The Four Stages of YeYoung Qi Gong or Chinese Meditation Practice

Qi Gong techniques are generally applied to the two categories: Healing Functions and Martial Functions. The former cultivates physical health and spiritual well-being, such as spiritual awakening, while the latter emphasizes a superior physical ability, such as breaking a large rock or thick iron pole with bare hands or feet.

Qi Gong techniques are also divided into two general categories: dong gong, or dynamic qi gong, and jing gong, or meditative qi gong. Dynamic qi gong includes physical movements. The entire body moves from one posture to another or a posture is held while the four limbs move through various positions. Tai Chi is an example of a dynamic qi gong, juxtaposed with meditative qi gong, where the entire body is still, and the qi is controlled by mental concentration, visualization, and precise methods of breathing.

Like Tai Chi, there are a few styles or schools of qi gong. Every Qi Gong technique, whether standing, moving, or sitting and meditating, shares three common principles: Tiao Shen, regulating or alignment the body, Tiao Xi, regulating or refining breathing, and Tiao Xin, focusing the inner awareness to consciously coordinate and direct the mind; and balance yin yang and the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Their names range from animals to legendary figures, mountains to plants, and philosophical ideas to human organs.

YeYoung Qi Gong methods adhere to the traditional Chinese healing (vs. martial) methods, focusing on the teachings of unbroken lineages through physical empowerments and oral transmissions. The techniques of Qi Gong taught at the Arts of YeYoung Tradition are now available to Westerners for the first time, in detailed postures, and are coordinated with breathing techniques to enable you to focus on the working of your inner world and subtle body. It arouses qi from slumber, and quickly builds up Dan Tian,or a “qi reservoir” in your body.

The Literati Horse Stance Practice: Beginner level

This course is suitable for any age or fitness level. It is easy to learn and you can quickly gain a recognizable sense of, and a feeling for, qi. In the standing and dissolving process, it teaches you to dissipate energy blockages. You will learn how to:

  • Recognize and materialize the qi in your body
  • Remove energy blockages in your body
  • Detoxify your body system
  • Relieve back, neck and other neuromuscular problems
  • Lower blood pressure
  • Decrease heart diseases
  • Stretch and move the joints, increase your over-all energy level
  • Cleanse your emotional body of negative energy, relieve tension and stress
  • Gather and store qi through your body and hands for physical/healing powers

The Literati Fire Dragon Practice: Intermediate level

This dynamic course teaches you to move and direct qi at will to any point in your body, and absorb and project your qi with your hands to penetrate the fourteen main acupuncture meridian
channels in your body. It helps link the physical and energetic activities of the internal organs to the spine and the joints, and utilize qi in healing, sports, and martial arts. You will learn how to:

  • Work with the qi connection between your aura and acupuncture meridians
  • Focus your awareness to consciously coordinate and control the flow of qi in your body
  • Align your body correctly in order to achieve the downward and the upward flow of qi without blocking or dissipating it
  • Move and direct energy at will to any point in your body
  • Make your bones harder and stronger
  • Improve athletic performance
  • Neutralize and transform negative energy

The Mantra Practice: Intermediate/Advanced levels

This course teaches a higher level of breathing. At this level breathing is coordinated with Tantric mantras in which the joints, cavities, spinal vertebrae, glands, and muscles simultaneously expand or contract with each breath/sound vibration. You will learn how to:

  • Balance yin and yang, and the five inner organs in your body and their elements: liver (wood), heart (fire), spleen/stomach (earth), lungs (metal), and kidneys (water)
  • Boost your Dan Tian qi reservoir (the area two inches below navel)
  • Energize your overall qi flow, prevent illness and degenerative disease
  • Increase sexual vitality and resistance to disease
  • Absorb energy from nature for healing power
  • Gain mental clarity and insights to assist and deal life practically
  • Reach the realm of becoming one with the universe

The Meditation: Advanced level only

In YeYoung Qi Gong Meditation, the focus is on developing a clear, tranquil state of mind, deep inner awareness and harmony with nature. One focuses on conscious production of mental images and visualizations, rather than images that arise spontaneously during dreamlike or visionary states. In the meditation, visualization is trained through imagination and volition. By using the creative power of the mind, visualization stimulates subtle human glands, sharpens awareness, and corrects health problems. Visualization functions as a faculty that gives you access to an intermediary world; a world between the realm of unfathomable and hidden mystery, and the world of sensible and gross forms. It unifies the two complementary sides of human nature—intuitive wisdom and practical knowledge. You will learn how to:

  • Use qi to cure serious illness—if the mind can cause disease, the mind can also cure it
  • Boost immune system, increase DHEA level, and correlate biochemical, bioluminescence, consciousness to maximize energy level
  • Slow the aging process
  • Release spiritual blockage and gain ability to heal others
  • Enter peace and tranquility at will