A Gift From the Ancients: Why Train Daoist Arts?

This is Part Three of the Water Method series with Paul Cavel and Mir Ali.

Start with Part One:    • What Defines Water Method Training

In this third video, Mir and I drill down into the question: What is the point of training? We also discuss how the training progression as you develop skill with fundamental neigong (or internal power-development techniques).

We’ll tell you how to distinguish between true Water Method Daoist arts and other systems and how to embody neigong, including how to choose the right practices for you.

We also discuss how the practices help to take embedded tension and trauma, and release it a way that is healthy and stabilising.

We give our gratitude to Bruce Frantzis, who brought the lineage teachings of the Water Method to the West. We cover his training and our lineage lines in detail for bagua and tai chi for the sake of transparency, made possible by our teacher Bruce and his teacher, the Sage Liu Hong Jie (also Liu Hung Chieh), who reunited previously splintered teachings from Old Daoism, having a history of 4,000 years. We hope you find this information useful.

Please join us in sending gratitude to Liu, Bruce and all the lineage holders before them who made numerous, untold personal sacrifices for the benefit of future generations, for us today, to maintain the integrity of the pure and everlasting teachings of the Daoist oral tradition.

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Bagua and Tai Chi book by Bruce Frantzis: https://www.amazon.com/Bagua-Tai-Chi-...

Daodejing: The Oral Tradition: https://www.amazon.com/Daodejing-Oral...