SPIRITUAL TAO^® Workshops

Taught by Steven Sy, ONLINE using Zoom Platform

COURSE DETAILS:
4 days:  Sat-Sun Aug 3-4, 2024 and Sat-Sun Aug 10-11, 2024
Each day runs from 9:30am - 12:00pm and 1:30pm - 5:30pm [extended hours]  (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME -- [UTC-4 ] )

PREREQUISITE: ST204: Healing Love 4 

NOTE:  This course is NOT open to those who have not already had the Basics 1-5 sequence, Iron Shirt 1, and Healing Love 1-4.
Students will only be allowed to enroll if they have completed the ST101-105 and ST201, ST202, ST203, ST204 sequence

OVERVIEW

Our goal is renew and refresh the material from Healing Love 4, along with continuing our skills with Healing Water (basic version) and Intro Iron Shirt 2.  We finish exploring aroused (warm) sexual energy cultivation practices and study several very aroused (very warm)--i.e. "horny"--sexual energy methods.  The primary benefit here is the gland system, the organs, and the bone marrow

The theme of this class is:    Healing Water + Advanced Aroused Sexual Energy Methods to Heal the Body

Along with reviewing Basic Healing Water techniques and continuing our development of Introductory Iron Shirt 2, we review the aroused (warm) sexual energy techniques from the course Healing Love 4.  From there, we continue to develop new techniques to work with aroused (warm) sexual energy.  We learn some advanced pelvic floor exercises to further strengthen the pelvic floor, as well as direct sexual energy into the bone marrow.  We continue to work with circulating the energy in the body for overall body and health rejuvenation.  We address the common problem of "Lack of Sexual Desire" or libido, while simultaneously introducing the counterpart techniques of using very aroused (very warm)--i.e. "horny"--sexual energy in a way to heal the body, rather than wasting it or feeling frustrated.

ABOUT HEALING LOVE

This course will contain a mixture of qigong, qigong meditation, and educational training.  

This course is the continuation to the Healing Love training from the previous ST204 course.

Because some may have questions about what this course entails, let me be clear on the following important points:

• The focus is on qigong and educational information for the improvement of physical health.
• Some educational information in the course, by its nature, will need to include anatomical drawings or tasteful photos, relating to sexual health.
• Students will learn all material safely with their clothes on.   No disrobing of participants or sexual activity will take place in the classroom.
• One does NOT need any kind of "sexual partner" to benefit from this course.  The primary focus is on your own personal healing. 
• Any discussion of topics relating to sexual health will be dealt with in a mature fashion, both in presentation and questions/answers.
• Students can be assured that they can ask any question relating to sexual energy or human sexuality without judgment, and given serious reply.
• Course is suitable for people of all genders and all sexual orientations.

Course Goals:

• Improve one's health involving the pelvic floor
• Use sexual energy to heal and revitalize the body
• Learn to preserve, conserve, and enhance sexual energy

Along with the material in this section, we will review some of the meditations and qigong from Healing Love 4.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Review of Healing Love 4 new material
Qi Weight-Lifting Methods
Qi Ball Sexual Microcosmic Orbit
Tao Yin Qigong (6th set):  learn to invigorate through basic stretching
Tao Yin Qigong (6th set):  Guided PRACTICE
Self-Intercourse Meditation
Working with VERY WARM Sexual Energy
Lack of Sexual Desire
11 New Qigong Prescriptions for Libido
Erection Enhancement Practice
Milk Line Qigong [VERY WARM version]
Power Lock
Power Lock Recipe for Healing
Connections to Jade Egg Practices [women]

What are the next steps after the Healing Love 5 material?

In total, I look forward to sharing "Healing Love 5" with you.

If anyone has any questions in advance of the class,
Steven may be contacted at his email address:    steven [at] spiritualtao [dot] com.

NEXT COURSE IN SEQUENCE IS  ST206: Healing Love 6

At the end of this course, students will receive an attendance certificate which will identify hours completed in the MANTAK CHIA^® system, which may be used toward the certification requirements in his system.

Do you want to be an Associate Instructor or an Instructor?  If so, click on Certificate Program for more information.
This course is a main core course in the curriculum.

