Qi State

 The Qi State is called “Qigong Tai” in Chinese.

This term was originally defined by Qian Xuesen, a brilliant rocket scientist trained at the California institute of technology (Caltech) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and who was later regarded as the Father of China’s space program.

Qian is the main supportive force that made many people practice Qigong. During his period of advocating for Qigong, one in every five people in China were practicing Qigong daily. He encouraged scientists to conduct more research on Qigong, especially young scientists to remain open-minded and have the courage to study the unknown. He firmly believed that science needs courage and leadership without fearing others’ criticism and doubt. He stated that science cannot explain every Qigong phenomenon, but that it does not mean that Qi doesn’t exist nor does it invalidate its healing effects and power.

There are many phenomena in the Human body and in our world that science just can’t explain, yet. He believed that through Qigong cultivation, people become able to regulate the activities within their body so as to keep it in balance. From 1983 to 1987, Qian gave more than a hundred lectures on Qigong as well as on the human body’s transcendental abilities through Qigong practice in universities and at the CNSA stadium hall, where he worked (CNSA stands for China National Space Administration, it’s the equivalent of NASA in the US). Based on his studies and lectures, he published a book titled Human body science and modern technology (1998).

Qian started Qigong when he was 19 years old, after he got typhoid. He was treated by an herbalist first but the effects being limited, he then went to see a Qigong master and experienced external Qi transmission with remarkable, immediate, and tangible results - He quickly and completely recovered. So, he decided to start practicing Qigong on his own, and since then, he kept his daily Qigong practice until his passing in 2009 at the age of 98.

According to Qian, the human body has a normal state; but when one cultivates Qi, one can enter into a different state. The mind is in between sleep and awake, it enters into a relaxing and meditative state while still being fully aware. The brain waves in that state are different from when people are asleep or awake.

 When you are practicing Qigong for self-healing, you can enter into  internal Qi State; when you are conducting healing for others, you enter into external Qi state. In both scenarios, you can use the human body’s potential and access the source of the energy from the universe to heal yourself and others.

When cultivating Qi to a certain level, Qi state is the most blissful and comforting experience: the mind is calm and crystal clear, heart energy is soft and expanded, every cell is livened, clean blood circulate in joy, and the body moves on its own with full freedom surrounded with warm and breezy life-force (Qi), you feel fully alive and unite with heaven and earth into oneness.

Editing credit to Simon Rimbert

Signs that one might be off-track from the practice (Copy)

Tao - The Way

How far have you come?

True cultivation is not mysterious at all; it is mainly about letting go...

Based on Fengshui, 2020 is an intensely conflicted and destructive year, but it is also a chance for cultivators to make changes to transform negative habits into positive characteristics. Now is time to evaluate how we are doing with our practice, and how we can do more letting go.

The following are the signs when one practices Tao incorrectly or is off track, especially if it keeps getting worse.

1. Feeling confused a lot with a foggy brain (Qi scattered, Qi leaks out the head)

2. Always feeling the need for more different styles of practice from different teachers (not following the Tao-inner path)

3. Having a sense of urgency to get it and get it now (ego/self energy centered)

4. Health conditions becoming worse or more weakened (usually because of the mixed practice of two conflicted Qigong styles)

5. Always feeling self-righteous towards others who become the target of blame (still hooked in drama)

6. Being unable to contain anger and raw emotions such as irritation (lack training on the wisdom eye)

7. Still being driven by addictions (looking for comfort from the outside rather than finding inner peace)

8. Always looking to calculate or bargain for almost anything (mentally stopping the natural flow)

9. Remaining mentally rigid rather than being flexible; having hardened energy rather than soft (energy is put to use in wrong areas)

10. Constantly pushing and doing, which makes things more complicated or difficult (not finding effortless doing)

11. Thinking of oneself as unique, awakened, and knowing of “the truth”; while others are still asleep and being fooled (deviation in views)

12. Feeling that one is so advanced, beyond teaching; seeing how the teacher or others have so many problems (arrogance creates trouble for the self; the more correct the practice, the more humble one becomes)

If this happens, one might need to reset the practice.

Editing credit to Robert H. Smitheram

Services are all going ONLINE

For the best of everyone's safety and well-being, please be aware that due to much worsened pandemic scenario in California and Santa Barbara, all Taoist Light Qigong Training including Healer Training group on July 18 and Level I training on July 19, Sunday will be conducted Online only.

