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Three Treasures Medical Qigong

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Three Treasures Medical Qigong

Taught by Tina Zhang

Medical Qi Gong

Medical Qigong is a branch of ancient Chinese energetic and healing system of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), along with acupuncture, herbal medicine, and Tui Na, medical massage. The goal of medical Qigong is to correct these bio-energetic imbalance and blockages which believed as the cause of all illnesses.

We practice these particular form, formless, and Daoist meditation to strengthen and regulate the internal organs, the nervous system and the immune system. The medical Qigong practice enables human body and the mind waking up and gaining the power to relieve pains in physical and deep-seated emotions; the medical Qigong treatment serves as preventional health care as well as complementary and alternative medicine.

This medical Qi Gong is classic Qi Gong with new research of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Three Treasures ©

- Between Heaven and Earth, lies man

This medical Qi Gong is dedicated to those who love extraordinary health!

Since ancient Dr. Hou Tuo – father of Traditional Chinese Medicine invented five animal frolics to use certain movements as energy medicine to keep good health and to heal, there are many Chinese Traditional Medicine doctors and martial arts masters devoted their life time to further the development and refinement to this wonderful healing art through generations.

The medical Qi Gong is one of kinds of Qi Gong exercise that based on and guided by the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It serves as self-energy cultivation according the meridians of human body and working with body's energy points and channels.

The Three Treasures Medical Qi Gong breaks through with its touches and emphasizes on 14 meridian channels Qi flow, nurturing and cultivating the energy in three Dan Tian’s of the human body.

Taking in the Chinese concept of the harmony of the Three Treasures of the Heaven, the Earth, and Man, manifesting with 3 postures/movements for each group and total 9 sections of the set. Each of them focus on one or more meridian channels with a well designed Qi Gong posture/movement, as well as explained medically. It is simple enough for people who are interested in understanding the relationship of TCM and Daoist way of health in Qi Gong.

It's also clear enough for people who are simply interested in practicing Qi Gong to keep a great health, to balance the unbalanced physical or emotional conditions, gain power to against diseases and live well!

No pervious experience necessary to learn this Medical Qi Gong. -------------------

Tina has hunted all over China to find the greatest msaters of Tai Chi and Qigong, and especially experts on cultivating female energy. She specializes in weight control, flexibility, women’s health, and energy therapy. See her photo and full bio - click link at bottom of page.

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Qigong can be viewed as a short form of Tai Chi, but simpler and easier to learn than long martial tai chi forms. This special Earth Energy Qigong is a form of medical Tai Chi Qi Gong that was originally developed and perfected over the course of 1700 years by Taoists, Traditional Chinese Medical doctors and Qi Gong experts in China.

Its purpose: to feed the needs of a woman’s unique anatomy. What are the specific benefits that every women will receive who attends the retreat?

Five Great Reasons to Take this Qi Gong Retreat. The qigong set will:

1. Help women cultivate more Earth energy (female energy) that they naturally have in their bodies.

2. Move the blood flow within women, which can stagnate due to yin nature of women.

3. Generate female energy through a series of very gentle, conscious, easy-to-learn, and graceful Qi Gong movements.

4. Harmonize a women's emotions. This set works by discovering and connecting the positive emotional energy in woman’s internal organs and energetic system to improve or maintain their happy, free-flowing functions.

5. It creates pelvic health which in turn helps women to balance their emotions and hormones to ease or arrest uncomfortable symptoms of menstruation or menopause, in all stages of their lives. This Qi Gong set also promotes long range anti-aging and a healthy weight control without drugs.

The course is accessible for women of varying ages, any physical abilities and equally valuable to both practitioners and professionals.

Don't miss this special opportunity to learn a method developed over thousands of year, and only now being introduced into the West by Tina Zhang. There is no comparable form being taught in the West today.

For more information, please visit www.qigongforwomen.com

Tina Zhang is a well-qualified professional Internal Martial Arts instructor, who is bilingual in Chinese and English. Her classes are guaranteed to energize your soul and improve your internal energy. Whether you have Tai Chi or Qi Gong experience or not, you will be amazed at how easy this unique form can be learned through Tina's teaching methods. This art will stay with you for your whole life!