Taught by Steven Sy, ONLINE using Zoom Platform

COURSE DETAILS:
4 days:  Sat-Sun Sep 7-8 and Sat-Sun Sep 14-15
Each day runs from 9:30am - 12:00pm and 1:30pm - 5:30pm [extended hours]  (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME -- [UTC-4 ] )

PREREQUISITE:  ST103: Qigong Meditation Basics 3
This course continues the course material from Qigong Meditation Basics 3.

OVERVIEW

Our goal is renew and refresh the material from Qigong Meditation Basics 3 .  From there, we deepen physical body qigong methods for grounding with Iron Shirt Qigong 1  and we deepen the Awaken Healing Light methods with Wisdom Qigong.  All of these strengthen our physical body, our healing capacity, and open us up to a higher level of conscious awareness.

The theme of this class is:   Advanced Grounding and Healing Light Practices 

After reviewing the basic methods of Qigong Meditation Basics 3  for awakening the healing light, we learn ways to rejuvenate the sense organs with Qi Self-Massage.  We explore ways to strengthen our fascia (connective tissue) with some wonderful rooted practices (Iron Shirt Qigong 1 ), that also help us get more deeply grounded.  We also take the Awaken Healing Light material to a higher-level, by exploring the brain rejuvenation practices of Wisdom Qigong.  All of these practices are expanded on further in the next course Qigong Meditation Basics 5 + Craniosacral Qigong + Intro Healing Love.

ABOUT QIGONG MEDITATION BASICS 4

We will learn three new fundamental meditations for emotional and spiritual well-being:

1. Reverse Qi Ball Microcosmic Orbit:  alternate qi ball microcosmic orbit to sedate the body
2. Classical Large Microcosmic Orbit:  grounds and balances upper/lower parts of the body
3. Qi Ball Large Microcosmic Orbit:  breaks up blockages along the large microcosmic orbit with two different spins

In addition to the meditations, we will learn some supportive physical qigong:

• Tao Yin Qigong (3rd set):  learn ways to invigorate through basic stretching
• Breathing Methods:  review of QMB3 breathing methods with awakening healing light, along with Wisdom Qigong
• Wisdom Qigong:  introductory methods to rejuvenate the brain
• Qi Self-Massage (Part 1)
• Iron Shirt Qigong 1  (see below)

Along with the material in this section, we will review some of the meditations and qigong from Qigong Meditation Basics 3.

ABOUT IRON SHIRT QIGONG 1

Iron Shirt Qigong 1 is a system of standing meditation.

Specifically, it is a set of standing meditation postures designed to help you become more grounded and stable emotionally through your connection to the Earth. Through this deeper level of grounding, you find that over time your ability to remain detached from your emotions will also increase. In this way, you become more stable: rather than being controlled by your emotions, you become more able to detach from them and view them objectively as a witness. Consequently, Iron Shirt 1 becomes the necessary complement to any spiritual work for managing your emotions.

The Iron Shirt 1 postures themselves also serve to strengthen the physical body, which is a necessary tool to ward off the effects of aging. The old masters knew that they could not do their lengthy meditative and spiritual techniques without a strong body to sustain them, and they consequently looked to such methods.

Specifically, the Iron Shirt 1 postures serve to strengthen the body's core. In particular, connective tissue strengthens, blood circulation improves, and general body patterns of tension dissolve. Through the connection to the ground, healing energy from the Earth rises up into your body, and helps to promote both physical and emotional healing.

The focus in Iron Shirt 1 is on body alignment and structure. This not only enhances the grounding effect, but it serves to strengthen the physical body as well. Through this process, you develop an added awareness of your own internal life-force energy (or qi) and are able to supplement that with additional qi rising up into your body from the Earth. By strengthening your fascia (connective tissue), you will be better able to protect your internal organs and keep them healthy. This will in turn help to support the tendons, ligaments, joints, and bones, which are covered more extensively in the higher levels of Iron Shirt.

In total, the techniques taught in Iron Shirt 1 serve as a fundamental building block for a whole program of courses that are designed to build the physical body and continue the pathway of deeper levels of grounding. They form a necessary ingredient for higher levels of Iron Shirt, Tai Chi, and both martial and spiritual arts programs.

At the same time, the physical and emotional grounding that is provided, is a necessary prerequisite for continuing the meditative and spiritual pathway of Taoist meditation and alchemy. It only through becoming more deeply embodied that meditative practices become a whole-body energetic transformative process.

