Roger Jahnke – The Shift Network – Medical Qigong

In this first class, you’ll delve deep into the concepts behind Medical Qigong — how it’s different from Western medicine, its basis in your own inner healing powers, and its important role in our distressed culture.

You’ll explore why doctors of Chinese medicine rarely treat people who are sick. Instead, they play a pivotal role in how a patient, their family, and the larger community can become truly well — and stay that way.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• The origin of Qigong and the definition of Medical Qigong
• The essence of Chinese medicine compared to Western medicine
• The 3 Treasures — the foundation of Medical Qigong
• Qigong’s ability to resolve inflammation, the primary cause and aggravating factor of all disease
• An easy, fun, and powerful Qigong practice session, which can be done sitting or standing, to address all types of health challenges and illnesses and power up creativity and productivity

Dr. Jahnke will begin walking you through the Four Dimensions of Medical Qigong: body practice, breath practice, mind-focusing practice, and self-massage practice. You’ll explore the first two dimensions — the body and the breath — and learn how they can activate the healing energies of Qi and your inner health-enhancing functions.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• Powerful movement and breathing practices
• The secret for Qi cultivation through the coordination of your body and breath in the practices
• How ancient Chinese tribes discovered the healing power of breath and movement
• How to orchestrate the 4 Dimensions of Medical Qigong to create your own daily practice
• Insights from contemporary science on the physiological and psychological powers of both physical activity and breath

Dr. Jahnke will lead an easy, accessible practice session for sitting or standing. All practice sessions address all types of health challenges and illnesses.

You’ll deepen your understanding of the Four Dimensions of Medical Qigong and discover simple modifications of the new movement and breathing practices you cultivated in the last modules.

You’ll also explore the remaining two dimensions of Medical Qigong: mind focus and massage. Mind focus, or mindfulness, is the foundation of Qigong. And self-applied massage is an amazingly simple tool for directing healing energy to the parts of ourselves that need healing the most.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How Qigong is mindfulness
• The powerful influence your mind has on the potential benefit of Qigong
• How to shift up from exploration of Qi energy to cultivation of Qi energy — the capacity to hold a non-distracted, present-moment focus intentionally — and its pivotal role in your Medical Qigong results
• The many ways Qigong is far more multifaceted and comprehensive than conventional exercise
• The 5 different types of self-massage — pressing, stroking, holding, tapping, and Qi massage

Dr. Jahnke will lead a practice session based on the most prevalent chronic diseases: pain and stress, including excessive use of medications and drugs.

In this pivotal session, you’ll understand how any Qigong can become Medical Qigong when you have a solid understanding of the Four Dimensions of Medical Qigong. You’ll be empowered to weave your knowledge into powerful practice sessions for yourself.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• How to orchestrate the 4 Dimensions of Medical Qigong to create your own daily practice
• The ways Qigong is far more profound and powerful than conventional exercise
• How to cultivate and direct your Qi and inner healing resources to specific parts of your body, mind, and emotions
• How all the common diagnostic challenges have one basic solution — Activate The Healer Within — which is inherent to Qigong

Dr. Jahnke will lead a practice session based on some of the most prevalent diseases and conditions, including insomnia, depression, anxiety, and exhaustion.

Dr. Jahnke will guide you through the inspiring process of evolving the practices you’ve learned so they become your own… because developing a practice that’s personal to you is what gives you access to the full benefits of Qigong. This is the essence of Chinese medicine and the way to cultivate true healing and empowerment, and personal, purposeful self-determination.

Dr. Jahnke will assist you in discovering:

• How you can intuit which dimensions of Qigong to weave together to create your practice
• How to deepen your practice of Qi cultivation — the essence of personal power — and expand your capacity to hold a non-distracted focus
• The secret to feeling confident that the decisions you’re making for your practice have value and relevance — and that they’re right for you

Dr. Jahnke will lead a practice session based on various diseases and conditions, including diabetes, arthritis, COPD, asthma, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, cancer, heart disease, and dementia.

Dr. Jahnke will share one of his powerful signature truths: It may be a perfect time for you to tap into that part of yourself which is already well.

You’ll gain an understanding of why some people radiate wellbeing even if they’re sick or under duress. There’s a part of you — your eternal self — that’s inherently well, regardless of bodily or emotional experience.

Long before the advent of written history, ancient shamans, sages, and physicians from Indigenous Chinese tribes discovered a profound and mysterious elixir known as The Golden Elixir of Longevity and Immortality.

In this module, you’ll discover:

• What radical presence, within your own being, enhances and supercharges your Qigong practice
• The ultimate medicine — the Golden Elixir
• The intrinsic eternity factor, which is something we can all access and cultivate to help conquer any dis-ease
• A practice session that combines Dr. Jahnke’s knowledge of this particular group with the ideals of the Golden Elixir