New Thing-QI GONG (chee -gong)
I have been cleaning up my blog and making it more sharable (and more purple) so if you ever want to share a post, click on the widgets under SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS, or if you want to subscribe for free, you can do that too! That is why I have been off the site for a while, but I am back to doing something new everyday, so stay tuned!!! We are back on track!!
This new thing was something I always wanted to learn more about and try. It is called Qi-gong,( but I think it should be spelled chee gong.) I knew nothing about it except that it is very healthy, was invented by the Chinese, and adds to the wellness and peace of your life. My good friend David Sampson is an expert in this practice, and gave me a lesson , and a tiny bit of insight into this really neat, healthy and good for you NEW THING! Check it out! (even howie my dog got into his own form of Chi-dog meditation)
See if you might want to try it as a healthy new thing for yourself!!!
I learned chi kung, as I used to spell it, or as it was spelled by my teacher, or as someone else was spelling it incorrectly (or,correctly)–about thirty years ago.
That was back when I was six months old.
It might have been because my teacher, Gunter Weil, was an old Harvard running buddy of Dr. Timothy Leary, and even ended up doing a lot of “experiments” with him–but, the hardest thing about it was getting all the animals straight, and making sure that I had their poses mimicked perfectly before I started breathing through the tan’tien (or, as some people spell it, “liverwurst”).
Eventually, the crane and the monkey and the elephant and the
lemur (just kidding about the lemur) all ran together, and after
several years of practicing this beautiful and ancient Asian
art, I checked into an loony bin.
But there obviously is something to the thing. Proverbs even speaks, amazingly, of “(bringing) health to the navel.”
The blog’s new look looks great–much more, in its style and feel, in keeping with what the blog is supposed to be about
(as opposed to the previous color scheme, which seemed to be
appropriated from a blog about funeral parlors).
Also good to see an actual new post. For a while there, I
thought I was, all of a sudden, reading the Rienstra Rant.
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I’m back! you’re back! Chee GONG show see you at 4:30!
Thanks for posting this segment! I invite anyone interested to join us at Plummer Park in West Hollywood most Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:00 PM. Facebook me to learn more. Thanks!!!