Basic-Training
Qigong teacher with Carsten Dohnke
During
17 months, 5 times 4 days in Brussels,
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www.qigong-training.info/en/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPuaNMit7qo
In
this practical 17-month training you will get an extensive overview about
different Qigong forms and styles. All styles work in a healing way for the
body, the mind and the soul. Every style has indeed its own centre of gravity
and thus displays a different working. While you practice different forms and
styles, the essence of Qigong, placed against a background of Taoism, will be
easier to access for you.
While the Shengzhen-Qigong with smooth, light movements opens our heart for love
and compassion, the Shaolin-Sehnen-Qigong strengthens the bones, teeth and body
power, helps Crane
Qigong us to come back to a condition of „Lightness of Being“,
while the Qigong of the Swimming Dragon works to rejuvenate, because it supports
the rejuvenation of the cells and strengthens the libido.
The
training includes a big practical part with Qigong and Meditation techniques,
the medical effects from the movements, basic concepts of Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) and basic knowledge of either Taoist as well as Buddhist
philosophy. You will receive an extensive tool so you can compose a suitable
exercise program for different target groups. For Carsten Dohnke the priority
lies in the high professional skills. He transfers this in a compelling, joyful
and enthusiastic way.
“To
pass this on, to learn this is a great gift and an investment for the future.”
Content
of the training:
Qigong
forms:
Shengzhen Qigong: the standing Kuan Yin form and healing Qigong I. and II., -
Crane Qigong, -Shaolin-Sehnen-Qigong – The Swimming Dragon (Qigong for
rejuvenation), - Qigong warming-up program, - basics of the Chinese Back school.
Structure
and energy work:
improving body posture, centralizing life energy, developing inner power, Taoist
Breath school, Taoist Healing, opening various meridians.
Visualization
exercises:
"Nei Guan" – the inner look (strengthening glands and organs),
opening of the small energy orbit, meridian meditation.
Meditation:
the „Teaching the Spirit“, heart meditation, silent meditation, Tantien
meditation, lying down meditation (for building up after exhaustion).
Chinese
Philosophy: historic background of Qigong, introduction in
Taoism, basic principles of Buddhism.
Medical
workings:
influences on the metabolism, inner organs, immune and nervous system.
Didactics
and motivation:
building the subject material and methods, motivation, tuition for various
target groups, structuring lectures, assembling flyers for seminars etc.
Recommended
is a complementary seminar in TCM: practice of TCM,
nutrition and applied acupressure with Dr.med. Weihua Dohnke. (We offer a
seminar with Weihua in the beginning of May 2009.)
Trainer/Teacher:
Carsten Dohnke, born in 1963, international certified instructor for Chi Kung,
Tai Chi and Meditation, has 25 years of experience with the Tao Practices. His
knowledge includes Chi Kung, Sexual Tao Practices, Inner Alchemy, Meditation,
Martial Arts (Kung Fu, Wushu, Tai Chi), ancient Chinese healing and the
fundamental principles of Chinese medicine.
He
lived for four years in Taiwan and learned the martial arts and meditation from
ancient Shaolin masters. Carsten is a Senior- & Inner Alchemy instructor and
for years now he is the assistant and translator for the well-known Tao Master
Mantak Chia (founder of the Universal Healing Tao System). He also is a loyal
student with Master Li Jun Feng (founder of the Shengzhen Chi Kung, Trainer of
the famous Beijing Wushu Team from the people’s republic of China).
At
the University of Hamburg he studied Chinese philosophy, with the emphasis on
Taoism and Buddhism. He completed his study with a scientific paper on the
“Chi in the ancient China”. To get a better understanding about the human
body, he focused his attention for 2 years on Anatomy, Physiology and
traditional Chinese medicine. Carsten has published several articles about Chi
Kung and Tao, expansive writings about his work have been published in Stern and
the Cosmopolitan and other magazines. At the time he occupies himself mainly
with the Practices of the Healing Tao and Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong (see
Shengzhen Chi Kung). Both systems supplement each other on many levels.
His interest goes mainly to the connection between movement and silent
meditation. In recent years his focus for working with energies has shifted more
and more to the opening of the heart and to a deeper understanding of
meditation.