Biography of Tina Chuuna Zhang

Tina Chunna Zhang has experienced Chinese Martial Arts and dance since her childhood in Beijing, China, and moved to the U.S. in the 1980’s. She has studied and trained with the most skillful and respected internal martial arts masters in China. She is a disciple of Master Li Bing Ci, the president of Beijing Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan research center and a disciple of Classical Cheng Style Ba Gua Zhang Master Liu Jing Ru of Beijing.

She also is studying Chen Village Style Tai Ji Quan with Masters of the Chen Village. She is a nationally high ranked medalist in both Tai Ji Quan and Ba Gua Zhang in forms, weapons, and push hands; and she was twice champions in Women's Sparring in Chinese martial arts tournaments. She is the co-author of Classical Northern Wu Style Tai Ji Quan, and The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang, and the founder of Qi Gong for Women's Health program and author of Earth Qi Gong for Women.

The passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine is a natural progressing from a long time Internal Martial Arts practitioner, professional instructor, and a writer of martial arts and qi gong books, Tina has never stopped study, and forever continues the practice of internal martial arts, and research in human body's science and culture of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She studies academically at Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Theory of TCM and Traditional Chinese Diagnostics and is mentored by one of the most famous TCM Doctors Si Bo Kong, Beijing.

Through her professional internal martial arts teaching methods in effective trainings and Clinic, Tina Zhang has helped countless people in many countries to achieve their harmonic wealth of physical and mental health.

Please visit her web site at www.Qigongforwomen.com --------------------------------------------------------

An Interview by Tai Ji Quan & Qi Gong Journal

Germany - Nov. Issue, 2007

Interviewed by Barbara Nowak & Christine Will

Tina, by the end of this year your book “Earth Energy Qigong for Women” will be published. It is about the Qigong system, which has been developed especially for women. Could you tell us anything about the roots, which mean the historical aspect of this system? (Women as a target group for Qigong exercises, how did women practice in the past and how do they practice in China today?

Any type of Qi work was rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is a system including the acupuncture, herbal treatment, massage, and TuiNa (medical bodywork). Women in ancient China have never been as a target group for any type of Qi Gong, or martial arts practice except some of the individuals. Some of them are the immortals; some of them were born into rich families and taken care by Chinese herbal Doctors who suggested women to do some exercise to maintain the health, and some of them were legendary female heroes.

Treatments from the book “Yellow Emperor’s Medicine Classic” were practiced in the royal families by a quiet few generations. Even in the “Father of Chinese Medicine” – Dr. Hua Tou’s animal Qi Gong set, some parts are for women’s health, but this was a limited practice in certain areas. In the old days, Chinese women commonly were not supported, and even not supposed to get educated on any subject as men in the society were until after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and even then it was still a considerably poor county economically and lacked medicine.

Since then, Traditional Chinese Medicine practices have been established more than ever and the natural exercises of Tai Ji Quan and Qi Gong got really popular in hospitals, where they are used as supplemental treatment for patient during their recovery period. The number of common folks increased who were really into the practice of Qi Gong and Tai Ji in the parks to promote their health. Today, there are always many people practicing Qi Gong and Tai Ji in the parks everywhere in China with high percentage of women among them. Moreover, retired women getting together practice is now a common scene.

Could you explain in which way do these exercises for women differ from other Qigong exercises? How do these exercises support the health of the female body?

Some of the sections are focused on the belly rotation and figure eight motion that is specifically designed for women’s pelvic health. The entire routine is soft, and the movements that women will feel comfortable doing . The softness of the movements in this Qi Gong set is an important ideology for women who do not want to move like a man. One of my students gave the best answer to this question when stating that she absolutely did not want to learn how to move her body and generate her energy the way that giant “King Kong” does! So she loves to study Earth Energy Qi Gong for Women.

What kind of effect do these exercises have on the cycles and transitions in a female life, like menstruation, pregnancy and menopause?

It is the effortless exercises with deep inner massage to strengthen the organs and enhance their functions to help ease the transitions in a female life. It is also a positive emotional support system for women to rest and be relaxed during these special stages of their life.

Could these exercises help to prevent, cure or ease gynaecological disorders?

