Qi Gong Massage Therapy

Definition of: (or ch'i kung), aka Dao Yin, is a type of exercise similar to Ayurvedic and Khemetic Yoga's Asana where focus is placed on breath, movement and intent with some visualization. The wide variety of traditional cultivation practices involve methods of accumulating, circulating, and working with qi, breathing or energy within the body. Qigong is practiced for health maintenance purposes, as a therapeutic intervention, as a medical profession, a spiritual path and/or component of Chinese martial arts.

 

This practice has been shown to have significant effect on the maintenance and longevity of the individual practioners. It also has been shown to have an effect on the eco-system or community when individuals practice together.

 

Many systems of Qi Gong place an emphasis on longevity (internal alchemy) when coupled with attention to diet, mindfulness, sleep, sexual temperance (ejaculation for men) and seasonal change.

 

Emei Qi Gong "A massage that is not a massage"

Emei Qi Gong is a healing system that has been in existence for over 800 years. Atop Mt. Emei (the highest of China’s four designated Buddhist mountains standing over 10,000 feet/3, 090 meters) generations of Taoist and Buddhists convened. It is said that after becoming aware of the Tao in all things, Taoist Priest would make a pilgrimage to Mt. Emei to clear all karma and attain full enlightenment.

 

In 1227 c.e. a priest from Mt. Wu-Dang (one of the five sacred Taoist Mountains of China) made a pilgrimage to the top of Mt. Emei. There he cultivated himself toward full enlightenment and upon completion, he took the name “Bai Yun” or “White Cloud”.

This master combined schools of thought, philosophy, and techniques numbering over 3,600 to create a system called Emei Qi Gong. This system combines Buddhism, Taoism, Shamanism, Aura diagnosis, Acupuncture, Distal healing, Tui-Na, Pranayama Yoga, Taoist Qi Gong and more.

 

The Emei Qi Gong system was transcribed to a tome called “The Emei Treasured Lotus Canon”. This text and system were preserved atop Emei Mountain at the Golden Summit Monastery for over seven centuries with the system transmitted from monk to monk.

In the 1940’s of war, social upheaval, i.e. the onset of China's embrace of Communisum, put the system at risk of being lost. To preserve the system a decision was made by the 10th generation Grandmaster Priest (Yong Nian) to transmit the system to a layperson General Zhou Quan Chuan over a period of 13 years. At the completion of General Zhou’s apprenticeship when he renounced war and the struggle of duality (good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, etc) he expressed desire to become a monk.

 

Grandmaster Yong denied his request and gave him the duty to go out into the world and share the Emei system and at a designated time come back and transmit the knowledge to a future priest. This transmission - alternating between layperson (who shares with the system with the non-secular world) and monk (who maintains the purity of the system based on the classical treatise) has allowed the system to prevail and flourish.

 

Presently, Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong is the 13th lineage holder. In 2006 and 2007, Josie and Jomo made pilgrimages to Mt. Emei and received transmission of the first level of the Emei Qi Gong system. They both continue study with senior student of Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong, David Knoll. 

 

The system utilizes mantra (Ah Me De Le Gong Zhen Hung) as well as qi-projection; qi-manipulation (painless, though sensations such as tingling, pressure, etc may be experienced) and aspects of Tui-Na manipulation are used in conjunction with acupuncture needling.