We have had many successful Online trainings in the past dozens of years for students from all over the world.

We look forward to meeting new comers and walking in the light of Tao.

Fengshui for this time and group guided practice

We are going to talk about the fengshui for this time being.

As you can see, the World has been swirling around, for individuals as well as globally. From a Fengshui point of view, we are entering into “Zi Wu conflict” period. This means that extreme Yin energy is meeting up with extreme Yang energy. It is like icy water coming in contact with hot fire, so it's going to create a lot of conflict and disturbances. This turmoil period is going to last until July 22th, 2020. Then, afterwards, from August 15 to Sept 16, 2020,  we will enter another phase of a different kind of disturbances, called Zhong Yuan period, more Yin energy would be released from lower dimensions for energetic exchange which can affect people’s sleep pattern and mental clarity.

How can we handle this ride a little more easily?

1. Stay safe, avoid traveling, neither flights nor road trips, and be careful about accidents and injuries.

2. Avoid wearing red, purple (fire) which can magnify even more fire conflict at this period.

3. Stabilize mental and emotional states, so your sleeping remains calm as well, and try to make the best from the worst, be creative.

When we enter into Fall and Winter, these two extreme Yin and Yang energies in the cosmos will start to settle down.

For who have received Taoist Light Qigong Level I training/transmission:

We hold Online guided Taoist Light Qigong level I practice/group Healing via ZOOM. In this session, we usually have a teaching at the beginning on Tao, followed by guided practice and ending with a group Qi healing.

1. Thursday 10-11:30 am, weekly

2. Sunday 10-11:30 am, bi-weekly on the second and fourth Sundays of the month; staring on August 9, 2020

You can participate comfortably from home. This has been a very supportive way for people to enhance and maintain the practice or restart Taoist Light Qigong level I for those who may have fallen out of practice. For Zoom link and registration, please Email: office@TaoistLightQigong.com

The Jade Spring practice

For ancient Taoist cultivators, Jade Spring is another name for saliva. Because white teeth were described as white jade, the saliva, which surrounds white jade, is called Jade Spring.

In modern society, saliva is often regarded as unclean and is associated with germs, especially these days, considering that the Coronavirus can be transmitted through sneezing or coughing.

But Jade Spring is actually very beneficial for your health. It has anti-inflammation properties, can ease pain, stop bleeding, kill germs and it participates in the digestion process with its natural enzymes.

The human body has three important essences to keep itself healthy: Qi (energy), and blood and saliva (fluids), and there are certain practices we can do to keep the three healthy.

The Jade Spring practice:
1. Sit silently.
2. Gently click your teeth up and down, 36 times (to strengthen the roots of your teeth)
3. Place your tongue against your upper palate. When you close your mouth and teeth together, your tongue will naturally touch the upper palate. Then hold a slight smile for one minute.

4. Swirl your tongue around 36 times, massaging especially the palate and gums to generate Jade Spring (saliva), then, divide the mouthful Jade Spring into three parts; let the first part to go down through the left side of your body (visualize it as you do it), the second part down the right side of your body, and the third part down the middle of your body, to settle in your Lower Dan Tian.

You can practice this at any time, the best being in the morning or right before bed.

Taoists often adopt this wellness practice, such as the King of Medicine, Sun Simiao who lived up to 102 years old and Li Chengyu, who lived up to 108 years old.

When you work with your own Jade Spring, welcome it, generate it as a self-healing inner essence and medicine, think of it as clean as morning dew on the flower petal and the fresh pleasant scent of a flower you like, and allow it to moisturize your entire internal body.

Taoist Light Healer Training Program is coming up

Taoist Light Qigong Online Healer Training Program is starting on July 18, 2020, Saturday, from 2-4 pm.

There is still time to register. Please let us know if you would like to participate in the training program and make health and spiritual cultivation be part of your way of life.

Training to be conducted online via Zoom while locals can choose to meet at nice outdoor setting in a private backyard.

Do you like to:

• Learn how to heal your-self and others?

• Obtain the powerful skills on in-person or long-distance Healing?

• Understand the causes of various health conditions so you can undo them?

• Open your third eye and wisdom eye to see what is really going on?

Taoism has its own unique way of life, peace, wellness and longevity. We will be happy to have you on this journey of the Tao.

Qigong Practice and Timing

Taoist Light Qigong is a very natural style of Qigong that can be practiced at any time of the day, although if anyone would like to maximize their results, they can try to practice at its best timing.

