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Kunlun Neigong meditation seminar in New York City, NY Oct 3rd

The next workshop held in New York City, NY

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Kunlun Neigong ::

Ancient Practices that have been hidden in the West …. Until Now!

Sunday Oct 3, 2010

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Fee: $ 125.00 (pre-registration)

Register: http://kunlun-tao.com/kunlun-seminars-events/

$ 150.00 at door

This workshop series is designed for the novice through advanced practitioner to…

• Release blocks in the body
• Learn to do a practice that will awaken dormant abilities
• Experience joy, bliss, peace and happiness
• Detoxify, Improve blood circulation and release blockages
• Increase energy, develop balance, awareness and intuition

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This workshop includes:

~ Kunlun Neigong meditation

~Red Phoenix meditation with transfer

~Golden flower meditation

What, When, Where, Why and How do we locate, collect & store refine & circulate, and continually replenish this Universal Energy

~ Back to Wuji :: The Origin of Options … the return to Creation

Introduction to the

• Creating & Maintaining your :: Foundation, Center, Balance, & Adaptable Tension (Gen, Zhong, He, Sung)
• The Eight Jin (Ba Jin) and their many diverse ways of applying their Sequences :: including stances, hand positions, body mechanics, and breath work
• Fundamentals of the 5 Elements Qigong (Five Elements Mao Shan)

· Muscle & Tendon Changing Qigong Classic known as Yi Jin Jing.
Yi Jin Jing has its origins at Shaolin Temple whereby DaMo taught the Monks a detailed 12 chapter routine designed to strengthen the muscles and tendons by graceful vigorous stretching and dynamic tension maneuvers, poses & positions … including specific breathing patterns and vibrant mental imaging …thereby cultivating vitality, endurance & a harmonious existence.

Please review the brief recommendations for class participation:

• Meditate the night before and if possible prepare yourself by eating fresh food and meditating everyday. Be aware and conserve your energy.
• Dress in loose comfortable clothing.
• Avoid wearing perfume, scents and essential oils.
• Drink plenty of fluids or water throughout the day of practice and avoid caffeine.
• Eat light breakfast, bring snacks and fruits.
• All practices are voluntary, participation is not required. If you have a health condition, consult with a physician before participation. If you are unable to stretch, there will be an option to sit and practice.
• Surrender and Smile, this facilitates proper flow of energy during the practice. Practice smiling and letting go.
• Try and come with an open heart, without any expectations. Our mind with its expectations creates barriers.

The poster below is for last seminar in Pittsburgh, please dont be confused about time/location. It will be updated shortly.

Kunlun Nei Gong meditation seminar in NJ Sep 26

The next workshop held in Fords, NJ

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Kunlun Neigong ::

Ancient Practices that have been hidden in the West …. Until Now!

Sunday Sep 26, 2010

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Fee: $ 100.00 (pre-registration)

Register: http://kunlun-tao.com/kunlun-seminars-events/

$ 125.00 at door

This workshop series is designed for the novice through advanced practitioner to…

• Release blocks in the body
• Learn to do a practice that will awaken dormant abilities
• Experience joy, bliss, peace and happiness
• Detoxify, Improve blood circulation and release blockages
• Increase energy, develop balance, awareness and intuition

________________________________________________________________

This workshop includes:

~ Kunlun Neigong meditation

~Red Phoenix meditation with transfer

~Golden flower meditation

What, When, Where, Why and How do we locate, collect & store refine & circulate, and continually replenish this Universal Energy

~ Back to Wuji :: The Origin of Options … the return to Creation

Introduction to the

• Creating & Maintaining your :: Foundation, Center, Balance, & Adaptable Tension (Gen, Zhong, He, Sung)
• The Eight Jin (Ba Jin) and their many diverse ways of applying their Sequences :: including stances, hand positions, body mechanics, and breath work
• Fundamentals of the 5 Elements Qigong (Five Elements Mao Shan)

· Muscle & Tendon Changing Qigong Classic known as Yi Jin Jing.
Yi Jin Jing has its origins at Shaolin Temple whereby DaMo taught the Monks a detailed 12 chapter routine designed to strengthen the muscles and tendons by graceful vigorous stretching and dynamic tension maneuvers, poses & positions … including specific breathing patterns and vibrant mental imaging …thereby cultivating vitality, endurance & a harmonious existence.

