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Wednesday 24 October 2012
Guo Lin Qi Gong
It was the autumn of 1984.
Every morning at 6am a small group of foreign students left the university to cycle the Zizhuyuan (Purple Bamboo park) where they practiced Tai Ji.
Winter and summer, regardless of the weather (it
could be as cold as -20C
or as hot as + 40C,
with exceptionally strong winds blowing and making the cycling hard) they would
get on their bikes and go...It would take them about 1/2 to cycle to Zizhuyuan
park, surrounded all the way by hundreds of cyclist, mostly Chinese, on their
way to work. Invariably someone would ride next to us to ask us to 'practice
English'.
Every morning at 6am a small group of foreign students left the university to cycle the Zizhuyuan (Purple Bamboo park) where they practiced Tai Ji.
Winter and summer, regardless of the weather (it
could be as cold as -20C
or as hot as + 40C,
with exceptionally strong winds blowing and making the cycling hard) they would
get on their bikes and go...It would take them about 1/2 to cycle to Zizhuyuan
park, surrounded all the way by hundreds of cyclist, mostly Chinese, on their
way to work. Invariably someone would ride next to us to ask us to 'practice
English'.
At that time, most Chinese thought that all foreigners spoke English, and tried
to make friends with 'gao bizi' (high noses) and learn about life in far away
foreign countries. The Cultural Revolution had ended a few years earlier and China was
undergoing a process of reconstruction.
In early 1986 a young woman, cycling next to me, started the usual conversation: " Do you speak English? Can I practice with you?" For some reason I felt I would like to talk to her: she was full of dignity, strong and vulnerable and, at the same time, eager and hopeful.....Suspecting a denial, she begged me to, at least, go to the ' English corner'. English corner? This is how I came to know of the existence of a place in the same park where both Chinese and a few foreigners gathered to learn English in exchange of some proper and meaningful conversation in Chinese. I went along and liked it!!!!!
It was after one of these meeting that Yang Ping, my new Chinese friend, told me that a group of people who practiced therapeutic Qi Gong was also meeting in a specific area of the same park. She guided me to the place where they met and introduced me to the teacher, asking that she allowed me to join her class.
In early 1986 a young woman, cycling next to me, started the usual conversation: " Do you speak English? Can I practice with you?" For some reason I felt I would like to talk to her: she was full of dignity, strong and vulnerable and, at the same time, eager and hopeful.....Suspecting a denial, she begged me to, at least, go to the ' English corner'. English corner? This is how I came to know of the existence of a place in the same park where both Chinese and a few foreigners gathered to learn English in exchange of some proper and meaningful conversation in Chinese. I went along and liked it!!!!!
It was after one of these meeting that Yang Ping, my new Chinese friend, told me that a group of people who practiced therapeutic Qi Gong was also meeting in a specific area of the same park. She guided me to the place where they met and introduced me to the teacher, asking that she allowed me to join her class.
This is how I first became acquainted with the Guo Lin Qi Gong, a form firmly based on the ancient principles, and specifically designed by Guo Lin to help people with very serious, possibly terminal, diseases.
They accepted me, after much praying and convincing as, at that time, it was believed that all foreigners in China wanted .. .to steal the treasures of the Chinese people (中国人的寶貴). It had been on these grounds that other masters had firmly refused to take me in as their student (:
At the beginning they patiently taught me, but kept their distance, whilst watching me: how serious was I? Did I respect that most of the other students were, in fact, very seriously ill patients? Was I willing to train hard and consistently, and keep getting up at 5am and cycle all this distance even when the terrible Siberian winds blew against the direction of my little bike?
It took a
long time before they started opening up and even longer before they started
seeing me as a member of this large family, despite the fact that all of them
were sick people and I was a young and strong foreigner.
In time, I
would share with them the joys of many recoveries and the sorrow of some
losses.
I kept going there ‘till I left China at the beginning of the Tian An Men events, in June 1989.
I kept going there ‘till I left China at the beginning of the Tian An Men events, in June 1989.
Although, I have learned many other forms of Qi Gong during my 4 years in China, and many more later on during my almost yearly visits for more than 20 years, there are times when I especially love to work with and teach Guo Lin Qi Gong for its effects on preventing illnesses, shifting stuck Qi and helping helping releasing pathological changes.
AOM teaches also Guo Lin Qi Gong.
Classes: the new beginners class will start at the beginning of December
For more information:
- Check our website: www.tcm-edu.gr regularly to learn the date and time of the next class and then
- register for the upcoming class by writing an e-mail to iinfo@tcm-edu.gr, leaving your name and e-mail.
- For further info. call 693 2212 281 Monday to Friday 9 - 10:30am and 5:00 - 6: 30 pm (please note that for administrative reasons, registration can only be done online)
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