
Train attention and awareness to relieve suffering, using qigong, tai chi, and loosening exercises as practical methods, and prioritize self-care before helping others.
Explore the contrast between outer force and inner energy, learning to ground through attention and awareness, direct the inner force with relaxed body, and maintain a meditative gaze.
Learn the loosening exercise, the core qigong and tai chi form, emphasizing up and down, open and close, center balance and grounding through sinking from feet to spine.
Loosening exercise 1 uses an up-and-down engine to relax the body, link open and close, and guide weight shifts with the waist.
channel energy from the feet through the spine to the fingertips to pull or push with relaxed effort, guiding attention through the body to open and close.
Loosening exercise 2 links external energy from the feet to internal awareness from the crown, opening the arm and guiding energy through the spine to the fingertips with coordinated breathing.
Loosening exercise 3 builds the inner engine through feet-to-head relaxation, conscious awareness, and breath. Borrow earth energy and inhale-exhale in a here-and-now, one-up one-down flow.
Loosening exercise 5 teaches shifting weight 55/45 in a bow stance to move forward and backward with controlled upper-leg motion. Build inner force and the one-inch power for daily life.
In this course you will learn why awereness and attention is important in our daily life and definition of Qi, inner force and inner energy.
You will learn about the basic principles of Qigong and Taiji like relaxing & sinking and opening & closing. The importance of the feet connected to the ground and swalloing the Qi of Heaven.
After the basics you will learn the 5 loosening exercises and their application in daily life.
Curriculum:
1. Basics:
Why awereness and attention is important in our daily life
What is Qi, inner force and inner energy?
Basic principles of Qigong and Taiji
2. Loosening Exercises:
Loosening Exercise 1
Application in daily life
Loosening Exercise 2
Loosening Exercise 3
Loosening Exercise 4
Loosening Exercise 5
All Loosening Exercises
About Helmut Bauer:
Mind - breath - body, the levels of mindfulness.
The heart-mind directs the attention, breath and Qi follow the feeling.
This realization has become a way of life for him.
The origin of this experience lies in previous experiences as a Buddhist monk.
The search for methods of mindfulness that can be implemented by people in the West and their everyday life brought him to Qigong, Taijijuan, Aikido, Karate, Kung-Fu, Pekiti Tirsia Kali and other arts of movement.
He is practicing mindfulness and Qigong in his everyday life for over 30 years.