or via Zelle (to [email protected]) •

Rooms:  

There are only 3 rentable rooms at Tao Retreat:

One room with bathroom:  $350 / day

Two rooms with a shared. bathroom:  $248 / day

Ten floor beds in the main tea house / event hall:  $60 / night

[Room or floor bed rent includes each day’s meals]

 

•• However, there are plenty of comfortable bed & breakfast inns and resorts in and around the town of Catskill. For example, Wolff's Maple Breeze Resort:   https://www.greatnortherncatskills.com/resorts-lodging/wolffs-maple-breeze-resort

Meals:

2  excellent meals plus one smoothie or light soup before sleep.

• Meals are included with room or floor bed rentals   • Meal plan for non-residents:   $50 per day.

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BTW, the chef at Tao Retreat cooks authentic  Xichuan cuisine that I consider the best I've had in America (and I've had a lot of great Chinese food in my lifetime).  No exaggeration.  Imho, the food alone is worth going to Tao Retreat!  :0)

And for those not partial to excellent Chinese food, there are many restaurants nearby, ranging from nice Italian and seafood restaurants to fast food.
 

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Long term Flying Phoenix practice activates man’s latent healing potential and cultivates a tangible superabundance—a reserve—in the body of the distinctive Flying Phoenix Healing Qi (Energy) that has extraordinary healing properties and behavior unlike the energy generated by any other form of Yoga.  In the course of providing a wide range of splendid health benefits, Flying Phoenix Qigong’s yogic methodology integrates mind and body so swiftly and deeply that it develops a high degree of structural sensitivity that imbues the practitioner with access to deeper levels of jhanic absorption (i.e., supramundane consciousness often described as “At-One-ment” and what in Hinduism yoga practitioners call “Samadhi”, as described in Patanjali’s ancient ashtanga yoga texts). This access to samadhic states provided by Flying Phoenix Qigong naturally carries over and can enhance other methods of meditation.

In 1997, after a workshop I gave in St. Paul, MN, Prof. Fred Underwood, who had recently retired as chairman of Indo-Tibetan Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and an expert in meditation and yogas, commented that Flying Phoenix Qigong imparts the “physiological or kinetic component of bliss or enlightenment,” and that the Flying Phoenix Qigong experience gave him understanding of what the early Buddhist scriptures mean by “touching Nirvana with your body.”

 

Scenes from past FP qigong workshop sessions:

A.  "Bending the Bows" – a cornerstone basic moving meditation in the Flying Phoenix Qigong system:      

 

B.  Monk Gazing At the Moon – the keystone meditation of the FP Qigong system:  

https://www.facebook.com/terence.dunn/videos/10217924053044659

 

C.   Monk Holding Peach--an extremely easy to do FP Qigong meditation that opens all the energy channels of the body after 10 minutes of practice.

https://www.facebook.com/236579434951/videos/907977532737639
https://www.facebook.com/236579434951/videos/303496763708076

 

D.   And Advanced "Monk Serves Wine" seated meditation (not taught in the CKFH DVD series):
https://www.facebook.com/terence.dunn/videos/10217921403938433

 

E.   An advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong meditation, taught after the Long Form capstone meditation has been well established:

 

 

^{F.   A moving meditation from the extremely rare and powerful "10,000 Buddhas Ascend to Heaven" Qigong system, consisting of 54 exercises, organized in 3 sets of 18 meditations.  Unlike Flying Phoenix Qigong, the energy cultivated in this meditation is not a purely healing energy, but one that can also empower martial arts:}

^{https://www.facebook.com/terence.dunn/videos/10217924083405418}

 

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Art by Hilma af Klint

Greetings Flying Phoenix Qigong practitioners and enthusiasts,

 

This was the order of practice of last Wednesday night's Intermediate Qigong & Kung fu Class, livingstreaming from 6pm EST, which ran 2 hours and 40 minutes

(with Flying Phoenix  form corrections for each individual participant):

 

1.  Tao Tan Pai Cane Form -- 3 rounds

2.  Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga (5 parts)

3.   Instruction in Yang style Tai Chi broadsword form -- 70 min. 

4.  Moonbeam Splashes on Water -- 2 rounds 

5.  "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation"  (Long Form standing meditation, Vol.4) -- 2 rounds

6.  Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong -- Meditations  #1, #2, and #3.

