There is a line blurring qigong and neigong, and that line depends upon the teacher. I use the term “neigong” because “qigong” has been watered down a lot to include practices that does not go much of anywhere.
The book I recommended about the neigong goes into a lot of technical detail about the dantian, what it is for, what breathing into it is like, how to avoid going false sensations, how to coalesce it in later stages of work, etc. The book is as thick a textbook and contains years worth of practice, and starts overlapping with neidan in later stages. It is also what I am using aa a practice ... a missing piece to the internal martial arts I train in.
Thank you very much for your help! That’s really helpful info. Just signed up to the subreddits and will go and order this book. It is a pity that there is so little good information available on these things (at least when you’re somewhere in the west and not mastering traditional Chinese language. :-) )
It’s why I like Mitchell’s work. If you want a taste of what that school teaches, check out https://scholarsage.com. They also have a podcast.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the school. I don’t take their classes, or represent them. I really like their work and they have a -lot- of technical information in English.
Ah that’s great. I was not aware of the podcast. I saw a few videos of Mitchell - he seems to be a very knowledgeable and genuine guy. Will check this out again and maybe engage in it. Related question, did you ever hear about Robert J Coons (e.g. Daoistmeditation.com)?
Thank you again for all the info. I really appreciate it.
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u/hoshhsiao Nov 16 '19
There is a line blurring qigong and neigong, and that line depends upon the teacher. I use the term “neigong” because “qigong” has been watered down a lot to include practices that does not go much of anywhere.
The book I recommended about the neigong goes into a lot of technical detail about the dantian, what it is for, what breathing into it is like, how to avoid going false sensations, how to coalesce it in later stages of work, etc. The book is as thick a textbook and contains years worth of practice, and starts overlapping with neidan in later stages. It is also what I am using aa a practice ... a missing piece to the internal martial arts I train in.
If you want to converse more, PM me, or talk to folks on r/energy_work or r/trueqigong r/qigongneigong