Eastern Training

Would you like to deal more intelligently with stress?

Would you like to be capable of a greater degree of relaxation?

Would you like the skills to balance your mind and body and restore health?

The following is a brief overview of some of the concepts covered in a Qi Development Program:

The word Qigong (pronounced chee kung) is a combination of two ideas:

• "Qi" means air, breath of life, or vital energy of the body
• "gong" means the skill of working with, or cultivating, self-discipline and achievement.

The methods of Qigong include:

• Physical Movement
• Breathing Exercises
• Mind-Body Integration
• Meditation
• Relaxation

Practitioners of Qigong develop an awareness of the qi sensations (energy) in their body and use their mind to guide the Qi. When the practitioners achieve a sufficient skill they can direct or emit external Qi for the purpose of healing others.

Imagine your computer or TV. Without electricity it does not operate. Chi is like electricity for your body.

When the qi in you and around you is flowing smoothly, you will experience states of calmness and awareness. This reduces stress, relaxes you deeply, and balances your mind and body.

The Mind-Body connection refers to the ability for you to move while attending to your form and posture, staying mindful and present in your body, staying alert to your internal sensations and external environment, all the while keeping your breath slow, deep and steady.

The following is a brief overview of some of the concepts covered in the Qi Development Program:

• Learn fundamentals of anatomy, physiology and chi development
• Prevent burnout through increased sensitivity to energetic blockages in your physical, mental and emotional self
• An increased sensitivity to internal and external energetic conditions
• Enhance your ability to direct chi as a healing energy for yourself and others
• Assess and determine imbalances in your body
• Mobilize the various tissues and systems of your body to release bindings, blockages, and toxins
• Learn proper alignments for ease of movement and proper chi/energetic flow
• Learn to balance, stabilize, and rejuvenate your holistic self
• Build upon and compliment your existing treatment modalities
• Learn new tools and techniques that complement your existing fitness workout
• Increase your vitality by relieving emotional, mental, and physical stress
• Relieving muscle tension, and ease joint and back problems
• Learn to balance your energy to cope with stressful fluctuations
• Increase your body-mind integration
• Increase your vital breathing capacity
• Reverse the aging process through energizing the joints, organs, spine, & brain
• Breathing biomechanics and techniques to reduce stress and increase breath capacity

Benefits for Hands-on Healers:

Overall:

• Stabilize your own chi allowing you to be more effective
• Distinguish subtle differences in energy in yourself and others
• Target your intentions more effectively
• Restore the energy in your nerves, spine, & tissues
• Use chi to allow your healing intent to take hold at deeper levels
• Exert less effort
• Use chi to help hand manipulations penetrate deeper
• Push and pull energy in and out of your body
• Manipulate energy skillfully
• Personal physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual development leads to professional development
• Prevent physical and emotional burnout and the taking on of another's energy
• Understand others through understanding yourself
• Assess your internal alignments and keep them effective
• Mobilize tissues to release blocked & bound energy
• Balance any disturbances in your energy flow

For the beginner:

• Release accumulating tensions after working with clients
• Prevent burnout by maximizing your own health
• Learn how to absorb and release chi
• Energize your body systems
• Use chi to penetrate tissues rather then muscular effort

When increasing breathing capacity:

• Calm the central nervous system
• Release psycho-emotional traumas
• Cleans every cell
• Move chi easily with every breath

When cultivating Qi Awareness

• Energetically connect your arms and legs to your trunk
• Learn alignments to help maintain the flow of chi
• Learn how to release congested fluids from your arms and legs
• Increase internal sensitivity

When cultivating Spinal Chi Awareness

• Open and clear deep energy channels, gaining access to a stronger flow of chi
• Strengthen your spine and nervous system & build powerful energy for healing
• Clear deep internal blockages through conscious activation of your cerebral spinal fluid

When cultivating Full Body Qi

• Learn more advanced chi development
• Stabilize your chi at the deepest levels

Benefits for Sport or Martial Arts:

• Learn how to protect your joints
• Gain insight into how to develop a stable base or root
• Learn to move laterally without injuring the knee joint
• Develop power in a relaxed fashion
• Free yourself from hesitation
• Repair and healing techniques for coping with injury
• Improve your reflexes & reaction time
• Create a quiet mind for visualization and mental imagery
• Decrease anxiety states and optimize your performance

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My Medical Qigong Therapy training comes from over 25 years of qigong study blended with my Exercise Science knowledge. The core of my MQT training is based upon the curriculum that has been established at the Medical Qigong College at the Hai Dian University and used clinically at the Xi Yuan Medical Qigong Hospital in Beijing, China and offered in North America through the International Institute of Medical Qigong and Empty Mountain.

Emphasis was placed on both the analytical/deductive and the intuitive approaches to comprehending and utilizing Medical Qigong Therapy for cultivation, regulation and clinical application. The experiential aspect of the course is well balanced with a solid theoretical foundation.

Certification Programs

• Medical Qigong Practitioner (MQP) - 200 hours (completed)
• Medical Qigong Therapist (MQT) - 500 hours (completed)
• Master of Medical Qigong (MMQ) - 1000 hours (2 of 4 sessions to complete)
• Doctor of Medical Qigong (DMQ) - 2000 hours (to complete)

Medical Qigong Practitioner (MQP)

• MQT exercises to maintain health, heal their bodies, calm their minds, and reconnect with their spirit.
• Strengthen the body's protective energy field (Wei Qi) and discuss the techniques used to avoid absorbing Toxic Qi while in a clinical environment
• Basic MQT treatment protocols for treating clients.
• Advanced theories of energy purgation, tonification, regulation and cultivation, as well as exercises and meditations used as homework prescriptions in the MQ Clinic.
• Advanced theories and clinical modalities of internal organ treatment.

Medical Qigong Therapist (MQT)

• Sensory, Intuitive, and Perceptual Diagnosis
• MQ Dao Yin Therapy and Rectifying Qi Deviations
• Medical Qigong Therapy for Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Gynecology, Neurology, and Psychology
• Introduction to Medical Qigong Therapy for Oncology (1)

Master of Medical Qigong (MMQ)

• Introduction to Chinese Energetic Alchemy
• Energetic Anatomy and Physiology
• Treatment of Cancer with Medical Qigong Therapy (2)
• Medical Qigong Treatment for Spiritual Disorders
• Advanced Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory
• Taiji, Bagua, or a movement style of Qigong

Doctor of Medical Qigong Certification Program

This level is the most advanced and final stage in obtaining certification as a Doctor of Medical Qigong.

• Students will develop an advanced understanding of the body's energetic relationship to the physical structure, including mental and emotional disorders, as well as spiritual instigation's attributed to disease formation.
• The oncology program offers students an in-depth study of each cancer's energetic etiology; and how or why the energetic patterns within the human body can become influenced, corrupted, and creates metastasis.
• Although tailored to the treatment of cancer, the DMQ seminars offered will strengthen all aspects of one's clinical and personal practice regardless of one's clinical emphasis. Furthermore, student's clinical externship and dissertation may be tailored specifically to the student's clinical preference.
• This program will focus on specific Medical Qigong treatment protocols in conjunction with Medical Qigong prescription exercises and meditations utilized in the treatment of various types of specialized diseased states.

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Chaco is a full time instructor at the IEH program at Langara College. This three-year certificate program provides an integral approach to healing and spiritual transformation that bridges ancient eastern practices, western teachings and recent scientific discoveries to put the emphasis on awakening the body's innate potential to heal itself. IEH is designed to complement, rather than replace, conventional approaches to health care.

IEH explores energy, consciousness and healing in terms of human multidimensional anatomy, physiology, pathology, chakra, auric field, meridian and five element concepts. You will learn basic to advanced energy healing and its relationship to health and disease. In addition, you will learn complex and powerful self-regulation techniques designed to sustain your health and deepen your connection to Self.

For more information including detailed course descriptions, please visit IEH.