 

Prerequisite for this class is proficiency in the (memorized) practice of all the first 7 FP Qigong  standing meditations (as presented on Volumes 1 and 3 of the Chi Kung For Health DVD series and all of  the 6 seated Monk Serves Wine Meditations as taught on the Volume 2 DVD.  

 

Course content and registration info. for this class is on my Newsletter,   terencedunn.substack.com     

 

mitakuye oyasin                                                                                                                                                                            ("Lakota prayer that means "To all my relations" or "All are related" or "Help and health to all my brothers and sisters") 

 

Sifu Terry

 

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On 8/31/2021 at 8:31 PM, ridingtheox said:

I have been away for  long time.   No good reaso, although the covid-19 contributed..   During that time I did a good bit of yi jin jing,  Shaolin Temple.  I also did the ba duan chin almost daily sometimes more than one style.  And I continued to teach a small class of tai ji in our very rural community of Cascabel,  AZ.  Actually the political situation contributed to a good deal of progress in my practice.  Every time some disturbing development occurred I would do a meditation /  qi gong form or taiji.  the meditative nature of this practice increased for me during the crises.   Limiting the number of types of qi gong has had the effect that monkey mind has receded.  I do catch it also so when I do recognise it I let it go. 

I am writing now because I have begun a gong of (I hope) 108 days every day The Long Form.  Today i completed 23 days of that practice.  I review the long form on youtube in addition to make sure I am being relatively faithful to the one Sifu Dunn teaches.  (there is at least one other example.)   In the past i often reached 35 min per route and occasionally 39!   Today I did 25 min and that is basically what i am doing every day.

 At 80 yo approaching  3^4  heh heh,  I am aging gracefully compared to my peers.   I still do a certain amount of cow herding for our ranching coop,  though I am retired mostly.. 

Well, the principal reason for writing was to acknowledge the gift that Sifu Dunn has contributed to my senior years.   And to encourage members of this forum to keep up their Flying Phoenix practice It really does pay off in physical and in spiritual health.

Hoa Binh

peace is the way

 

 

Dear Charlie,

I'm so glad to hear that you're doing well and have been keeping holistically fit with a variety of practices that you've  begun another gung of (you hope) 108 days of doing the Flying Phoenix Long Form Meditation.  I remember back around 2011 when you discovered FP Qigong and first starting posting to this thread.  You shared that you had retired to ranching in northeast Arizona and I recall that because of your extensive background in Tai Chi, you went straight to teaching yourself the  Long Form standing meditation using Volume 4 of the DVD series...  and that doing the Long Form twice a day was all that you needed to fuel your day-to-day ranching activities.  Your enthusiasm and compelling reports of the initial fruits of your FP Qigong practice were most gratifying for me to hear as a teacher and very inspiring of others, who would delve into the FP Qigong system at least as far as the Volume 4 Long Form meditation, which is the capstone exercise of the Flying Phoenix system.  Your early testimonial was one of several that at that time caused this thread to take off in terms of interesting and high quality contributions, and caused, I believe, hundreds--if not thousands-- of people to explore the Flying Phoenix.  Likewise, I believe that  your present encouragement of FPCK subscribers to keep up their Flying Phoenix practice will be well heeded!

 

I wish I was back in SoCal so that you could visit my classes when you were in the region as in the past, but I will continue to teach in New England due to new opportunities opening up here for me--after long efforts-- to get FP Qigong (and also Tao Tan Pai Qigong) researched and studied by hard science.  More on these developments later as this research gets established. 

