Book Release Tan Tien Qigong - The Second Brain and the Empty Force
Tan Tien Qigong is one of the most original Taoist Qigong practices and a fundamental practice in the Universal Healing Tao® system.
Tan Tien Qigong (also known as Qigong of the Second Brain) is the art of cultivating and condensing Qi in the lower Tan Tien, thereby increasing the pressure in this area.
According to the Taoist energy paradigm, the lower Tan Tien is the center of the body. It is both the main generator and storage location for Qi energy in the body, as well as the center of consciousness.
Tan Tien - the second brain
Taoists train this lower abdominal area as a second brain. In all Taoist practices, it is necessary for the student to first lower the upper brain into the lower brain. The student trains to become aware of the second brain so that the upper brain, which consumes much more energy than the lower brain, can rest when it is not really needed.
The lower Tan Tien is also called the “medicine field” or “elixir field” because it collects and contains the healing power of the original Qi or prenatal energy. Other names for this field are the ocean of Qi, the sea of energy, the cauldron, and the navel center. The terms “ocean” and ‘sea’ refer to the wave-like quality of qi. The term “cauldron” refers to the function of the lower tan tien as the main laboratory and center of inner alchemy, where energy frequencies are transformed. The lower Tan Tien serves as the source of life force or vital energy, which then becomes Qi, the source of Shen Qi or spiritual power/energy.
Tan Tien - an energy field
The Tan Tien is not a physical phenomenon, but an energy field of the subtle body.
It therefore has no exact physical location, but varies from person to person depending on gender, age, and life history. It functions in the area between the navel, the gate of life, and the sexual center, directly above the pelvic area.
In light of this, Tan Tien Qigong can be defined as an energy meditation or internal fitness practice that aims to improve a state of Qigong within ourselves by awakening, activating, and maintaining processes, rhythms, and transformations of energy in the body.
Tan Tien Qigong, one of the fundamental practices of the Taoist approach to health and self-healing, has its roots in a worldview that is deeply embedded in Chinese culture and science. In this view, humans, like all other living beings, are considered part of nature.
In all practices of Universal Tao—even the highest ones—Tan Tien Qigong is the key to opening the body and mind to a free, uninterrupted flow of energy.
Book Release Tan Tien Qigong - The Second Brain and the Empty Force
The eleven animal positions essential to Tan Tien Qigong, in combination with the special dragon and tiger breathing techniques, are described in detail in words and pictures in this newly published book. Grand Master Mantak Chia has thus developed a method for building up qi and qi pressure in the Tan Tien.
It is the art of cultivating and condensing qi in this area, thereby increasing qi pressure. We need these qualities to develop inner strength, grounding, and centering of body and mind as a basis for most Universal Healing Tao® practices, especially Iron Shirt, Tai Chi, and the Lesser Heavenly Circuit. In daily life, it makes us more focused, stable, and balanced.
Mantak Chia, Tan Tien Qigong - The Second Brain and the Power of Emptiness
105 pages, with numerous multicolored illustrations, Translation and revision: Gerhard Bächer.
Currently available in German as a print edition, soon also available as an e-book in English and German.