Bruce Frantzis & Paul Cavel – The Five Keys to Taoist Energy Arts 2023

The First Key: Taoist Whole-body Breathing

Deep breathing techniques have been used by spiritual traditions since the dawn of time.

Almost every stress reduction system of the modern age also includes some form of breathing exercises because breathing can be so helpful for calming the nervous system during stressful events and gaining access to your inner world.

To say more, my teacher has said that if could only teach one health practice it would be breathing because of how profoundly it affects health on every level. Taoist, whole-body breathing methods:

• Are a tool you can use anytime, anywhere to increase the circulation of blood and other bodily fluids, which are responsible for delivering life-sustaining nutrients to and removing waste by-products from the cells of your body.
• Enable direct access to your nervous system to relax your body and mind–the necessary prerequisites for healing and achieving high-performance results of any kind.
• Serve as the bridge to genuine meditation practice.

The Second Key: Standing Qigong and Outer Dissolving

Standing Qigong, including sinking qi and the Outer Dissolving technique will help you achieve proper postural alignments to ensure safe internal arts training, including to relax deeply and sink your qi–necessary prerequisites for Tao meditation, specifically Inner and Outer Dissolving.

The Dissolving technique systematically and progressively encourages the downwards flow of qi to:

• More firmly ground and root your energy.
• Help you become aware of physical and energetic blockages inside your body.
• Clear any blockages you encounter in the physical or energy bodies, allowing you to let go and deeply relax.

Once you have dissolved any physical and energetic blockages—to the extent that you are able—you are ready to energise yourself with physical movements.

The Third Key: Dragon and Tiger Qigong Exercise 1

Dragon and Tiger Qigong was passed down to Bruce in China from Zhang Jia Hua, a doctor of Chinese medicine. She was extremely proficient in the use of qigong for medical purposes. At one time, she was the vice president of the All China Qigong Association.The first movement from the Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong system is designed to teach students how to stir up, brush and pull and push qi to release and neutralise stagnant energy. Many students find it difficult to clearly feel qi en­ergy, even after some years of training.

Dragon and Tiger Exercise 1 can help you tune into and manipulate the eth­eric energy, commonly called the “aura”, with your hands in progressive stages that can yield profound results. In time and with practice, the heightened aware­ness of qi energy can easily be transferred to other qigong, tai chi and bagua, generating a different quality of motion in all forms and boosting the results you can achieve from your training.

Ongoing practice of Dragon and Tiger strengthens and increases the etheric field, making it more tangible with increased spine and organ activity. All of it serves to help you pull and push more qi energy through your system, and achieve deeper relaxation and releases of bound energy.

In Chinese medicine, the tiger’s immense strength and responsiveness are traits derived from the liver—hence the tiger is a metaphor for a healthy and strong liver. The dragon’s ability to fly comes from the sophistication of their lungs—hence the dragon is a metaphor for healthy and strong lungs.

The Fourth Key: Energy Gate Qigong’s Cloud Hands

Training on the Horizontal Plane of Motion to Create Circularity

The weight-shift is the base of Clouds Hands, the first movement in the Opening the Energy Gates of your Body Qigong system. In combination with turning and twisting, practice elongates the muscles and stretches the fascia.

Over time and with accurate training, you can loosen the muscles off the bone, giving you greater freedom of motion and dramatically reducing tension.

But that’s not all.

Since Cloud Hands activates bending-and-stretching, turning and twisting neigong in such a profound way, it allows you to access and activate the kwa. This is where whole-body motion becomes a possibility—that which what makes blood circulate more powerfully through your body, drives production of interstitial and lymph fluids and serves as an efficient tool for opening and healing the body.

This 3,000-year old movement is unparalleled by any single modern day exercise.

The Fifth Key: Tai Chi Circling Hands

Training on the Vertical Plane of Motion to Create Circularity

In Circling Hands, the kwa exercises go yet deeper into the body, creating a firm yet gentle massage for your internal organs, which further increases blood and fluid activation.

In combination with the C-curve, this generates strong hydraulic activity that allows the body to be exercised from the inside out, while remaining extremely relaxed.

This is why Circling Hands releases the nerves and generates abundant qi—again, unparalleled technology not available in modern exercise programs.

Circling Hands develops the internal content inside the outer shell by upgrading and advancing the neigong exercises by lulling the nervous system into a state of deep relaxation, allowing you to feel, access and upgrade every function in your body.

Learn These Powerful Keys in 10 Weeks

This 10-week program creates a potent synergy that is difficult to beat in 15-20 minutes. Beginners will learn the methodology for creating a firm grounding in neigong, while experienced students and instructors will improve and systematically upgrade their qigong, tai chi and/or bagua practice.As you progress and practice the exercises in the program, you will:

• Boost qi energy levels.
• Stretch and open the soft tissues of your body, allowing blood and qi energy to circulate more powerfully.
• Contact and release many layers of tension in the body, mind and qi.
• Develop your ability to be present, aware, focused and to concentrate your efforts for greater effect.
• Integrate the operations of your body, mind and qi, so thay more of you is available to focus on any goal you deem worth pursuing, such as healing from injury or illness, increasing health, fitness and vitality or achieving goals in your business, sport, hobby or life in general.

The Five Keys 10-Week Online Program

In this special program, Paul Cavel will guide you through the Five Keys in a special step-by-step progression.

Here’s Everything You’ll Receive:

1. OVER 80 ONLINE & DOWNLOADABLE INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS carefully-crafted to teach you exactly how to easily and successfully learn each exercise2. Weekly downloadable Practice Logs that allow you to easily track your learning and practice progress

3. Private MEMBERSHIP PORTAL to easily consume all your course materials

4. Access to our ENERGY ARTS TRAINING FORUM on Facebook

PLUS YOU’LL RECEIVE THESE BONUSES:

5. BONUS #1 – An Introduction to Tai Chi Circling Hands Practice Guide PDF

6. BONUS #2 – A Guided Dissolving Meditation Audio Practice Session

7. BONUS #3 – New Super Bonus – CULTIVATED SUPPORT VIDEOS: Additional Selected Trainings with Bruce Frantzis to Assist Your Growth and Learning