r/TrueQiGong

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I've just attended the free Heal hidden inbalances in mind, body & Spirit with Qi Gong online workshop from The Shift Network and I'm looking for some advice and feedback about Master Chunyi Lin and his style.

I was very impressed with the content of the workshop and am very interested in healing my M.E, which at times leaves me bedbound.

The workshop was a taster for a 7 week online course for healing, but i see on the Spring Forest site that his level 1 course also includes self healing.

Which one would be best to go for? Level 1 seems to be less costly than the Shift course (although they do sponsorships for some courses) and that is a factor for me as I'm broke and am already paying for weekly acupuncture and oxygen therapy.

Feel free to pitch in with your own experiences with this teacher, I'm all ears!

Thanks!

I just wanted to add some basic pointers to anyone starting out or feeling stuck in their practice. I've often used this example of what working with energy often can feel like. So doing Qigong can be compared to learning to ride (keeping the balance and maintaining Wuji posture) aiming and shooting an arrow (breathing right moving mingmen back and doing the postures) and looking at a map (making the suitable visualizations)

Doing one alone can be tricky so learning to do all at once requires some practice.

It helps if you can hear your own breathing so opening the throat when you breath in helps build more inner awareness. When doing pushing exercises try to push the entire taiji-pole so even beneath you and above you too. Whenever you are not feeling the exercise lower the pace to half what you were doing. Use your eyes actively even with closed eyes, follow the energy. When you can touch trees with leafs on them to replenish Qi. Sunny side of the bark helps you purge out, shadowy side helps build more Qi. Practice barefoot on grass whenever possible. Learn to sense your 8 extraordinary vessels and circulate Qi in them. When doing stillness listen for the inner sound. Use chanting and healing sounds both with sound and with inside voice. Look for skindimplets if you have had encounters with toxic energy, remove them. Stretching like the 13 Stretches of Qigong or basic Yoga is great to add as warmup. In certain phases martial fire or quick fire breathing can be needed to surpass blockages.

Working the meridians can be seen as washing ones own longhaired fur. When the knots and filtered hair has been cleaned it is wet and needs drying aka stillness to settle to avoid new knots forming when going out into humid and windy surrounding. So remember stillness after to avoid deviations.

Hello. 1st post here. Back in 1989 I enrolled at the Acupressure Institute's 15hour certification 150 hour certification program in Berkeley Ca. I learned Jin Shin Do acupressure as well as Yin/Yang medical theory, 8 Pieces of Brocade and took a Tai Chi elective. I went on to learn the Yang style Short Form. A decade later I was living in Colorado Springs where I taught the 8 pieces, Swimming Dragon & the short form to the general public, privately &atthe Senior Center for a decade. Today I'm 71 & living in Eugene Oregon. My health is great. MY resting pulse is 58-60 BPM & my BP & temp slightly below normal. Anyways I'm glad I found this group. I'll post more on the 8 Pieces of Brocade as I feel it's the best form to do as it directly affects the Triple Burner meridian where 8 "extra" meridians are. Cheers...

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I'm an occult practitioner who studies old mystic traditions and understands the core in all mystic traditions involves energy work (qi gong) and prayer (meditations) , I have successful attempts on healing peoples physical , emotional and mental trauma , from small head aches to fractured bones to physical nerve brain trauma , although learn how to heal is great , this isnt the limit for me I wanna learn how to deepen my reservoir to learn astral projection(distant roaming ) so I can learn more instantaneous transmutations with magic , I am hoping to be taught some practices to help me feel more whole and less tired , I smoke weed alot and I understand I need to stop smoking to deepen my dreams to what I thought to achieve astral projection , through my studies I feel like I'm wrong about sobriety and it's not about how I think and feel mostly but mostly the power of my word as my well as Ive seen my word change things almost instantly with energy work , the more I learn the more confused I get and I would like to know to balance and deepen my energy reserves and hopefully meet somebody who has general understanding of prayer and astral projection so I can be taught a few things I hope to hear from y'all , I have some under standing the three daitions , jing , chi , shein , which these energy centers play an important role In alchemical change in the body that allows proficient energy work , DM me leave a comment thanks

Numerous studies have already shown that Qigong is incredibly effective for balancing the body and mind. I’ve noticed many people here have turned to online classes due to their location, so I wanted to ask: For those of you learning online, how long have you been practicing? What kind of progress or results are you seeing so far?

