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The 5 Facilitators of Healing: Part 3 healing neigong qigong rule of thirds tai chi trauma Nov 06, 2025

(Photo of Jackie Smith by Jub Davis, Scotland, 2021)

TheĀ Ultimate Healing Journey

By Paul Cavel

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In the world we live in, we never know what is coming around the corner — or out of the sky — as I was reminded back in 2011. I returned home after a teaching tour in Germany to learn tha...

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The 5 Facilitators of Healing: Part 2 healing neigong qigong trauma Oct 30, 2025

(My teacher and me in the early days of my training, 1995)

How toĀ Build Mind-Body Trust

By Paul Cavel

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My own journey to overcome a serious injury and the associated pain with internal arts training was in direct contrast to the fast relief experienced by the previous case. While pra...

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The 5 Facilitators of Healing: Part 1 healing kwa kwa squat neigong qigong sciatica Oct 23, 2025

How to Grow Your State of Health and Well-being

By Paul Cavel

Internal arts are practised the world over because, above all else, they have a proven track record of health and healing results. If you ask the average practitioner about the mechanisms that drive these beneficial outcomes, anecdote...

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Weaving Neigong in Heaven & Earth Qigong breathing healing heaven & earth qigong neigong opening and closing pulsing taoist energy arts Oct 07, 2025

By Paul Cavel

The many threads and layers of neigong that can be activated and integrated in the Marriage of Heaven and Earth Qigong give practitioners a taste of what is possible from ongoing study of Taoist arts — without the complex choreography associated with other qigong sets, tai chi or ba...

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Secrets of Taoism: Healing with Neigong heaven & earth qigong neigong taoism training Sep 29, 2025

In this talk with Chris Cinnamon of Chicago Tai Chi, I discuss how to start a qigong and tai chi practice.

I discuss in-depth the 16 neigong and how Heaven and Earth Qigong bridges beginning to advanced training in the Water Method.

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