TERRY DUNN'S TAI CHI FOR HEALTH/QIGONG FOR HEALTH NEWSLETTER #22: JANUARY 21--IT'S A NEW DAY IN AMERICA.
QIGONG FOR HEALTH FOR 1ST RESPONDERS (SUNDAYS 4PM-6PM EST); THEE ORIGINAL TAI CHI FOR HEALTH (TUES. 6PM-7PM); INTERMED. QIGONG (WED. 6PM-8PM); TAO TAN PAI BASIC 31 MEDITATIONS (THURS. 6PM-8PM)
I. FLYING PHOENIX HEALING QIGONG FOR FIRST-RESPONDERS
Classes #40 and #41: January 24 and 31
Our fortieth Livestream of Qigong For Health For First-Responders is set for next Sunday, January 24 from 4pm to 6pm Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada), with 30 minutes of discussion and Q&A immediately following.
Each class immerses you in the Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditations (“Fei Feng San Gung”), a rare and extraordinarily powerful medical—i.e., purely healing—Qigong system that was created more than 400 years ago by renowned Taost monk Feng Dao Deh of Ehrmeishan Temple in Szechuan Province in western China. Master Terence Dunn, the sole seventh generation preserver of this art, via this weekly course, teaches you the entire Flying Phoenix Qigong system consisting of standing and seated, stationary and moving meditations that imparts a wide range of salient health benefits with remarkable swiftness: increased respiratory power, improved circulation and metabolism, higher energy levels, improved neuro-muscular function and balance, normalized (deep and restful) sleep, peak immunity, increased bone strength, and the allostatic reversal of many signs of aging.
Flying Phoenix Qigong imparts its remarkable health benefits through a yogic mechanism that brings all the organ functions of the body under the regulation of the subconscious mind. This super-integrative process and energy cultivation is brought on by each of the 7 Standing FP Meditations and each of the 24 Flying Phoenix Seated Meditations (known collectively as “Monk Serves Wine” Mediations). Each Flying Phoenix Meditation consists of (A) an easy-to-do breath-control formula followed by (B) a meditation in repose or a serene moving meditation using repetitive natural movements that are done three times slower than typical Tai Chi practice. The esoteric breathing formula that precedes each Flying Phoenix meditation ignites a specific directional flow of Qi in the body that is tangible; the coupled stationary posture or moving postures circulate this activated energy through specific orbs of the body. Flying Phoenix Qigong is easier to learn and practice than Tai Chi and its health benefits are tangible, repeatable, verifiable, and more immediate. To the profound amazement and delight for many practitioners with experience in yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, or other forms of Qigong, short-term and medium-term Flying Phoenix practice can activate their latent healing potential as they cultivate a superabundance of the distinctively (tangible and visible) Flying Phoenix Energy (Qi) that has extraordinary healing properties unlike any type of yogically cultivated energy..
Besides providing its splendid health benefits, Flying Phoenix Qigong integrates mind and body so deeply that it develops highest structural sensitivity that imbues the practitioner with deepest levels of jhanic absorption that naturally carries over into any other form or method of meditation, making it deeper and more comfortable and blissful.
At the beginning of each class, you will also learn as a warm-up the essentials elements of another rare and powerful Taoist monastic Qigong system: Taoist Elixir Method (“Tao Tan Pai”) Qigong, an even older system of Taoist hygienics (24 generations old). It just so happens that Tao Tan Pai Qigong functions as a superb foundational catalyst for Flying Phoenix Qigong practice. Both are are complete systems of Chinese Yoga in and of themselves, but when the Tao Tan Pai precedes the the Flying Phoenix Qigong, it intensifies and prolongs the healing effects of Flying Phoenix Qigong long after one has stopped the practice session.
Subject matter of the Sunday classes:
(1) Taoist Elixir Method (“Tao Tan Pai”) Qigong is a complete system of Taoist monastic hygienics, martial art and spiritual art that was created in Tang Dynasty and is attributed to Lu Tung Pin (Lu Deng Bin), the de facto leader of the 8 Taoist Immortals (sains). Tai Tan Pai Qigong is easy to learn, easy to practice, and will serve one for a lifetime. The TTP-31 Basic Meditations consists of 15 standing moving meditations and 16 seated meditations, all of which involve movements except three.
