Tai Chi at Lifespan Yoga

David Paul, our new Monday night Tai Chi Gung teacher at Lifespan Yoga wrote this for us. I hope you can make his class at 7pm, all the links to his bio, pictures and his classes are at www.lifespanyoga.com.

"I am sometimes asked about the relationship between Tai' Chi Gung and energy work in general.  Chi is another word for energy.  Tai' means "grand" or " original source".  Gung means "temple" or "physical body".  Tai' Chi Gung is a system of moment and breathing that teaches an individual how their body truly works. It is sometimes called the "owner's manual" to the physical body. 

We have a tendency to only think in one direction when we talk about health or healing. I am going to "get" healed, or "give" energy.   The science and art of Tai' Chi Gung addresses this aspect of healing, but it also shows people how to achieve  something called the "circle of completion",  the "figure eight".  

Energy goes out and it returns.  Energy is designed to flow between the right and left side of the body continuously.  Energy is intended to be in a continuous exchange between the physical body and the energy in nature.  Quite frankly, most of the ailments we suffer from are caused by the lack of conscious connection to nature. 

It is when there is continuous communion, a sharing between us and nature, a giving and receiving in balance, that the energy can truly crescendo, the vibration can increase 10 fold or 100 fold.  The byproduct of this normal balance is that the symptoms we call dis-ease can no longer remain. The vibration is simply too high, too full of life.  Health is restored, and vitality goes up, it regenerates.

So in Tai' Chi Gung, if our goal is to be healthy, or restore health, we must discover what it feels like to have a conscious connection to nature through the four elements that make up our physical body:  earth, water, fire and air.  For example, it is not an accident that the human body is about 70% water, and the earth itself is about 70% water.  It is not an accident that we have an energy center called the Solar Plexus, and that this is connected intimately with the electrical system, the fire in the nervous system in the body.

Tai' Chi Gung is a science and an art from Tibet that has been passed down in an unbroken lineage from teacher to student for more than 3000 years.  It is a series of exercises with breathing and movement that first restores the magnetic field surrounding the body to the balanced state that it has when it is in harmony with nature.  Then this balance gives rise to a third, or regenerative energy inside the body (Kundalini) and then, the Chi or Vital energy in the field, in a crescendo with nature, begins to penetrate the physical body through the 7 chakras to the endocrine glands, to the blood stream and gradually onward from the least dense to the most dense systems in the body until it has restored balance even in the marrow of the bones.

   

Studying Tai' Chi Gung will give a student a conscious experience with their energy field so that they can understand how the energy flows to them from nature, and from them to nature.  In a sentence:  It is a 3000 year old science that shows a human being how to increase their personal vibration, restore health and speed up all aspects of  synchronicity in their lives, as mentioned in James Redfield's books beginning with "The Celestine Prophecy".

This information is treated in greater detail in Rasaji's book "The Circle of Chi", available at www.rasaji.com .  David Paul leads the Monday night  7 p.m. Tai' Chi Gung class at Lifespan Yoga. He is a Tai' Chi Gung adept and  has been studying Tai' Chi Gung with Rasaji for 27 years."