Master Gu’s Taoist Wellness Free Course: Week 3
Qi Gong Demonstration
Do the Dao Now
At the start of the week we learned what Qi Gong is. Now let’s see it in action!
This is Five Animal Qi Gong, as demonstrated by me and my disciple, Eli. Like other Forms of Qi Gong, it uses expressive postures to target exercise and healing in particular areas of the body.
Feel to free to follow along! Full instruction in this and other Forms of Qi Gong are only available through the academy, but here’s some ideas on how to bring Qi Gong into your every day right now.
Actions: A Taoist Routine
- WAKE UP
- When you wake up, still in bed, come to your breath. Slow your breath down. Relax your face.
- Get up gently, mindfully wash your face.
- OUTSIDE MORNING PRACTICE
- Don’t touch your technology, walk outside.
- Rest in standing meditation. Do sequential relaxation starting from your face down to your toes. Slow your breath.
- Do Morning Adjustment practice and Qi Gong.
- MOVEMENT SNACKS
- Move throughout the day with morsols of movement. Try one Qi gong move every hour, or crawling, dancing or Tai Chi.
- MINDFUL BREATHS
- Train yourself to take a single mindful breath throughout the day. Relax your face. Slow your exhale. Come back to presence regularly.
There’s also this video from George to help you get your practice off the ground.
4 Week Free Course with Master Gu
☯️ Week 1: Taoist Wellness
✅ Lesson 1: Taoist Approach to Wellness
✅ Lesson 3: Be Your Own Master
🧘♀️ Week 2: Mastering Meditation
✅ Lesson 5: Meditate with Master Gu
✅ Lesson 6: How to meditate every day
🌬️ Week 3: Qi Gong in depth
▶️ Lesson 7: Qi Gong demonstration
🥋 Week 4: Tai Chi in depth
Bonus: Taoist Daily Routine Print Out
Taoism has been helping people find and nurture peace and balance for thousands of years. As our lives become ever-more urban and busy, Taoism’s focus on connecting with nature has never been more necessary, or transformative.
Yves came to the academy having followed George’s videos on Youtube. It was there that he’d first learned about Daoism. Alongside George’s explorations, he began reading texts such as the Tao Te Ching and Tao of Pooh to get deeper into the philosophy, inspired by its promises of tranquility and natural living.
Joining WTWA Online, Yves was able to take his studies even further and deeper. With the guidance of Master Gu he not only developed a broader understanding of the philosophy itself, but discovered how he could embody its wisdom through tai chi, qi gong and meditation.
More peaceful, more collected, and crucially “in harmony with the world around him”, Yves is one of hundreds of students to have taken their interest in Taoism to a new level with Master Gu.
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