I’d also love to hear from those taking in-person classes. How do the two formats compare in your experience?

I recently came across a video on YouTube mentioned that a truly professional Qigong instructor should be able to sense your "Qi" flow just by closing their eyes, allowing them to make adjustments and speed up your progress. Have your instructors ever mentioned this or used this technique?

I practice lower dantian and middle dantian meditation lying down, but I don't know if it's a good idea. Is it recommended to do it lying down?

Or the stories exaggerated? I saw a video on YouTube where a woman "fixed" a cracked egg on camera by doing qigong. Turns out the part where the miracle happened seemed to be cut and edited according to a comment. So it's possible she faked it. So how many more are faking miracle healings from doing qi gong? Or is there really legit healings going on?

I've only recently started this practice (about a week in) and the strangest thing happend to me. I did my practice (Zhan Zhuang and learning the first few steps of Ba Duan Jin) after which I did some light excercise (pull ups, hoola hooping, abdominal crunches, etc) and some training for the splits (pigeon stretch, hamstring stretch, etc). After stretching, I immediately noticed a real huge surge of energy. I was positive, optimistic, just ready to take on the world. Lasted for a good hour. However, afterwards, I started feeling extremely overstimulated. Like a raw nerve. Then I had an anxiety attack. I should mention I have a lot of surpressed emotions and have dealt with panic attacks in the past although I haven't had one in a while. This one felt different though. My old panic attacks always had me feeling drained but I now I just felt overstimulated. I read that it's a common phenomena to feel discomfort as negative energy is being released but at the same time, maybe I was doing too much today? Or doing something wrong?

hi

the lower elixir field (the house of water, "kan") might be the urinary bladder filled with spermatozoa. that is: by pressing the perineum by finger (one has to hit the right spot near the prostate, its in the back) the sperm gets sidetracked and enters the urinary bladder. the resulting mix might be what they call "golden liquor". so 'setting up the dantien' or 'filling the ldt' is simply this

i have this information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanjing\_bunao

any thoughts on this one? 🙂

I used to think height was all about stretching, calcium, and workouts. Until my mid-20s, when I started feeling strange, subtle sensations — mild warmth, tingling, occasional dull ache around the spine and joints, out of nowhere.

I didn’t get it at first. Later I realized it’s not about “growing bones” — it’s about internal circulation, releasing stagnation, and letting your body align naturally. Most people focus only on external moves, but real changes start from inside: how your energy flows, how your spine unwinds, how your tissues release tension.

These small signs — warmth, slight tingling, feeling “lighter” or taller when standing straight — are your body adjusting. It’s not magic; it’s about listening to your body’s quiet signals.

Have you ever felt these subtle shifts? Like your body is quietly rearranging itself?

Hello all,
My partner and I are really interested in learning more about qigong. We are looking for illustrations or resources about the five animal frolics. Genuinely just looking for books or videos or websites showing the actual movements because there seems to be a lot of different types. Also looking for any of your personal favorites!! Anything beginner friendly would be great too :). We are currently reading “The Way of Qigong” by Kenneth Cohen, slowly making our way through.

i am 22 years now , i used to be really thin(50 kg) and short(only 161 cm) at my 21 years old befor(18 - 21)

every time when i walking down the street , i was shame to be stared by the girls who even little higher that me, and i even cant imaging what my future Wedding photos will be like: will i wear a high heel shoes ? and i even cannot dreaming "afford" a true love : maybe i should work hard ,and get a higher paid job, and then make a fortune , so that i can having relationship with a dreaming snow-white.......