(2) Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Qi Meditations(“Fei Feng San Gung”) imparts tangible energizing and rejuvenating effects—and deep meditative states of consciousness— in surprisingly swift manner—within 25 to 40 minutes of practicing any combination of the 8 basic standing meditations or 24 seated meditations, and its allostatic effects continue long after one’s practice of this Qigong has finished.
"Flying Phoenix Qigong practice significantly elevates parasympathetic tone. 90 minutes of practice of this Qigong is restorative in real time and over time afterwards."
- Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, M.D., M.P.H., IOC Dip. Sp. Med. Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Public Health Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
The Flying Phoenix Qigong was created in 1644 by the famous Taoist, Feng Dao Deh (Feng Do Duk in Cantonese) of Ehrmeishan. This video clip below shows my demonstration of the capstone exercise of the Flying Phoenix Qigong system, excerpted from the fourth volume my best-selling Chi Kung For Health DVD series that I produced in 2004. Once this exercise is learned, its practice subsumes the practice of the preceding severn shorter and simpler standing meditations and is enough to maintain peak immunity. This exercise is the namesake of the entire system, “Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Qi Meditation”—and is memorized and then done with the eyes closed.
Master Terry Dunn is a senior faculty member teaching Flying Phoenix Qigong—along with Yang Tai Chi Chuan, and Taoist Elixir Method Qigong—in accredited courses at Emperors College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, CA.
**SEE POST-SCRIPT FOR VIDEO TESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE HEALING AND REJUVENATING EFFICACY OF FLYING PHOENIX QIGONG.**
Joining the Livestream Session
To learn these two extraordinarily transformative Qigong arts that are both easy-to-do and profoundly restorative holistic health regimens, and join a lively worldwide community of students dedicated to health, personal growth, self-empowerment, inner peace and outer peace, sign up for the next Sunday session:
The Zoom Meeting ID is: 828 1622 1377
Registration URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldu-qrDopHdPmWX5jNr_K8HBFiFLN5Ahg
FEE: $40 per class; $280 / 8-class series; or $480 / 16-class series
• Please send tuition via Paypal to zenbearinc@gmail.com (before 1:00 PM on the day of he class) —or send an email to zenbearinc@gmail.com asking to be sent a Paypal money request that you can use any credit or debit card to pay.) You will then be sent the Meeting Password by 2pm..
• All participants must register in advance for this meeting at the above URL.
• Berkshires students are welcome to attend this class in person (with physical distancing and mask-wearing, of course).
II. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH
Classes No. 27: January 26
The 27th class of my Tai Chi For Health ongoing weekly course will be Livestreamed next Tuesday night, January 26, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm EST at Eastover Estate in Lenox, MA —with physical distancing and masks required of attendees taking the class live.
“Nothing under Heaven is more pliable than water. But when amassed, there is nothing that can withstand it. That the soft overcomes the hard and the yielding overcomes the unyielding is a fact known to all men but utilized by none.”
—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Graceful in movement, slow in tempo, relaxed in fluid natural postures, Tai Chi Chuan is an ancient Chinese martial art practiced by millions throughout the world as a moving meditation for health, longevity, and self-defense. Regular practice of Tai Chi forms imparts many health benefits: improved circulation, respiration, flexibility agility, balance, posture, coordination, metabolism, bone and muscle strength, neuro-muscular coordination, immunity, and heightened ecological awareness. Tai Chi Chuan has also been accurately described as medicine, metaphysics, and psychology—all in the body of a marial art. Thus there saying goes:
Class Agenda
In this ongoing weekly class, I teach the popular 60-posture Yang Style Tai Chi form (pre-choreographed routine) created by my teacher, Grandmaster William C.C. Chen. You will learn the essential postures and body mechanics of Tai Chi Chuan that will give absolute beginners a solid foundation from which to further explore the art, while enabling experienced Tai Chi players of all levels and from all styles to advance their practices.