Positive! Women’s health should be taken care by ourselves emotionally and physically. Prevention is a central core of Chinese medicine; Medical Qi Gong is part of TCM system. It works to promote women’s overall health by focusing on abdominal health to prevent, cure or ease gynaecological disorders. I truly believed that an over all healthy body and mind are naturally equipped balanced hormones and to provide for women’s gynaecological needs, and can change unbalance into balance.

This is a great natural choice to help women deal with gynaecological disorders. The purpose of this Earth Energy Qi Gong exercise set and what it is designed for, is to cultivate Qi, in the female body to maintain general overall health, enhance performance of the internal organs, such as kidney, liver, spleen, and heart, and to reduce or arrest uncomfortable symptoms during menstruation, per-menopause and menopause.

Actually, most of those symptoms are just indicators of underlying hormonal imbalances or metabolic damage from poor nutrition, stress and other factors. All you need to do is to regain the natural hormone balance of your body by taking care of your general health. Importantly, you must realize that with proper support, your body is perfectly capable of achieving a proper hormonal balance, which means you can be free from the unpleasant symptoms of PMS, per-menopause or menopause without taking the chemical risk of medicine. Again, this is a choice!

Women naturally also have an interest to be fit, appear younger and therefore more attractive. Would you say that these Qigong exercises help us to keep our bodies in a good shape, to lose weight or to achieve stamina and more flexibility?

I would say “Yes” again. This set of Qi Gong exercise was designed for both women who have never done any exercise in their life, and women who pay attention to their inner health and appearance. Generally, it is impossible to look younger, healthier, and in better fitness shape without a healthy mind and body. Qigong exercise is not simply a workout through a long time of sweating and muscular contraction to gain a muscular body, stamina, and flexibility which some western exercises are focused on.

Instead, Qi Gong is a type of exercise for general health. Opposite to these fancy ideas and new workout mechines, this Qi Gong for women is a program ideally focused on keeping the natural body that women were born with, and women’s real needs, which are an "internal beauty", triggered by an effective Qi Gong exercise system. Its aspect of physical fitness is using lower abdominal breathing to gain physical endurance, repetitive motions and medically structured postures to lose weight (loosing weight has a lot to do with people’s emotion, stage of health, and life style), and its compression and expansion of the skeletal joints in almost every section of the exercise to gain real flexibility in the joints and tendons as well as the muscles.

In addition, Qi Gong trains a concentrated mind – a type of mental exercise which takes place during the practice. I think that it is a special achievement for our mental health, which does not exist in other physical exercise.

Women should realize the important thing that makes you look younger is a healthy body with a healthy weight distribution. With illness and a depressed mood one is not going to look younger, instead looking terrible, regardless how fit they are. However, inner health can defiantly reflect on your appearance: you will have beautiful looking skin, not just a make-up; you will have beautiful teeth and nails, not just a polished one; you will have healthier hair that does not need dyeing very often or start to dye at a young age.

How would you explain the name Earth Energy Qigong, where do you see the aspect of the Earth? (Explain us the aspects of Yin energy)

Femaleness is the creator of Yin energy that makes us naturally softer and more sensitive than men in general character and opposite from Yang, or Heaven energy that men naturally have. A woman’s physical body naturally has a deeper, stronger connection to the Earth’s energy than men have. This energy is a drawing-in kind energy, which takes or gathers the natural energy of the Earth into our energy center, which is located one and a half to three inches below the navel.

In Chinese, this is called the “Dan Tian” area (abdominal area). The pelvic area is the important area where the reproductive organs (uterus, ovaries, vagina, and cervix) and the bladder and appendix are located. Like the Earth giving the birth of life to everything, this area is both literally and figuratively creative space, out of which women can produce babies, relationships, careers, etc. When our energy is not flowing enough or has some blockage in this area of the body, gynaecological and emotional problems could happen.

The lower Dan Tian is akin to the Earth itself. Focusing on Qi cultivation in the Dan Tian and pelvic areas build a healthy foundation for a female’s unique anatomy. Exercising properly and naturally using Chinese Traditional Medicine theory to open and increase the flow of Earth energy through the meridian channels is needed to support a female’s bodily needs with her own unique anatomy and needed focus on the different periods in a woman’s life.

