DMP #23 - The Secret to Mastering Qigong

A discussion by Damo Mitchell on the subject of learning Qigong and the internal arts. He chats about transmission, the nature of learning subtle skills, the auric field of the Guru and how to master Qigong and associated arts. He also look at the nature of teaching online; its limitations and the nature of what can be learnt through solo study.
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[@johnhanna5944]

Don't listen to anyone telling you to be more succinct, I could listen to your incredible knowledge and clear explanations for hours. Just brilliant, thank you.

[@ytb460]

Be direct then move on. Nothing worse than waffle or hocus-pocus etc.

[@JoshI-cc5so]

100% AGREE, in depth is the way to go imo

[@towardstar]

definitely in depth, not succinct. we listen to learn after all

[@rwizzo189]

Life changing video for me. Thank you a million times. Also the cursing was solidly funny and unexpected.

[@magpieqigong5163]

Once again Damo , really really helpful, never change your style , appreciate your generosity 🙏

[@valesheart]

Genius Talk. Very important subject. You heloed to fill so many gaps with your talks, that other systems did not, could not or maybe did not want to clarify. It is an honor to study with you🙏

[@rabbitroyale1315]

What you spoke of are things that I've been feeling as an empath for the last 12 years of my practice that no has been willing/been able to articulate on that level. I'm so grateful to have found you, thank you 🙏🏼

[@deborahdakota7489]

It's such a change of paradigm to go from a system that defines internal arts as qi moving inside your body through narrow routes, to your system in which you're not practicing internal arts unless you have tissue moving/pulling/twisting inside.

[@Norbu421]

Very helpful, confirming intuitions and inspiring! Thank you so much!

[@sannaohanawellnessllc3925]

I love learning from you 🙏🏽✨️

[@user-rq4ro3uw3u]

Fantastic teacher!

[@scubacabra]

cool talk, thanks damo! that nervous system attunement is like in the zhuangzi when he writes about how he knows the fish are happy just by seeing how they are swimming

[@jm2308]

Nice , the fact you teach as far as you can go even on line means we can know what to look for in a local teacher we see what is genuine , they say laughter is infecious, so also is taiji😊

[@alexanderpankevicz3738]

Hi, I had a transmission via astral projection a long time ago. The master touched my forehead and my nervous system got energised.

[@tracycoleman2378]

This was exceptional! I am in the 2nd year online training with you Damo, this was so incredibly insightful to my experiences I am having! Plus being empathetic and a light worker this was so helpful! U spoke to missing pieces I needed to know. I find I must using the tools I have been given by you to clear / purify the space, after working with others. It’s part of of my practice. This work your offering is so significant! Please get this woman on your podcast to speak more to this energy transference and also any insight from you more on keeping the system purified after working with others. Deep appreciation 🎉

[@sinabehbahani7746]

It's always a pleasure to listen to you, Damo. May you be strong and expanded!

[@carolinewilliamsinternity468]

That all made so much sense, thank you. And don’t worry about being ‘wordy’, you do you 😊

[@andredorion4825]

As always it's very helpful to listen or read from you. I ´ve been teaching aikido for the last 30 years and tai chi and lok hup ba fa for the last 10 years and I see that it's quite difficult to guide my students to the internal feeling. One thing I do now is to teach 1 hour of Dao Yin (shi er fa) before the tai chi class and I find it very helpful. Thank you again for your guidance🙏

[@mysticmelon4599]

Very interesting explanation! I think I learned something!

[@LotusNeiGong]

Great :) then I am happy I made the video 🙏🏻

[@victorfrankenstein8035]

Best explanation of the grandfather clock effect ever!!! Put a lot of grandfather clocks in a room together, eventually they will all become synchronized... building qi and expanding our qi fields seems to be the wisdom of this podcast... Another huge thank you for sharing your insight!!! Careful not to create too many qi monsters... jokes

[@dweller67]

This was really fascinating! This is something I completely unaware of until now. I don't know how I'm going to find an internal arts teacher where I live but at least now I know what I'm looking for.

[@4evrlearning149]

This was very informative, thanks👍

[@katiestanley93]

Loved your talk on the ji jin jing. Before I became a personal trainer , I was a reiki practitioner and massage therapist , so I did not realise I had already been applying the ji jin jing principles for many years. I had a near death experience and very traumatic year following and ended up with a full blown kundalini awakening. I'm now 6 years on and am cultivating the ji jin again. It's like welcoming an old friend back into my training. You spoke about the xui sue jin ( dunno how it's spelt) as the path to enlightment and I couldn't help bit thinking given the kundalini experience whether this is the Chinese way to describe this energetic activation. Would love to hear more.

