Penetrating the Essence of Practice with Roger Jahnke OMD

Sponsored by the Peaceable Dragon

May 19-20, 2007 Arlington, Virginia ~ Crystal Gateway Sport and Health Club

How shall we deepen and enrich our practice? Penetrate the essence of your preferred internal art? Whether you practice Yoga, Qigong, Taiji (Tai Chi), Aikido, or Reiki, by mining into the deep internal nature of practice we find and cultivate the Golden Elixir (inner Spirit-Mind-Body medicine) promised by Daoists, Yogis and ancient shamanic and wisdom teachers. The promise of this deepening creates an empowered healing community and a profound healing field. Dr. Jahnke will share 9 Phase Integral Qigong which distils the energy (Qi/Prana) cultivation principles of all traditions. We will penetrate to the essence of practice that is common to all the schools and disciplines.

Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:30am to 5:30pm

Sunday, May 20, 2007 10:30am to 4:30pm

 

Workshop Information and Directions:

To register, call Peaceable Dragon at 703-625-8431 or visit www.PeaceableDragon.org. Workshop is $ 220. NCCAOM Professional Development Activity points also offered for this event; PDA certificate is $15.00.

The workshop will be held in the gymnasium of the Crystal Gateway Sport and Health Club at 1235 South Clark Street, Arlington, VA 22202. The club is in Crystal City close to Reagan National Airport, and walking distance from the Pentagon City Metro Station. Free underground parking is available at the club. The Crowne Plaza Hotel Washington National Airport at 1480 Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202, next to the workshop site has offered a special rate for both Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19. Book your room online (check rate preference Best Available**) or phone 800-972-3159. For more information on that rate and other hotels in the area, email info@peaceabledragon.org.

About Your Workshop Leader, Roger Jahnke OMD

Roger Jahnke, O.M.D. has been in the clinical practice of acupuncture and Chinese medicine for 25 years, is the Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi and is the author of two books, The Healer Within, and The Healing Promise of Qi. Dr. Jahnke has dedicated his life to sharing the powerful ancient healing traditions of China. With over two decades of clinical practice as a physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine and eight research tours to China, Dr. Jahnke has practiced and taught Qigong in the United States, Canada, and Asia. He has studied hundreds of forms of Qigong with master teachers and visited over twenty hospitals, institutes and training centers in China, focusing on the cultivation of Qi, vital energy. To read an interview of Dr. Jahnke by Explore magazine, visit here.

Every traditional culture has a method of contacting one's essence and eternal nature, traversed by shamans, gurus, messiahs, and yogis. Typically there is a map for the journey toward the deeper eternal self, the inherent spirit, and the natural capacity for well-being. Dr. Jahnke will be revealing the map that the Chinese have traveled, using philosophical, scientific, spiritual (Buddhist/Daoist) and medical practices. 9 Phase Integral Qigong draws from the well of these practices, with this map in verse.

Song of the Ten Phases of Cultivation and Mastery of Qi
From The Healing Promise of Qi by Roger Jahnke OMD

In seeking to live vitally in accord with the true nature of the world,
I first become aware of the essential universal resource – Qi.
I find, observe and sense Qi within myself,
in my surroundings, in all beings and everywhere in the universe.
When this profound resource is gathered and absorbed,
its increased presence activates the circulation of Qi
in my channels, reservoirs and fields.
I purify and cleanse the Qi
by dispelling impure and spent resources.
I direct the pure and fresh Qi in the internal pathways
to the organs, glands, limbs and senses.
The activity of pure and ample Qi
empowers my capacity to fulfill my destiny,
my work and my creativity.
To sustain and even multiply my vitality
I conserve, protect and accumulate the Qi
through moment- to- moment life choices.
Qi that is spent is lost, that which I conserve
accumulates and may be stored.
Through cultivation, Qi that is stored
can be transformed within me,
transmuting inner resources,
through inner alchemy,
into the Golden Elixir.
When it is transformed the Qi is refined into pure Spirit (Shen)
which elevates my awareness of unity
with my boundless universal nature.
When I am unified with the universal
I am undifferentiated,
one with all possibilities, beings and things.
United with all that is and all that could possibly be,
I dissolve into the boundless field of The One.
One with the Universe, I am the Universe.
One with all beings and possibilities
I am moved to serve those around me,
knowing that they are none other than myself.