Water Method Blog

By Paul Cavel

Part 1: Making Your Body Conscious

Part 2: Expanding Your Awareness

Part 3: Creating a Stream of Consciousness

As established in Part 2, presence and awareness are prerequisites for letting go.

Directing Your Focus

Focus guides your presence and awareness to a particular ...

By Paul Cavel

Part 1: Making Your Body Conscious

Part 2: Expanding Your Awareness

Awareness is born out of presence. If you don’t think so, just try being aware while you're spacing out! Awareness of what is sets the foundation for change.

Acceptance Arises From Awareness

If you are not aw...

By Paul Cavel

Part 1 : Making the Body Conscious

Unlike other spiritual traditions, Taoism starts the process of awakening the mind by focusing on the body. Training protocols are embedded in neigong, that is internal techniques that clear out and upgrade all the systems and subsystems of the...

If your internal arts form — qigong, tai chi or bagua — doesn't include these three exercises, you can't really consider it internal. The third one is the jewel in the crown and has been kept secret for hundreds of years. 👉🏼 Join the course here

The 16 components that make up the Taoist neigong system are:

1. Breathing methods, from simple to complex, taking many years to develop properly.

2. Developing the ability to feel, move, transform and transmute internal energies along the descending, ascending and connecting energy channels of ...

 

 

 

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Part 2 of 2: Play the Yin-Yang Spectrum of Neigong

By Paul Cavel

In Part 1, we discussed how to weave relevant neigong threads into a single fabric through your tai chi or bagua practice, and establish your root in foundational neigong. Qi practices are arts of subtlety, requiring ever-finer ref...

Part 1 of 2: Find Your Root in Foundational Neigong

By Paul Cavel

In China the number eight is regarded as auspicious and it gets applied to just about everything, from feng shui and good luck charms to the ancient philosophy of the Tao. According to the I Ching (Book of Changes), eight primary ...

 

 

 

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In my latest video, I include a snippet from a session I had this summer with Gary Worth, founder of St. Ives, who says:

"I am getting so much improvement in my body and spirit from Paul's teachings. He has been very kind and helped me in recovery from surgery".

Medical qigong is an excellent entr...

Test how well you know your tai chi form by doing this...

"People in the world suffer from traumatic events and these traumatic events aren't just a one-time change on their brain and body. It actually continues for, seemingly, their lifetime".

Dr. Marlin's research is revealing how trauma experienced by...

Bagua has been practised by Taoists for millennia to open the body and mind, and merge with the one constant in life: change.

This autumn, I'm teaching Tai Chi Tiger Stepping and Bagua Circle Walking in Andalusia, Spain at Finca La Lola. See complete details and book you place on this residential retreat at https://fincalalola.com/moving-with-the-tao/.

Internal resistance to training and self-care is one of the primary reasons why people do not reach their dreams and potential. Watch the 1-hr talk on my YouTube Channel @PaulCavel.

"Be like water, my friend", that was Bruce Lee's advice. This is a snippet from my talk with Morgan from the Freedude Podcast on the philosophy of the Water Method. See the full talk on my YouTube Channel @PaulCavel.

In acupuncture, most often acupuncturists use needles to stimulate qi flow in either the yang or yin meridians, moving out from and in towards the core of the body, respectively.

However, qi is not physical and is constantly moving in both directions at the same time. Qigong, one of the branches ...

Yin and yang, or all opposites, is a philosophical concept from Taoism. True Taoist studies always start with body, specifically with qigong. In this video, I cover the primary areas of focus for balancing the body, all yin-yang combinations, in the physical body according to internal neigong p...

Virtually no other health system takes the Water approach to life, but this millennia-old strategy allows you to establish and maintain a personal/spiritual practice, rest, relax and let go — even as you work towards your greatest and most challenging of goals.

 

 

 

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