Water Method Blog
Taoist Neigong and Meditation, Medical Qigong, Tai Chi and Bagua
If you really want to be healthy, to feel freer, to become a better human being, you must first create balance. Taoist energy arts have been practised for millennia for these reasons, and many more.
Most popular is qigong (and younger tai chi), but in the Water Method, the focus is on neigong an...
In this video, I discuss bending-and-stretching neigong and lengthening neigong, and how they become one.
Wu wei is often translated literally, based on the Chinese characters. But Water Method practitioners have a much different understanding of the Taoist concept of wu wei. Following the principles of water, it starts with the physical body and goes through the Three Treasures, the Taoist path of a...
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 By Paul Cavel
Bagua is a pure energy art derived from Taoist philosophy and the I Ching (Book of Changes). It has been practised for millennia to embody the universal energies of change and, at advanced levels, can become a vehicle for spiritual development.
For more mundane yet meaningful purs...
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 By Paul Cavel
With my new bagua online course starting today, I’ve had a handful of people who’ve asked about bagua for meditation. I suspect there are more of you out there who might want to train bagua as a form of moving meditation, as classically trained for millennia in the monastic tradit...
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