Please review the brief recommendations for class participation:

• Meditate the night before and if possible prepare yourself by eating fresh food and meditating everyday. Be aware and conserve your energy.
• Dress in loose comfortable clothing.
• Avoid wearing perfume, scents and essential oils.
• Drink plenty of fluids or water throughout the day of practice and avoid caffeine.
• Eat light breakfast, bring snacks and fruits.
• All practices are voluntary, participation is not required. If you have a health condition, consult with a physician before participation. If you are unable to stretch, there will be an option to sit and practice.
• Surrender and Smile, this facilitates proper flow of energy during the practice. Practice smiling and letting go.
• Try and come with an open heart, without any expectations. Our mind with its expectations creates barriers.

The poster below is for last seminar in Pittsburgh, please dont be confused about time/location. It will be updated shortly.

Kunlun meditation seminar in NJ on May 30

The next workshop held in Fords, NJ

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Kunlun Neigong ::

Ancient Practices that have been hidden in the West …. Until Now!

Sunday May 30, 2010

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $ 100.00 (pre-registration)

Register: http://kunlun-tao.com/kunlun-seminars-events/

$ 125.00 at door

This workshop series is designed for the novice through advanced practitioner to…

• Release blocks in the body
• Learn to do a practice that will awaken dormant abilities
• Experience joy, bliss, peace and happiness
• Detoxify, Improve blood circulation and release blockages
• Increase energy, develop balance, awareness and intuition

________________________________________________________________

This workshop includes:

~ Kunlun Neigong meditation

~Red Phoenix meditation with transfer

~Golden flower meditation

What, When, Where, Why and How do we locate, collect & store refine & circulate, and continually replenish this Universal Energy

~ Back to Wuji :: The Origin of Options … the return to Creation

Introduction to the

• Creating & Maintaining your :: Foundation, Center, Balance, & Adaptable Tension (Gen, Zhong, He, Sung)
• The Eight Jin (Ba Jin) and their many diverse ways of applying their Sequences :: including stances, hand positions, body mechanics, and breath work
• Fundamentals of the 5 Elements Qigong (Five Elements Mao Shan)

·          Muscle & Tendon Changing Qigong Classic known as Yi Jin Jing.
Yi Jin Jing has its origins at Shaolin Temple whereby DaMo taught the Monks a detailed 12 chapter routine designed to strengthen the muscles and tendons by graceful vigorous stretching and dynamic tension maneuvers, poses & positions … including specific breathing patterns and vibrant mental imaging …thereby cultivating vitality, endurance & a harmonious existence.

Please review the brief recommendations for class participation:

• Meditate the night before and if possible prepare yourself by eating fresh food and meditating everyday. Be aware and conserve your energy.
  
• Dress in loose comfortable clothing.
• Avoid wearing perfume, scents and essential oils.
• Drink plenty of fluids or water throughout the day of practice and avoid caffeine.
  
• Eat light breakfast, bring snacks and fruits.
• All practices are voluntary, participation is not required. If you have a health condition, consult with a physician before participation. If you are unable to stretch, there will be an option to sit and practice.
  
• Surrender and Smile, this facilitates proper flow of energy during the practice. Practice smiling and letting go.
• Try and come with an open heart, without any expectations. Our mind with its expectations creates barriers.

The poster below is for last seminar in Pittsburgh, please dont be confused about time/location. It will be updated shortly.

Five Elements Vegetable Soup

I would like to share what Sifu Jenny recommended today:

Five-Element Diet was invented by Dr. Tateishi Kazu, an expert in cytology in Japan.  He first suffered from cancer of the duodenum and spreading.  Although his stomach was removed, the cancer cells already had spread to his lungs.  To fight for his life, he researched, studied, and tested over 1,500 types of herbs and plants.  Finally, he discovered the right combination of ingredients and formulated a unique healing soup—Five-Element Vegetable Soup—with its own molecular powers.

In fact, this soup is based on the principle of Chinese Five Elements, the harmonizing balance of the forces “Yin” (the energy being accumulated, assimilated and stored for later use) and “Yang” (the energy being expended in order to create a manifest action), supplemented by the theory of acid and alkaline diet.  In short, balance is the key to health as opposed to the imbalance that leads to illnesses.