Obviously your training sequence is structured that certain topics are touched in a very logical way. In the beginning, there are exercises, which help you to relax mentally, after that the joints are released. The following exercises refer to the five element theory: there are exercises referring to the element of wood, fire, earth, metal and water. Could you tell us something about it from the point of view of Chinese Medicine?

The Five Element theory is based on the observation of the natural cycles and interrelationships in both our environment and within ourselves. The foundation of the theory rests in the correspondences of each element to a variety of phenomena. The theories of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements were created and developed by the ancient Chinese through their long and faithful tradition of observing nature's cycles and changes. They held that wood, fire, earth, metal, and water were the basic substances constituting the material world. The interchange of these five basic substances were considered an indispensable part of daily life. They also noted that the material world is in a constant state of flux due to the dynamic movement and mutual antagonism of yin and yang factors.

The ancient Chinese applied yin and yang, and five elements theories to the medical field to explain the physiological activities and pathological changes of the human body and to serve as a guide to clinical treatment based on syndrome differentiation. For instance, symptoms are explained as imbalanced yin and yang; the main organs of the body correlate with the five elements as the heart – fire; the liver – wood; the kidney – water; the spleen – earth; the lung – metal. Medical doctors use the creation and destruction cycles of the five elements to explain the network of the internal Qi channels and to apply diagnosis and treatment.

According the traditional point view, the organic entity of the human body and its health are based on the balance of the five major organs. Additionally, elements of the theory are useful for assisting patients with nutritional balancing and/or working through emotional issues as each of the elements and corresponding organs generate and relieve certain emotional issues. The metal element and working with the lungs relieves sorrow and grief and generates instinct. The water element and working with the kidneys relieves fear and generates will to live and libido - a pretty good package deal.

Working with the liver and the wood element relieves anger and generates vision and inspiration, while working with the heart and the fire element relives blockages to joy and generates love. Working with the spleen and the earth element relieves blockages to compassion and generates intellect. Qi exercises, which stimulate these organs and arouse these elemental energies, also can help one to balance their emotions. When these elements are working in a balanced way, good health is achieved.

We are living in a time where especially women are strained by their jobs and families. Therefore, very often they suffer from stress symptoms like exhaustion, migraine and depression. Has Earth Energy Qigong an effect on the emotional balance?

Emotional balance is as important as physical health. Unbalanced emotions could cause illness just as an unhealthy body could make people depressed, sometimes even could develop to a serious psychological disease. A women’s brain may not be different from men’s brains biologically. But the thoughts in response to various matters is quit different, sometimes they are extremely different from men’s way of thinking. Women, by their nature, spending more time and energy to take care of others more than taking care of ourselves is a very common syndrome.

Eventually, everyone finds life is more like an ocean wave than a calming lake. Many emotional problems are caused by one reason: that we did not put the matters of our lives in correct order. In other words, the priorities of life are in disorder and off the balance. Therefore, many things have occupied our time and we struggling every minuet to try to get things done right.

But we forgot that we need time to balance work and rest. Earth Energy Qi Gong is a system that tells us to do good things just for each of us, to give us a TIME to rebalance the emotions and to release the stress no matter how the stress may have been caused. The symptoms of exhaustion, migraine and depression are the appearance of one’s unbalanced inner self and show some blockages in our brain and body leading to negative emotions.

Looseness is a reflection of relaxation; tenseness is a reaction from nervousness. Learning how to relax the mind helps to loosen the muscles and the joints, which in turn help to relax the mind. Qi Gong practice will help our energy flow positively and overcome negative feelings through a series gentle, relaxed motions, it also helps to develop a positive attitude to look at our life, which also comes from relaxation.

Could you explain one exercise from your Earth Energy book? (To answer this question you could refer to either the Spirit of Vitality or Crane Dance for example.

I would like to excerpt from the book to give an example to explain one of the exercises (photos are not included):

3. Deer walk – An exercise for the improvement of female major organs

- This section correlates with the Element of Water

This deer walking movement was in the first Chinese medical Qi Gong set, which was founded by a famous Chinese medical Dr., Hua Tou, 1700 years ago. The famous Female Deer Walk Exercise will help women to increase and improve their female energy in general. It moves Qi in the abdominal area as well as in the lower back. These areas were considered the essence or basic support of a humans’ life by the ancient Chinese.

