Daoist Flaming Dragon Qigong with Essential Oils
Workshop: Feb 3rd and 4th in Rowlett Texas
Daoist Flaming Dragon Qigong
The dragon has been a powerful and potent spiritual symbol in China for over five-thousand years due to its majesty, vitality, and power. The dragon has long represented a transcendent freedom from limitations and bounds of the mundane world. As such it has come to represent an iconic image of benefits of Daoist martial, healing, and self-cultivation arts. The motif of the flaming dragon has captivated practitioners for over two thousand years and regiments drawing upon this imagery have been transmitted since ancient times. Daoist Flaming Dragon Qigong was codified by the legendary Daoist sage Lu Dongbin during the cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty (618-907 C.E.), a golden age of Chinese civilization. This technique synthesizes this longstanding imagery, traditional techniques, and breath and energy work with Daoist meditation and visualization, Traditional Chinese medicine, and internal kung fu to restore and balance the body and spirit, increase the immune system, attune the senses, and heighten higher faculties. This powerful winter practice increases the flow and circulation of Qi throughout the energy meridians, removes physical, mental, and emotional blockages, imbalances, and stagnation and creates a powerful and enduring sense of health and wellness. Flaming Dragon Qigong is an effective therapeutic and preventative regiment for healing chronic and acute illnesses, ailments, and imbalances through a combination of hand and foot reflexology work, acupressure massage along the energy meridians, and dynamic motions.
Essential Oils
For thousands of years, Daoist practitioners and recluses have been at the forefront of integrating holistic medicine with energy work and self-cultivation. From the first works on the medicinal properties of plants to the search for the purest herbs for elixirs to prolong life, improve health, and heighten awareness, these masters integrated the bounty of the natural world into their martial, healing, and self-cultivation arts. Today, contemporary scientific advances have identified the healing compounds of many plants and developed means of extracting them as essential oils that can be used topically, aromatically, and internally to help treat a variety of illnesses, imbalances, and ailments, creating a powerful tool for qigong practitioners. This workshop will introduce how to integrate certified pure therapeutic grade essential oils into qigong practices to cleanse, balance, restore, and energize the human body and open higher states of mental acuity, emotional awareness, and spiritual consciousness. At various stages throughout the workshop, Grandmaster Zhang will use various certified pure therapeutic grade essential oils to increase the circulation of Qi along the meridians, balance the body, purify it from toxins, elevate the spirit, and create a sense of bliss and serenity among the participants. All required materials will be provided free of charge to participants. |