 

Meanwhile, I continue to teach Flying Phoenix Qigong in a weekly 2-hour Zoom class on Sundays from 4pm-6pm EST, which I started in March 2020 at the start of the first pandemic lockdown.  This class combines a 30-min. practice of the Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga (5 qigong exercises) as a foundational catalyst (and warmup) that enhances and prolongs the healing and rejuvenating effects of the following 90 minutes of FP Qigong.  The powerful synergies have been attested to by all practitioners who've taken the course.  More details and sign-on info for this class (and for my 2 other classes and upcoming 3-day workshops) is on my Newsletter:   terencedunn.substack.com

 

Peace is indeed the way.

All the best.

 

Sifu Terry

 

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

On 1/15/2021 at 6:37 AM, Astral_butterfly said:

 

FPCK resulting meditative state is my elixir and I use it preciously. My cat recently went missing and I sought help in my meditative state. I was promised his return with certain details and it happened exactly as in my vision within the FPCK meditation. For nearly 3 weeks of him going missing I was serene thanks to this. I know exactly when the meditative state is upon me and I mostly just chill but sometimes I use it like with my cat.

 

Edit: I feel the chi bubbling like a small spa in my LDT when it is activated. Sometimes I get this outside of the meditation too.

 

HI ASTRAL B. (ADHI),

Sorry to take 7 months to read your posting and to finally reply.

 

Wonderful that your FP Qigong practice facilitates deep meditative states in which you can extend your consciousness far beyond the limits or boundaries imposed by the consensus reality.

 

"SPA" CONGRATULATIONS!   Your experience of "chi bubbling like a small spa in my LDT" is a sign proper cultivation in Qigong--both in Tao Tan Pai Qigong and Flying Phoenix Qigong. I experienced the "full bubbly spa" in the early 1980's when I was practicing only Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung and Yang Tai Chi Chuan.  So I knew then  that it was due to the TTP pracice.   And yes, the warm roiling action of chi in the "cauldron" of the tan tien can also occur spontaneously when you're not practicing the Qigong.

 

Keep up the good practice.  See you in Zoom class soon.

 

Sifu Terry

Note to all FP practitioners:

 

Just a reminder that MSW#3 on Vol.2--the seated Meditation 90 80 50 20, aa the "Waker Upper"--should NOT be done at night time--especially by beginners--if they intend to go to sleep at their usual, regular time.  It is best done by everyone in the morning for an alert and productive.  Otherwise, they will be in for a rude insomnia.

On 1/1/2020 at 1:41 PM, virtue said:

It's 100% non-serious horsing around by yours truly. Nothing to get offended for, and no disrespect meant or implied.

One year and 190+ days after this post, I finally read for the first time that little discussion following Virtue's reposting here of my answer to his question on PM regarding holding the tongue on the roof of the mouth during FP Qigong practice...and I just want to say that I at first reading, I certainly did not take the slightest offense to Virtue's referring to me as "Lord of the manor" or as anything but fun jocular and horsing around, which I kinda enjoy.  Not only was it fun and harmless, but I recall that Virtue's postings of questions were always good ones that furthered the discussion of better FP Qigong practice. 

 

So if you'll want to have a contest blogsite-wide to come up with new jocular monikers for me, each time I answer a post, knock yourselves out!!!

 

Sifu Terry

 

 

