Introduction
I dedicate the growth, development and training of the Lotus Tree as a school to my master Professor Wang Tin Jun, Taoist and Qi Gong Master who died December 09.
Professor Wang was my much loved teacher and is a huge influence on my own cultivation and therefore the Lotus Tree School. His teachings and training approach to practice remain a core principle of the Lotus Tree.
The curriculum is structured in an interlinked way allowing students to find the start, intermediate and advancing points of practice through a constant flow of repetition at different levels.
You can decide how best to train long term and what suits your learning curve. The curriculum includes ongoing weekly, monthly, 2 day weekend and evening reviews of material in Qi Gong and Nei Gong Arts, Text Study and Life Practice , Structure/Alignment and Rooting, Solo Cultivation, Outdoor Practice, Retreats and Private tuition
Health and Recovery
The material starts with the basics of health, strengthening the vital organs and understanding the subsidiary systems they govern within the body from a Chinese medicine point of view.
This information and my approach allows you to diagnose yourself, understand your conditions, what to do about it and how to go about it.
The aim is to develop a home practice for you to take charge of any health issues you have.
A self developed practice allows you to build a practice uniquely suited to you rather than a conveyor belt type of generic medicine where the approach is "one medicine suits all". My experience is it doesn't.
Everybody has unique hidden issues that need uncovering and my experience with my own heath and in my field suggests there is no-one better to uncover those needs than you yourself.
Life Practice, Talks, “Shen Qi”
There is always a section of "Shen Qi", talks based on the background philosophy of Taoist thinking and practice that influence Chinese medicine, body work, internal arts and meditation.
This is to get you to understand the principles of life practice.
How best to work with your bodies in the worlds you live in with the responsibilities and pulls on you, a sort of a practical guide to how to adapt and use your life circumstances optimally rather than run off to a mountain, shave your head, wear orange robes, live in a cave or light incense sticks! Taoist principles are very much about working with what you got.
Related Internal Arts Study for Tai Chi and Martial Arts Practitioners
The work is also relevant for people wishing to further develop their internal arts in Ta Chi and martial arts and related training.
Training in this way of qigong will explore on how best to bring out your own art /cultivation by looking at the principles of soft power through correct body alignment, balance, use of compression and energy emission.
One of the real teaching aims of the Lotus tree is to support growing self intelligence in the process of studying. Students tend to mill around the Lotus Tree curriculum! Many advanced students come to beginners' classes for review. Beginners get to see developing cultivation by contact with advanced students, private students graduate to class practice and class students take private sessions. Some do significant hours on weekends; some stay with taster classes while cultivating slowly from home; some do regular 4 hour Saturday stints once a month; others enjoy the 3 day residential retreats.