A. WARM-UP MODULE: Each class begins with 40 minutes of classical Tai Chi warm-up and conditioning exercises that I have distilled from a vast repertoire of training methods acquired over the past 46 years from several traditions: Yang Tai Chi, Chen Tai Chi (Silk-reeling Exercises), the “Silk-weaver’s Exercise” (a Qigong form not to be confused with “The 8 Brocades”), the excellent Qing Dynasty Imperial Guard Exercises, plus Liu He Ba Fa training exercises.
Then we proceed to practicing three essential Yang style Tai Chi conditioning exercises that I learned in the 1980’s from my first Tai Chi teacher, the late General Abraham Liu (a senior student of Prof. Cheng Man-Ching), which I still practice to profound effects and teach to this day: (1) “Wave Hands Like Clouds” done in bow-stances and in ma-bu; (2) The 90º-pivoting “Play Guitar/Lifting Hands” exercise that develops the essential cat-stance. (3) The smoothly alternating “Snake Creeps Down” exercise that traces the infinity symbol (a sideways “figure-8”) with the core of the body, which is so effective for developing flexibility, posture, balance, and total-body circulation, and essential for mind-body integration.
*These three essential exercises are taught in the first 45 minutes of both of my Tai Chi For Health dvds (the all-time best-selling Tai Chi instructional videos/DVDs in the English language since their release in 1989): http://www.taichimania.com/taichi_catalog.html
B. FORM INSTRUCTION: After leading the warm-up module, I guide viewers step-by-step in the 60-posture Form. My method of teaching Tai Chi forms is based on first learning structure, and then learning flow. That is, each posture must be learned and correctly held as a standing meditation. Then one can practices transitioning from one posture to the next to develop what we call “flow.” [*Transitional flow is what each of the essential 3 conditioning exercises (described above) develop.] Only when the sequential flow of Tai Chi postures becomes completely relaxed, frictionless and “muscle-free” does form practice become a “moving meditation” and the full health benefits of the Tai Chi form become actualized. But without proper structure, there can be no flow. Mastery of the solo form as a moving meditation comes when the Tai Chi player can perform the entire form as one thought.
Once one has gained proficiency in the Form—which takes a minimum of three years for any beginner, then one can embark on the second half of the Tai Chi journey: Push-hands (“Tui-shou”) practice, or fixed-step sparring, in which one learns the martial applications of the form’s techniques and how to apply Tai Chi’s “soft power” for self-defense. We learn the solo form to know ourselves and to establish good health; we learn Push-Hands to learn how to harmonize with our environment and to win without fighting—which means to neutralize aggression without permanently harming the aggressor.
“Those practices Tai Chi Chuan will gain the pliability of a child, the vitality of a lumberjack, and the wisdom of a sage.” – ancient Chinese adage
JOINING THE TAI CHI FOR HEALTH LIVESTREAM Tuesdays 6pm - 7:30 pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 814 5335 5621
Registration URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcuqrqz4sGNVv7Pf4UoF1hAWfpzpd4Pw0
• Berkshires residents may attend my Tai Chi For Health class in person if you observe physical distancing and wear a mask.
FEE: $40 per class; $280 / 8-class series; or $480 / 16-class series
• Please send tuition via Paypal to zenbearinc@gmail.com (well before 5:00 PM on day of class) —or send an email to zenbearinc@gmail.com asking to be sent a Paypal money request that you can use any credit or debit card to pay.) You will then be sent the Meeting Password by 4pm on Tuesday.
• All participants must register in advance for this meeting at the above URL.
III. TAOIST ELIXIR METHOD QIGONG: BASIC 31 MEDITATIONS
Classes # 11 and #12: January 28 and February 4
“Meditation in movement is a hundred—a thousand times—more beneficial than meditation in repose.” — ancient Taoist adage
This weekly two-hour class teaches the Taoist Elixir Method (“Tao Tan Pai”) Basic 31 Meditations, a rare and powerful system of moving meditation and breath control that imparts good health, vitality, and athletic empowerment. The specific health benefits of Tao Tan Pai’s Basic 31 Meditations (henceforth, “TTP-31”) practice are improved circulation, respiration, digestion, metabolism, posture, flexibility, agility, balance, neuro-muscular coordination, sound and restful sleep, and strong immunity. TTP-31 practice imparts this wide range of health benefits by cultivating concentrated energy flow throughout the body through the coordination of the eyes, mind, movement and breath according to an esoteric yogic formula.
