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Six thousand years ago in Northern China, a tribal people settled along the shores of the Yellow River. These people had not developed a national identity, and lived by tending herds, agriculture, hunting and fishing, without straying far from the banks of the river. Their chieftains had unusual powers: they knew healing secrets of plants and animals, spoke with invisible entities, and the river waters seemed to bend to their will. They were the first Taoists. Their practices were meditation, cultivation of the body, sacred ceremonies and magical arts. Among the refined techniques they used to nurture their health and relax their minds, there was Chi Gung - Chi Kung - Qi Gong - Qigong. Today millions of people of any age are learning those harmonious movements of such ancient origins, for their stress management, relaxation, natural healing, wellness and longevity properties. For all information, please subscribe to the newsletter.
THE CHI GUNG CENTRE: Chi Kung - Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Ba Gua, Meditation. Founded in 1999, the Centre is a nonprofit organization for the diffusion of Taoist Internal Arts. Taoist Internal Arts are also know as Energy Arts. All of them - both the martial internal arts and the non-martial ones - are ancient natural healing and longevity methods. Nevertheless, they are also a path toward relaxation and wellness, freedom and balanced integration of every aspect of one's being. Internal Arts and Chinese Medicine are based upon the same principle: the "Chi" circulation, the engine of life. For six thousand years millions of people have been learning and practicing effectively Internal Arts as anti stress and relaxation method, for preventing and natural healing from illnesses, allergies, joint and back pain... and for stimulating longevity mechanisms, enjoying great benefits and wellness at all levels of one's being. The fundamental Taoist internal art is Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - particularly the Water Method. Although the last to arrive in the West, the Water Method is one of the most ancient Chi Gung (Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong), Nei Gung and Meditation traditions. Following the suggestions of Taoist Sage Liu Hung Chieh and our teachers Bruce K. Frantzis and Bernard Langan, since 1997 we have been working to let more people know about its wonderful potentiality for the wellness of all. Water Method Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - is very practical and down on earth. Suitable for any age and quick to be practiced, it is the perfect antistress instrument to repair the damages of today's life pace without having to change life style. Water Method Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - contains also the Taoist Nei Gung elements that are needed for the other Internal Arts, less easy to learn than Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - such as Hsing-I Chuan, Tai Chi Chuan, Ba Gua Zhang. Several Tai Chi practitioner have improved their technique after learning Chi Gung with us. Chi Gung Centre workshops always include the teaching of Breathing and Posture basics.
	Over 300 students have successfully learned the Internal Arts we teach, bringing the benefits of these arts in their daily lives. We organize workshops regularly. Our peculiar teaching method helps the student to quickly understand the main principles and thus to save a lot of learning time. One wokshop puts you in the condition to practice efficiently by yourself.
Our mission is to keep transmitting the so said "secrets" of Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - and the other Taoist Energy Arts to as many people as possible. Here are some of our students' comments: "I tried following other schools in my area, but I am very much unsatisfied, so I keep preferring what I learnt with you (Cosimo), both for the Water Method caractheristics as well as your consistent teaching method". Alessio Baldassini, Firenze "Maurizio and I appreciated a lot last evening class. Every time I get the confirmation I am walking a path that has a heart, as Castaneda used to say. And it is not to pay you a compliment! Thank you (Cosimo)." Rosalba Pellegrini, Bergamo "Congratulations! I check your site every few weeks for updates, I am glad you are still practicing and teaching. I really need to thank you for the work you did with me in San Francisco. It changed my life for good. I have just finished my first year of 4 in Chinese Medicine. Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - is mandatory and I have learned several new forms - but I still practice Dragon & Tiger and dissolving at least once a week." John Renna, San Francisco (USA) "Chi Gung - Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong - hit again. What looked like sickness has become a release (kidney stone)." Glauco Zanotti, Milano, Italy "The workshop was really good and gave me an understanding of relaxation which I haven't had before." Tim Walker, Brighton, United Kinkdom "Since a while I am teaching to a disable boy (...). A few days ago he told me his osteopath noticed his diafragm that was blocked since 25 years or maybe since ever, was loosing up, starting unblocking. He was extremely happy and, even there are not verifiable proofs, he thinks this change due to the energetic work done. We talked about the implications this fact means for him: better tissue oxigenation (...); more space for the abdominal organs, that in fact the osteopath said they must settle down better; (...) improving of the (natural) abdominal organs massage. Besides having got some measurable results, for this person Chi Gung has become a tool to use for taking care of himself in an active manner. He is talking me and I cannot do without thanking you." Alessio Baldassini (instructor of our school), Firenze "...I participated to one of your workshops about two years ago(...). I would like to practice Tai Chi and I liked you very much as a teacher." Anna Antonucci, Latina "Dear Cosimo, first of many thanks for the wonderful days, they were useful for the mind as well as for the body. (...) After having been practicing every day since two months, I notice that my energy and concentration capacity have increased a lot at work, in daily life and in my music exercises. I make less mistakes and get distracted less easily." Papia De Ferrari, Milano, Italy "The weeklong retreat was tremendously useful (and amusing too). (...) My congratulations for the impressive knowledge of the matter, my instinct guided me well." Gianluca Pistoia, Pisa, Italy "Ciao Cosimo, I wanted to thank you again for everything you did this week, first letting me sleep at your place in Bologna and driving me to Cortevecchia, and then for all your patient and deep teaching during the seminar. I enjoyed it a lot and when I was in the train taking me back to France I experienced a long forgotten feeling: that of having learned something with my body, something that I can now develop through practice, but that I couldn't have discovered all about by myself. Thank you from the deep of my heart !." Erwan Kergall, Lyon (France) "...I just received the certificate of completion for the retreat, a nice surprise that took me back to wonderful moments and places." Cecilia Betti, Milano, Italy "I thank you because I believe that Tai Chi - 'your' Tai Chi, with its sense of humor and balanced lightness - has helped me quite a bit throughout this year tensions and difficulties." Vittorio Ferorelli, Bologna, Italy "I just wanted to thank you, you are really a good teacher, I hope it (Chi Gung, Chi Kung, Qi Gong, Qigong) will help also the wrinkles..." Nirvana Bulian, Milano, Italy "(...) The work you have done with me is priceless. I keep doing meditation, and the position, still a bit uncomfortable, is giving its results. (...) The private I have taken with you opened up unknown worlds." Fabrizio Pisasale, Roma, Italy
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