But compared with becoming wealthy and gaining status, growing taller might be an easier goal for me as a young person right now. That’s how I comfort myself.

and when i first entering the university in China, i was eager to be taller and stronger , so that my dream girl will fall in love with my strong body.

and then ,after that i started my 0ne years long stretch and Take calcium supplements and buy some milk( because i am a poor guy in China , so even that time, milk is pretty expensive to me) so every morning at 6:00 am , i wake up ,and start long running and after 1500 m , i start my Spine stretching(at that time , i was still believe that scientific method will make me higher) so after one years later, At another school physical examination, I wore thick Peak sports shoes and did plenty of stretching before my height was measured. I was full of confidence that I would at least grow from 161 cm to 165 cm. But the result was a huge letdown — I was only 164.5 cm even with those thick shoes on! I hadn’t grown taller at all.

and because of the spine stretch , i got serious Cervical neck problem, and cause of this problem , i have to drop out from university (i am a soft-engineering student,From now on, I’ll be working in an office every day, so I have no choice but to drop out of school to take care of my health. )

from the day when i drop out, i heard An old grandma she can using her "mind" to trans the QI energy to every patients she treated, and as i have no choice , my spine hurt too much , so i having a contact with her , and she really makes me relief , my body feel really feel a huge sense of relief.

and after that amazing experience , she recomended me to start exercising Standing pillar practice(it is like , using your mind to let the energy outside the space to get into your body(QI), and when you accumulate enough Qi, the Qi will be a stream rush your desease out of your body) and through this excercise yourself , it is like the grandma herself treat your body, but this treatment is do it all by yourself

and after A great deal of learning in the theories and practices of Qigong. i realized The Huangdi Neijing states: All things in the universe are composed of qi. Qi can form material transformations — namely that small piece of hard bone my cervical spine was lacking before.(that sounds un-scientific right? as a Chinese who get much so-called Dogmatic scientific education before , i also cant totally make me believe such theories from another system, but the fact it shows me)

so i began to think it reverse , if the Qi energy can accumulated and make my spine reliefed , will it make my legs be longer ?( same as relief the spine, to accumulate Qi to generate bone)

so , i start my Experiment at January 2025, at first ,cause this is my first time to do that , honestly i dont know very much about the movement trajectory of Qi ,so my legs are in Severe vibration( It vibrated 120 times per minute, which is twice per second, and lasted for four to five minutes.) and it make me shocked ,and after vibrated , my body having nocturnal emissions daily , and it really hurts my body, so i stopped

and after that , i seek a master in China , i start learn from her about the Qi

tow months later , my body start tremble in pattern , and my bone in legs began growing pains , and without nocturnal emissions anymore. and i start set up a group to do research on growing taller by Qi gong .

In my research group of over a hundred people, around eighty to ninety members experienced adolescent muscle twitches. Some even dreamed of falling off a building at night. Others suffered from knee symptoms including warmth, numbness and soreness, and many had growing pains. In the end, I grew 5.5 centimeters in four months, and other participants who practiced earnestly also gained height.

now , i am 166.5 cm , 55 kg, not very high , but i will using Qi to grow higher, that is all of my Qi experiment

maybe if the condition is required , i will also start setting up a group to do reaserch on it, actually i also having a friend in India, he says he also got musles automatically trembling ,and through the trembling , that indicates you are on the right way to grow higher

actually , the sourness , numbness ,warmth, and pains indicate that Your physical body radio has tuned into the wavelength of the universe. These symptoms is like the Indicator light of your radio body machine , all you can do is to insist on doing Qi exercise

As a traditional Chinese person, I truly understand the study of Qigong far better than foreigners. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me in the comment section.

Outside of meditation and movements, is there a way to increase your energy whilst doing everyday things (e.g. walking, washing dishes or going out with friends)? Any way to keep cultivating qi?

There are no places offering Qigong or Tai Chi where I live. Can I learn these practices online? And are there authentic mentors who provide proper training remotely?

Would you like me to also recommend trusted online platforms or teachers for Qigong and Tai Chi?

Has any of you practiced it?

I can't practice outside nor in the sun, I can only practice inside my bedroom early in the morning, like 5 am.

I would like to know how much of the benefits of the practice I lose by not practicing outside facing the sun?

I also asked somewhere else and a guy told me that to practice this system indoors is a complete waste of time.

What are your thoughts?