P.S.  btw, Virtue, FYI, I am NOT actually "the great 'Zen-Bear'"--even though I picked  that as my screenname when i was asked to join this thread in 2009 by "Fu_doggy."  Remember what Alfred J. Korzypski taught all sane people to maintain their sanity:  "WORDS ARE NOT THINGS; ONLY THE THING IS THE THING."   The name "Zen-Bear" was there, as I created it in 1991,  but the actual personage by the name of Zen-Bear has yet to enter into our culture or zeitgeist and therefore has not begun to transform consciousness to any significant--or even the slightest-- extent.   But if you want to see the actual Zen-Bear v1.0, v2.0 , v3.0 and v.4.0 , you can find each one at various points along this Timeline Exhibit that I created around 2013 and updated in 2016.  But Zen-Bear v?.0 will finally make a full-fleshed entrance onto the earth plane, possibly later this year.  Definitely by next year.  So in the meantime and for all time,  you and all Daobums doing FP Qigong,  may refer to me as the "Progenitor of the great Zen-Bear."   Here is the proof of Zen-Bear's, the original Kung Fu Panda's, pedigree:

 

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

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com

On 12/28/2020 at 12:04 AM, ChiGungPractitioner73 said:

I practiced Monk Gazing at the Moon for 12 mins (after dark) while actually gazing at the moon for the first time: Wow! Felt like the posture was supercharged, went home and did 18 reps of BTB (21 minutes, so faster than recommended), Monk Holding the Peach and Wind Above the Clouds. I felt an emptiness in my Hui-Yin area afterwards, which is a feeling I've only gotten from doing the BFSYG Level 1 Long Form before. My hips also moved frictionlessly from side to side, which I've only experienced once before, after one of Sifu Terry's Tai Chi Chuan classes where we did 1 hour and 45 mins of warm-ups before we got into the form, making it feel very smooth and natural.

 

If you haven't tried actually looking at a nearly full moon while doing MGAM, do it! It'll empower the whole rest of your practice session.

Hi CGP,
Sorry to take so long to reply, but's been a rough winter and spring filled with many obstacles to my teaching coming from weird quarters.  But I'm glad to hear that you've been experiencing profound channel-opening effects from the FP Qigong and Monk Gazing At Moon in particular--AND from MGAM while gazing at the moon.  There is a saying in the Chinese arts, especially in kung fu:  "The secret is always found in the beginning."

Good that you have BFSYG practice to compare FP Qigong to.  Keep up the good practice and get deeply into "Moonbeam Splashes on Water" and then capstone Long Form standing Meditation taught on Vol.4 o the dvd series.

 

Regards,

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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^{terencedunn.substack.com}

 

On 5/16/2021 at 9:48 PM, Eduardo said:

Hello everybody.

 

Yesterday I received the Sang Gong DVD from GM Doo Wai, I practiced the first form for 18 times and I felt that it is a very brother system of the FPQ, I felt that I was cultivating the special chi of the system and my daily meditation deepened.

I would love for Master Terry Dunn to make a DVD of that subsystem.

 

Greetings.

Hello Eduardo,

It's good that you exposed yourself to the 10 San Gong Meditations of Feng Do Duk that features GM Doo Wai demonstrating them.  Know that the 10 San Gung Meds are an advanced practiced and are much more easier learned and memorized and also have greater effect once you have learned the more basic sister arts like FP Qigong or Sunn Yi Gung that Sifu Garry Hearfield teaches.  Also, FP Qigong has 24 seated "Monk Serves Wine Meditations" that are all powerful and profound and of which more thjan 1/2 have beautiful complex choreography.  I have only published 8 of the 24 MSW meditations on my CKFH DVD series.  Serious students have to study with me in person to learn the rest of the sytem and to have their "Moonbeam" meditation and their capstone "Long Form Standing Meditation" (taught on Vol.4) corrected.  Or in some rare cases, I will teach an intermediate or advanced student via Skype or Zoom.  All that is to say that once one learn the entire FP System, the 10 San Gung Meditations are much easier to learn and memorize.

 

But if you have the drive and discipline to practice each one 18X per set on a regular basis as GM Doo Wai prescribes on the video, then you can effectively learn the 10 SG Meditations that way and derive great benefits.  As long as you do sets of 18 reps, you cannot go wrong.  But anyway you look at it, the effects of the 10 SG Meds are much more powerful, profound, and transformative  once you have FP Qigong or/and Sunn Yi Gung under your belt.