However, this section is very focused on moving Qi and the blood in the kidney area, abdominal area, and vaginal area. Using the physical motions of contraction and releasing to increase the circulation in these areas, which will effectively increase sexual desire and ability. As a goal of reducing or arresting the uncomfortable symptoms of menstruation and menopause, this deer walk traditionally did a great job for women.

Practicing this section for a smooth menstruation seven days before one’s period is strongly suggested to avoid heaver bleeding and the suffering of pain during menstruation. In addition, the deer walk is much involved and related to strengthening the kidneys that helps to improve sexual health and bladder control. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, kidney health is almost everything and is considered the essence of a humans’ life.

If your kidneys are not well, you could have problems during pregnancy, hair loss, dry skin, vision problems, vaginal dryness, and low energy. These symptoms can be reduced by constantly practicing this exercise. An important eye exercise is included in part one of this section.

Part One: Starting with the left foot step forward keeping the body weight on the right foot. The back of the left hand touches the acupuncture point of Ming Men and the right hand starting position is in front of the lower Dan Tian (figure 4-29). The right hand travels upward and the eyes follow the hand, gently lean backward, and inhale, with a gradually tightening of the anal and vaginal sphincter muscles, thereby drawing up the pelvic wall and stimulating the energy around the perineum area.

Meanwhile, roll the belly upward in a slightly angled leaning back position; follow the gentle extension of the spine upward. The energy in the central channel is going upward and the Qi goes up along the Governor Vessel meridian. When the right hand gets above the forehead and your eyes are in line with your right wrist , move the eye balls to look to the left, and to look to the right for three times without moving the head and body position (figure 4-30).

Then, gently straighten the spine first, and the right hand is curved in the shape of deer hoof in a very relaxed manner and travels downward in front of the body. The energy is moving downward in the central channel and the Qi comes downward through the Conception Vessel meridian, (which also can be understood the Qi is circling in the loop of the Microcosmic Orbit). Simultaneously, exhaling and releasing the muscles that you have pulled and tightened in the pervious motion, and the belly rolling downward while lowering the center gravity. Thereby, creating a pumping action in the female internal organ area inside of the belly as well as exercising externally the muscles around inner side of the thighs and vaginal area.

This motion efficiently builds up one’s sexual energy and over all energy. Another benefit from this deer walk is that bending backward to massage the kidneys also strengthens the lower back to release the lower back pain.

Moreover, the deer walks help the Qi flow through on the back, the Du meridian. When the right hand comes down in front of the lower Dan Tian area (figure 4-31 and32), the left foot pivots and the body weight shifts onto it, then, the back foot (here it is the right foot) steps forward, change hand positions alternately, repeat the same motion you have done on the other side (figure 4- 33 to 36). The total walk takes at least eight forwarded steps, but is not limited to this amount.

You are a Tai Ji Chuan (Tai Chi) and Ba Qua Zhang teacher and you won competitions of many kinds in China and the USA. Are there any martial art elements in your Earth Energy Qigong?

Yes, for example, the last section of the Earth Qigong contains eight energy circle walking which has the elements of health improvement, meditation, and martial arts aspects within its practice. The health aspect of the internal martial arts of Tai Ji Quan and Ba Gua Zhang arts that in a way are a higher level of Qi Gong. Internal martial arts, like Tai Ji Quan and Ba Gua Zhang are in flowing patterns of movement, while medical Qi Gong uses simple motion, or section by section emphasizes strengthening different part of the body or internal organs.

To cultivate Qi (energy) inside of your body is one commonly shared element of internal martial arts and healing Qi Gong and, both Qi Gong and internal martial arts practice are the parts of Chinese medicine which promote Qi flow through meridian channels as its core concept of promoting health and as practice of preventive medicine. On the other hand, if you practice internal martial arts without training in Qi Gong, Nei Gong, and concept of Traditional Chinese Medicine, either your practice is an empty form, or your power is not going to develop through a true internal method.

In other words, your energy, will power, and vital of martial arts has been lost in the path of seeking the Dao with this kind of practice; you will never be a high level of internal martial artist because you did not practice Qi cultivation and healing ability for yourself and to help others.

