May classes reminder

Apr 28, 2026

Hi guys, this post is just a quick reminder about the may classes and amazing 50% off sale!! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Here are the details:

1: Modular Qigong: Interaction of Aura and Body:

This program will meet over the course of the first two Saturdays in May and cover the interaction between the first layer of the Hun Yuan Qi field with the interior body in the context of Qigong with inspiration from Daoist practice.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/suvoji

2: Two views of the Daoist Energy Body: Top to Bottom and Bottom to Top:

This four week pre-recorded course will delve into pre and post Tang Dynasty conceptions of the energy body in Daoist practices with an emphasis on the early system which builds the energy body from the upper to lower body and the Neidan and Yangsheng Qigong view that the energy body is better built from bottom up.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/vijwn

3: Internal Alchemy of the Dao De Jing Chapter 7:

In this course you will learn the Dao De Jing from the perspective of textual analysis of the original text, three of the most famous annotations (including Huang Yuanji’s Dao De Jing Chan Wei, the only Neidan annotation of the Dao De Jing) and modern Chinese analysis of the text. Since the Dao De Jing is the first and most important Daoist text, we will try to understand it more deeply in order to improve our practice.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/oxnzqg

Here is what the sale is about:

In preparation for my trip to China I’ve decided to put on a sale of eight of my courses at a steep discount of 50% so if one of them is interesting to you, now is your time to take advantage of a good deal (sale links at the bottom of the page).

Course ads:

1: Modular Qigong: Integration of First Aura Level and Body:

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/suvoji

Pang Ming put forward the idea that the energy field around the body consists of three parts:

proximal: the nearest section of the Qi field to the body, it is the part that directly interacts with the tissues on the body surface and allows Qi to travel back and forth between the inner body and area directly surrounding it.
Medium distance: this area extends in the area less than a meter outside the body and reflects the extension of Qi into the environment and how Qi approaches the body.
Long distance: this section extends farther from the body and can be conceptualized both as beyond arm’s length and even farther, it represents the extreme point of the field where it is weaker, but can be modified through practice to become stronger.

Although many people know how to practice these fields, they may not be well acquainted with the physical relationships between various points in the field with the actual body. In short, as the field goes farther it corresponds to deeper places in the body and it is important to train the Qi field in both directions, leaving and returning to the body.

In this two week course we will learn how to practice the first layer of the Qi field using the opening and closing movements of Zhineng Gong and put a special focus on developing the meridian and cavity infrastructure associated with the specifics of the field at its most proximal level.

You will learn:

Practice section:

the movements of the Zhineng Gong opening and closing routine (3 -5 minutes to perform once and can be repeated several times),
Where to place your attention when you practice in order to sense and absorb the Qi field into your body,
Daoist pore breathing made popular by Chen Yingning (a method of sitting in forgetting which directly adjusts the exit and entering of Qi on the body surface).

Theory section:

How the Qi field enters and exits the body during practice,
activity of Jing Well points and special points at the end of fingers in activating the six meridians of the arms,
Use of the palms to regulate blood flow to the hands and improve circulation,
How to transfer Qi from the Sheng Que point to the Ming Men in order to gradually open the spine,
How to adjust the Du meridian and central channel by combining Dao Yin and visualized intention,
Opening the Qi from the Bai Hui in order to achieve “pushing the energy to the peak” an important standard in Zhineng Gong.

The course will include video instruction and two meetings on Saturday 2^nd and 9^th on ZOOM to discuss theory.

Here is the information about the class:

What: Modular Qigong series, developing the Qi field and its relationship with the body interior and exterior.

When and Where: recorded materials and meetings on Saturday 2^nd and 9^th May from 8 – 9 AM New York Time.

What’s included: video lessons, lectures and PDFs.

How much: $60 USD for the program.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/suvoji

2: Two views of the Daoist Energy Body: Top to Bottom and Bottom to Top:

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/vijwn

There are three models of Daoist inner cultivation which can be broadly defined as:

Physical movement and breath work,
Visualization,
Internal alchemy,

These practices are related, but have different conceptions of the energy body related to the difference in practices.

In this four week pre-recorded course we will learn the theory and practices of the energy bodies of visualization and Neidan including practices for both.

Content will be uploaded Mondays starting May 3 around 8 PM Eastern (Maybe earlier some weeks).