Taoist Elixir Method is an authentic Taoist monastic system of hygienics and martial arts that was created during China’s Tang Dynasty and is attributed to Lu Deng Bin, the leader of the Eight Taoist Immortals (saints) and was preserved for 23 generations mostly at the Ancient Temple of the Yellow Dragon ( 黃龍古殿 Huanglong Guguan ) near Mt. Luohu in China’s Guangdong province before Taoist priest Share Lew brought the art to America in 1968. Master Dunn trained in Tao Tan Pai from 1975 to 1983 at the Taoist Sanctuary of Los Angeles (and San Diego) under Taoist priest and Grandmaster Share K. Lew and his venerable senior student, Master John Davidson.
In each class, Master Terry Dunn, who is one of twelve 24th generation preservers of he TTP system, will teach you the 15 standing and 16 seated meditations that comprise the TTP-31 Meditation Sequence. All of the 31 Basic Meditations are moving meditations except for 3 of the 16 seated meditations. You will also learn the Tao Tan Pai “Short Form Power Yoga”: an essential distillation of the TTP-31 system consisting of five of the 31 meditations, which was designed by 20th century Tao Tan Pai masters to effect substantial Qi cultivation in 40-60 minutes. *Thus, if there is any such thing as a "modern Qigong" that works, the TTP Short Form Power Yoga is it.
The Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations is the first level of a powerful and sophisticated, six-level system of Nei Kung that is profoundly transformative of human physiology for good health and vitality, consciousness, and thus spiritual energy. The TTP-31 Basic Meditations is the first-level yogic foundation of the Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu system that develops natural body mechanics and concentrated energy flow throughout the body at will by coordinating the functions of eyes, mind, movement and breath according to esoteric Taoist yogic formulas that accord with Five Element Theory and Yin-Yang Theory as applied in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Practice of the TTP-31 Meditations in its classical sequence systematically develops natural body mechanics, improves balance, agility and coordination, and develops in the practitioner conscious control over the subtle energy flows of the body. With regular practice over a short time, beginners remark that
“Tao Tan Pai 31 practice opens the heart, clears and focuses the mind, and strengthens the body.”
For centuries, Tao Tan Pai Nei Kung has traditionally been the secret "engine" within Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu that develops natural body mechanics, sustained high energy levels, and conscious command over the subtle energy flows of the body—so as to elevate the Tao Tan Pai Kung Fu and the TTP healing to supernormal levels of efficacy. Because it is the foundation and core of Tao Tan Pai Kung, the TTP-31 Meditations are an ideal complementary practice or ideal warm-up or recovery regimen for all aerobic sports or athletic activities in addition to martial arts.
Over the decades, practitioners of authentic Indian, Tibetan and Amerindian systems of yoga and meditation who have taken Terry Dunn’s class found TTP-31 Meditations to be a complete system of Yoga that was highly synergistic with their respective core practices.
JOINING THE TAI CHI FOR HEALTH LIVESTREAM: Thursdays 6pm - 7:30pm
If you are a Berkshires resident, you may attend the “TTP-31” class in person if you observe physical distancing and wear a mask.
If you are participating via Livestream,
The Zoom Meeting ID is: 872 9343 7767
Registration URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvfuqsrTwtHNNlhgaWX1gqOXdJxQvI220z
FEE: $40 per class; $280 / 8-class series; or $480 / 16-class series
• Please send tuition via Paypal to zenbearinc@gmail.com (well before 5:00 PM on August 25) —or send an email to zenbearinc@gmail.com asking to be sent a Paypal money request that you can use any credit or debit card to pay.) You will then be sent the Meeting Password by 4pm on Tuesday.TAO TAN PAI (TAOIST ELIXIR METHOD) QIGONG: THE BASIC 31 MEDITATIONS, CLASS #7
IV. INTERMEDIATE QIGONG & BASIC KUNG FU
Class #31 and #32: January 27 and Feb. 3
The vitalities of heaven and earth, sun and moon, Are fundamentally inherent in our bodies. If reality and consciousness do not stray from each other, Creation is always in the palm of your hand.
