The Fire Element can help you experience more joy, love, and passion in life. In Qi Gong, the Fire Element is viewed as an essential force of nature that humans can harness for health, happiness, and overall well-being.

The Fire Element is most abundant during the summer season. Therefore, summer is the ideal time to focus on cultivating its many gifts.

To help you embrace the season of summer, here are five important lessons that the Fire Element teaches us. Although these are especially relevant during summer, they are also important to remember during all seasons throughout the year.

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Life is an ever-dynamic experience that engages our mind and body in a vast variety of activities on a daily basis. The spine serves as the foundation for all physical and energetic activity taking place within the body — the “Governing Channel” running throughout our beings.

In the following video master Qi Gong teacher, Lee Holden, shares a Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong perspective on spine health.

Yin and Yang of the Spine

In the West, medical doctors tend to focus pretty exclusively on the physical body (yang) when performing a treatment on a patient. …

Who doesn’t want more energy and aliveness? Whether we’re a student, parent, working adult, or retired person, we all want the vigor and youthfulness to enjoy and succeed in what we are doing.

Energy is at the source of all manifestations we experience. Our connections with others, creative expressiveness, and even our emotional well-being are all dependent on the vitality that flows within us. Therefore, it’s important to nurture and grow this sacred power.

We all possess an abundance of resources and tools to cultivate Qi, but it’s not always easy to use those resources. …

Breathing is our most immediate way to access Qi. With every breath, we’re able to take in life-giving energy that our body needs to function.

Throughout the day, most of our breaths occur involuntarily. In other words, we don’t usually think about our breath. It’s something that happens all on its own whether we’re running, eating, or sleeping.

Although breathing happens naturally, that doesn’t mean we always breathe in the way that is best for us. Luckily, we can control our breathing… if we put our attention there.

This post will discuss the relationship between breathing and stress. We’ll also…

A positive mindset is one of the core elements of a fulfilling life. Love, happiness, and joy are experiences that step from the intangible power of positive thinking.

While much of our happiness-seeking energy is often directed toward changing our external world, some of the most powerful tools available to us are those that lie within. By turning our attention inward and working with Qi, we can transform negative into positive and more fully enjoy life’s beauty.

In this post, we’ll be exploring the mind through the lens of Qi Gong principles, as well as sharing simple yet effective exercises…

The last eighteen months have been challenging. We have never in our lifetime seen a global pandemic that’s disrupted our lives to this extent, caused so much suffering, and forced us to adapt to an entirely new way of navigating the world.

To add to the chaos, the U.S. (and much of the world) has been undergoing a tense political and economic climate that’s only further contributed to feelings of stress, fear, and anger among so many people. …

Although small, our ligaments and tendons play an essential role in keeping the body connected and strong. While people often refer to the muscles as our source of strength, the connective tissues in the body are equally important. Indeed, no feat of power or athleticism is possible without them.

In ancient China, martial artists understood this and sought to strengthen not just their muscles, but also their ligaments and tendons. Their practices were known as Iron Shirt Qi Gong and were originally designed for the battlefield. However, in addition to helping defeat military opponents, these practices were also used to…

Qi Gong offers valuable tools for overcoming many of the challenges that life presents us with. Sometimes, we practice Qi Gong to help us welcome the energy of a new season. At other times, we simply practice to maintain and nourish our energy for our daily life. Whatever your needs are, Qi Gong provides powerful resources for helping you realize the intentions you’ve set for yourself.

Because our physical body is our container of all emotional energy, it is essential that we pay close attention to it when seeking to work with our feelings. Today, we’re going to give you…