Nature Awareness Training for Health and Success: The Art of Self Study In Attunement With Universal Energies Level One: Embodying the Power of the Universe "To the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination, itself" - Wm. Blake Saturday 5/21/2016 10am -5:30pm New York Open Center 22 East 30th St, New York, NY 10016 http://www.opencenter.org/events/a-nature-awareness-training-for-health-success/ Mount Tamalpais, Marin County California Gardner Lookout, Mount Tamalpais, Marin County California
The fundamental unity between Heaven, human being, and the Earth makes wisdom arts like Feng Shui and Chinese Internal Boxing possible and, with intelligence, supremely effective. Nature Awareness Training teaches how to embody universal structure and natural processes. You can build the T'ai Chi into your body, model the fluency of how Chi flows in nature, access power from the Earth, and learn how to use them to increase your effectiveness, true harmony 和 Hé ( which includes right order in action), and begin to fulfill your wishes potentially in all areas of your life. These easy to practice models of effective action, energy, and power are activated with your mind, and expressed with your energy and in your body. Once you know them, you'll have endless opportunities to apply them to the work of living, acting, and being. As your sensitivity to the visible and invisible worlds in nature and yourself increases, you can learn to embody and use the power of the universe instead of your own personal strength bringing spirit, energy, and your physical body into unity. While this is a lifetime study, the principles can be yours to develop and benefit from immediately. The curriculum is Physical Training, Energy Training, and Mind (Spirit) Training with practices from Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, Chinese Internal Martial Arts, with Shamanic and Personal Power techniques bringing together the study of nature, self nature, movement and wisdom.
These practices center and enliven you, improve health, use your internal energy outside, on the world, and, in this way can lead to greater success and accomplishment Grounding these practices in your mind, energy, and body, you can embody the power of the universe. Some teachings use the four excellences - Standing, Sitting, Walking, and Lying and apply martial movements to help embrace heaven power, maximize human power, and draw upon the power of the earth in a basic training focused on creating comfort. power, balance to strengthen your effective intention. By learning to use spirit and mind (Shen) to move the internal body to activate your energy (Chi or Qi) to move the physical body in space exemplifies right order which can become a way of making dreams come true. Personal Background to the Teachings I began to study T'ai Chi Chuan in the early 1970's with Sifu Kuo Lien Ying, among the most famous masters of the twentieth century. Sifu Kuo Lien Ying In the middle of that decade I became a student of Grand Master of Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui, H.H. Prof. Thomas Lin Yun Da Shi.
It was my great honor to be at Prof. Lin's right hand for almost 35 years and with his direction and supervision institute professional training in Feng Shui at the New York Open Center beginning in 1995, the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program (TM). In its 20th year our program, specifically, as part of the Open Centers School of Holistic Learning, became licensed and accredited by the State of New York. Since 1985, I have studied with Sifu Guo Ming Xu (George Xu) president of WACIMA, the World Association of Chinese Internal Martial Arts, who appointed me a senior instructor. Just as H.H. Prof Lin Yun opened the roads for Feng Shui interest and study internationally, Sifu Xu has successfully encouraged the leading internal martial masters of China to share their teachings, including in a special Winter Camp he leads. Sifu George Xu
The teachings of my Masters is seminal to Nature Awareness Training which distills essential pearls of knowledge and practice of these and other lineages in a training designed for anyone to be able to taste and begin to apply core principles of the arts. Additionally, my 45 years as fire lookout on a sacred mountain just north of San Francisco, Mt. Tamalpais, has given me essential inspiration and experience as has studies with Mahayana and Tibetan Masters of all the major lineages and Shamanic teachers of the highest levels. I delight in Nature Awareness Training in sharing some of the most effective ideas and techniques I have learned. Many special, secret, sacred tools are provided in this basic training. Among them are 1. Creating the Physical Instrument - The Great Circle Stretch 2. Mind and Body Achievement in how you 'set up' your inner world. 3. How to create and use a second internal body like that of a cat. The internal body can control the external body. It can unify with space to create a bigger you, so the internal is bigger than the external. Developing an intelligent
internal body has immeasurable benefits for health, longevity and efficiency and confers a sense of effortless doing, maximum freedom and power 4. Understand, feel, know, cultivate, develop, use, and benefit from Chi (or Qi). Connect Chi with Mind and Spirit. 5. Learn to create a fluent Central Axis (Chong Ding), the vertical dimension of the T'ai Chi in you. 6. How to touch the earth 7. How to get and use Earth Chi Ying /Yang Reaction Force 8. The Great Sunshine Buddha Meditation Method 9. Walking Techniques a- The Woodsman's Walk modeling the fluency of the flow of Chi in nature. Learn to walk like rolling, with the fluency of water b- The Bamboo Step, how movement become stillness c- Heart Mind Walking and the Exercise of Intention - Learning to move so Spirit activates Chi to move the physical body d- Walking like a Dragon 9. Breathing Like the Earth Chuang Tzu's famous breathing with the feet and whole body circulation 10. Multiple advanced Chi Gong systems including Natural Path Chi Gong, Spiral Chi Gong, T'ai Chi Hun Yun Chi Gong,
and Xin Yi Liu He Chi Gong - all unique ways to love yourself and cultivate your Chi. 11- Learn Standing in the World also called The Pillar of the Universe to embody Heaven and Earth and cultivate the body of freedom 12- The meaning and practice of Relaxation including Wu Wei, how to do without doing, and The Six Looses 13- Learn the Lan Shou Power Stretch to taste complete whole body as one unit connectedness. 14- Learn about Si, the envelope of power at a site in Feng Shui and the energy potential that Spirit and Chi can activate in your body to connect inside and outside as pure power allowing the body and the space around us to be in unity. 15- Calming the Heart and breathing practices to free us from negative emotional factors.
Some techniques in this workshop are somewhat physically demanding and require faith, concentration, relaxation, and the exercise of the will As you learn to harness the power of the mind to unify and control your Chi and body, you will radically enhance what you can attempt and accomplish. You can begin to discover how to act at the speed of the mind to make your intentions real in the world with positive impact in daily life for good health, improved human relationships, and the enjoyment of this moment. Steven Post, Feng Shui educator, author of The Modern Book of Feng Shui, first consultant and teacher of Feng Shui in the United States, senior disciple of H.H. Professor Thomas Lin Yun, Da Shi who designated him authorative and a resource for all students, is the founder of GEO (The Geomancy/Feng Shui Education Organization), co-owner and a principal teacher of the BTB Feng Shui Masters Program, senior instructor WACIMA (World Association of Chinese Internal