Index for Audio CDs

Qigong Fundamentals 1–2007 – Audio

Disk 1: Track 1 – Title
Track 2 – Fun in Fundamentals; Navel and Dantien;
Ocean Breathing background; Opening dantien
is key; getting out of your head; serves
many paths; Shake the Tree; Stillness/Inhale
Earth Chi; moving your pelvis; Location of
dantien; stretch out spine, kua, chest, throat;
Shake the Tree; Qigong as a Language
Track 3 – (nothing), Navel and breathing; Silent awareness
Track 4 – Gradual transition back to the room
Track 5 – Awareness of connection to Earth
Track 6 – Question about dantien location; question
about closing with respect to dantien
Track 7 – More about dantien location and dantien;
enteric brain; cultivation to speed development
Track 8 – Intention for development; mind as a team effort

Disk 2: Track 1 – About control; Reason why ocean breathing first;
vital organ spirits; Idea of integration;
death mechanism; about five animals and
animal aspect; connection with healing sounds;
husband & wife teams; chi and qigong;
notice your breathing/connect with lung spirit;
breathing into different parts of the lungs
& belly breathing; connect with lung spirit;
lung sound & sitting movement; about yawning;
describe tiger movement; about lions
Track 2 – Breathing deeply and life; kidneys and
kidney system; describing the bear movements
Track 3 – Kidneys and fear; Kodiak grizzly
Track 4 – Eating food for chi; five elements system;
Earth as the fifth element; Inner chi field;
creation cycle; organ spirits; about
psychological models and about the Taoist
path; external mirrors internal; breathing
first action upon birth; about chi

Disk 3: Track 1 – About chi; applications of five elements
theory; how information was preserved in
China; communist history; TCM and Chinese
medicine; story about daughter with asthma;
qigong has self-feedback
Track 2 – Liver location; liver energy; elements
describe directional movement; Describe
deer movement and anger
Track 3 – Positive emotion; Heart & fire; Earth
emotions; changing your personality;
describe crane; is qigong “dangerous”?
Teaching qigong to kids; why kids love
animals; heart sound; variations on sounds;
seated kidney sound movement; heart
healing sound movement; describe crane
movement
Track 4 – Describe alchemical crane; question about
hand placement
Track 5 – Four meridians to manage fire; respect;
question about nose or mouth breathing;
triple warmer; question on doing whole
cycle; story about car accident; importance
of regular practice; chronic illnesses;
story about X-rays; empowering yourself;
describe monkey; spleen/stomach

Disk 4: Track 1 – Monkey/Yi; boundary issues; emotions;
describe monkey movement; subvocal; yellow
as higher Earth–Saturn
Track 2 – Monkey sounds
Track 3 – Describing monkey 2nd movement; fake Earth
Track 4 – Seated Earth healing sound; trust
Track 5 – Question about desire of organ spirits to
get rid of negative chi; about holding onto
old patterns; ancestral and born issues
Track 6 – Triple heater; bringing back to the source;
describing the movement
Track 7 – Lying down triple heater; afternoon nap
Track 8 – Nap recovery
Track 9 – Yuan shen
Track 10 – Controlling cycle; self-medicating
Track 11 – Inner smile acceptance idea
Track 12 – Finish butterfly; PRACTICE: Inner Smile
(yin + dissolve + some yang)
Track 13 – PRACTICE: Inner Smile yang version continued
Track 14 – PRACTICE: Inner Smile yang version concluded

Best,
Steven

Primordial Qigong–2004 – Audio

Disk 1: Track 1 – Introduction; Wuji; History of Form;
About Tai Chi Chi Kung Form;
About Deep Healing Qigong; About Zhu Hui;
About Tai Chi Shih
Track 2 – Directionality; Shake the Tree, Warmups,
Earth Cycle: first 7

Disk 2: Track 1 – Question about start of turning movement
for spiral
Track 2 – Question about opening move/chi ball
formation; about transitions;
body turning; demonstrate Earth cycle: moves 8-11
Track 3 – Rotate the Chi Ball (Earth move 8)
Track 4 – Practice Turning; Practice Earth move 9
Track 5 – Discussion of common mistakes on move 9;
discuss more on move 9; Yin-yang polarity
Track 6 – Transitions of Earth cycle during turning
Track 7 – Describe Earth cycle move 12: Elixir scoop;
hand positions on dantien; question on hand
touching; do the complete Earth cycle
Track 8 – Not getting confused on turning the chi ball;
importance of move 12
Track 9 – (nothing)
Track 10– About learning a form; Enteric brain; Question
why Chinese secretive
Track 11– Standing version of Feldenkrais; go through
Earth cycle again
Track 12– Discuss doing the Earth cycle in each of 4
directions; question about the fifth direction;
stay present with the body
Track 13– Meaning of “inner groan” and spontaneous body
movements; explanation of CCW movement; how to
stay oriented in Earth cycle

Disk 3: Track 1 – Intention to invite all beings of all
directions and dimensions to form
Track 2 – Yin-yang fusion of energy in last Earth cycle move
Track 3 – Personal experiences with Earth cycle; interaction
between Heaven and Earth; align to intention;
Ritual I-Ching; CCW and CW components to form;
use in internal alchemy; question about 5th
direction again; you get more with more qigong
background
Track 4 – About Heaven cycle; dragon washes his face;
vesica pisces; hand toward body in washing,
transitions, practicing the Heaven cycle
movement; question about eye direction;
angle of palm; coordinating both hands;
counting to ten

Disk 4: Track 1 – Counting with fingers; speed of form;
connecting Earth and Heaven; practicing
Heaven cycle; discussion about 5th element
movement 10 vs. 9; meeting Zhu Hui again
3 years later; differences between Zhu Hui’s
version and Michael’s; 5th element move again
Track 2 – About gathering in; completing your destiny;
emperor of Han dynasty; cycle of the sun with 4
directions; about the affirmations
Track 3 – High frequency squeals; shaking; warmups;
use of Feldenkrais; start facing east
Track 4 – Go through form in entirety
Track 5 – Can do form during storms, eclipses, solstices,
equinoxes; use in solving a problem
Track 6 – Question on needing to do the whole form
Track 7 – No limit on how many times you do it;
doing it as a regular practice; doing it
internally when incapacitated
Track 8 – Doing it with someone else
Track 9 – Appropriate time of day to do it
Track 10 – (nothing)

Best,
Steven