CHINESE HEALTH EXERCISE ON Hollywood Beach, FL.!
It is understood in Chinese Medicine, that Early Morning exercise by an Ocean, is extra healthy. 7:30 to 8:30 am every day, (six weekly) with Tues. off,we meet to cultivate our Internal Healing Energy. Some exercises are done standing while others are to slowly learn a beautiful series of moves WHILE developing Chi/(Qi.) Transform Your Own DNA! Mantak Chia certified Raven Cohan in 1983 in his first class of Westerners. Raven was made a Senior Instructor in Sept. '10 in Thailand.
Raven supports you with patience so you can balance, align and be mentally, emotionally as well as physically more stable. More doctors and scientists are conceding there is a special internal energy! Come find it! The price is kept intentionally reasonable: Monthly unlimited @ $45. or $7.00 per class. We meet by the shady life- guard stand @ Franklin St.on N. Hollywood (954) 92R-AVEN. Please,before coming, PHONE...but only after ten am and before ten pm. Newcomers start from THUR. through SUN. at 7:30 until 8:30 AM. After 3 lessons you also can come to Tao Yin, (Stretching) on Mon. AM. There is also a night class on Monday at 6:30-7:45 In Feb. that will be changed for several weeks to Thurs. night. Please phone to verify dates.
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Raven Cohan
Welcomes YOU.
In class we cultivate our virtues which reside (in Chinese Medicine Understandings),
within each of your viscera. You bring them out through comtemplative exercise: Learn self massage, alignment & easy stretches that are formulas to move you into a concise Five ElementForm. Advance slowly & surely.
Intermediates learn Yang 108 & Bagua & more.
At the Universal Healing Tao of S. F. you are directed in a gentle,patient way so THAT YOU CAN
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YOU ARE INVITED TO "TAO ORIENTATION" CLASS ! (Next Special Invitation will be on Feb18th & 19th, '12! on near-last tab.) An 8 hour workshop takes place. for $99.
for two days of intensive, revelations of Internal Practices, (Nei Gong.)
This option is a great place for you to start learning but is not required.
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Commit to Training Strong Intention and Patience By Raven Cohan
(WHY Begin Studying Tai Chi and Qigong?)
Humanity has a great need to find varied means that help us to develop ourselves. We can do well to commit to important intentions we’d like to establish in our lives with a patient demeanor. Utilizing refined techniques to help us to find those often-elusive ideals can be what our civilization needs to advance as humans on the planet. Many people all over the world have begun to discover the Ancient Chinese arts as a means toward that objective. Students want to discover what is involved in learning practices such as Qigong, Tai Chi and other related skills from the East. In beginning a Qigong practice, curious students will find that developing their intention can be explored through using concentration to memorize a form and repeating many exercises that help them to learn a form.
Frustration and tedium may visit some numbers of these people who might not consider themselves to be “naturals” in learning such an art as Qigong and the many thousands of practices that fall under that grand category. Should only the naturally talented and already patient continue? Do we have to give in and create easier short cuts? How does one develop the skills necessary to One: concentrate enough in order to commit to a practice that in itself can teach commitment? Two: find ways to help newcomers get to the point where they can be convinced that slow movement is a genuine way to move through frustrations in order to build patience and stick-to-itiveness? Three: better see the movements of any form one hopes to study so that they are perceived as learnable?
Let’s first take a short look at the modern people who approach the Ancient Techniques of China. In modern China and other Eastern countries, monks and nuns and others still can be found who train a great many youngsters to meditate at the age of six years old, (but this is becoming less common.) Those youngsters who come from meditation so early and go on to Martial Arts and Healing Arts practices have a rich background that prepares them for training of their intention to command their bodies to move in specific patterns. They later understand they are made stronger in an energetic or physical way, or both through such training. (Comparatively, in the West, there are not as many people who have such rich backgrounds that can make it easier for them to learn Ancient Arts.) In the last quarter century (or for an elite few, half of a century or more,) Western mentality has more broadly infiltrated into the East. Our Western impatience and our less consistent study habits that are being adopted into Eastern mentality might be replacing a more healthful approach to learning Ancient Remedies.
