River's Chi House

There are two major types of chi kung practice. They have many names but I will call them Moving Form and Quiet Form. Moving form chi kung deals with the physical movement of the body in set patterns, Quiet form deals with moving awareness through the body in set patterns. These forms are also called external and internal chi kung for obvious reasons. Both forms utilize breathing techniques and pay close attention to correct posture and muscle tension. The forms can be and often are combined by advanced practitioners. For beginners it is helpful to practice one or the other form until a degree of competency is achieved.

I think it would be helpful to say a few more words about why Chinese medicine uses poetic and suggestive words and concepts as opposed to precise words and definitions like western medicine. When a human being is seen as a dynamic field of energy existing within greater fields of energy that over laps and interact constantly in innumerable ways how do you explain that dynamic in words and concepts. It is to complex and our knowledge to inadequate to think or pretend that we can understand it enough to be able to predict its movements or manifestations precisely. Therefore the Chinese use poetic terms and talk of "tendency and patterns". I think this is a very honest and humble way of confronting the vastness and complexity of creation and our very limited experience and knowledge about ourselves as energy and ourselves in relationship to the greater fields we exists within. Even seeing ourselves as just material/psychological beings medically I believe we could benefit by...

Remember, God treats you like you treat your lover. Being a good lover is the highest form of humanity as far as I am concerned.Sometimes being a good lover means letting go of each other. Such is life. Before I share the first chi kung exercise it is important to understand a couple of fundamental differences that separate Chinese and the western medicine. I am going to be a bit repetitious but as they say " Education is repetition." Western medicine understands and relates to a human being as a physical/psychological/social organism. Chinese medicine understands and relates to a human being as a radiating field of energy that exists in and as a series of interrelated fields of energy all of which exists in an all encompassing field of energy. A human being has a physical/psychological/social manifestation but the key in Chinese medicine is the energy field not the manifestations of the field. If the energy field is strong and balanced health will manifest. If it is not...

The photographs going from top to bottom and left to right: My Gibeaut. Yulan Fucius also known respectfully and with love as Lady Fxi.  River Gibeaut. Sheik Fazal Inyat Khan. Sheik Hazart Inayat Khan,. Sheik Nur-al Jerrahi and Kuan Yin.   My intent for this blog is to be a non-commercial free space where people can come to learn chi kung and other healing techniques, inshAllah. It is dedicated to helping people find and share information about how to help themselves and each other through difficult life/death situations. A big part of this blog is dedicated to chi kung or qi gong (pronounced chee kung) in general and medical chi kung in particular. But chi kung is only part of what is here. It is also includes information and access portals via numerous links to many other helpful and effective paradigms and techniques which I believe can be of great benefit for people in various forms of distress. So it is my wish and  hope, ...