The material for the Iron Shirt 1 section will be:

• Phoenix  (review from QMB3)
• Iron Bridge  (review from QMB3)
• Embracing the Tree  (review from QMB3)
• Iron Bar
• Turtle I
• Holding the Golden Urn--Yang Position
• Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #1
• Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #2
• Turtle II
  
• Water Buffalo--Static
  
• Water Buffalo--Dynamic
  
• Advanced Iron Shirt 1 (if time permits)
• Overview of Higher Levels of Iron Shirt Qigong

COURSE SYLLABUS

Review of Basics 3 new material
What is Qi Self-Massage?
What are some practices of Qi Self-Massage?
Qi Self-Massage:  ways to rejuvenate the sense organs through self-touch
Qi Self-Massage (Part 1):  Guided PRACTICE
Review of Basic Iron Shirt 1: Phoenix, Iron Bridge, Embracing the Tree
Iron Bar:  Guided PRACTICE
Turtle I:  Guided PRACTICE
How to maintain good structure in Turtle I
How to do use a partner to improve your Turtle I, aka "Pushing"
Advanced Storage Methods for Healing Light
Distributing Violet Light into the Qi/Energy Body
Tao Yin Qigong (3rd set):  learn to invigorate through basic stretching
Tao Yin Qigong (3rd set):  Guided PRACTICE
What is a good method to deal with Sinus issues and allergies?
Holding the Golden Urn--Yang Position:  Guided PRACTICE
How to maintain good structure in Holding the Golden Urn--Yang Position
How to do use a partner to improve your Holding the Golden Urn--Yang Position, aka "Pushing"
Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #1:  Guided PRACTICE
How to maintain good structure in Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #1
How to do use a partner to improve your Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #1, aka "Pushing"
Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #2:  Guided PRACTICE
How to maintain good structure in Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #2
How to do use a partner to improve your Holding the Golden Urn--Yin #2, aka "Pushing"
Reverse Qi Ball Microcosmic Orbit:  what is its function?
Reverse Qi Ball Microcosmic Orbit:  Guided PRACTICE
How reverse qi ball micro differs from qi ball micro method
How can we revitalize the brain?
Overview of Wisdom Qigong
Wisdom Qigong:  Awaken Healing Light and Enhance Crystal Palace
Classical Large Microcosmic Orbit:  what is its function?
Classical Large Microcosmic Orbit:  what are the acupoints of the large microcosmic orbit?
Classical Large Microcosmic Orbit:  Guided PRACTICE
Turtle II:  Guided PRACTICE
How to maintain good structure in Turtle II
How to do use a partner to improve your Turtle II, aka "Pushing"
Water Buffalo--Static & Dynamic:  Guided PRACTICE
Rooted Phoenix & One-Legged Stance:  Demo
Qi Ball Large Microcosmic Orbit:  what is its function?
Qi Ball Large Microcosmic Orbit:  Guided PRACTICE
Wisdom Qigong:  Nature Forces
What do the regions of the brain correspond to?
Wisdom Qigong:  Organ/Brain connection
Wisdom Qigong:  Gain Wisdom from Planets
What are the next steps after the Basics 4 + Wisdom Qigong + Iron Shirt 1 material? 

In total, I look forward to sharing "Qigong Meditation Basics 4 + Wisdom Qigong + Iron Shirt Qigong 1" with you. 

If anyone has any questions in advance of the class,
Steven may be contacted at his email address:    steven [at] spiritualtao [dot] com.

NEXT COURSE IN SEQUENCE IS  ST105: Qigong Meditation Basics 5 + Craniosacral Qigong + Intro Healing Love

At the end of this course, students will receive an attendance certificate which will identify hours completed in the MANTAK CHIA^® system, which may be used toward the certification requirements in his system.

Do you want to be an Associate Instructor or an Instructor?  If so, click on Certificate Program for more information.
This course is a main core course in the curriculum.