Is there anything you would like to advise our female readers?

We should share the experience of practicing Qi Gong or internal martial arts constantly as a healthy life style. A healthy life is neither going to come to you automatically, nor is it guaranteed that you will be healthy forever because you take a women’s Qi Gong class tonight.

It is a continuous work that will takes years and years, maybe a whole life for the wisdom to be stimulated into your mind and body which becomes the power that you need for good life. Along with this practice, if you have chance, try to learn Tai Ji Quan or/and Ba Gua Zhang. They are both beautiful internal arts and their martial aspects can be great fun and everyone likes to play. Enjoy what you have in your life and be happy about who you are.

*Testimonials for Tina Zhang

I am very happy to be one of your instructors. Your Qigong-set is a wonderful tool for teaching and practicing. I love my Earth Qigong classes. They are a real enrichment; they give strength, pleasure and they are fun.I remember first learning it from you in May 2006 in Darmstadt. I loved it right from the beginning and I knew I wanted to teach it.

Barbara Nowak Feb.7, 2008

Dear Tina,

I am the lucky student of Barbara Nowak in Heidelberg Germany! From her I have learned the forms of your Qi Gong for women and have received so many positive transformations in my own life and shiatsu practice because of it. Many of my clients are soldiers returning from duty in Iraq and Afganistan and have a special kind of energy about them that is quite challenging to work with as a shiatsu practioner. However since I practice daily Earth Qi Gong I have found a stability and strength, and a peacefullness in my heart I did not know I had and my shiatsu clients receive the best quality Qi from me. I have recomended some of my clients to do the Concentrated Mind before we begin shiatsu treatment and they tell me there is a greater depth to their ability to relax and become aware of their body mind relationship just from that first movement! What better resonance and peace could I wish for them.

So Thank you for developing this Qi Gong form.

Marianne Steele GSD, AOBTA®-CP Jan.25, 2008

I have taken many workshops by diffirent QiGong, Tai Chi Masters for 9 years. Tina Zhang's workshop were the REAL one that made me feel my energy at the best. Her explanation was crystal clear, her movements were full of Qi, and her friendly and caring manners were making the powerful transmission of her internal work to me and all of the workshop attendents!

Her teaching is not about some of the variations of Tai Chi, or, revalution of internal martial arts and Qi Gong, her teaching is the true classical Chinese healing and internal martial arts that have never been modified or changed!

Jeremy Brooks, New York

I am not a teacher of health classes or something like that; I am managing a big administration. But I am very encouraged now. Since I had the workshop with you in Darmstadt, I practice almost every day the Qi Gong you taught us. If I did not have enough time, I practiced only some segments of the Qi Gong set. I feel that I have much more energy than before and I LOVE the exercises.

Besides I still practice Yoga in a group, but one of the advantage from the Qi-gong is, that you don’t need much space, so you can do it in a Hotel or anywhere when you away from home, even if the ground is dirty or something like that. I am sure that I will continue practicing and hope that you will come to Darmstadt again! I want to thank you for your nice, friendly and clear lessons. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you a lot!!!

Wilma, Darmstadt, Germany

The Tai Chi Fan course was a very wonderful experience. I very much appreciated your amazing teaching ability, patience and willingness to share with so much enthusiasm your knowledge of Tai Chi and Qi Gong.

Thank you! Michael P. Milburn, PhD, DAc, Sydney, Canada

“I love the great energy that “Earth Energy Qi Gong” practice is giving to me! I feel much more in touch with my own body than ever before and I now truly feel a deep connection to our “Mother Earth”. I practiced everyday and lost 22 pounds within 3 months! Thank you!”

