Shamanic Origins of Qigong, Tai Chi, and Taoism Explained - Bears, Chakras, Energy Medicine & Omens 

Wow! That's an interesting one. I suppose the sparrow channeled YOU! Very cool. Although it isn't the goal of qigong, meditation etc, I do find practicing consistently does increase the frequency of those sorts of experiences.

Indeed we can! Glad you found the Qi world 😄😄

Awesome, thank you! It's true, the nature metaphors really helped draw me to the Taoist arts.

Neat! Actually this reminds me of a book you might really like. It is by a Qigong master who is also a Lakota medicine man, Ken Cohen, who writes about Native American medicine and spirituality. It is called "Honoring the Medicine", and has all sorts of interesting stories about this sort of thing.

Yes , everything you say think and feel is true

Wow! Interesting stuff. I love the Tao of Pooh :)

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Glad it was helpful!

Awesome! I love how Taoism gives concrete practices so we don't have to wait for those dreams and visionary experiences, that seem to come and go on their own. Although they seem to come more when we practice! Thanks for the support

Qigong is a fascinating rabbit hole of study! There's always more to learn. And it leads into so many cool things like Taoism, martial arts, tai chi, etc etc

Hi just wondering if you found your Qigong in Portugal? Pedro! 🙏

Sometimes they are pretty hard to attribute to coincidence, eh?

Thank you! 😊

Great to hear! Stay grounded!...That might be my next topic actually ;) Thanks for your support!

Thanks! It was fun to make :) A great book on this is "Honoring The Medicine" by Ken Cohen. He is not only a master of the Taoist arts but is also a Lakota Medicine Man, and brings both perspectives together beautifully.

Thank you! 😊

Ah, good synchronicity!

So good to hear! Thank you 😊

Glad I could help :)

Thank you!

Happy to hear it, Inga! I had the same feeling when I found Qigong. It is such a good fit for those drawn to nature.

@@TheNickLoffree thank you for answering dear. Yes indeed I feel so natural and exited exercising this movements. I am so curious how much more powerful I'll feel doing qigong in nature... now it is inside because of the quarantine but even inside well we cannot really be apart from nature hahah Thank you for inspiring and I'll practice with your videos, I already like them very much 😍 thank you!!!!

@@TheIngale Great, well I hope my videos bring some of nature to you! ;D

@@TheNickLoffree thank you 🤗

Thank you!

Thank you Madeleine, that is really sweet. Glad to remind you of your boy ;) Thanks for hanging with me and the trees!

Glad you enjoyed it! The range is called De LaVeaga Archery Range, and it's in Santa Cruz, California (beach town near San Jose). Its a beautiful hike with 28 targets that you hike to as you go. Makes for a great workout with the terrain ups and downs!

Are you an archer?

@@TheNickLoffree Yes. I shoot longbow but I haven't shot in years. There are no ranges near my home and I have fallen out of practice. Seeing you shoot I felt a pang of missing it.

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Thanks! I can’t recall what brand or model, but the style is called a Recurve Bow. I think I just searched Recurve Bow on Amazon and picked one at a decent price point 👍

Thank you!

Wow that’s amazing!

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No, I’m just stupid. But good guess 😆

So glad it resonated deeply!

Haha weird right? I was thinking it was a good way to "shoot two birds with one arrow" and get my archery practice in while also getting my video made. Also, more entertaining? Hope you enjoyed either way XD

you were the bear , everything we see is a reflection recently went solo camping, had a moment w an owl and a deer, so beautiful to witness in pure stillness

Thanks!

I think the most likely situation based on the evidence I’ve seen is that we did evolve from apes, but I would add a caveat that evolution does not appear random to me at all. It looks guided by the hand of a creator.

Thank you for your thoughts. Rest is indeed crucial for living a healthy and vital life.

@@TheNickLoffree No worries. However after hibernation comes their wakeup time and they are hungry. If their food supplies are dwindling, and their territories are not being protected adequately, they will go looking for food and leave their territories. The blackbears where you are, are doing a lot better than bears in other parts of the world and earth. Leave you with this question for you to ponder and consider, what does it mean to be a guardian for the bears?