Carsten travels often to Asia, to go and meditate in Thailand in Buddhist
monasteries or to visit, together with his wife Weihua, Chinese healers, Masters
or sacred places in China. Inspired by the close contact he has with his
teachers Carsten is trying to pass the essence of Taoism in a simple and lively
manner – adapted to the Western way of living. He teaches in Hamburg and
throughout Europe.
Certification
and Exams:
every participant in the training will automatically receive a participant
certificate. The exam for "Basic-Qigong-Teacher" consists of a written
and a practical part:
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The written part includes answering some questions about subjects like Qigong,
TCM, Taoism, building subject material, composition of forms etc. all as
homework. Later on these texts can be used as a tool for your own lessons, but
also as information for the students.
-
The practical exam includes following subjects: performing a Qigong form
(Healing Qigong or Kuan Yin form free choice) and the Qigong warming-up program,
mastering another form, test about the body structure and also about leading a
meditation or inner Qigong practice. Their will also be a questioning about the
basic knowledge of TCM (Theory of Yin- and Yang, the teachings of the Five
Elements, important acupuncture points etc..)
When:
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Module 1: 7-11/9/2011. Thursday 10:00
to 20:00 or 21:00, Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday
10:00-22:00, Sunday 10:00-17:00.
Movements/Forms:
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Shengzhen Qigong: the standing Kuanyin-form
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Qigong-warm up programme
Internal
Qigong:
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Force of the centre (Dantien)
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Inner Smile
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Zhontian-Meditation
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The 9 turns (laying meditation to build up strength after exhaustion)
Theory:
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ABC of Qigong
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The 4 basic principles of all the Qigong forms (Fangsong, Ziran, Anding,
Tianrenheyi)
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The history of Taoism
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The interaction with Traditional Chinese Medecine (TCM)
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Physical practice and internal Qigong
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Introduction to interaction between body and movements
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Important acupressure points and Chinese herbs to build Qi and blood
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Module 2: 4-8/1/2012. Thursday 10:00
to 20:00 or 21:00, Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday
10:00-22:00, Sunday 10:00-17:00. On
Wednesday evening 4/1 we start with a revision of the previous
course
19:00-21:00.
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Module 3: 27/4-1/5/2012. Saturday
10:00
to 20:00 or 21:00, Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday
10:00-22:00, Tuesday 10:00-17:00. On Friday evening 27/4 we start with a revision of the previous
course
19:00-21:00.
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Module 4: 12-16/9/2012. Thursday 10:00
to 20:00 or 21:00, Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday
10:00-22:00, Sunday 10:00-17:00. On
Wednesday evening 12/9 we start with a revision of the previous
course
19:00-21:00.
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Module 5: 2-6/1/2013. Thursday 10:00
to 20:00 or 21:00, Friday 10:00-18:00, Saturday
10:00-22:00, Sunday 10:00-17:00. On
Wednesday evening 2/1 we start with a revision of the previous
course
19:00-21:00. This weekend we also have our exam.
Cost:
You
can pay monthly, per module or in one go with a discount. Please indicate your
preference.
Rate
per module: 594€. (2970€ for the 5 modules starting September 2011)
….
2700€ when you pay in full before the end of March 2011.
….
5 payments, 594€ to be paid by the 15th of every month prior to a module.
….
18 x 165€ from April 2011 on, to be paid by the 15th of every month.
Location:
Chiness Centre, Graystreet 4, 1040 Brussels.
Information:
info@chinesscentre.be
or directly with Carsten in English or German
carsten-dohnke@tao-hamburg.com
and
www.qigong-training.info/en/
www.tao-hamburg.com
The
course is taught in English and translated into French or Dutch according to the
need of the group.
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Comments
of participants to the first training 2005-autumn 2006:
"It is an absolute new life feeling for me, being in contact with my own
center and inner power and at the same time standing in the world with an open
heart.“
"A
fascinating journey inside."
"I
didn’t expect that besides the technical learning of forms there would be such
a profound inner process, this has really changed my life positively afterwards.
The meditation aspect in the training especially has given me this year a lot of
power, peace and lightness. I was able to release a lot of my old life
patterns."
„Meanwhile
I notice my center very clear and I’m able to hold on to it. The feeling of
inner peace and security settles in quite quickly. I think often to the words of
Carsten: The Kuanyin form heals old trauma and the Crane gives strength to all
levels of emotions. …and I have never before directed cosmic energy so
passionately into my organs as I do now! I could feel how I was emotionally
growing up, I will follow my heart desires now and I will stand up for myself.