I posit that during early stages of learning Tai Chi and/or Qigong, it is necessary that all people are informed that they are encountering a challenging study that will take a lifetime. Despite this, students must be told to take off themselves any excessive pressure. Commencing to build one’s own health from the ground floor needs an approach that is neither too strict nor too loose! Perhaps our approach to learning can in itself become a balance of yin and yang! This will apply to both traditional approaches and more modern adaptations.
My belief is that the world increasingly does need more emphasis placed upon patiently building our own health and stamina in order to survive in the techno-world we live in. Our tolerance toward doing anything slowly is becoming extinct, especially through our interplay with internet, cell phones and such that connect us to vast worlds of information in the speed and intensity of lightning.
We need to admit to the fact that we are caught up in commonly held stress producing behaviors that we pass off as “normal worries”. Even more stressful lately, is that people have been putting upon themselves greater needs to be rich and famous like "Reality TV stars." Such instant fame is rare, nor is it a reality. Such pursuits, when out of control, can lead to extreme misbalancing. We need to find ways to disengage from wishes to gain with little study. Consider developing genuine skills. That is priceless!
It's great to be able to suggest an article that can be read on one web site * that explains clearly how it is the development of our intention that will best increase our ability to improve our own DNA, which will knock out habitual responses that get wired into us, just as if we were mere robots. On that website, proofs are offered on the theory that, (quoting from the article:) “though in truth, a cell is actually "controlled" by beliefs, since perceptions may not necessarily be accurate.” For the sake of our very survival we need to become healthier through our self-explorative techniques that help us to better develop our intentions so we can move past genealogical tendencies and become stronger individuals in our minds, bodies and spirits!
Both Easterners as well as Westerners can benefit by opening up to a greater respect of fresh values that might be re-adapted. Our society can evolve toward being less often motivated to do things exclusively for the sake of reward. One must be clearly shown that perhaps the most reward we can receive is a life that can be made smoother through development of an easier attitude and lifestyle. If this consciousness is awakened then people will want to change enough to adopt some challenging life-long practices.
There are thousands of teachers and systems in China and worldwide. Are many more teachers themselves looking for quicker fixes to teach to their students? Are we who teach tempted toward a desire of gaining fame and fortune by discovering the quickest way? Is a majority of the world now moving away from the slow and patient development required which helps us to answer the three how-to-develop questions I posed in paragraph two? Greed and speed has proven to not be a healthy answer. I gently suggest here that we need to bless Quantum Physics that better helps us to understand why the ancient practices, combined with modern research, can create changes for our betterment. The understanding of Quantum Physics means we all can return to our roots. (We all can learn to evolve as slowly as the many Universes have done!) We do not have to short change the powerful, life-long development of patience!
Let’s now go over the responses to the questions I posed in the second paragraph. In developing a greater respect for the Ancient people of the world, (and not limited to China), and studying the history of Ancient Healing Arts we can begin to understand how for thousands of years our human faculties have developed through honing various skills and arts. We modern people of all nations can learn to focus on details of an art such as Qigong. We can come to better value refining our natures through dedicating ourselves to doing things over and over slowly, gently and lovingly. We can laugh at frustrations and just keep on keeping on by immersing ourselves in the ever-evolving advancement in using our senses fully enough to appreciate the miniscule details in nature and form with not more short cuts but less. When our human race no longer gets bored in a short time with any serious pursuit, we will know we are becoming healthy spiritual beings who have emerged stronger through a most pure dedication to ourselves. So there are your answers! : One: Concentration comes by repeating an activity over and over. Two: Yes! It’s undeniable that some people will be frustrated, but let’s move through it all by laughing like a playful child instead of howling to the finish line like a hasty and result orientated speed demon! Let us be like babies who know how to play a game over and over and become completely absorbed by it! Three: Seeing comes through using all the senses! Some people need to hear a description of what must be done and others need to feel their bodies in space as well as simply observe a form. We need to highly develop some senses and tone down others of them.
