Wild Goose Principles and Wild Goose-10
June 21-25, 2014
Join Dr. Hu for a week of fun-filled, rejuvenating Wild Goose Qigong and nourishing meditation. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to improve your Wild Goose performance and to learn the powerful Wild Goose-10 at a lovely location, close to nature in the quiet town of Kensington, CA (just bordering Berkeley), from a highly qualified master, at a very affordable price.
Five Days of Wild Goose!
Summer season is one of the best times to practice Qigong. The hot weather naturally opens up the pores of our skin, making it easier to everyone to experience and come to understand that our human body is a huge "open system". In warmer weather, compared to wet and chilly weather, it is easier to stretch yourself, open up your meridians, circulate your qi, and detoxify yourself through your feet.
Six Hours of Wild Goose Each Day!
Enjoy six hours of instruction with Dr. Hu each day, with three hours in the morning, a leisurely break, and then three hours in the afternoon. Sessions will begin at 9:30 am on the morning of June 21, and finish at 5:30 pm, except on our last day. On June 25, we will conclude our retreat at 3 pm.
How to improve your Wild Goose performance?
Wild Goose Qigong is a movement-oriented self-healing system. It utilizes all kinds of whole body movements, coordinated with various types of breathing, and awareness to make your body stronger, your mind sharper, and your mood happier.
During this five-day retreat, we are trying to add more teaching materials to this program. Instead of the usual intensive teaching of one new Wild Goose Qigong, we would like to also teach you several important techniques which directly relate to the Wild Goose Qigong basic principles.
We invite you to fully digest and absorb each technique during the class through practicing these accompanying short Qigong examples we offer. In this way, we hope you can improve your Wild Goose performance in its real sense--feel more comfortable in practicing the Wild Goose Qigong you have learned before.
Learn 3 important Wild Goose techniques.
Dao-wei (get to the position)
Dr. Hu believes this concept and technique is an important contribution of Grandmaster Chen, Chuan-Gang, the 28th lineage holder of the Wild Goose tradition.
How to shift your body weight front and back?
Practice: Threshing Movements walking Qigong.
How to walk Bagua Steps in circles?
Practice: Wild Goose Qigong-3.
Learn Wild Goose-10 (Wild Goose Palms Qigong)
WG-10 is an advanced and powerful qigong in the Wild Goose system. Quick and forceful movements are for training the emission of qi, while gentle and soft movements are for the training of absorption and recovery of qi. Practicing this Qigong can help us open up the meridian lines throughout our body and it also helps us increase the speed and intensity in our emitting of qi.
Why do we learn Wild Goose Qigong?
- Train agility, inner strength, and core stability
- Develop alertness, concentration, and spontaneity
- Build good postures, which manifest self-confidence and increase optimism
- Learn how to emit strong qi for healing purposes
- Learn how to absorb the Heaven and Earth energy for rejuvenation
How to learn Wild Goose-10?
1) Empty (void) steps vs arrow steps: When we take an empty step, we naturally shift our body weight toward our back. That relaxes our chest and abdomen, making our breathing easier and freer, and allows us to move our arm freely in front of our body. That is why there are so many empty steps in WG-1. But in practicing WG-10, we intend to train our inner strength, and to make our reverse abdominal breathing easier, we naturally shift our body weight toward the front through taking the arrow steps.
2) Opening up your Governing Vessel: Before you start to learn WG-10, please try to bend your front knee and stand in arrow steps. Then wiggling your body left and right a little bit, make sure you can relax your lower back through shifting your body weight.
3) Please practice the slow and gentle movements in WG-10 again and again. Those movements will help you open up many acu-points and meridian lines.
4) Always be mindful of the part of the body where you place your hands. Sometimes your hands are not touching your body, but they are placed very close to your body. In that case, your hands are actually emitting qi into your own body.
30 Contact Hours
Certificate for completion of 30 contact hours will be provided for those who have joined or who are planning to join the Wild Goose Teacher’s Training Program.
For More Info
Please contact Julie Wellings: 805-646-0068 or juliewellings9@gmail.com.
Registration
Program package:
$545 Full program tuition, if registered before June 7
$585 After June 7, space permitting
To hold your space for the retreat
Please send a deposit of $250 per person before June 3,
payable to Dr. Bingkun Hu. The balance is due before Jun 14.
Mail payments to:
Dr. Bingkun Hu, 2114 Sacramento St., Berkeley, CA 94702
For more information about the retreat:
Please contact Julie Wellings: 805-646-0068 or juliewellings9@gmail.com
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