Welcome Tao-friends!

• This Academy page serves as an online reference: watch videos & images from any device, any time, any place.

• This page will link you to all course material and will be online until 31 December 2022.

• For downloadable files, please check your Dropbox, or the links below per module.

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Examination

CURRICULUM WITH ALL INFORMATION here

If you would like to join the examination, please apply with Carsten or Dewi. (Whatsapp or e-mail is good.) You will receive the exam questions per mail.

You can find all the details regarding the examination in this curriculum (PDF).

Start to practice

Don’t know were to start?
This is a suggestion…
a logical ABC to get going, to build up your practice and see result!

1. ACCEPT YOURSELF
   Do any morning meditation - we did many! -which helps to embrace and accept yourself.

2. POWER OF THE CENTER
   Feel your Dantien! Building up Qi and Dantien with inner practice. Check these meditations that are also the preparation to tree standing (with Dewi): Nederlands - Deutsch (audio)

3. ROOTING
 & TREE STANDING
   Some of you asked how to build up more Dantien power. You can practice the Turtle from the warm-up program or Iron Shirt qigong (module 3).
   However, a good simple stepping stone before doing the more elaborate turtle and iron shirt, is TREE STANDING: It is a basic indispensable practice in Qigong, tai chi and kungfu. You can integrate it a few minutes daily and you will see that you will build up Dantien power. The posture collects power in the belly by itself & you will get a stronger structure. Your water qigong, inner kungfu and meditations will get better! Check the videos (with Dewi): Nederlands - Deutsch

4. INNER KUNGFU
 - TAO MOVEMENTS
   every morning inner kungfu 10-20 minutes
.

   Preparation of fundament & video inner kungfu

   Or check longer video here.

5. WARM-UP


6. WATER-QIGONG
   every morning 10-20 minutes

7. TOGETHERNESS

   Practice together with fellow-students (correct each other!): e.g. warm-up and water qigong. Or give each other a healing session.

8. FEELING YOUR ORGANS
   
Do I feel rooted in my belly, can Qi move and condense here, do I feel my organs, my kidneys? Can I relax the lower back? e.g. this organ meditation at 02:29:02

9. “QIGONG” SCRIPT & “THE WAY OF THE TAO” SCRIPT

   Read the Qigong scripts - again (Qigong Nederlands - German). This motivates and brings you to the next step.

10. VARIETY 
IN YOUR PRACTICE
    When practicing water qigong a lot, take a break once in a while with another qigong form such as Swimming Dragon, 5 element qigong or Crane Qigong. You may discover new things and broaden your horizon so Water Qigong will get new impulses.


11. MANTRA
    
Choose a mantra or ask Carsten which suits best at this moment. You can get used to it by hanging it on the wall, chanting it walking in nature or sitting. Then decide if you want to do it more intensively. This decision alone is already a game-changer. Keep contact with Carsten or Dewi so we can coach you in the process. Remember that mantra will have a deeper impact if you have a daily physical practice.


    You will learn to do a ceremony in Module 6.

12. MICROCOSMIC ORBIT

    If you are a bit more advanced in the physical training and dantien work (with rooting, feeling your organs etc.) then you can challenge yourself with the 100-day program to master the microcosmic orbit. Check module 3.

13. PROTOCOLS
    - “What happened in module 2?” Get inspired by the protocols to listen to certain recordings again. You can find the protocol list below.
    - Enjoy reading the protocols! It’s great work from fellow-students and they will give you many AHA-moments!

14. ENJOY YOUR GROWTH & PROGRESS!

* please note that these are just suggestions

Articles

Must-read!

These articles summarize well what our Art of Living concept consists of.

