The Power of Taoist Arts

Improve your martial art, increase health and power through secret methods of changing intent, focus, and chi

Master Bruce Frantzis and Grandmaster Ly Hong Thai

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For the first time ever, Energy Arts is collaborating with another Daoist internal tradition for a special event presenting both tradition’s internal styles of Kung Fu, Neigong, and Martial Art applications. Each Lineage Holder (or Master/Grandmaster) will exemplify and teach their tradition’s martial art and the internal components that provide that martial art its power, health benefits, and chi cultivation: Neigong.

What is Neigong?

Handed down for thousands of years, the ancient Chinese Neigong (Nei Gung/Nei Kung) tradition of chi cultivation provides a systematic method for transforming body power into one integrated, unified, and dynamic whole. Offering immense benefits for internal and external martial arts practitioners, Neigong promises a body that can move better, faster, and with more strength and stamina. Since Neigong is what you are doing inside of your body with your mind and intent, with complete focus on internal processes and movement regardless of what external movements are being made, it is applicable to any bodily movement practice or martial art: karate, aikido, judo, yoga, pilates, other more advanced and developed arts, or simply weight lifting and exercise.

One of the reasons for developing Nei Kung is to strengthen the body’s internals, especially along the meridians, energy centers, and tendons so that it can be protected from energy/power whether it comes from the body, the universe, or an opponent. This would include energy from meditation and energy gathering, for those of you more focused on spiritual and health gains.

As Master Bruce Frantzis often states as an analogy…

“When you buy a fancy bottle of wine, are you buying it for the bottle or for the wine that is inside?”

Hopefully, the wine inside is good, and it’s not just a fancy looking bottle. Neigong is like the wine, and any external form or physical movement you do is like the bottle. The bottle is useful for holding the wine, but it is the quality of wine you are seeking.

Each of these traditions has comparable but somewhat different Neigong systems – the same core ideas with different flavors. Keeping with the wine analogy, it’s somewhat like a red cabernet sauvignon vs. a white sauvignon blanc.

Schedule:

Feb. 22nd and 23rd, Sat./Sun. - 10AM-12:30PM, 2-hour lunch break, 2:30-5PM

$272 Early Bird, $297 after Jan. 22nd, payment plan available

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Energy Arts Training Center, 1602 9th Avenue, Longmont, United States