Also my middle age tantrums are behind me.“
"Wit
a lot of curiosity I started the Qigong Training with Carsten Dohnke. I was
interested for learning the exercises, which improve the sensation of the body
on the one side and on the other side also offer more psychic stability, harmony
and balance. During the training we learned that Qigong is exactly doing this,
but it includes so much more, it is part of the Taoism, it is a holistic concept
of life and besides the exercise it also teaches about nutrition, medicine and
healing, meditation, the working of natural forces and philosophy.
the training finds a really successful balance between the different Qigong
exercises, meditation and highly interesting, theoretical subject material about
Taoism. In Taoism you can find a lot of parallels with the modern discoveries in
physics (quantum physics, the origin of the cosmos and life, neurobiology). The
Taoism is able to put all these concepts in a holistic context. Carsten brings
it very clearly, easy to understand and in a smooth way, so you can enjoy to see
the world, if you choose to do so, in different pictures. All brilliant things
in life are simple, but it still is special to learn the basic ideas of Taoist
healing and adapt them.
So finally I did not only learn some beautiful but partly also demanding Qigong
exercises during the training (very important), but also that Qigong includes so
much more which can change us from our center (from which I have at the moment
only a slight presumption to be honest, during the training it has manifested
itself more and more though) and we still can learn a lot about ourselves and
our world view.
"Thank
you very much again for this wonderful training.
It has really taught me a lot, a lot more that I could think when I started
this."
"The
daily practicing since the Qigong Training gives me the power, the flexibility
and the resignation to participate even more in all the things of life. For my
profession my hands get even more inner power to help people.
Earlier I tried to achieve more flexibility with „normal gymnastic“ but this
always gave me more pain. My goal was to achieve stability by fixating a static
posture – but this restricted me more and more. I thought “I have to hold on
to my power” so it would be available for me – now I have notices that by
letting go of it, it is still available for me, even with more lightness then
before. "
“I
also had the pleasure of participating in your training group for Qigong Teacher
in the beautiful Yogacenter of Ilona Strohschein in Neustaft/Sachsen. It was an
enrichment for me on many levels, learning the forms – which sometimes brought
me to the border of my bodily possibilities – or your authentic transfer of
philosophy and wisdom from the far east, but also being together with you and
the group during many days. Thank you very much!"
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Qigong
and Cooking
What
do Qigong and Cooking have in common? Carsten Dohnke, Qigong Trainer from
Hamburg, surprised us with this comparison. In the spring in 2008 there will be
a unique training in
Frankfurt
under his supervision.
Qigong
means „The Art to feed your own life force “.
Practicing Qigong is similar to cooking. For a good meal I need various
ingredients, that can be mixed and that nicely work together. Then the meal will
not only taste good, but it can be adapted to everyone’s wishes.
In Qigong we distinguish three major “ingredients”: body exercises, working
with imagination and silent meditation. Through the combination of these we
develop inner power, the flow of life energy is activated, cells, organs and the
immune system are positively influenced and also all emotions like anger or fear
can be processed. On top of that Qigong establishes a mood of inner peace. If I
understand how these ingredients work together, I can easily find out what’s
wrong with me or others. This helps me as a teacher to build a seminar of guide
someone.
Qigong
is based on four principles, which explain how you best can „cook“:
1.
letting go and relaxing
2. find your own center
3.
be natural - which also means let go of excesses and cooperate with
the forces of nature and
4.
melting together with life – this last principle is the most important
one. This leads to more deep power and inner peace.
Qigong is part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine. If you understand the
principles of TCM – which is a large part of my training – it will
immediately become clear what the different forms and styles are affecting. On
top of that the effects from the exercises can be enhanced by using Chinese
herbs of special nutrition.
It
is not the method, but the human being that stands out. People that want to
learn Qigong, have different goals in mind. With other words: they order
different meals. If I understand the working of the ingredients and if I’m
also a good cook, I will not have to hang on to one single meal. In
China
a good cook not only serves what you have ordered. He sees from his guest what
this person lacks and like magic he works out an additional dish. This is where
the real art of Qigong starts!
