Medical Qigong is one of the Four Branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Practitioners of Medical Qigong Therapy first train to enhance their own life-force energy (Qi), and later learn to sense and directly influence the Qi of another person, in order to bring about a state of health and vitality.
The principle underlying the teachings is the Dao (the natural Way of the Universe), the Theory of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, and the relationship of Heaven, Earth, and Man. We hope that through these teachings, we can support and inspire our students and patients to live in harmony with their True Nature, and utilize their talents to maintain balance in their lives.
Medical knowledge exists in order to alleviate the pains of humanity, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. While the principle purpose is to enable students to obtain the academic and clinical knowledge to be a successful practitioner of Chinese Energetic Medicine, it does not stop there. The curriculum encourages the philosophy that through the healing of oneself, one can understand how to heal others. The emphasis is placed on the cultivation of one’s True Self and the comprehension of human nature.
This special instruction includes special Daoist Medical Neigong (Internal Skill), Qigong (Energy Skill), and Shengong (Spirit Skill) training.
Medical Qigong Practitioner (MQP) Certification Program (200hrs)
Medical Qigong is a complete system of medicine that recognizes the root causes of a disease and treats the patient as a whole. As with all the branches of Chinese Medicine (Medical Qigong, Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, & Tuina Massage), healing occurs through balancing Qi or electromagnetic energy which surrounds and pervades all living beings.
The goal of the Medical Qigong Practitioner is to correct these bio-energetic imbalances and blockages. This allows the body to strengthen the internal organs, the nervous system and the immune system, relieve pain, regulate hormones, and release deep-seated emotions and stress.
By mastering the skills to affect the different levels of the energetic world, we create a powerful ability to heal many diseases.
The Medical Qigong Practitioner (MQP) training is a certification program designed to teach the application of Medical Qigong Therapy through academic learning and hands-on experiential training.
Students will learn both personal cultivation and the clinical applications of Chinese Energetic Medicine.
Program Overview
As Qi is something that needs to felt on an experiential level, we emphasize individualized personal instruction that offers students a hands-on approach, allowing the energy to be felt through and be embodied into an experience.
We learn the analytic as well as an intuitive approach to reading and treating the energy body so that we may take this information and build our own personal encyclopedia of the human energy system that could be applied to anything we do.
The experiential aspects of the course are well balanced with a solid theoretical foundation. Training in the ancient and subtle energetic wisdom of Chinese Medicine, we learn skills of diagnosis and treatment by experiencing different exercises, meditations, and hands on instruction.
Program Curriculum
(See the Syllabus for MQP Certification Program)
Broken down into five 30 hour segments (150 hours of workshop + 25 hours of externship + 25 hrs of personal practice), the MQ Practitioner (MQP) Certification Program is based on the curriculum that has been established at the Medical Qigong College at the Hai Dian University of TCM and used clinically at the Xi Yuan Medical Qigong Hospital in Beijing, China.
The training’s foundational information and clinical practices have been acquired and organized by the International College of Medical Qigong (Dr. Bernard Shannon) and the International Institute of Medical Qigong (Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson).
The Chinese Ministry of Health honored this curriculum in 2005 as meeting the Chinese standards for academic and clinical instruction. This was the first time a foreign Medical Qigong curriculum has been approved by the Chinese government (Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education), and its academic standards and clinical protocols formally accepted by a Traditional Chinese Medicine University.
P1 – Introduction to Medical Qigong and Self Cultivation (30hrs)
The first segment is designed to introduce the students to energetic Anatomy and Physiology, energetic Embryological Development, and basic theories of energy tonification, purgation, and regulation of the body’s internal organs and channels. In this session you will learn a set of Qigong exercises to strengthen your body and immune system, regulate the internal organs, nervous system and hormones, relieve pain, and regulate and release deep-seated emotions and stress.
P2 – Introduction to Medical Qigong Treatment Protocol (30hrs)
The second segment is designed to introduce the students to the Medical Qigong treatment protocol. Students will learn further theories of energy purgation, tonification, regulation and cultivation, as well as techniques used to avoid absorbing Toxic Qi while treating in a clinical environment. Students are led through a series of advanced Shen Gong (Spirit Cultivation) meditations and exercises, used to develop advanced intuitive diagnostic skills.
P3 – Clinical Foundations of Medical Qigong Therapy (30hrs)
The third segment is designed to give the students a deeper comprehension of the body’s energetic matrix as it pertains to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Disease, Diagnosis, and the Medical Qigong Clinic. The focus will be placed on integrating clinical Qigong modalities, advanced assessment, sound therapy, advanced Qi emitting techniques (including Invisible Needle, Energy Ball, etc.), and the development of the practitioner’s ability to vibrate energy in order to break stagnation.
P4 – Treatment of Organ Diseases & Medical Qigong Prescription Exercises (30hrs)
The fourth segment is designed to introduce students to the advanced theories and clinical modalities of internal organ treatment, as well as the Medical Qigong exercises and meditations prescribed as homework in the Medical Qigong Clinic. In this session students learn specific protocols to treat disease of the internal organs (Liver, Heart, Lungs, Spleen, Stomach, and Kidneys).
P5 – Clinical Theatre, Internship, and Final Examination (30hrs)
The clinical segment offers theoretical and practical exams as well as exposure and firsthand experience of Medical Qigong diagnoses and treatments. It will be the culminating event for the certification program. The student will experience different aspects of energetic dysfunctions and symptom manifestations. The instructor will guide and evaluate in all phases of diagnosis and treatment during the Clinical Theater and Internship phases.
Additional Requirements
A clinical externship logging 25 documented treatments and 25 hrs of personal cultivations are required for graduation.
Who is this For?
The MQP is open to anyone wanting to know more in-depth about energy anatomy, whether for personal cultivation or to incorporate into existing healing practice. This program is not just a mental learning that is applied in only one dimension—many will experience life-changing insights and gain the tools needed to effective get through life situations and healing for self and others. This is a truly transforming experience learning to master the life force all around us.
At the end of the Medical Qigong Practitioner (MQP) level training, you have the option to receive a signed certificate from Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson from the International Institute of Medical Qigong.
We also offer advanced trainings in Medical Qigong:
-
- Medical Qigong Therapist (MQT): 500hrs
-
- Masters in Medical Qigong (MMQ): 1000hrs
- Doctor of Medical Qigong (DMQ): 2000hrs
Schedule
Fill out the form below to be informed of upcoming classes and/or for any questions.