The best starting time for section One is between 5 and 7 AM. It is called Mao Shi, which means “the time to show up”. The Sun rises during this period, and Yang Qi (bright and warm energy) also rises, and human beings get up to start a new day.

Thus, if you can start your Qigong practice at 6:59 AM, it will be better than 7:01 AM, since your Qi will start being ignited during Mao Shi, therefore fueled with rising and uplifting energy.

Ancient wizards of health and wellness would recommend to do the following three things during these two hours:

1. Drink a small cup of warm water for hydration.

2. Empty the bowels for detoxification.

3. Practice Qigong to activate your vital energy for the day.

So you can get up before 7 AM, stand facing East, the direction of Sunrise and allow the vital energy from the Sun and the Earth to circulate through your whole body, fill every cell with healthy Qi, and generate essential energy into your Lower Dantian (the elixir field for youth, health and longevity, located in lower abdomen). Your whole day will flow with effortlessness and great ease.

What is remarkable and unique about Taoist Light Qigong Training?

1. An authentic and powerful Taoist practice from Lou Guan Tai Temple in Xi’an, China, the birthplace of Taoism where its founder, Lao Tzu (604-517 B.C.) composed Tao Te Ching, a guidance of the way of life.

2. Personal Teachings (not from videos) on Taoist esoteric cultivation practice, a particular formless and free-flow style which cannot be obtained from anywhere else. The power and effectiveness come from this 2600 year lineage and via direct Transmission of the Qi from the lineage holder.

3. Level I - A six-hour long training immediately places you at a very advanced cultivation level. We welcome people who have no previous Qigong training experience as well as those who have followed certain Qigong or mind-body trainings that are not in energetic conflict with the Taoist Light system.

4. Taoist Light Qigong training is not like Tai Chi Chuan or other Qigong styles, which mostly consist of multiple exercise classes, with a teacher demonstrating the movements and students following them. Our very first class connects you with Tao (the source of energy in the Universe) and your movements will be customized which can be practiced and benefited for the rest of your life.

5. Taoist Light Wellness, located in Santa Barbara, USA is the only official, authorized and legitimate Taoist Light Qigong teaching and healing center international wide.

6. In this training, you receive the “password” to connect to Tao and allow the Qi to flow and to move your body, so your movements are customized to awaken your potential and are suitable to your body nature. These movements are going to change over time, even day by day, thus you will keep making progress until Heaven and Human have become one (Tian Ren He Yi). The highest state of Taoist cultivation.

7. Taoist Light Qigong training comes with a detailed instructional book with pictures that you receive when you attend training in person at Taoist Light Wellness.

8. You can not teach or show others after receiving the teaching. The powerful force is not as simple as it appears. Just like electricity work, if an inexperienced person mishandles this work, it can result in harm for oneself and others. A couple of students who did so in the past have resulted in physical and mental health damages for themselves and others.

9. The instructor, Chiyan Wang, is the Taoist Light Qigong lineage holder with 30 years of healing and teaching experience, she comes from a family tradition of Taoist Light Qigong masters.

10. Supporting groups and progress timeline

 Once you have completed Taoist Light Qigong level I Training, you are encouraged to join guided group practice and group Qi healing Thursday and Sunday morning 10-11:30am (California time) to ensure your practice to stay on the straight path.

Progress timeline:

Taoist Light Qigong level I

Taoist Light Medical Qigong (three month after level I)

I-Ching Qigong Level II ( 6 months after level I)

Stage II Immediate healer (1 year after level I,  only apply to people who participate Healer training program)

Stage III (reserved until one is ready)

 Specialty Training Programs:

1. Taoist Light Healer training Program (one year 140 hour training, meet once or twice a week) Please click here for details.

2. Taoist Light Feng Shui Training Program (50 hour training, meet once a week)

3. Taoist Light Qigong instructor/master training program (140 hour training, meet once or twice a week)

Taoism Study and internal cultivation to become a Taoist Master in life, and a certified Taoist Instructor under the umbrella of Taoist Light wellness.

4. Taoist Sacred Healing Journey ( 2-3 weeks)

    Going to Lou Guan Tai Temple and other sacred Taoist mountains with Chiyan Wang to immerse into Taoist Light and firsthand experience of healing, Feng Shui and the Taoist philosophy.

Editing credit to Simon Rimbert