—Chang Po-Tuan, “Inner Teachings of Taoism”, v.16
January 13 will be the 29th intermediate-level Qigong & Basic Kung Fu class of this ongoing weekly series (from 6:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. EST). This course concentrates on the intermediate and advanced levels of the two Qigong systems that I preserve, Tao Tan Pai (Taoist Elixir Method”) Nei Kung created in the Tang Dynasty and the Ehrmei Mountain Flying Phoenix Qigong, a medical qigong system andd health safety net integral to the White Tiger Kung Fu School, which was created in 1644 by Taoist Feng Dao Deh.
Prerequisites for joining the Intermediate class have recently been adjusted, as well as tuition—please note:
1. Proficiency in all of the Flying Phoenix standing Qigong exercises up to and including “Moonbeam Splashes On Water” moving meditation—i.e., proficiency in performing all the meditative exercises in Volums 1, 2 and 3 of Chi Kung For Health DVD series. —i.e. you should have “Moonbeam Splashes On Water” moving meditation memorized and be able to do it and its breath conrol sequence from memory and with eyes closed.
2. Proficiency in the Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga—and familiarity with the overall sequenc of TTP 31 Basic Meditations—as acquired through attendance of two 3-day TTP Qigong workshops at Eastover Estate over past 3 years, or 3 months of weekly community classes.
Class Agenda:
1. Review and correction of Moonbeam Splashes On Water
2. Review and correction of Long Form Standing Meditation
3. Advanced seated FP Mediations (Monk Serves Wine)
4. Advanced Flying Phoenix Qigong
5. Tao Tan Pai Cane Form
6. Tao Tan Pai Monkey Form
7. Introduction to the Preparatory Form of 8 Sections of Energy Combined Kung Fu.
8. Introduction to “10,000 Buddhas Ascend To Heaven” Meditations
JOINING THE INTERMED. COURSE LIVESTREAM: Wednesdays 6pm - 8pm
To experience these two profoundly powerful holistic and restorative health regimens that are in the form practical kung-fu exercises, and join a lively worldwide community of students dedicated to health, longevity, personal growth, self-empowerment, inner peace and world peace, sign up for the next session:
The Zoom Meeting ID is: 835 2614 5019
Registration URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcode-pqj4qG92EwOe2Kx3WhWPykD2e1Vd-
FEE: $65 / class or $520 / 8-class series
• Please send tuition via Paypal to zenbearinc@gmail.com or via Zelle to terencedunn@gmail.com (well before 4:00 PM on each day of class) to receive the ZoomMeeting Password by 5pm EST.
V. SONG PICKS OF THE WEEK & THE NEW YEAR
A. “Fragile” by Sting (1987) on his second album, ”Nothing Like the Sun”
Given the massive human tragedy worldwide caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which never had to have happened to such a scale in the United States, may we all remind ourselves how precious each and every life is and how fragile we are…and may we all be ever more vigilant and more on guard against destroyers of life and truth-and-justice-based human civilization.
Fragile
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are
B. The Changing of the Guards — by Bob Dylan (1978) from the album: Street-Legal
Congratulations to President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day…and to us all for electing competence, compassion, intelligence, integrity, honor, and reverence for American democracy and the best in humankind and its higher angels.
…Gentlemen, he said I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning… Either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
Peace will come
With tranquillity and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with it's pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.
mitakuye oyasin,
(Lakota Sioux prayer that means “To all my relations” or “All are related”, or “Help and Health to all my Brothers and Sisters”)
Sincerely,
Terry Dunn
P.S. Here is detailed information about the remarkable and truly extraordinary Flying Phoenix Qigong that I teach in the weekly Sunday Livestream course, including a few stunning testimonials:
Sunday Qigong Class Agenda
A. Warm-up: We begin every class with this easy and healthful basic Qigong routine called “the Silkweaver’s Exercise”, which you can learn on your own by practicing to this Facebook video that I made in Santa Monica in 2016:
https://www.facebook.com/236579434951/videos/10154646296514952/
If you do this exercise as homework and memorize all or part of this choreography, you’ll hit the deck “running” at all of the classes I teach and be able to attain deeper levels of relaxation, mind-body integration, physical comfort, emotional calm, and mental concentration/jhanic absorption during each class.