[@BenJahmin108]

Another great episode with knowledge and subtle teachings that are so rare to hear someone articulate with such strength and conviction. Deeply appreciate it. 🙏Please don’t call yourself a moron though. Words are spells and even saying it limits you. Guru Chappati was a likkle uncalled for 😉 My experience in the Yoga world and of Satsang with realised Masters is exactly as you described. Without the students inner work they become attached to the teacher and never grow beyond that dynamic. My Satsang Master however is different as she continually forces you through words and her nervous system gestures to not rely on hers. It’s very powerful and leaves you with the transmission but like saying to you ‘Hey, step up your game!!! Don’t rely on me!” Looking forward to one day training with you and receiving the transmission. In the meantime!! I will keep building the Qi 😉 I find it has changed my Satsang with my Master as everything she says seems to integrate into me deeply without needing her to repeat it. Thank you Bredda ❤️💛💚

[@alexallison7904]

THANK YOU TA FOR THAT TA

[@combofixed]

Please get Cindy on the podcast 🙏 You have talked about her a few times and she sounds fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing this information for free 🙏

[@sesmcawameqi]

*Cindy

[@nicholas666ful]

Wow this is quite a revelation, answers a lot of questions for me , thank you so much.

[@MrAlexWtube]

I have said this comment before on your videos. Priceless info. I am a 5 month online student of Adams. Hope to meet you both one day.

[@JeanFrumen]

Thank you immensely. Much love 🙏

[@riptiz]

I’ve experienced these transmissions in India when sat in company of high level gurus. I have a friend who is a Sun style high level teacher from Derby and when I’m with him I get the connection. Whenever I speak with my eldest sister she gets blasted with chi from me, she has some psychic abilities.

[@_jade_rebel_]

What you're saying is very interesting and highlights yet another case of Western science FINALLY catching up with Eastern; the scientific community has recently started studying fascia more in depth and has noticed that certain fascial tissues contain nerves (postulated to contribute to our senses of proprioception and interoception) and smooth muscle tissue (muscle fibers like those of our organs). The suggestion of being able to consciously mobilize these tissues is certainly possible, and you're inspiring me to work on this myself, as part of both my martial and cultivation practices. Thanks!

[@conifermorze2273]

this explains what I 'see' when I was watching your father do Tai Chi on you tube-his hands were mesmerizing

[@lsarokin]

Brilliant explanation. Love your book!

[@papapoonpoon]

This year's talks are brilliant. Please keep up the great work.

[@MerkaFM]

Feeling really grateful for your output online, thanks for sharing its always clearer than you give yourself credit for, but I think you have a lovely attitude so it's all good. Best wishes

[@spiritualphysics]

🙏🏼😇🙏🏾Excellent and valuable transmission for the savvy. Thank you 👊🏾😎👍🏼

[@spiritualphysics]

adding this to my playlist: tai chi, kung fu, move sum'n

[@philwright123]

Excellent video, thank you. I teach TC and QG and hadn't framed my teaching in this way but it makes excellent sense, a piece of the jigsaw put in place and explains my own desire to work with teachers who are able to transmit.

[@anikamile1]

I am a massage therapists and the things you mention in the 20th minute is so so so true.

[@sacredspiralyoga9881]

Excellent talk. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[@Blackridy]

Very very helpful, and exactly what I needed to hear today. Thankyou, as I embark on my first in person training this weekend. Have a good one mate

[@SanjaKrstic]

This is great! Thank you very much! 🙏🙂

[@AndrewUKLondon]

Brilliant talk. Thanks for your insights. I spent a few years learning the 108 yang long. I then spent several months following the online Internal Arts Academy videos. It made me realise just how much the years I'd done before was mostly external movements. I'm supplementing the online sessions with some occasional in person where I can, and hoping to build up more.

[@lizgrundy902]

Thank you!!

[@Rafael-vu2xn]

Thank you, I would listen 2hrs easily

[@andrewogawa6776]

Great talk, very insightful, thank you!

[@SamadhiTherapy]

Thanks Damo. I ve enjoyed your talks. Happy Christmas

[@salvijus9]

I liked this topic :) thank you

[@paulmcintyre7800]

🎯Much appreciated 🙏

[@rossaprus4157]

Thank you for sharing!

[@liver.flush.maestro]

Very interesting, thank you Damo 🙂

[@DrPittenstein]

Fascinating and essential but how can a novice possibly know which teachers are able to share their skill by transmission?

[@ultraclaveshermetium5709]

a great episode!

