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Qigong for Yuanqi – Jeffrey Yuen

The Qigong for Yuanqi online course is delivered by Master Jeffrey Yuen.

In ancient Chinese medical tradition, constitutional qi, or yuanqi, represents a precious asset to be preserved for a long and healthy life. The term “yuan” means source, spring, origin, and signifies the original energy, the ancestral constitutional energy. It is also called the Anterior Heaven energy, transmitted from parents to children at the moment of conception, and partly responsible for an individual’s inherited constitution.

During the gestational phase, the function of yuanqi is to nourish, shape, and grow the fetus. After birth, it is responsible for the child’s development, along with the Posterior Heaven qi. Thus, yuanqi governs conception but remains a source of life and vitality throughout existence. Yuanqi cannot be increased but only preserved or consumed as minimally as possible, based on lifestyle. For this reason, it is said to represent the hope of life: the number of breaths and heartbeats one has in lifetime.

Ancient Chinese believed that the cultivation of life was linked to the quality of breath, a fundamental element in qigong practice. Breath can be equated to what we now call stress. This is why, in antiquity, it was asserted that emotions had an influence on the length of one’s life. Additionally, breath can be used to balance situations of discomfort resulting from strong emotions.

Due to its strong connection to the genital system, yuanqi is considered a fundamental element for the protection of the species. It is stored by the Kidney (or more precisely, the mingmen), serving the preservation of the individual and allowing the proper functioning of the Triple Burner, as metabolic transformations occur with the catalyzing action of yuanqi.

In this seminar, Master Jeffrey Yuen guides us to become familiar with Chinese health exercises, used for about 5,000 years, to help prevent illness, create harmony and wellbeing, and live the best possible life. These psycho-physical-spiritual activities, belonging to the Taoist tradition, are used for the enhancement, development, and control of ancestral yuanqi, a deep and constitutional energy that aids individual and creative expressiveness.