2023 Qi, Consciousness, Information Healing and Health & World Qigong Taichi Day Weekend Retreat

 

SATURDAY PRESENTATIONS

• Morning Practice: 6:30 am – 7:50 am (tea coffee available): Teacher Tan, Tiliao
• Breakfast 8:00 am – 8:45 am
• 8:50 am – 9:00 am: Host Opening Introduction
• 9:00 am – 10:30 am: Order of presentation –  Liu Feng, Jonathan Bricklin, Yingxing Wang host of Eastover
• 10:35 am – 12:00: Bai Chun (白春) Teacher on The Science of Fasting and Lao Tzu’s Ancient Essay on Essence of Health
• Lunch 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

 

Liu Feng is an expert in corporation management with seven-year top managerial experience in a Silicon Valley high-tech company (core member of Oplink Co.). He had been through the whole process in the company from start-up initiation, growth and development, to its IPO.
He has also been a high-tech industrial consultant (President GOC, a managerial consultancy company) and lead several high-tech overseas companies to launch their manufacture base in China for more than six years. An architect of corporate culture for many enterprises, He has helped them adapt to future-oriented culture based on a combination of oriental and western culture.
For three decades he has been contemplating and writing about Forth Dimentional Space/Time, dedicated himself to all kinds of sapience methods and spiritual groups with a totally open mind. With his basic principle of “Seeking the Common and Respect the difference”, Liu has unscrambled and unpuzzled various mankind wisdom systems with a scientific logic, by which people with different backgrounds are all greatly inspired.

Publication “Open your High-dimensional Wisdom” (Bestseller book in China).

Courses offered at online platforms:
Transition and Sustainable Development;
Building a Wisdom-Happiness Enterprise;
The Scientific Interpretation of the Traditional Chinese Culture
Religion and Science
The Diamond Sutra and Science
The Heart Sutra and Science
The Tao Te Ching(Taoism) and Science, etc.,

Please click here to view the Bio in Chinese.

Jonathan Bricklin – Led to Taiji by a mystical experience

After a mystical experience on a Vipassana meditation retreat undermined his common-sense understanding of reality, Jonathan went on a quest to explore the nature of consciousness. He began with William James’s classic text, The Principles of Psychology. Reading this text, followed by 3 decades of reading other works of James, has been, he said, like falling down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole. He is the author of The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time: William James’s Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment (SUNY Press), a Chicago Seminary Co-op Notable Book Award Winner for 2016, and the Editor of the critically acclaimed anthology Sciousness (Eirini Press). His radical reconstructions of James have been published in numerous international journals and magazines. Oliver Sacks has praised his work as “full of interest and originality… the ghost of William James is surely happy to see it.” Eugene Taylor, author of William James on Consciousness Beyond the Margin and the recipient of the APA Lifetime Achievement Award, wrote that “Bricklin advances James on consciousness farther than anyone.” Jonathan is a former Program Director of the New York Open Center and has been studying Tai Chi for 3 decades.  jonathanbricklin.org

Saturday 6:30am – 7:50am before breakfast Morning Meditation with Teacher Tan, Tiliao.

Teacher Tan was born in a traditional Chinese Medicine – Xu family.The Xu Family needling method (acupuncture technic) has been recognized by the Nang Ping city as an Intangible Heritance Treasure. Tan is the 12th generation lineage inheritor. Immediately upon graduating from college, Tan was very attracted to the rich original ancient Buddhist teachings. He became a monk at Xiamen South Putuo Buddhist Temple. He studied in the Min Nan Buddhist College. He went through lots of hardships traveling via Philippines to Thailand where he followed the Forest Buddhist Tradition with (阿姜摩訶布瓦- Achaan Mahaa Boowe) Ajahn Chah Subhatto for 11 years. Subsequently, he continued practicing at Korean Snow Mountain Temple for the next 6 years. In addition to observations about the mind, he has a depth of experience in practicing White Skeleton Meditation. His 20 years of meditation practice brought him insights into the Chinese Medicine and needling art(acupuncture). With this advanced and highly developed awareness and awakening, Tan went on to resolve the thousand years’ old mystery of the primordial energy transforming itself into Qi, and how the Qi then would go on to influence the soul. The breath and White Skeleton make our mind overcome our pain and help us enter the state of tranquility. While our Qi channels are in the process of getting purified, our muscles begin to rejuvenate, areas of stagnations are eliminated and mind awareness begin to improve. As our energy channels become visible, observing our body is like reading Chinese medicine classic: Inner Canon of The Yellow Emperor (黄帝内经), and observing internal energy moving channel is like reading the book of “Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases” (伤寒论). As the science of life is revealed in Chinese medicine, our human body is naturally characterized and exhibited in the natural law of harmony.