 

And yes, I am thinking of doing a video teaching the 10 SG Meditations.  Over the past year, I've reviewing and refining my practice of SG Meds. 1 through 9.  I'm now just starting to review and wipe the cob webs off of the  tenth one, the Eight Goddesses Heavenly Form, which is the doozey.  What I know as one of most complex meditations i have eve seen in my career in Chinese martial and yogic arts.  [The only thing that rivals it are a few of the Golden Flying Phoenix meditations, which I know with pretty good certainty that NO ONE is ready for it at this time....because practicing Golden Flying Phoenix is still a breath-taking, mind-bending stretch for me!]  To be honest, I have to practice the Heavenly Goddess Form for about 6 more months before I feel it will be ready for public demonstration.  Because it's been so long--25 years since learned it in 1996 from GMDW, and i've developed so much in the Bok Fu Pai arts, in Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung, and in Cheng Man-Ching's Tai Chi, my practice of 8 Goddesses Heavenly Form now barely resembles how I practiced it when I first learned it.  Back then, my practice looked "wooden"--and  nothing like GM Doo Wai's demo.  Now it looks fluid and  substantially similar to GM Doo Wai's level of nuanced GUNG.

Enjoy your practice.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

terencedunn.substack.com  (for info on my weekly 2-hour Zoom classes)

On 5/10/2021 at 3:37 AM, BluePhoenix133 said:

I have been doing the second and third meditation on DVD 7 consecutively allot recently... its seems to have loosened me up and made more flexible as well as giving me other health benefits.

Hello BP,

But make sure you continue top practice the standing meditations, especially the longer moving meditations, Moonbeam Splashes On Water" and the Long Form standing Meditation (Vol.4).  As I've stated many times in this thread, altough the seated "Monk Serves Wine" meditations seem more affective--i.e., one feels more tangible energization in the torso, hands and especially the head, the standing FP Meditations are MORE POWERFUL.  GM Doo Wai always reminded us of this fact.  So as you continue to explore the lovely seated MSW meditations, empower them further by doing the more advanced standing moving meditations.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

On 12/28/2020 at 12:04 AM, ChiGungPractitioner73 said:

I practiced Monk Gazing at the Moon for 12 mins (after dark) while actually gazing at the moon for the first time: Wow! Felt like the posture was supercharged, went home and did 18 reps of BTB (21 minutes, so faster than recommended), Monk Holding the Peach and Wind Above the Clouds. I felt an emptiness in my Hui-Yin area afterwards, which is a feeling I've only gotten from doing the BFSYG Level 1 Long Form before. My hips also moved frictionlessly from side to side, which I've only experienced once before, after one of Sifu Terry's Tai Chi Chuan classes where we did 1 hour and 45 mins of warm-ups before we got into the form, making it feel very smooth and natural.

 

If you haven't tried actually looking at a nearly full moon while doing MGAM, do it! It'll empower the whole rest of your practice session.

Hi CGP73,

Thanks for your post and suggesting that others practice--as I have often suggested--Monk Gazing At the Moon while actually gazing at the moon.  that is not a contemporary or variant practice.  But rather that is a classical, orthodox practice of this exercise and of this Bok Fu Pai tradition.  I have posted in earlier years and want to re-emphasize here that FP Qigong and other Bok Fu Pai meditation systems do NOT utilize or operate according to the cosmology or energy roadmaps of Trad. Chinese Medicine.  We only consider the position of the sun or the moon./  No visualization and no mental imaging of anything is necessary for attaining optimum health and spiritual benefits.

 

Continue to enjoy your practice!

 

Sifu Terry

 

www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html

On 9/13/2020 at 2:43 AM, centertime said:

Well they do not seem to have the same effect in my experience.

MOnk Serving Wine - seems to generate purple energy

The rest seems to generate neon blue energy.

The position of hands seems to affect the area nearby the hands.

Monk Looking at Moon... - head,eyes....neck...

