Philippines Seminars—March 2023

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Below are the flyers for my seminars scheduled for March 2023 in the Philippines. The subjects include: Tao Basics, Zhan Zhuang, Buddha Palm Qigong (which I haven’t taught in the Philippines for possibly 20 years) and Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage.

Microcosmic Orbit Meditation or Small Heavenly Circle/Xiao Tian Zhou is part of Tao Basics: I am incorporating a couple of different methods of doing it. I am also teaching my version of Frolic of the 5 Animals; it includes Dragon, Tiger, Snake, Monkey and Crane. The movements are drawn from martial art forms I have studied through the years with different masters and are more elaborate than the traditional Frolic. My modern version also does not include the Bear and the Deer.

The seminars are open to the public. My students are expecting a good attendance, some students coming from as far as Davao City in Mindanao. Many of the participants are healers, masseurs and/or acupuncturists.

Aside from the seminars, I will be teaching lessons in Classical Yang Family Tai chi chuan fist (108 solo form, Chang Chuan, Push Hands) and weapons (staff, saber/dao and sword/jian) and Dragon Tiger Fujian Temple Kungfu (the system of former Buddhist lay monk Lao Kim). I will also be giving treatments (acupuncture, moxa and Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage) by appointment.

But it will not be all work. I will be staying for a while with my youngest brother Roland and his wife Vicky at the ylang-ylang farm in Pura, just north of my hometown. And then we are traveling with them to the Ilocos, Pangasinan and Baguio, the Summer Capital of the Philippines. I have been invited to dinner by several friends. It’s going to be a busy vacation but fun!

Seminar Flyers

Past seminars

Teaching Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage to blind masseurs at INAM Philippines. There were seven of them at the seminar. I was demonstrating a manipulation when one of them complained that he could not see what I was doing. Another time, I was describing a movement and I said that the hand should follow the hour hand, turning clockwise  or counterclockwise. Somebody said, he had never seen a clock. So I learned something important. I told them to hold my hand as I made a movement.
Teaching the women in a small village in Victory Island in Southern Philippines after the typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. These women were probably more than half the population. I was with other healers from INAM PHILIPPINES. It took us 2 days to reach the island: a 2-hour flight from Manila, a 3-hour van ride, a night in a Guian and one-hour on a catamaran in the open sea.
A healing circle on Homonhon Island, reportedly the first landfall of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines in 1521.We had three days of practices drawn from the repertoire of the Universal Healing Tao: meditation, Qigong and Chi Nei Tsang internal organs massage.

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