The theory of Five Elements has long existed in China.  It suggests that foods, seasons, human organs, and state of minds all connect with each other.  To elaborate, the Five Elements in our environment (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) correspond to different aspects of the natural world and the body.  For instance, wood corresponds to spring and wind in the natural world and to the liver, gall bladder, eyes, and tendons in the body.  And for foods, bitter taste corresponds to heart, sourness corresponds to livers, sweetness corresponds to stomach and spleen, saltiness corresponds to kidneys and bladder.  We need to adjust and balance their intake subject to our body conditions to retain healthy.

The specific vegetables that Dr. Kazu used are based on the individual color essence of the five elements: daikon/radish of white (metal), daikon/radish leaves of green (wood), dried black mushroom of black (water), carrot of red (fire), and burdock of yellow (earth), which also relate to the corresponding internal organs: lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, and spleen.

All in a natural form, these vegetables are rich in amino acids, calcium, chlorophyll, iron, and phosphorous.  After all, plants grow in an active and vibrant environment in a balanced soil, which make them an excellent source of health supplements and even natural remedies for diseases.

Source/Read more on: http://www.chinesefoodhealth.com/tag/five-element-vegetable-soup/

Kunlun Seminar – Pittsburgh May 1

The next workshop held in Pittsburgh PA presented at:

Western Pennsylvania Family Center
733 North Highland Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Kunlun Neigong ::

Ancient Practices that have been hidden in the West …. Until Now!

Saturday May 1, 2010

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee: $ 150.00 (pre-registration)

Register: http://kunlun-tao.com/kunlun-seminars-events/

$ 200.00 at door

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FREE Lecture and Practice session on April 30^th

This workshop series is designed for the novice through advanced practitioner to…

• Release blocks in the body
• Learn to do a practice that will awaken dormant abilities
• Experience joy, bliss, peace and happiness
• Detoxify, Improve blood circulation and release blockages
• Increase energy, develop balance, awareness and intuition

________________________________________________________________

This workshop includes:

~ Kunlun Neigong meditation

~Red Phoenix meditation with transfer

~Golden flower meditation

What, When, Where, Why and How do we locate, collect & store refine & circulate, and continually replenish this Universal Energy

~ Back to Wuji :: The Origin of Options … the return to Creation

Introduction to the

• Creating & Maintaining your :: Foundation, Center, Balance, & Adaptable Tension (Gen, Zhong, He, Sung)
• The Eight Jin (Ba Jin) and their many diverse ways of applying their Sequences :: including stances, hand positions, body mechanics, and breath work
• Fundamentals of the 5 Elements Qigong (Five Elements Mao Shan)

·          Muscle & Tendon Changing Qigong Classic known as Yi Jin Jing.
Yi Jin Jing has its origins at Shaolin Temple whereby DaMo taught the Monks a detailed 12 chapter routine designed to strengthen the muscles and tendons by graceful vigorous stretching and dynamic tension maneuvers, poses & positions … including specific breathing patterns and vibrant mental imaging …thereby cultivating vitality, endurance & a harmonious existence.

RED SUN Practice

From Thetaobums, posted by Chris

RED SUN
by Max Christensen

This method as given to me by a hung-moon teacher in Taos, New Mexico.

Sit in a chair, feet flat with your fist closed on top of your thighs. Sit for a moment until the mind is empty and relaxed. Imagine, in the middle dantien area, a small, golf ball sized ball of glowing matter. This matter looks like a hot coal from a fire. It glows and it has hot vapor around it.

See it as very real within the center of your chest.

Now inhale through your nose gently, enough so that you can hold your breath in a neutral state (about 2/3 of capacity). After the inhalation, swallow hard with a gulping sound, tuck your chin, but keep the spine and neck aligned.

Slightly tighten the anus, so energy doesn’t leak, now hold the breath neutrally. You will feel like your air will dissipate quickly, so if this happens inhale tiny amount of air, to get the neutral feeling. If you over-inflated, blow some air out.

As you are running out of air, relax.

You will begin to feel this implosive, shrinking feeling as your lungs convulse for air. The energy will begin to ping-pong up and down in your chest. It may feel like you are going to die, but you won’t. Relax more and with your mind, see the coal getting brighter and brighter, hotter and hotter, so when you feel you can’t hold it anymore, say to yourself, melt, melt, see the heat melt the body.

If you can hang in this state and keep melting more and more each time the (death) feeling hits, you may feel like you are going to transition over into another energetic form.

If you do it right, an orgasmic hiccup and a surge of intense bliss arises. After this, exhale slowly through the mouth and repeat twice more, but only inhale once between sets or youll lose the effect.