Taught by Steven Sy, ONLINE using Zoom Platform

COURSE DETAILS:
4 days:  Sat-Sun Jun 22-23, 2024 and Sat-Sun Jun 29-30, 2024 
Each day runs from 9:30am - 12:00pm and 1:30pm - 5:30pm [extended hours]  (EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME -- [UTC-4 ] )

PREREQUISITE: ST203: Healing Love 3 + Five Element Qigong

NOTE:  This course is NOT open to those who have not already had the Basics 1-5 sequence, Iron Shirt 1, and Healing Love 1-3.
Students will only be allowed to enroll if they have completed the ST101-105 and ST201, ST202, ST203 sequence

OVERVIEW

Our goal is renew and refresh the material from Healing Love 3 + Five Element Qigong.  From there, we learn Healing Water (basic version) and Intro Iron Shirt 2.  Then explore aroused (warm) sexual energy methods.  The primary benefit here is the gland system and the organs

The theme of this class is:    Healing Water + Using Aroused Sexual Energy to Heal the Body

After reviewing Five Element Qigong from the course Healing Love 3 + Five Element Qigong, we start introducing how to make Healing Water and the beginning elements of Iron Shirt Qigong 2.  The Healing Water protocol is a healing technology in its own right for healing yourself or another person, and it also begins to set the stage for the Passing Energy Protocol learned in later coursework.  The Iron Shirt Qigong 2 material is continued work with the tendon system already begun with the Five Element Qigong.  We slowly develop both the Healing Water skills and Iron Shirt Qigong 2 skills as we continue the Healing Love work.  Having revitalized the glands and organs from the Five Element Qigong, we now work with aroused (warm) sexual energy cultivation methods for overall health and vitality.

ABOUT HEALING LOVE

This course will contain a mixture of qigong, qigong meditation, and educational training.  

This course is the continuation to the Healing Love training from the previous ST203 course.

Because some may have questions about what this course entails, let me be clear on the following important points:

• The focus is on qigong and educational information for the improvement of physical health.
• Some educational information in the course, by its nature, will need to include anatomical drawings or tasteful photos, relating to sexual health.
• Students will learn all material safely with their clothes on.   No disrobing of participants or sexual activity will take place in the classroom.
• One does NOT need any kind of "sexual partner" to benefit from this course.  The primary focus is on your own personal healing. 
• Any discussion of topics relating to sexual health will be dealt with in a mature fashion, both in presentation and questions/answers.
• Students can be assured that they can ask any question relating to sexual energy or human sexuality without judgment, and given serious reply.
• Course is suitable for people of all genders and all sexual orientations.

Course Goals:

• Improve one's health involving the pelvic floor
• Use sexual energy to heal and revitalize the body
• Learn to preserve, conserve, and enhance sexual energy

Along with the material in this section, we will review some of the meditations and qigong from Healing Love 3.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Review of Healing Love 3 + Five Element Qigong new material
Introduction to Healing Water
How to Make Healing Water -- Basic Solo Practice
Introduction to Iron Shirt Qigong 2
Jade Egg Practices for Women [women]:  Preparation
Jade Egg Practices for Women [women]:  Five Fundamental Practices
Jade Egg Practices for Women [women]:  Closing Methods
How to Make Healing Water -- Basic Partner Practice
Healing Sexual Abuse and Trauma:  Five Fundamental Methods
Menstruation Issues [women]:  Energy Loss with Menstruation
Menstruation Issues [women]:  Support to Menstrual Cycle
Menstruation Issues [women]:  Slaying the Red Dragon
Menstruation Issues [women]:  Support to Menstrual Cycle
Menopausal Issues [women]:  Benefits and Problems
Menopausal Issues [women]:  Supportive Practices
Advanced Jade Egg Practices for Women [women]
Counterforce Exercises for the Pelvic Floor [men]
Counterforce Exercises for the Pelvic Floor [women]
Intro to Qi Weight-Lifting
What are the next steps after the Healing Love 4 material?

In total, I look forward to sharing "Healing Love 4" with you.

If anyone has any questions in advance of the class,
Steven may be contacted at his email address:    steven [at] spiritualtao [dot] com.

NEXT COURSE IN SEQUENCE IS  ST205: Healing Love 5

At the end of this course, students will receive an attendance certificate which will identify hours completed in the MANTAK CHIA^® system, which may be used toward the certification requirements in his system.

Do you want to be an Associate Instructor or an Instructor?  If so, click on Certificate Program for more information.
This course is a main core course in the curriculum.