CURRICULUM

Scholarship
  • Text reading, line by line analysis of important passages and chapters
  • 黃帝內經 Huang Di Nei Jing, 淮南子 Huainan Zi, 管子 Guan Zi, 莊子 Zhuang Zi, 易經 Yi Jing and More
  • Access to multiple learning streams, theory, text reading, Jingluo Qigong, Neigong etc
  • Textual archaeology techniques, tools, and resources
  • Commentary, both modern and historical as well as completely new
  • Character studies, in-depth analysis of individual characters
  • Historical analysis
  • Modern research and universal correlates
  • Literature reviews of modern scholarship and findings
  • Optional quizzes and journaling exercises
Text reading

Direct examination of important passages and chapters through word by word translation and discussion.

  • Suwen
  • Lingshu
  • Huananzi
  • Guanzi
  • Laozi
  • Zhuangzi
  • Important passages
  • Chapter Modules
  • Recital
  • And more. 
History

Explore the society and context of the Neijing, its authors and its transmission down to today.

  • Warring states and Han dynasty
  • Huanglao Daoism
  • History of the Neijing Texts 
  • History of medicine
  • Archaeological findings
  • Modern scholarship
  • And more.
Theory
  • Yin Yang
  • Five phases
  • Art of number
  • Astronomy
  • Heaven and earth systemic correspondence
  • Jing Qi Shen
  • Channel theory
  • Neijing anatomy & physiology
  • Ecology/biology
  • And much more
Cultivation
  • Jing Gong, seated cultivation methods
  •  Zhan Zhuang standing meditation methods
  • Nei Gong inner skill methods
  • Qi Gong Qi skill methods.
  •  Jingluo Qigong
  • Partner work

Qigong

  • Standing meditation
  • Basic qigong
  • Developing and sensing qi exercises
  • Wu xing qigong
  • Partner drills
  • Medical Qigong

Jingluo Qigong

  • Basic neigong
  • Basic daoyin
  • Fourteen Channel patterns
  • Seated version
  • Stationary version
  • Moving version

Neigong

  • Wang Jiwu 16 Longevity Exercises
  • Dao yin

Meditation

  • Seated meditation
  • mindfullness theory

Text Recitals

  • Channel pathways
  • Important passages
Application

Physical Culture

  • Movement as medicine
  • Traditional methods
  • Modern development
  • Rehabilitation
  • Performance optimization
  • Treatment
  • Yang Sheng
  • Research

Jinshou Tuina

  • Structural therapy
  • Eastern Traditions
  • Western Traditions
  • Research

Moxibustion

  • Tradtional methods
  • Direct moxa
  • Modern research
  • Neijing Commentary

Silviculture, Horticulture & Agriculture

  • Neijing models
  • Trees as jingluo patterns
  • Gardening as Neijing science
  • Classical botany and natural science

Astronomy

  • Stars and planets as movement patterns
  • The moon and tides
  • Chinese astronomy
  • Western astronomy
  • Our place in the universe