Many Qigong and especially Neigong practices exist to train all the senses which when developed in balance, will make it easier to have strong intentions! Let’s make great use of detailed practices that nudge us into a true patience building process that can move us toward finding most high evolvement!
* www.BruceLipton.com (Search for “cellular consciousness”. Mr. Lipton was on a program in '11 with M. Chia.)
Basic Concepts of Tai Chi-Qigong For Average Americans
by Raven Cohan
Tai Chi can be a catch-all phrase to mean learning from the extremes of Yin and Yang (that we can say are the ups and downs of life), with more acceptance. Tai Chi is a fraction of what is only part of another catch-all phrase called Qigong or Chi Kung that enables us to begin understanding that there are life forces that can be better developed that will keep us healthy. We don't just get rid of things. More importantly, we train to build up our health. Different teachers present this uniquely. I do not emphasize in my teaching of Tai Chi-Qigong the Martial Arts aspect, although it is touched upon. I prefer to emphasize the spiritual and medical-developmental components.The medical benefits of Tai Chi-Qigong are many. A program of training might take many years and many make it a life time study. Students often can feel benefits right away. My emphasis as a teacher is to guide people in improving their alignment and capabilities to breath properly. Students learn to release stress by slowing down. They become user-friendly with their internal organs. They begin to experience being integrated with this planet Earth, as a part of a hologram that makes up the Universe. They are trained to care about the expression of their emotions in a balanced way. This releases stresses that we know are highly the cause of most disease. The major systems of the body are improved, therefore even chronic complaints begin to be lessened and often disappear. We also work on building the capability to have the patience to be in such a do-it-yourself program. Yes, it is a do-it-yourself program. You become aware that only you can permit changes to be made! Our conscious and unconscious processing is differentiated but understood to work as a team. A few students are quoted below and explain their personal ways in which Tai Chi helped them to benefit: " Since meeting you I've experienced the death of my father, a most sad
event for me. Yet I feel every little thing I do and learn, although not
"perfected" in the Tao system, it has strengthened me and given me internal
peace in a manner never imagined previously. " M. R.
The above quote is from a woman who had no major complaints, but she felt emotionally more strengthened..
"It has helped me try to understand my reaction due to the symptoms of my
right leg last week. THANK YOU!!!" C.S.
This young woman quoted above, is one of several M.S. challenged people who work on improving the condition of their nervous symptoms that can be built back to health. Recently her medical doctor understood that through diet change and tai chi, she had weaned herself off the medicine she'd been on for ten years. Another M.S. patient and former student now in Canada has had no regressions in the last ten years or more. There are so many 'thanks you' letters from so many students I have received. Let's talk about people who feel that they cannot be helped. Entire books have been written on why people stubbornly hold onto old trauma and injury and therefore do not heal. We are a people that can be quite wounded from our upbringing in our childhood. We have taught ourselves to get certain feelings of attention through having complaints of the body, mind and spirit. In my classes we do address this in varied ways.My concern is for students to feel that they are in charge of their healing process no matter what condition they begin in. My hope as a teacher is to minimize the over-serious and over-sensitive attitudes of students. It is the ability to utilize a playful attitude toward their self-training that is most often commented upon. Giving up fearful attitudes isn't especially easy, when we aren't even aware of them. Some people are too afraid to discover their path to a healthy life because the life of illness has been almost like a friend. These people get angry sometimes and will fight to the point where they will give up much faster than those who really are ready to heal.
What I find rewarding with those who persevere, is that they want to give themselves the gift of feeling more independent in their search for harmony. It is usually because we focus diligently on discovering the spiritual aspect that lies under the rest. It is beautiful to observe. SCAN DOWN & Read two articles to answer a few of your questions !
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