Wendy Li, Accountant, Anaheim Hill, CA “You are kicking so much butt girl. Keep up the great work and awesome attitude. You are truly an inspiration and have such a nice way about you when you teach and interact with the students. I can see how they open up to you”. Kristen Lang, Taoist Water Method Qi Gong Instructor, Seattle, “Congratulations on your National Championship! And all the second placings aren’t too shabby either. I have been teaching your Earth Energy Qigong to my regular Monday "Tai Chi" class. They love it! I have slipped parts of it into my yoga classes as well with great response. Every one loves it. I think you have a winner”. Thanks again for the great workshop!” Dolores - Tai Chi, Yoga Instructor, Bristol, VA My daily life has been in a 9-5 working rat-race followed by Yoga mat-race, the same routine of 5-days a week.. Once I was introduced to Tina's Qi Gong and Tai Chi practice and learned diffrences between a muscle-based workout and an energy-based practice, I switched. It's taken my body, mind, and spirit to a completely new level. Thank you, Tina, Your "best student", - Mary, New York

*“Thank you so much, Tina! *You saved me from the worst time of depression in my life! Your fantastic Tai Chi Qigong form lifted my spirits and energized me and it will be with me forever!”

*Susan Roberts

*“Suddenly one day I realized that not only was I gaining weight like a sumo wrestler in training, losing interest in sex and oscillating between fits of giddy optimism and deep depressions, but that I also was dead tired from not having a good nights sleep in longer than I could remember when. If I didn’t wake up broiling and radiating heat like a steak on a stick, I awakened in a shivering chill with rivulets of sweat covering my body or I simply jolted awake in a sudden full blown anxiety attack which could range in subject anywhere from the family bills to the impermanence of life.

I had to admit that I’d reached that point in a woman’s life where things start to change and I wasn’t changing gracefully. *I considered hormone therapy, but was terrified by the health risks which were associated with that path. I was at a complete loss as to what I should do and then by chance I met Shifu Tina Zhang at my local health club, where she taught a Tai Chi class.

When I heard about Tina’s Qi Gong System of a Chinese Natural Approach to the Change Period in a Woman’s Life, I was immediately intrigued. At first I took the lessons from Sifu Tina mostly out of curiosity and a wonderment at how she looked and acted as youthful as she did at that time in a woman’s life, but as the classes went on and I began to practice at home every day I began to notice changes in my life.

My weight and my moods seemed to have stabilized; I was regaining that special attraction for my husband and best of all I was sleeping through most nights with almost no symptoms of the infamous hot flashes. These improvements in my health have continued to this day as has my practice of Sifu Zhang’s program.

I would highly recommend Sifu Tina Zhang’s Menopause Qi Gong Program for all women who have reached that special time of change in their lives which marks their entrance in to maturity and the wisdom of experience.”

*Martha Goldstein , *Secretary, *Manhattan, NY

*“As I began to enter that time in a woman’s life when the drives of the body give way to the experience and understanding of age I was troubled by the physical symptoms which accompanied this spiritual transition. As a long time instructor of meditation and yoga and an eater of only raw foods, I would never consider hormone therapy. I was privileged to find the answer to my quandary by meeting Tina Zhang who introduced me to her Earth Energy Qi Gong for a Natural Change in a Woman’s Life. This program has relieved all of my physical symptoms allowing me to feel younger, prettier, and ready to enter the most spiritual phase of my existence”

*Heather Llewellyn *Yoga & Meditation Instructor *MA. Philosophy *BA. Asian Studies *Greenwich Village, NYC

*“you are kicking so much butt girl. keep up the great work and awesome attitude. you are truly an inspiration and have such a nice way about you when you teach and interact with the students. I can see how they open up to you. you're doing great”.

*Kristen Lang *Certified Energy Arts Inc. Instructor *Seattle, WA

*“Tina, I did a demo the other night and preformed your beautiful fan form!!! It was at a college, the institute of art at Ringling in Sarasota. It was about 30 people and I found great music to go with the form. It went great and the people loved it. They clapped and clapped and I had to answer many questions. They are sad to see me move up to Tampa which is 100 miles away because they want to learn the fan.

*I will have to show it in Tampa I guess....!!!

*Again, thank you so much for making my “Tai Chi Fan” dream become true.

*Billie Brown *Clinical Psychologist *Tampa, Fl.

Even the men love Tina as a Teacher:

*“Tina Zhang is the best Tai Chi and Qi Gong teacher I have ever met. Her efficient teaching techniques made my Tai Chi improve a lot while I was taking private lessons with her. I was also impressed with her using of simple explanations of the principles to guide students to a deeper level of their internal arts practice.”

*Joshua Greenstein

*A life long Tai Chi practitioner

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