I like how you express a need for people to 'wake up' to the need for rest, but I feel like that somewhat defeats the point. XD

@@GoldieTamamo For clarity, understanding and meaning, that I also don't assume or presume can you be more forthcoming and specific, so there is no gaps of information with the end part of your comment, "I feel that defeats the point."

@@Homeheart1 ... Who exactly learns to rest, by waking up? It was intended as a joke, but it turns out the audience was put to sleep. Alas.

Two more things 1) I feel like that's how you experience universal truth. When it's not taught to you but you feel it and say "wtf is that" and then a curandero or something tells you months or years later like "oh that's called a soul retrieval " or something that other people train years and years to do, and here you are doing it by accident. That was actually my experience with soul retrieval, as well as another phenomenon in which I am somehow "possessed" by a deceased person for the sole purpose of letting them grieve themselves through me (it's a million times worse than grieving your closest loved ones), but I accidentally became really good at it bc everyone I loved kept dying. 😕 People think it's awesome but it's like... Do you know how much it cost? To learn that through experience? The fact that I just started looking into QiGong (since trying to research anything regarding the spirituality of my tribe has been mostly erased by colonization wiping out our history) ,I literally JUST came to that conclusion; that if indigenous tribes and ancient Asian cultures, ancient African and seafaring cultures all had common ideologies and practices regarding communication with the earth, the elements, the universe, the animals, plants, rocks and stars, through ENERGY ... it can't be wrong. It's clear it's the only universal truth, where everything else is subjective. I wonder why it has been so shunned upon ? By colonization etc? I was actually looking into Qi Gong history bc I remember reading somewhere when I was a child something about Qi Gong practitioners being sent to torture camps or something. I really hope I am wrong about this , but I remember thinking "what could be so threatening about a spiritual 'yoga' practice that involves the mind and spirit?" 🤔 As I grow older, I start understanding more and more that a future built off of machines, lies, corporate greed, mass manipulation, and lower vibrations into a conglomerate hivemind would absolutely not welcome anyone that much in tune with the universe that their gut instinct will tell them not to follow the herd into slaughter. I do believe that is why colonizers wiped out so many indigenous peoples- they were afraid of what they didn't understand. And instead of saying "hey can you teach me to speak with the universe and move with it and let it move through me?" They decided to see it as a threat instead. 2- did you pick that shirt on purpose? (Bonus : I need more friends like you 😅 "good morning do you wanna go to the woods, be bears and shoot the shit?" I was gonna skip this video but I'm glad I didn't, I'm a fan now). 🎉

Totally, yes, we are chemical beings!

Haha, thanks for the encouragement! I've been meaning to get out there more. For some reason I have way more shyness around posting "talking" videos than physical demonstration ones ;P

@@TheNickLoffree - no way brother, you are a natural! Also, were you teaching at 1440 when it first opened?

@@TheGabagoolPatrol Yes I was! Taught there every week from opening day until COVID. Did you take my class? There another guy who kinda looks like me named Lewis who teaches Qigong there too - People confuse us all the time! haha

@@TheNickLoffree - ok, I thought so! I was there with the sounds true meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. So, I spent a total of almost a month there within the first year that 1440 opened, including that very first opening weekend, which was a total mass, ha ha! I’m not confusing with Lewis, I also remember him and I did take a class with him. While I never got to take a class with you because our schedule was so busy while we were there I did realize once I saw your picture that you looked very familiar and when I read your bio I was able to place that I must’ve saw you in passing at 1440. Anyway brother, I’d love to be able to take some classes and/or do a training with you in the future. You are awesome, I have enjoyed just discovering your channel recently. Keep putting your heart’s work out there, we need it now more than ever. Much gratitude. 🙏

They tend to differ slightly from school to school, but in that system it was bear, monkey, crane, deer, and tiger.

Indeed! Thought for sure i was getting eaten lol

I think neigong is qi gong specifically for neijiaquan

@@CursedCommentaries It’s not.

@@KelvindeWolfe oh lol