Chi Kung
Wuji Gong
For health, wealth, vitality and happiness!
What is Chi Kung?
Chi Kung can be literally translated as "skill in cultivating the subtle breath of Nature" (1). Chi Kung helps to take responsibility for your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health. Chi Kung is spelt at as Qi Gong in the Chinese Pinyin system of Mandarin translation.
Chi Kung is practiced either actively - moving the body, or passively - stationary and may be standing, sitting or even lying down.
Nicholas practices the Universal Healing Tao system of chi kung, founded by Grandmaster Mantak Chia, which is a practical self-development philosophy and system of meditative and internal exercises and teaches Wuji Gong.What is Wuji Gong?
Wuji Gong, formerly Enlightenment Qi Gong and aka Primordial Chi Kung, or Tai Chi for Enlightenment, is a very simple form of chi kung inner exercise that produces immediate results and a remarkably strong experience of deep inner peace.
This form can be practiced by anyone regardless of age, race, sex or religious group and no previous training in any form of tai chi, chi kung, or meditation is required. Irrespective of a person's current health condition, everyone can gain great benefit from it.
The amount of space needed to practice is minimal - an area of about three feet by three feet (a square yard or close to a a square metre) is enough. This form is ideal for those who do not always have so much space at home, nor is it limited by the weather conditions, unlike many tai chi and chi kung forms.
Where does Wuji Gong come from?
Over 800 years ago, Chang San Feng founded the original Tai Chi Chuan 13-movement form for self-defense. It was a gentle form focused on the yielding principles of the Tao, so monks could defend themselves from bandits without falling into aggressive killing techniques that would spoil their spiritual path.
Few are aware however that Grandmaster Chang San Feng created a second short form that applied Primordial Chi Kung for enlightenment rather than self-defense. It also has 13 movements: 12 movements of Earth and one movement of Heaven, ten times in each of the five directions. It was secretly practiced by a lineage of Taoist masters for the last 800 years.
It has been said that Wuji Gong gradually dissolves all the physical and karmic layers of tension in both the physical and energy body. It ultimately opens up a profound inner space inside the practitioner's body, where the Original Self, the "face of your soul before you were born", can reveal itself. This inner space is called "wuji" or the Supreme Unknown.
Although the form is designed for enlightenment, it has many beneficial medical effects. Chi Healer Dr. Zhu Hui practised in a major clinic in China and used it to treat more than ten types of chronic diseases, especially heart disease and high blood pressure, and for people with weak kidneys or chi deficiency.
This form is also recommended to those who might injure their knees with more vigorous forms. The Wuji Gong form puts no stress on the physical body, and uses easy weight shifts and balanced movements to activate the Energy Body.
Few seniors are interested in martial applications, and will find more joy and grace in these movements. Seniors are also at a time in their life when they seek completion, and internally, this form helps to achieve a sense of this. The form is exceptionally easy to learn. It is so simple to practice that you literally do not even have to think. This "not thinking" state is also one of the pre-requisites to allowing your own 'enlightenment' process to naturally unfold!
Nicholas is an Associate Instructor in the Universal Healing Tao system, as conferred to him by Andrew Fretwell, Senior Instructor and long-term student of Mantak Chia.
Studying extensively with Mantak Chia, Andrew Fretwell and Michael Winn, he has studied to Greatest Kan & Li (also known as the fourth formula of Inner Alchemy) with Michael. He has also studied to Taoist Practitioner ("Step 5") level with Kris Deva North of Zen Shiatsu & Healing Tao, London.
Nicholas is a certified Instructor in Wuji Gong and has studied the form with Andrew Fretwell (Founder, Wuji Gong) and Michael Winn, President of Healing Tao USA, who is credited with teaching the form on a large scale basis to the West.
Nicholas was certified to teach Wuji Gong by Zafrul Sattar, Senior Teacher for the UK.
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Wuji Gong classes are taught on demand. To find out more, contact Nicholas Hall.
1. Michael Winn, www.healingdao.com