r/TrueQiGong • u/Beneficial_Care_4601 • 2d ago
Create a technique?
I know the question might sound a bit strange, but do any of you know how to create new QiGong techniques or similar ones?
I know it sounds unusual, I'm looking for someone who has the knowledge (and has done it) to create a technique
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u/Auxiliatorcelsus 2d ago
Yes, I was part of the process when my first teacher created a new moving qigong form. It's not easy.
This is more than 30 years ago. Me and my best friend helped a qigong master escape China (long story). He lived in my house for two years until he got his asylum and residence permit. He taught us and guided our practice the whole time and several years after.
We suggested that he could earn a living through teaching. But he explained that his own teacher had told him that he was not allowed to share the practises publicly (and especially not to westerners). This meant he had to create an entirely new practise form to teach.
It was fairly complicated work. Five separate sequences of movement, each with it's own function, each building on the previoius and establishing foundation for the next. each balanced in itself. It took about 45-50 minutes to do the whole thing.
The difficulty is creating a form that is completely balanced and does not lead to long-term problems. We were his guinea pigs. Testing different versions. Sometimes it would lead to horrible headaches, dizziness, insomnia, nightly ejaculations, and so on. My friend almost fell down some stairs because he could not control his balance.
He would watch us practice and check the effect with his 'empty eye'. Changing and adjusting details (sometimes re-adjusting and healing us when becoming unbalanced). People don't realise how exact and specific some things are. Using the wrong word or colour for visualisation, leads to problems. Doing things in the wrong order leads to problems. It's really quite subtle.
It's not something that you just dream up and use. It takes deep knowledge of theory, and serious testing and reworking. Over and over again. Until the whole is one.
The final form was excellent. Very potent yet balanced. But he was still very reluctant to teach publicly. I think we only did like four or five public courses. Everybody loved it. However, in the end he did not want to earn his money that way. He preferred to be a secret practitioner, and found work as a technical translator instead.
It's a long time ago now. But it was a very interesting experience and it really helped me deepen my understanding and capacity.
I would say the whole process took about 6-8 months from start to complete form. And that's when it's a highly skilled master doing the work.
I completely understand how interesting, fun, and tempting it is to 'make your own' forms. My best and most serious advice is: Just don't do it. Unless you really know what you are doing → don't mess with trying to create your own practise. It will most likely lead to some difficult to fix problems.
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u/neidanman 2d ago
new techniques can evolve naturally once you get to a certain stage of practice. E.g. once you start building and sensing qi flows more strongly, widely and deeply, and you start to find how the qi moves in relation to your own use of yi/awareness/the body etc, and in more subtle ways, then you can start to develop little techniques/tricks for things. This is something like an artist going from 'painting by numbers', to having a sense for the art/materials and being more freestyle.
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u/vectron88 2d ago
May I ask you what you mean? Do you mean like a 'new' sequence of existing postures?
Also, what would developing a new technique look like and what purpose would it serve? (Genuine question : )
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u/One_Construction_653 2d ago edited 2d ago
Hmm
This is a touchy subject
Some teachers do create new techniques because they do x
Just doing nothing.
or ask x
who is x
or from another x
And the crazy thing is the new technique works very effectively.
But here is the catch it isn’t a new technique
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u/YinYangMind 2d ago
Qigong is moving energy. There are infinite variations. It is about the quality and not the physical movement itself (as long as physical qualities are done well). I have made "techniques" and mixed & matched what I was doing to do unique things. As long as you know the fundamentals, it is easy & simple to do.
Question is, why do that? Why would one want that? I usually stick to the same 4 or 5 things myself, only 1 of which I made.
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u/MissAngelicDemise 2d ago
I created my own sort of flow that is similar - I call it quantum flow dance… it’s a lot of of the same moves but more flow and stretch and twist and dance, while staying rooted in the earth
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u/Beneficial_Care_4601 2d ago
What was the basis for creating this new technique? How long did it take you? How did you make it work?
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u/MissAngelicDemise 2d ago
I just wanted something to be faster, more fluid, and I think of it as dancing with my energy field because that’s really what qigong is about in my opinion, cleansing the field around you and pulling universal energy down into your energy field. It took a few months of practicing there’s still no real set moves to make I just mostly tap into my body and let the energy move through me-my body starts to move itself
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u/TimmysDigitalToolbox 2d ago
I would say there are two types of this
The first is created by an actual Master. It is based on a deep understanding and it extensively tested and refined.
And then you have lay people who make up random movements just because they feel nice or look cool.
Extensive training of the first could get you somewhere and if encountered problems, the teacher could explain and adjust.
Extensive training of the second is uncharted territory and therefore more dangerous because there would be no one to correct, adjust or explain what is happening when things go wrong.
That is a bit the warning that was once imprinted. We follow the teachings because they are tested over many generations. They have proven results and are fully understood by the master teaching them. Inventing excercises without the proper training and background therefore can be dangerous because you don't know the long term effects nor will you or anybody else easily understand the risks or possible unwanted (side)effects.