Tai Chi Arts

Energy Bodywork Healing

Health is more than Absence of Disease
Traditional Chinese medicine sees health as more than just the absence of obvious disease. Rather, health exists when all aspects of your chi are in balance—physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

Health includes two parts: first being free from organic illness or injury, and secondly experiencing wellness—strong vitality, stamina and a sense of wellbeing—with clear and balanced emotions.

Chi Determines Health
The state of chi determines the state of your health. If it is flowing freely in a balanced manner throughout the body, you have good health. If it becomes blocked, stagnant or imbalanced in some manner, illness will follow.

Similarly, if the body becomes injured or diseased, the chi will become blocked, stagnant or out of balance.

Balancing Chi in Others
Ordinary tui na, or “bodywork,” is the branch of Chinese medicine which focuses on healing and massage using the hands. Tui na, either separately or in conjunction with acupuncture and herbs, uses physical techniques such as acupressure, joint manipulation and deep tissue work to indirectly heal imbalanced chi by applying physical pressures to the body.

Two-hundred hands-on healing methods of qigong tui na, or "energy bodywork” go to the next level and work more directly with the subtle chi, fluidly moving between physical and purely energetic techniques to unblock, free and balance chi in others.

In order to learn to heal others, you must first learn to unlock and free your own chi and learn to control the specific pathways through which it flows.

Self-regeneration
A primary aspect of qigong tui na training involves learning how to keep yourself from becoming physically, spiritually or emotionally exhausted, including:

• Protecting yourself from absorbing the energy of your patients
• Regenerating your own energy
• Maintaining compassion for your patients and not losing heart.

Demystifying Chi
Bruce will demystify chi healing methods and demonstrate how to apply your personal chi to diagnose and heal physical conditions and energetic imbalances using specific hands-on healing techniques. Potential topics will include:

• Inducing and balancing energetic pulsing within the body's energetic points, centers, internal organs, joints, cavities and glands
• Releasing energetic blockages within the body's spiraling pathways
• Controlling the direct movement of chi through the client's channels while either projecting or absorbing energy
• Activating dormant energy channels.