Qigong~ Mother of Tai Chi

I am spending the week at The Marianist Center in Eureka, Missouri for a Qigong teacher training with master trainer Roger Janke. It is warm, sunny and very humid so we are spending almost all of our time indoors in the air conditioning which is very hard for me.  It is a long intensive training with class starting at 7:00 am and finishing about 9:00 pm. I did get out after lunch for a walk through the woods down to the Eureka River. Here are some photos I took on my Qi filled walk.

The 9 Phases of Cultivating and Mastering Qi:

1. Discover Chi
2. Gather Chi
3. Circulate Chi
4. Purify Chi
5. Direct Chi
6. Conserve Chi
7. Store Chi
8. Transform Chi
9. Dissolve Chi