This opens the deepest part of the emotions, so be prepared and do not do this more than twice a month……carefully.

See if you can break the barrier.

Max

Breathing Styles for Qigong

1. Natural breath: How we breathe all the time without thinking.
2. Cleansing Breath: Inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.
3. Tonic breath: Inhaling through the mouth and exhaling through the nose.
4. Alternate breath: Inhaling through one nostril and exhaling through the other.
5. Natural deep breath: When we stretch our arms wide open and take a deep breath.
6. Long breath or abdominal post birth breath OR One Breath OR Buddha Breath: is a form of abdominal breathing. When inhaling the lower abdomen expands because of the air coming in, during exhalation the lower abdomen contracts.
7. Pre-Birth OR prenatal breath OR Taoist breath OR Reverse Breathing: Contraction of abdomen upon inhalation and the expansion of it during expiration.
8. TORTOISE BREATH: “Even the pre-birth breathing alone will not enable you to reach the ultimate breathing stage. Forgetting the pre-birth mehod after its mastery over many years leads you to the tortoise breath.”

According to Daoist theory, pre-birth breathing imitates the general breathing pattern of the fetus in its mother’s womb. Through the umbilical cord the fetus receives oxygen and food, and eliminates carbon dioxide and other waste products. When the umbilical cord is cut, pre-birth breathing ceases and post-birth breathing from the mouth and nose begins. Pre-birth breathing is most commonly understood as the contraction of the abdomen upon inhalation and the expansion of it during expiration. Hence, this breathing patter is somethings called “reverse breathing”

After more than 30 years of researching qi development in the my practice of taijiquan, I have made a breakthrough in the understanding of qigong. Several old Daoist writings mention the phrase “breathing without breathing”.

From “The Dao of Taijiquan – way to rejuvenation” by Master Jou – Buy it on Amazon

Red Phoenix Meditation

In Kunlun tradition, we have two main meditation techniques. In Kunlun school of meditation there are the forgotten practices of self-awakening, once taught in monasteries only to a few. These esoteric practices are now available. The tradition has 2 main practices as part of the Core.

1. Spontanious Nei gong
2. Red Phoenix

And additional: Golden flower meditation, Mao Shan I-Jong or Ijong, with/without Five Elements

There used to be part of the same school of Tao, but schools and practices  split at some point. Sifu Max has put both of them back in one system. We can practice either one, or in combination.

Details of the Kunlun technique of spontanious nei gung meditation are available in the kunlun book by Max.

I can not write about the detail instructions on red phoenix technique or how to do Red Phoenix. But it is taught at the Kunlun seminars. It is an excellent technique that can be done any where, any time. Even while you are waking, waiting, taking a train, waiting for a train…

Similar to Tibetan tradition where in one of the higher stages high lamas achieve Rainbow body, In Taoist tradition the similar is termed as Gold Dragon Body. In order to achieve the Gold dragon body, one needs to practice both Spontaneous Neigung and Red Phoenix.

They could also be spelled as
kunlun nei kung kunlun nei gong kunlun nei gung kunlun neigung kun lun meditation

If you are looking for how to perform red phoenix kunlun. I encourage you to attend one of Kunlun seminars. A list of Kunlun facilitators can be found on http://kunlunbliss.com

What is taught at Kunlun Seminar?

Kunlun 1 is a Introduction to Kunlun Spontaneous Nei Gung – Dancing Bliss Meditation

Participants can expect to learn:

• Kong Jing – a special form of mediation to allow one to be empty, receive and ground oneself.
• Maoshan 5 Elements Chi Gung – this breathing and standing Chi Gung will allow one to balance the five main organs of the body.
• Beginning level of Kunlun Spontaneous Nei Gung
Initiation Transmission – Kunlun instructors/facilitators transmit a portion of Kunlun magnetic energy to each person so that one can be activated and use their own energy from within. Kunlun is a living lineage carried from one master to next, each student becomes a part of the lineage after the seminar.

While practicing Kunlun expect the unexpected, but there are some physical signs of the energy awakening, they can range from shaking, orgasmic type bliss, heat rising from the belly to the top of the head, itchy crawly skin caused by enough Chi to break the resistance of the skin, speaking in a universal language or tongues, seeing balls of light, smelling fragrances, ability to heal others, seeing magnetic fields outside the body and seeing blocks inside the body to name just a few.