[@davidcharvet3800]

great elucidation as always Damo. Regarding peng/pung I was also told its something to do with ground-reaction, rebounding, alignment etc. I think that was probably a beginners abstraction. But as I progressed I eventuallu understood myself that when the more advanced teachings say peng is like a sphere or essentially the whole body becomes a dantien - because it's a quality and wherever your touched on the body you should be able to have that expansive quality anywhere. So this quality of peng that we are searching for is nothing to do with taking forces inside the body, rebounding it and doing so on and so forth, its a quality that totally blocks or disrupts external force from entering the body to begin with due to body conditioning with the correct training.

[@LotusNeiGong]

If the force touches the floor, it isn’t Peng at all. Rebounding has no Peng :)

[@davidcharvet3800]

@@LotusNeiGong yeah the idea of rebounding, ground reaction etc. and all these physics term didn't sit quite well with me I mean I know taichi is considered the martial arts for geeks but it shouldn't be this mentally complex to understand. I'm no expert I will be the first to admit it should be present even when swinging from a light bulb, to quote someone who is much more knowledgable than I am.

[@milehigh61]

Really hard to explain emptiness, if not impossible. Maybe that’s why all of the cultivation methods can only point towards it. The rational mind can not understand it because when one is absorbed, it doesn’t exist 🤔

[@Ge1Ri4]

Excellent talk! So much of what you said made sense both from just an intellectual standpoint (the analogy with 2 dogs meeting was *not* a shit explanation, it was brilliant), but also from an experiential standpoint, at least from learning qigong. For several years I attended a series of qigong workshops several times a year with the number 9f participants ranging from hundreds to almost 2000 people, and the experience of being in a "qi field" that strong for just 4 days per event boosted my own development by lightyears in a short span of time. Alas, I wound up wasting the gains I made in that back during the 2008 mortgage/financial crisis, I worked a ton of overtime (I was in the mortgage insurance industry at the time) and used up all the wonderful stamina I had developed to power through the long grueling hours as my coworkers collapsed around me. I was always the one who "got 'er done". But by the time the economy had recovered, I was a mere mortal again, because I had not had (or rather had not prioritized) making time to keep up my practice. So now I have to do it the hard way, by myself, starting from scratch, as I am no longer involved with the school I was training with at the time because of a scandal that happened with the teacher.

[@KatieJames888]

Okay, so this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone talking about ‘the internal movements’?! … this is something that I’ve been feeling for several years and have never really understood, or knew what to do with/about!! … I’m obviously going to keep listening to this guy, but does anyone have a ‘word’ for these ‘internal movements’ that I can use to try and research this more?? … none of the commonly used terms such as energy, chi, prana, kundalini flow, etc have really been very helpful in understanding this odd sensation of ‘random internal movement’… (and no, lol, it’s not just gas either) … it definitely feels like my spiritual self is doing something with my physical self that my conscious brain self just doesn’t quite understand… but I sure would like to know more about what exactly it means, and what, if anything, I’m supposed to do with it.

[@alankavanagh1091]

xin tong fa tong If the heart mind is connected ,the methods are connected Great video sir

[@happylearning6968]

Great talk.. 😊

[@ytb460]

When u did yuquan the upper level was really health dance at which stage yilou had enough qi and yiu body moved like a hose filled with water. Sadly most students just copy those moves and the car has no engine. This is thebproblem in the internal arts i.e they have copied the external movements which were the result of an internal madter building qi then expressing it.

[@user-sd2fy6uy1v]

Thanks for the free lesson. If I may make a request for a future lesson, How would one know the difference of wether it’s consolidated Jing or Chi when the pulling/pulsing of the fascia is happening during the work? Thank you again.

[@spiritwarriorstudios]

Da Mo Mitchell I'm not blowing smoke, this is Truth to me. I learn more from you in your books & podcasts than I have In over 20 years of instruction from Taijiquan teachers. You Do 'transmit' subtle teachings, maybe, in a way, you are just too humble to admit it. Thank you sooooo much! 🙏

[@combofixed]

I think that's just called learning if I'm gonna be honest

[@spiritwarriorstudios]

Perhaps . . .

[@theunspeakable24]

Question: Do you generate and transmit the same quality of chi for a beginner group as for a group that has been practicing for years? Another way to ask would be can there be too much chi from the teacher in a beginner group? And what if someone has developed heart chi but not necessarily physical chi? I had a spiritual teacher with mega watts of spiritual, "heart " chi and I lived and worked in his vicinity for a few years until I realized that I would have to get off the tit. The drop off was a little intense. But it gave me an internal compass and an appetite for practice. Soon after I began some chi gong and I had a teacher that taught some elementary neidan. I have watched your neidan video. I have a consistent daily practice for 8 years and it's very simple.