B. After warming up, we practice 50 minutes of the Basic Tao Tan Pai 31 Meditations (“TTP-31” for short), which in and of itself is a complete system of Yoga, compared to what has been taught in Yoga classes throughout the western world. We start off by learning a distillation of this series of 31 called the “Tao Tan Pai Short Form Power Yoga” consisting of the first four standing Meditations followed by the third of the 16 seated meditations (aka, Meditation No.18). This is a classical practice, not a recent advent or abbreviation—which I practiced daily every morning during my first four years of kung fu training—from 1976 to 1980. It is one of the most reliable and effective self-empowering yogic practices to elevate and organize one’s energies, and to instantly concentrate Qi flow to the hands.
We practice 4 to 15 of the standing meditations and 2 to 5 of the seated meditations in each class. By adding new meditations each week, we cover all of the 31 Basic Meditations of Tao Tan Pai in about 12 classes. This easy and yet profoundly healthful and transformative practice can be started by beginners in any class.
• Eight of the Tao Tan Pai Basic 31 Meditations (“TTP-31”) are seen on this video, including the all-essential first of the 31 Meditations known as “Circling Palms”, which is traditionally practiced by doing four sets of 8 repetitions:
* This is a fact of Tao Tan Pai Qigong that I have emphasized in every class I have taught about “Circling Palms”, the quintessential: Just like one can never practice enough of “Wave Hands Like Clouds” (an outward circling pattern done in the bow stance) in Tai Chi, one can never practice enough of “Circling Palms” (an inward circling pattern) in Taoist Elixir Method Qigong, with one’s eyes continually focused on the fingertips of the extended arm as it sweeps 180 degrees to the other side.
C. After our practice of the Tao Tan Pai “Short Form Power Yoga”—which is easy to do and good for all ages— we take our excellent body mechanics, mind-body integration, newly cultivated “shen” energy (developed form the mental and visual concentration on movements synchronized with breath cycle) to use as a strong foundation for our second hour’s practice of “Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong”. This video show summer workshop students practicing one of the cornerstone moving meditations of Flying Phoenix Qigong called “Bending the Bows”:
Both the practice of the Basic TTP-31 Meditations and the Flying Phoenix Qigong involve standing and seated, moving and sedentary meditations. Both are complete and powerful health-enhancing and consciousness-transforming systems of Taoist hygienics in and of themselves. And as I explained in earlier issues and in the Flying Phoenix Chi Kung discussion thread on www.thedaobums.com (started in Nov. 2009 by businessman and qigong practitioner Lloyd McClelland of Orlando, FL), ever since I began learning Flying Phoenix Celestial Healing Qigong in 1991, I’ve marveled over its energizing and rejuvenating effects that continue well beyond the end of each practice session. As one contributor to the FPCK daobums.com thread posted about 7 or 8 years ago, he was riding his bike about 12 hours after he had practiced FP Qigong when suddenly the tangibly sublime circulation of FP Qigong’s healing Qi suddenly set on upon him.
This restorative process has been corroborated by scores of Qigong students year after year after year… Here is a spontaneous testimonial given by my dear friend and student Rori Kanter, who described her healing experience that set on one after she got home after taking her very first 2-hour lesson in Flying Phoenix Qigong in a free class that I gave on April 28, 2019 during World Tai Chi Qigong Day weekend at Eastover Estate in Lenox, MA:
Six months later on November 4, Rori gave this amazing report of her annual physical check-up by her primary physician:
As I’ve quoted in my email invitations to the Livestream course, my friend Dr. Yetsa Tuakli gave me this professional assessment of Flying Phoenix Qigong last July after one two-hour lesson:
Tao Tan Pai Qigong catalyzes Flying Phoenix Qigong, amplifying and prolonging the healing effects of the latter.