It is possible that in the long run, they will flow...

When hands touch, in those positions, there is a loop made from hands that seems to have an extra stabilising effect.

 

 

 

Hello Centertime,

 

I'm so sorry to have been away from the thread for so long a time.

But I'm very glad to hear that you've experienced and are seeing the neon blue Flying Phoenix Healing Qi. That is a clear sign of the FP Qigong having its fine transformative effect on your health and conciousness.

 

Great that you are also seeing purple energy while  doing the Monk Serving wine seated meditation(s).  Purple is a common experience because with the concentration of Qi circulating through  the upper body in the seated meds.--through what in TCM would be called the microcosmic orbit--activates the higher chakras such as the throat, brow, and crown chakras.  The color of the petals spinning at the crown chakra is, of course, purple.

 

The other more advanced seated meditation sets int eh Bok Fu Pai tradition--e.g., Feng Dao Teh's 10 San Gung Meditations and The Golden Flying Phoenix Meditations--also bring on the purple energy and does so more deeply.

 

The position of hands seems to affect the area nearby the hands.

Monk Looking at Moon... - head,eyes....neck...

It is possible that in the long run, they will flow...

 

Yes, normally pretty soon after doing the FP standing meds. for a few weeks--and sometimes for just a few days of regular practice--one experiences this kind of energy "unification":   anytime the practitioner moves the arms and hands through different heights during an FP meditation--from below the hips to the above the head-- he/she will feel the energy in the body mass and in the head at the same level of the hands being moved or intensified.  Yes, that is why Monk Holding the Peach (90 50 40 20 10) is done with the tips of the thumb and first 3 fingers of one hand are touching those of the other hand on the centerline of the body.   

 

When hands touch, in those positions, there is a loop made from hands that seems to have an extra stabilising effect.

 

In more advanced levels of  FP and Bok Fu Pai seated meditations, the hands are held touch each other while holding identical mudras.  And there are highly refined upper body  postures where each hand is holding a different mudra--e.g., in Red Lotus Flying Phoenix seated Meds., there is a posture where on hand is vertical in the "Willow Leaf Palm" position, while the other is underneath it holding what the Indians call the "Gyana" mudra. 

 

Thanks for sharing your observations during practice.

 

Regards,

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

 

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On 12/10/2020 at 8:53 AM, Astral_butterfly said:

Hi everyone 

 

I have been very bad at keeping on cultivating but now for the first time I have managed to keep it up for four months and I plan on progressing past exclusive practice of Monk Holds Pearl.

 

What baffles me is that it is true that just one meditation has wonderful benefits. What is even more baffling is that today I noticed I have new baby hairs growing out in areas where my hair is normally white. The baby hairs are dark. I notice that I have more such hairs growing on my scalp. So my hair is not only thickening, it is growing out dark. I didn't except this so soon. 

 

Just putting it here for those of you who might need the inspiration.

Hi Astral Butterfly,

Thanks for sharing your experience with your revitalized  hair and increased new hair growth.  This is a commonly reported side effect and wonderful benefit of FP Qigong practice.  Just as frequently reported is smoother skin and the accelerated growth of toe nails and fingernails, with the increase in the speed of toenail growth greater than the  increase in the speed of fingernail growth.

 

I started experiencing the disappearance of gray hairs and the growth of new, firm strands of jet black hair in my late 50's each time I practiced FP Qigong for more than an hour.  And as I described in the early years of this thread, every time I practiced 2 seated Monk Serves Wine meditations back to back in the same practice, I would feal my hair follicles recharge in mass  and also fee; tje entire surface of the scalp become sublimely charged in a way that felt electro-chemical.

 

Thanks again for posting this very real and pleasant side-effect of correctly practicing FP Qigong.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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On 9/26/2020 at 2:59 AM, shunka said:

I just recieved Chigung for Health and TaiChi for health, will be working with them and try to report back.

