Roger Jahnke on Qigong Cultivation
In this first clip, Roger Jahnke introduces the basics of Qigong cultivation, which involve opening the pathways to allow Qi to flow more freely. The feeling that this engenders is quickly apparent and perhaps even seductive. But as practitioners become more adept they beeomce increasingly aware of the subtleties of the flow of Qi. This awareness leads to a deepening of the process of cultivation that places it on a spiritual path. It moves out of the realm of health and medicine and into the realm of spiritual discipline.
In the next clip, Solala Towler reflects on the Daoist notion of embodied wisdom