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Benefits

• Qigong exercises reduce symptoms of stress by positively affecting the sympathetic nervous system. One of the prime benefits of Qigong is stress reduction.
• Clinical reports of the medical benefits of qigong claim to retard or reverse some diseases associated with aging.
• Women with severe fibromyalgia reported 73% less pain after just 5-7 sessions with a qigong master, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Medical School study, and the benefits continued three months later.
• Alzheimer's Disease Prevention

"Those who maintain a consistent practice of Qigong find that it helps one regain a youthful vitality, maintain health even into old age and helps speed recovery from illness." [National Qigong Association]

What is Qigong?"

The word Qigong [pronounced chee gung] is the combination of Qi and Gong: Qi is vitality, energy, life force, Gong is practice, cultivation, refine; Qigong means to cultivate and refine one's life force through practice. There are thousands of kinds of Qigong. Qi means the essential functional energy of life. It also means Bio-electromagnetic breath. It is the Qi or life force that maintains the healthy and harmonious function of the human body's self regulating systems.

Qigong is the practice of activating, refining and circulating the human bio-electomagnetic field. Because the bio-electromagnetic field maintains and supports the function of the organs and tissues, Qigong can have a profound effect on health. Qigong expands into a discipline of mental and spiritual development. The qigong paths we pursue include the healthy individual maintaining health, those in need of healing and the individual who is seeking spiritual development.

Qigong can complement Western medicine in many ways to provide better healthcare.

Foundations

The foundation of Qigong states that the main ingredient of practice is that intention (Yi) directs the movement of Qi, which in turn directs the flow of blood in the body. Increased or decreased electrical activity in specific areas of the body determines blood flow and fluid balance, accumulation and dispersal of substances. For health maintenance, Qigong practitioners do not have to be experts. Almost anyone can learn to practice Qigong to maintain and improve his or her own health. The objective of the exercises is to strengthen the Qi in the body and remove obstructions to Qi flow that may have developed due to injury, emotional states, diet, disease or other factors. Traditional Chinese Medicine[TCM] states that the obstruction of Qi flow can produce disease.

In recent studies, radioactive technetium 99m and phosphorus p32 were injected into acupuncture points of patients, and gamma-camera imaging and microautoradiography followed the isotopes' uptake. The radioactive substances migrated along classical acupuncture meridian pathways, through a series of fine, duct-like tubules, (approximately 0.5 - 1.5 microns in diameter) for a distance of 30 cm in four to six minutes. Fluid extracted from these tubules revealed high concentrations of DNA, RNA, amino acids, hyaluronic acid, sixteen types of free nucleotides, adrenaline, corticosteroids, estrogen, and other hormonal substances in levels far different from those ordinarily found in the bloodstream. In an acupoint, over ten times the blood level of adrenaline was found. This presence of hormones and adrenaline within ductal fluids certainly suggest a link between the meridian system and the endocrine gland regulation of the body.

• The practice of Qigong is the act of bringing awareness and skill to direct the function and movement of Qi.
• The correct movement of Qi is a force that engages the body’s natural tendency toward balance.
• Continued practice provides reinforcement of the body’s inclination toward balance and toward optimal use of all its functions and potential.