The schedule is as follows:

Week 1: Establishing the goals of Daoist energetic practice:

before you practice you have to understand what you are trying to do, how Daoists thought about inner cultivation, the role of Jing, Qi and Shen, and what different Daoist schools believe immortality is. We will look at these subjects relative to the visualization school and the Internal Alchemy school. Our focus on visualization will center around materials from the text Yun Ji Qi Qian, a famous compendium of Daoist practices collected during the Song Dynasty, but who’s documents are from much earlier. Our Neidan view will be based on the small and large heavenly orbit model made popular by the Wu Liu and related schools.

Week 2: Visualization, why the mud ball is the commander:

many visualization approaches in Daoism start from the “Mud Ball” another name for the brain and work downward in the body. We will investigate how these practices work and use two popular visualizations from Daoist texts as our methods to investigate this approach.

Week 3: The Yellow Court Model, visualization and Neidan:

Another model of visualization begins from the umbilical area and moves outward. This approach was made famous in the “Yellow Court Classic” and is also frequently referenced in Neidan materials to explain the function of the Dantian.

Week 4: Neidan small and large orbits:

Neidan follows a unique reverse course of practice in which the lower body is used to send Qi to the upper body through the communication of water and fire. In this section we will learn the nature of this “rising and descending” skill and discuss how the lower, middle and upper Dantians work in the small and large orbits.

Course information:

When: recordings released four Mondays starting from May 3 around 5 PM.

What: a pre-recorded program about different models of Daoist energy practice, especially focusing on top down and bottom up models.

What’s included: recorded classes including theory and instruction as well as PDFs,

How much: $150 USD.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/vijwn

3: Internal Alchemy of the Dao De Jing Chapter 7:

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/oxnzqg

chapter 7 of the Dao De Jing reads:

“天長地久。

The heavens are long, the earth is lasting,

天地所以能長且久者，以其不自生，故能長生。

Heaven and earth are long and lasting because they do not generate themselves,

thus they can be long generated.

是以聖人後其身而身先；外其身而身存。

This is why the sage puts their own body last and the body comes first,

puts the body outside and the body is always contained.

非以其無私耶？故能成其私。

Could it be that because they have no personal motive they are able to achieve their motive?”

In this program we read the Dao De Jing chapter by chapter and analyze it according to:

Week 1: Situating the chapter:

We read the chapter character by character so we understand the basic Chinese writing, then we discuss the meaning of the chapter relative the the realities of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period when the Dao De Jing was written. This gives us a good balance to understand the text as social philosophy in its original context rather than only viewing it as a spiritual or self help document.

Week 2: Early annotations:

We read the Wang Bi and He Shang Gong annotations of the chapter in order to understand how the Dao De Jing was viewed early in Chinese history. These documents teach the metaphysics, some practice related topics and general philosophy of Daoism.

Week 3: Dao De Jing Chan Wei:

the only Neidan oriented Dao De Jing Annotation, the Chan Wei especially focuses on developing pre-heaven energy by adjusting Jing, Qi and Shen in order to experience the Single Opening of the Mystery Gate.

Week 4: Modern Chinese perspectives:

We read the annotation used on the website 5000yan.cn a popular Dao De Jing analysis page which gives us perspective on what present day Chinese scholars believe to be true about the text.

We don’t take a position about which interpretation is ultimately right, instead our goal is to advance understanding of the Dao De Jing as a multi-faceted text which can be applied across a number of conditions. This ultimately not only teaches us Neidan, we also learn how to understand Daoist views of life, society, and the ever changing political realities of Medieval China in relation to our present world. I believe the Dao De Jing has great wisdom and have been working with it in detail for many years. I’m happy to share this evolving research with you.

You can join for any chapter you want and all the programs will be available in the future, so there is no pressure to sign up for every course when they happen. Having said that, the benefit of joining the live classes is that we can chat about the meaning of the text together and learn from each other.

Details:

When: Four Sunday mornings starting May 3 from 8 – 9 AM New York Time (we are moving earlier than past classes since I am changing time zones and don’t want to disturb my son while he is sleeping).

Where: online meetings in ZOOM, videos and texts available on gumroad after class.

How much: $100 USD for the month.

Get it here:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/oxnzqg

Sale!!

Click the links to get 50% off selected courses and support my trip to China!!

Three approaches to beginning Neidan:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/threeapproaches/b8izlnr

The Wonderful Dual Gate:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/dualgate/0uv66vj

Three Treasures of Jing, Qi and Shen:

https://immortalitystudy.gumroad.com/l/sanbao/7qp1apu