[@Markus_Pis]

This is a nice and short ( 🤣) explaination, but a question remains: how does the student build Qi to start with. You mention "go and do the course on building Qi". Do you mean one of your online courses?

[@pierrebridenne8870]

Thanks Sir.

[@mysticta0]

very interesting, this is mentioned in Yoga traditions too, there's defintely truth to it. Would you mind mentioning the types or the system of chi building exercise you teach (is this the Dragon Gate type of nei gong? ) and where to find exactly these methods among your courses?

[@xvrlskrcll6485]

Helpful. Thanks! Question: If someone does your TaiChi online course and never gets the oportunity to meet you or any other skilled teacher in person, so that the subtle teachings can not be perceived/learned, than which are the benefits that can be achieved at that level?

[@midoriguiles7]

Thank you for the blessings of knowledge

[@juld3902]

Hi Damo, thanks for your explanations they're really good. I've had an interest in qi gong and energy practice for quite a while. I was just wondering if you had any thoughts on the practice of Bone Breathing, whereby you can conciously inhale and pull blood/chi in to the bones to essentially mix with the bone marrow and enriching blood for health and vitality, with this I feel internal pressure on the bones and can squeeze this too, it's very sublte but I sense something happening within. Would you say these are correct internal feelings/ sensations or just imaginitive?

[@Kosta110]

This sounds like a forceful way of moving the qi with the mind and breath. It can't be good. The Dan Tian is the driving force for the qi, never the mind.

[@djouellette4363]

I have definitely had chi movement watching videos. Both yours and Adam Mizner. Not always and I usually have to be surprised by it, but it does happen.

[@woodenleaves]

Why would someone bleed from nose after Qi Gong practice, does anyone knows?

[@Samacosam]

Fantastic! Thank you! 🙏 Described exactly the way I see it. So please, what are the chi building practices you're referring to? Would Falun Gong qualify? Or what should I look for in your recordings/ teachings?

[@schwajj]

For example, see his video “Qigong to nourish the kidneys”.

[@dentkort2046]

Read his book "A Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong". He teaches cultivation in the later chapters.

[@Samacosam]

Thank you!!​

[@midoriguiles7]

I love these topics.

[@nicholas666ful]

So Animals communicate through there nerve system but do they also communicate the same way with nature?

[@midoriguiles7]

I can't wait to be able to learn these things

[@freestylebagua]

I think you should experiment with different scalp colours, hot pink might not be your tone, or maybe... :D

[@souadbauer164]

❤

[@kiwiresponse]

Is it true that colloidal gold, silver and monatomic gold (ORME) can be taken in small amounts as the Qi charging the body will pull these elements into the nervous system and fascia making them super-conductive and super insulating which enhances the bodies ability to build and conduct electric charge? Any truth to it or bs?

[@Charlie-zp2se]

Fascinating! The implications are large. Is there a way of protecting oneself from other people’s energies/states?

[@dentkort2046]

Those only affect you if you let them.

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@andycook8218]

Damo speaks many truths. Heart to heart, mind to mind etc. I've studied with many Masters around the world, and what he says is true. However, what needs to be addressed is the decline of Tai Ji and all internal arts. The system as a whole has become very corrupt over a long period of time. One of my Masters told me a story of a Master stone mason that had a way of cutting stone with ink. He would apply a secret mixture of herbs and water with a brush to the stone. A simple strike of a hammer would break even the hardest stone. When he taught his disciple he told him to get only spring water to make the mixture, which took a lot of work. The disciple didn't feel like getting the spring water one day so he pissed in the ink well. The art was lost obviously. Money, ego, spiritual ignorance and reluctancy from so called Masters have nearly destroyed all internal arts. Damo is hanging on to the dinosaurs tail like many of us. Would like to chat with you sometime Damo.

[@nirsolomonmate837]

Hi! Which masters do you recommend studying with?

[@andycook8218]

Depends on what your goals are. What do you want?

[@nirsolomonmate837]

@@andycook8218 ideally i want to learn the tao via heart to heart transmissions or oral tradition

[@andycook8218]

@@nirsolomonmate837 what does that mean to you, "learn the Tao"?