 

asavakkhaya - Hopefully Sifu Terry will come by soon.

 

I cannot answer for him, but I find that in other styles, it is sometimes important to separate the fingers and at

other times cup them together. So  I find that wearing a stocking hat helps keep my hands & feet warm.

But if that doesn't work I got some inexpensive fleece mittens and even tho I cannot see my fingers,

I can splay them or whatever is needed for the form.

 

walk in beauty

shunka

Hi Shunka,

 

Thanks for your observation about how in other styles, one separates the fingers at times and closes the fingers while slightly cupping the palms at other times.  The slight spreading of the fingers occurs with a Yang expansive movement;  cupping the palms occurs with Yin movements.

 

As an example that demonstrates this coordination of the fingers is found in other Chinese internal energy arts:

I will describe this total body coordination involving spreading the fingers that is done in Yang Tai Chi Chuan forms that I practice:  when doing  "Wave Hands Like Clouds" stepping sideways to the left 3 times, after one places the left foot down, one shifts one's weight to it (and "sinks his ribs into the left arch" to relax and plug into the earth) while "holding the ball" on the right side with left forearm on top. Then, while keeping the left arch "sucking" the earth, you crunch your left toes downward as you turn the waist to the left.  As you turn the waist left and float the ball from your right side to your left side, your left palm expands with Qi and the fingers separate.

 

Walk on!

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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On 9/22/2020 at 7:33 PM, BluePhoenix133 said:

Hello, i just did bending the bows 9 reps took a lil break then 18 reps, still suprises me that it makes me sweat as i am not a very sweaty person usually... also after doing 18 reps my feet get a bit numb and tingly perhaps i am misaligned or something.

What i wanted to ask is something i have already asked before but i dont think i ever got an answer, on DVD 3 the 2nd and last meditation there is a bit where you lean forward and to the right with arms outstretched and as you come back you draws your arms in with palms facing each other.

This is done three times and afterwards you do the same movement except clench your fists instead of palms facing each other however this is only done twice.

Are these meant to be done the same amount of times and if so is it twice or three times?

BluePhoenix,

I movements you describedm are in the last moving meditation on Vol.3 called "Moonbeam Splashes On Water".

After holding the "Willow Leaf" palm with the left hand at the heart while shifted back on the right leg and facing the front right corner, you turn right 45 degrees and press your left palm on the right palm forming an "X"--exactly like the "Press" posture in Yang style Tai Chi.  When you press, you shift forward bringing weight to the right leg and right knee lines up with the vertical up of the toes.
The you shift to the left leg, looking down the right normal and the palms face each other as your shiftihg back pulls them towards the heart.  Then you shift to the right and repeat the press.  This Press (left palm on the right) is done a total of 3 times.  As you press, you keep the back upright;  don't lean.

Then they are followed by two Pushes --where the hands push from the shoulders with the hands at shoulders' width and the forearms parall.  This "Push" is done two times.  Each time you sit back on the left leg before you push, you curl the fingers into light fists with the fingernails facing downward.  As the right knee shifts over the toes, you open the hands to the Push position--just as in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan forms.
In "Moonbeam" on Vol.3 you do 3 Presses followed by 2 Pushes.  That's the classical choreography created in 1644.

In the Vol.4 Long From standing meditation called "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation", one does  two Presses and one rolling Push.

 

Hope this clarifies.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn

 

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On 9/18/2020 at 5:32 PM, Takingcharge said:

yeah the reason i asked was because i reached out to him a few weeks ago as was adviced, that he might be able to referr me to someone that could help me with an entity issue,

 

but it looks like he hasnt visited back yet

 

 

Hello TakingCharge,

I'm sorry for the long absence from the FPCK thread.  But I am finally back and steadily catching up on all postings. Dunn

If you want to post an question regarding FP Qigong and the entity issue, go head.  Or you can send me an email to my Daobums mailbox.

 

Sifu Terry Dunn