But beyond this fact that Flying Phoenix Qigong induces a healing event in the practitioner that continues long after the practice of the Qigong has ceased and can also induce a healing event several hours after the practice has concluded, I discovered six years ago—after practicing Flying Phoenix Qigong for 23 years and the Tao Tan Pai Qigong for 38 years—that the Tao Tan Pai Qigong if practiced prior to practicing the Flying Phoenix Qigong, acts as powerful foundational catalyst or “accelerant” that enhances the restorative effects of the Flying Phoenix Qigong and prolongs “normal” duration of the energizing, rejuvenating, and self-healing events activated by the latter. Hence the format of every class in this series is one hour of Taoist Elixir Method Qigong followed by an hour of Flying Phoenix Qigong.
Hence, these two very positive reviews by students came in after each took my first class March 29 consisting of one-hour of TTP Basic 31 Meditations followed by one hour of Flying Phoenix Qigong:
I felt a surge of tangible sensations coursing through my entire body, streams of subtle vibrations and tingling with a particular focus in the chest and head areas. Unlike the typical calming, relaxing, and sometimes sedative effects that I usually experience from FP, this pattern of energy was more invigorating, enlivening, and longer-lasting. I was alert and full of energy with an underlying sense of ease and contentment. Its effects were still mildly present three hours after the session ended, and most surprisingly, after a heavy meal, something I haven't quite experienced before even having attended a dozen intensive workshops. Although we only practiced basic exercises from each system, my experience mimicked ones I"ve had practicing advanced meditations from TTP and FP separately in longer sessions. I can only attribute these effects to the thoughtful, specific, and unique combination of TTP and FP that was offered.
--Spencer Lawrence, Jersey City, NJ
I’ve studied with Sifu Terry Dunn for 3 1/2 years at Eastover and any place else I could get the chance. The major focus of that study had been Flying Phoenix Qigong and related Bak Fu Pai arts. I’ve taken a couple of workshops in Tao Tan Pai but never gave it any thought, devotion or practice. Recently I’ve partaken in Sifu Dunn’s Sunday class “Tao Tan Pai + Flying Phoenix Qigong for Peak Immunity...” It consists of one hour of Tao Tan Pai followed another hour of Flying Phoenix. For the last 12 weeks I’ve faithfully practiced TTP daily with profound results. My lung capacity has greatly increased; my inhalation and exhalation are longer and deeper now (something useful In this time of pandemic). I’ve noticed, too, that my heart rate has slowed down by 5 beats per minute.
As to the synergistic relationship of these two seemingly unrelated disciplines, I’ll mention a few. Tao Tan Pai is the perfect warmup for Flying Phoenix Qigong. It loosens both the body and mind. It deepens the relaxation response putting one in an altered state much sooner. This state of relaxation is so deep that by the end of Sunday’s class I can barely keep my eyes open. This is especially true of the Monk Serves Wine series of exercises. My personal practice will forevermore start with TTP and end with Flying Phoenix.
--Tony Arcuri, Queens, NY
Expect more testimonials like these to flow in as I’ve already received numerous verbal testimonials on Zoom, Skype and phone messages expressing thanks, elation, and joy over this demonstrable synergy between Tao Tan Pai Qigong and Flying Phoenix Qigong.
Because Flying Phoenix Qigong in and of itself is outstandingly effective medical qigong system that produces repeatable and verifiable restorative health benefits, as confirmed by thousands of practitioners around the world using my DVD series since 2004 (as documented on the 11-year running “Flying Phoenix Chi Kung” discussion thread on the www.thdaobums.com blogsite—with more than 650,000 views) and using my Chi Kung For Health videos and DVDs since 1996, today, based on the past 40 consecutive weeks of teaching this innovative class, I can attest that this combined regimen (of one hour TTP Qigong followed by one hour of FP Qigong) is an exceptionally effective therapeutic recovery regimen for first-responders (military, police, fire-righting and medical professionals) that will stave off stress caused by exposure to high-risk situations where injury, disease, violence, abuse and trauma are commonplace. Furthermore, this combined Qigong regimen is an effective pre-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for first-responders working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic to increase their stamina and immune levels. I thus would welcome rigorous clinical testing and research by any top medical center in America or the rest of the world.
