Today's qigong class was wonderful! Weather was soft and sweet too!

I have four students now:) exciting ! I hope for a few more... Up to 8 I believe is the perfect amount, so I still have enough time to give attention to them all and at the same time, there are enough people to mingle with each other and make the class interesting.
But 4 is fine too, I can make them work in couples of 2.
Everyone was so interested today, they got deeply into it. I am happy happy happy about it.

My next step is to create online classes, I know they are not as great as practicing outdoors, but it is something, that's how I begun...
I have taken a one month seminar - like the one I am now offering - and then I continued following videos online, for the next few years, until I found a teacher again. I would memorize a sequence for days and when ready I was taking my practice outdoors.

But I want to learn more qigong.
Although I already have enough materials, I want to gain more knowledge. But it is enough for now, as I will be moving forward I will be learning some more..

Having students is also showing me that I do indeed have lots of knowledge, as I tend to forget all of the time I have invested over the years. And it forces me to be clear with what I know and what I don't know and simply admit it.
:)
I now see and understand how the way to mastery involves having students, they help you learn so so much!

I bet it's similar with having children, a way to master one's humanity.
<3

ps-help me create a "qigong" group...!

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Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F

Is Chinese medicine effective in today’s world

Boeing · 36-40

@Monalisasmith86 it absolutely is, I have first hand experience. Especially the qigong I am teaching, is opening and relaxing the body, bringing relief at the back, neck, etc, whereas people nowadays have stiffness, and most importantly deepening the breathing, as many neglect that part.

There are many parts of Chinese medicine, I have practiced a bit of moxibustion too, which is bringing warmth to the body and activating certain points, bringing more circulation and unblocking areas, assisting the vital organs to perform their function.

I haven't done acupuncture but I have experienced it twice - both times I left definitely better than I entered.

I have practiced taoist massage as well and I have been massaged by therapists that helped me regain my range of motion with a frozen shoulder due to an accident and stabilize the joint.

I find that it overall brings stability to the joints and balance, relaxation, helps with brain fog, fatigue, chronic inflammation, breath and nervous system regulation, muscle strength and also relaxation.
It is more of a preventing care, all ancient holistic systems work like that, so it basically restores balance in your system, to allow the natural healing processes to take place.

There are also some crazy ideas, like rhino horn's or tiger claw's substances, supposedly to aid in curing certain ailments, and I haven't dug that deep, but I have been in snake's skin haunting along with my shifu in China, and he used that to make medicine. I am not a professional doctor to learn and know the recipes, but in certain occasions I was given medicine that I took and felt better.

The approach, as I am Greek, and I look into the Ancient Greek medicine, the few parts that survived, they share similarities, diagnosing people with imbalances in certain qualities such as excess heat, cold, dampness, wind. They use the elements to feel which of them -they categorize the elements as five- is out of harmony and create disease in the system. Is a very different approach to the western modern medicine, and yet both have the same intention, to restore health and bring longevity to the organisms.

After I was hopsitalised years back with pneumonia that had left me in bed for months, and I went under what I experienced as a "chemical war" for a week in the hospital, I decided that if I was given a second chance to life I would tend to nature as my happy place and my teacher.

And there I encountered Chinese medicine :)