1. “What do we need? What does the earth need?” Carsten on the 5 levels of healing

2. “Der Weg der Liebe führt nach innen” on Tao and sexual energy (English translation coming soon)

3. Taoist inner Alchemy in our modern times
   (in German here)

4. Your body - a gateway to being (on the importance of embodiment)
   (in German here)

All scripts

1. Warm-Up

2. Qigong - Basic script NL / Qigong Basisbuch DE

3. The Way of the Tao

4. Wasser-Qigong

5. Tao movements of inner kungfu: English - auf Deutsch

6. Booklist: English - auf Deutsch

7. Qigong during disease: Nederlands - auf Deutsch

8. Tao & Taoism

9. Microcosmic Orbit - Energiekreislauf - 100 Days challenge: English - Nederlands - auf Deutsch

10. High Energy Qigong (Shen Dan Gong)

11. Crane Qigong

12. Tao Healing

13. Swimming Dragon

14. Didactics - how to teach: Nederlands - auf Deutsch

Protocols:

Module 1 (Claus - Nick - Pantha - Merelle)
Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4

Module 2 (Andrea - Lynn - Ingrid - Nick)
Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4

Module 3 (Lynn - Merel - Saskia)
Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4

Module 4: No protocols (not much theory)

Module 5 coming soon
Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4

1. PCLOUD Module 5: DOWNLOADABLE FILES

2. SCRIPTS:

   1. Tao Healing

   2. Swimming Dragon

   Stream the videos here
   Day 1

   1. Morning meditation

   2. Sharing & Intro Swimming Dragon

   3. Warm-up / First movements swimming dragon

   4. Meditation Love libido connect in dantien

   5. MFT lines & healing session

   6. Sharing

   7. Swimming dragon

   8. Meditation Nine turns

   Day 2

   1. Morning meditation

   2. Sharing - Intro Taoist healing

   3. Warm-up / Swimming dragon whole form

   4. Meditation Glands & sexual energy

   5. Healing session

   6. Sharing

   7. Explanation Taoist healing with prenatal Qi

   8. Sharing after Taoist healing

   Day 3

   1. Morning meditation

   2. Sharing Lecture Tao & Healing

   3. Warm-up & Water-Qigong with Dewi

   4. Meditation 3 Dantiens

   5. Mantra Om Amouga together & healing session

   6. Sharing & essence of Buddhism

   7. Field work - meditation

   8. Sharing

   Day 4

   1. Morning meditation

   2. Sharing & power of mantra

   3. Inner kungfu - Tao movements

   4. Tao Communication triades

   5. Sharing after triades

   6. Swimming dragon whole form with prenatal Qi

   7. Cunde mantra together & healing session

   8. Finish round & sharing

* Extra Module

“High Energy Qigong”

(Shen Dan Gong)

Check Dropbox here for the Zoom-recordings

Module 3

online module

“Reversal of the aging Process”

Main themes:
Meditation: Microcosmic orbit
Iron shirt Qigong
Tara Mantra

1. DROPBOX Module 3: ALL DOWNLOADABLE FILES

2. SCRIPT “Microcosmic Orbit - Energiekreislauf - 100 Days challenge”: English - Nederlands - auf Deutsch

3. VIDEOS: STREAM them here and download the 4-days program with the time indication:

Day 1 - Thursday morning

Day 1 - Thursday afternoon

Day 2 - Friday

Day 3 - Saturday

Day 3 - Saturday part 2 (feedback after field work)

Day 4 - Sunday

3. Click here to download the 4-days program incl. video timing.

4. Click on picture to enlarge. (All pictures rights reserved)

1. DROPBOX Module 2: ALL DOWNLOADABLE FILES

2. STREAM VIDEOS here:

5 element Qigong

Dao movements - inner kungfu 1

Dao movements - inner kungfu 2

Dao movements - inner kungfu 3

Dao movements - inner kungfu 4

Dao movements - inner kungfu 5

Dao movements - inner kungfu 6

Dao movements - inner kungfu 7

Self-massage-Acupressure 1

Self-massage-Acupressure 2

Self-massage-Acupressure 3

Stretching on the mat: Dao Yin 1

Stretching on the mat: Dao Yin 2

Mantra: Ah A Xia Sha Ma Ha

Module 1

“The essence of life”

Main themes:
Water qigong
Warm-up
Principles of Qigong

1. DROPBOX Module 1: DOWNLOADABLE FILES

2. STREAM VIDEOS here:

• Warm-up

• Water Qigong