What exactly is Medical Qi Gong Healing

Medical Qigong is an ancient method of maintaining health and promoting longevity as well as preventing and treating disease. In the word "Qigong","Qi" is translated to mean "Life Force Energy". "Gong" means "cultivation" or "acquired skill through practice". When Life Force Energy is properly cultivated in the body we are able to remain in good health, physically, mentally and emotionally. Medical Qigong is one of the oldest branches of Chinese medicine, predating acupuncture by thousands of years. Today, there are hundreds of medical Qigong hospitals and clinics worldwide, treating dozens of ailments such as cancer, paralysis, asthma, migraines, stress and depression, anxiety, muscular atrophy, hypertension, insomnia, diabetes, immune deficiency disorders and pain syndromes, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Multiple sclerosis... Widely understood in China but little known in the West, medical qi gong is a modality of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Medical qi gong is a way of affecting and directing qi, or the life force, for medical benefit. Rather than using needles, herbs, or massage, medical qi gong relies on the ability to direct qi with the mind, the hands, or a ritual object, but without necessarily touching the body. Like its better known counterparts acupuncture and herbal medicine, medical qi gong requires thorough knowledge of TCM scientific theory. A medical qi gong practitioner should be at least as well-trained as an acupuncturist or herbalist. To develop skill with medical qi gong, a practitioner needs to be highly disciplined, with a very focused mind similar to that of a well-seasoned mediator. To practice medicine as subtle as medical qi gong, a practitioner must have unusual abilities of subtle perception..

Medical Qigong Healing Sessions

A Medical Qigong session is approximately one hour. Initial session can sometimes be longer.

Evaluation

This is the time where the therapist and client work together through a protocol of questions and tests to evaluate the physical, emotional, and energetic condition of the client. Based on this information the healer will formulate a treatment protocol.

Treatment

Since Qi can pass through air and clothing, so there is no need to take off any clothes. The practitioner often works away from the client's body, and sometimes lightly touches the client to guide and manipulate the movement of Qi along certain pathways. The client may feel varying sensations as the Qi moves, such as warmth, tingling, coolness, vibration, and sometimes twitching as the stagnant energy releases or empty conditions fill up with energy.

Included in the treatment are different methods such as:

Tuina Massage

Gua Sha

Cupping

Facial Lymphatic Cupping Therapy

Acupressure

Invisible technique technique

pushing and pulling energies

Meridian treatments

Reflexology - Face, Feet and Korean Hand acupressure

...and many more Traditional Chinese Medicine practices.

Clients find the treatments extremely relaxing and rejuvenating. It is also possible that the client may become aware of uncomfortable emotions that have been suppressed and have an emotional release either during or after the treatment. The process is always very gentle and nurturing. The primary goals of Medical Qigong therapy is to release toxic emotions from within the body's tissues.

Prescriptions

After a healing session, the client is usually sent home with a certain type of homework to keep the process of healing going. These homework assignments can vary from a certain qi gong protocol of movements to maybe relaxation or visualizations....

Exercises

There are hundreds of different Exercise prescriptions possible. For my clients they get what they the exercise prescribed, they need for their body to heal.

But there are also some general Exercises that are calming, strengthening and advisable for anybody. Here are some of them:

The Lotus Exercise for Self Healing

Six Healing Sounds

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Inner Smile Meditation

Abdominal Massage

If you would like to hire a personal training one on one or for a specific group, feel free to contact me for more details. I customize packages for women's health, stress release in the workplace, children learning etc.

Private Training

Are you interested in taking private training to learn medical QiGong healing? If you have personal or private needs, specific health concerns - or if your time or travel is restricted - you may want to work outside the boundaries of a class situation.

I have taken an intensive 4 year training program in Medical QiGong Healing and hold a Masters certificate.  

Perhaps more importantly, Im flexible, passionate about this type of healing and I can adapt the sessions to your individual needs. So lets talk about how you can learn QiGong movements that will benefit your body.