[@nirsolomonmate837]

@@andycook8218 i guess to understand, embody and live the essence or truth or the way . i learn best from people who already do this and transmit either orally or silently via heart to heart

[@aellsworth5050]

Full disclosure: I am not an absolute f*cking genius. As such, this is slightly disheartening as I live in something of a teacher desert (as far as I can tell), and do not have ready access to in-person training. I am only a beginner, a few months into my practice, but enjoy it greatly, am enthusiastic about it, and wish to progress. Just curious if anybody has any advice to share on how to proceed as a beginner in this situation where one is heavily reliant on learning online / solo practice?

[@dentkort2046]

Damo's books are pretty good. I learned how to cultivate Qi with his Comprehensive Guide to Daoist Nei Gong. Some of the exercises he mentions are on his other books, but they can be found online as well. I'm on the same boat as you really, but I've come far enough with this method to massively improve my health and significantly increase my striking power. Now I'm trying to find a way to learn real Qi emission.

[@aellsworth5050]

That is encouraging & much appreciated - thank you. I'm still doing a lot of the foundational breathing & body exercises, but I do have the book (which is great thus far) and will try to get the same mileage out of it. It was really the resonance / transmission aspect of the in-person training that made me wonder how far I can get without it, but I suppose there are occasional workshops I can attend, etc as well..@@dentkort2046

[@dentkort2046]

Question, how do you know the strength of your own field? Is it something that has to be tested or can you get an idea sort of subconsciously?

[@MonacoBlast66]

If you have the feeling of a strong fluidic, feeling throughout the whole body, that sometimes feels like electricity, and you find yourself in the state of Bliss, the stronger your bliss is the stronger your field is

[@TheBuddyShowWorldwide]

Woo-haters gonna hate this one.

[@nicholas666ful]

Hi Damo great video, but can you still open the M.C.O without the aid of a teacher? Thank you.

[@dentkort2046]

Yes, and you can open the other channels on your own as well.

[@davidjd123]

So he doesn’t reply to messages ?

[@Accesstaiji]

Just to counter Ramana mahrashi said I have had no teacher......on this planet.

[@LotusNeiGong]

Worked for Ramana Mahrashi, but for the general masses to assume it applies to them is likely an error!

[@snowissj]

My master could do the transmission. But his stories of his master are probably overblown. But, maybe…

[@LotusNeiGong]

Quite a woo woo one maybe?

[@tivtag]

Woo wow! Thanks for the video and teaching! Personally I have seen and experienced some affecting someone else’s energetically over a phone line and also zoom call. One was a bow tech therapy session that helped release a migraine. But I guess it is much more reliable in-person!

[@Vanderful_life]

yep, informative and entertaining yet couldn't make any take aways to implement actions in my daily evolution

[@tivtag]

@@Vanderful_life two take aways: 1. if you want to learn from a teacher then gather enough energy and be mindful of the teacher and his surroundings. 2. if you want to teach, then do the exercise that you teach to your full ability

[@QiDeviant]

no, podcast is great, shaping the yi in this way is so cool

[@rubenrossi4033]

Nope, it was as usual so much meaningful and beautiful but still concrete and down-to-earth. Amazing

[@wessnipes111]

@ Damo can you generate more chi more quickly by not ejaculating, basically being abstinent? or semen retention? and do you loose a lot of chi when males ejaculate? When a man is married to a wife it is quite hard to remain abstinent... apologies for being so upfront about this, but I honestly need the truth from a experienced person and not bs found online..

[@dentkort2046]

You're screwed basically. Ejaculation not only spends a LOT of Chi but will also deplete your natural Jing reserves and decrease your life span if you do it anything more often than once per week (and that's assuming you're cultivating to replenish the lost Qi). There's no genuine spiritual development without celibacy beyond the entry level.

[@Kosta110]

There's a general rule in Daoism that recommends the frequency of male's ejaculations regarding their age: 20s - once in 4 days, 30s - once in 8 days, 40s - once in 12 days, 50s - once in 16 days, 60s - 20 days etc. When it comes to sex without ejaculation some schools say you can have it as much as you want while others say it's equally depleting for the Jing.

[@Nattapong69]

The secret to qigong is using visualization to activate the dantians and different acupuncture points in the body. Any qigong style without visualization is weak

[@LotusNeiGong]

Nooooooooooooo! 😁

[@nctunes]

Many leak and can't fill.

[@LotusNeiGong]

True

[@ivistaiji7644]

So if you have spent most of your life wholeheartedly, highly consciously reflecting your nervous system through your body, you have developed the connection well in one direction. Why wouldn't you use this connection in the other direction when you find the good master who can represent his own nervous system very honestly through the form in Taijiquan?

[@grahamhill6544]

Sheesh the ego on this guy.