10:35 am – 12:00 pm: Bai Chun (白春) Teacher on The Science of Fasting and Lao Tzu’s Ancient Essay on Essence of Health

白春 老师从1994年开始，以《道德经》为理论依据，解密“老子养生秘字诀”，实修实证道家辟谷术，曾在北京、上海、广州、深圳、西藏等国内多地和美国华盛顿、波士顿授课一百多场。擅长用人体实验、物理实验等科学手段，激发调动出人的本自具足的生命潜能，揭示出了看不见摸不到的微观过程，帮助人们透过现象看清本质

Since 1994 teacher Bai went deep into the study of “Dao De Ching” and essay of Lao Tzu’s health secret, experienced transformation through delve into Daoist practice. Drawing direct theory and experimental experience in Physics, she used her own body as a barometer to study the science of fasting. Teacher Bai also became a true Daoist priest. Then she was welcomed by ten thousand for spread the Dao of Fasting by giving seminars and lectures in China, US and Tibet.

Lunch 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

1:30-2:30pm Dr. Zhang, Xuekai Awareness, Health and Chinese Medicine.

Xuekai Zhang Ph.D.(UK), M.D.(China), L.Ac(MD, NY), Dipl. O.M. (NCCAOM)

Mainly engage in the clinical, teaching and scientific research of integrative medicine as well as acupuncture. He got his bachelor’s degree of Acupuncture Moxibustion & Tuina and master’s degree of Integrative Chinese Medicine & Modern Medicine in China, and got his Ph.D. degree of Brain, Behavior and Mental Health in Manchester UK. After Ph.D. graduation, he has worked in Neurology department of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Dongzhimen Hospital for 7 years and has accumulated various clinical experiences in the field of Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology. He has followed Professor Ding Zhang’s teaching for more than one and half years via Zoom conference and has some better understandings in both daily life and professional field.

2:30 pm – 3:30pm Livia Kohn on The Daoist Dimensions of Taiji

Taiji is a popular method of self-cultivation and health enhancement that goes back far in history. To facilitate the smooth movements of the form, teachers often emphasize certain key ideals, such as overall freedom from tension or relaxation, an upright posture, natural breathing, a sense of centrality, weight separation, mental focus, and an awareness of the body (and nature) as one unity. These concepts relate directly to certain core Daoist values, most importantly, oneness or the holographic nature of the universe, continuous change and constant motion, naturalness (spontaneity), nonaction or pervasive fluidity, as well as authenticity, integrity, simplicity, and sufficiency. This presentation describes how its practice embodies key aspects of Daoist philosophy, cosmology, and ethics.

Livia Kohn is Professor Emerita of Religion & East Asian Studies at Boston University. Her specialty is Daoism and the study of Chinese longevity practices. She has written and edited numerous books and articles. A long-term practitioner of taiji quan and meditation, she is also a certified instructor of yoga and qigong. A top Daoist scholar, she is expert at outlining the details of all kinds of practices and placing them in a relevant context, both historically and as relevant for our lives today.

Livia earned her Ph. D. in 1980. After six years at Kyoto University in Japan, she joined Boston University as Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies in 1988, then returned to Kyoto twice more for two-year stays. She has also worked variously as visiting professor and adjunct faculty at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, the Stanford Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, San Francisco State University, and the Taoist College Singapore. She retired from active teaching in 2006 and now works as a freelance researcher and lecturer.

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Each presenter has 10-30 minutes to showcase their main practice, anyone who would like longer presentation please contact Yingxing to arrange into other breakout rooms.

Scot Vighi a gifted energy medicine healer. A Qi-gong and Reiki Master, he possesses a unique ability for clearing chronic pain and habitual patterns of
stress.
He holds masters degrees in Ericsonian hypnotherapy, USUI Reiki, The National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is the founder of the White Wolf Path: a comprehensive program teaching the five cornerstones of a transformational practice
~Qigong breath and movement;
~Ouspenski’s Philosophy of evolution;
~Kundalini Yoga breathing techniques;
~Basic operatic vocal skills;
~The Taoist Foundational practice.

For 29 years, Scot has worked with people from around the world: leading seminars, applying hands-on healing body work, teaching meditation, and coaching advanced physical fitness training sessions.

Greg DiLisio has over 30 years of Qigong practice. He has given Qigong lectures at Canyon Ranch Destination Spa Lenox, and taught Qigong classes for years in Switzerland and Scotland. Greg is also a regular Qigong teacher at Eastover and provides Acupuncture and Massage there as well.

• Dinner: 6:00 pm – 6:50 pm

Saturday evening:

7:00pm – 9:00pm Jonathan Bricklin and Yingxing Wang, ChatGPT4 on Consciousness.

9:00 – 10:00pm: free fun time and exchange among all!

SUNDAY PRESENTATIONS 

• Breakfast: 8:00 am – 9:00 am
• 9:00 am – 10:00 am

• 10:00 am – 11:45 am – Panel of Mindfulness, Modalities, Consciousness and Health  Q and A with Professor DR. Xuekai Zhang, Jonathan Bricklin, Yingxing Wang Host

Lunch 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm