Grounding

prevents
Chronic
Inflammation
Integrative Chi Kung helps prevent chronic inflammation by grounding. Your skin in general is a
very good conductor, so you can connect any part of your skin to the Earth, but if you compare
various parts there is one that is especially potent, and that's right in the middle of the ball of
your foot; a point known to acupuncturists as Kidney 1 (K1). It's a well-known point that
conductively connects to all of the acupuncture meridians and essentially connects to every nook
and cranny of your body.
When you're grounded there's a transfer of free electrons from the Earth into your body. And
these free electrons are probably the most potent antioxidants known to man. These antioxidants
are responsible for the clinical observations from grounding experiments, such as beneficial
changes in heart rate, decreased skin resistance, and decreased levels of inflammation.
Furthermore, researchers have also discovered that grounding thins your blood, making it less
viscous. This discovery can have a profound impact on cardiovascular disease, which is now the
number one killer in the world. Virtually every aspect of cardiovascular disease has been
correlated with elevated blood viscosity. It turns out that when you ground to the earth, your zeta
potential quickly rises, which means your red blood cells have more charge on their surface,
which forces them apart from each other.
This action causes your blood to thin and flow easier. It also causes your blood pressure to drop.
By repelling each other, your red blood cells are also less inclined to stick together and form a
clot. Additionally, if your zeta potential is high, which grounding can facilitate, you not only
decrease your heart disease risk but also your risk of multi-infarct dementias, where you start
losing brain tissue due to micro-clotting in your brain.
Reference: Dr. Oschman, widely recognized as an authority in the biophysics of energy medicine.

The practice of Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung can:

Accelerate metabolism, weight loss, and decreases need for sleep

Activates biomagnetism and sex energy

Aligns our bodies with the larger body for effortless flow of information

Balances neural activity, blood & lymph flow, and muscular contraction

Balances the flow of cellular intelligence and cellular metabolism

Benefits changes in heart rate

Bolster the Immune System by reducing Cortisol, known inhibitor of cytokine production

Corrects cumulative body structural displacement

Decreased skin resistance and inflammation

Enhance mental acuity, focus, and concentration

Enhance the functions of nutrition, immunity and tissue repair

Enhance the human respiratory system

Facilitates cellular communication throughout the living matrix

Harness the power of the energy facilitating spiritual growth

Help us to calm down, relax, become more peaceful and aware

Improve dexterity, reflexes, and has shown to prevent osteoporosis in clinical studies

Improve motion of blood, warm the blood and enhance whole body circulation

Improves coordination and coherent signals

Improves gravitational biology, joint alignment & structural integration

Improves oxygenation and vitality

Improves perineural connective tissue regulating neuron activity

Increase zeta potential or electrokinetic potential in the body cells

Increases cell growth, DNA & protein synthesis, and cell respiration

Increases density of collagen fibers in all body tissues

Increases functions of flexibility, movement and strength

Increases Theta healing brain wave (4-7Hz)

Influences cellular immune function

Open arteries allowing greater brain-based microcirculation to prevent Alzheimer's

Prevent chronic inflammation

Promotes all neurological responses

Promotes balance of sympathetic-parasympathetic nervous system

Provide body facial structural support & protection: enhanced tensegrity

Provides collective electromagnetic coherent pulse for self-healing

Provides progressive alignment to body and gene structure

Red blood cells have more charge on their surface, which forces them apart from each
other. This action causes your blood to thin and flow easier. It also causes your blood
pressure to drop.

Reduce Alzheimer's disease

Reduces DNA damage and mutation functioning as Anti-Aging strategy

Speed up tissue repair and ease muscle pain

Stimulate appetite, sexual function, assimilation of nutrients, digestion and elimination

Thins the blood, making it less viscous, reducing cardiovascular disease risk

Benefit
o

Bones, Muscle & Tendons Systemincreases muscle and tendon strength as well
as overall flexibility

Central Nervous Systemswitches the autonomous nervous system from the

stress-related 'fight or flight' mode of the sympathetic branch over to the
restorative healing mode of the parasympathetic branch

Skeletal Systemincreases bone strength as well as overall flexibility; generating

better posture for the spine with half the amount of bone loss and more flexibility

Respiratory Systemincreasing the oxygenation of the blood in the lungs, deepbreathing restores normal pH balance to the blood, while movements improve
delivery of the oxygen tot the cells, significantly enhancing the overall respiratory
efficiency and oxygen saturation, as well as swapping oxygen and carbon dioxide

Sensory System

Endocrine System

Circulatory Systemdramatic improvement in the blood circulation throughout

the body, particularly microcirculation in the brain, extremities, and deep tissues
of the vital organs

Digestive Systemenhancing digestive secretions, saliva, stomach secretions,

intestinal fluids

The Organs

Immune Responseactivates the innate healing mechanism known as

psychoneuroimmunology mediated by positive biofeedback between the nervous
system and the endocrine system

Acid/Alkaline balance (pH)balances the pH level of the blood, digestive juices

and other bodily fluids

Free Radical Scavengerlaboratory analysis show an increase of superoxide

dismutase (SOD), one of the most important free radical scavengers, by 50%

THE
IMMUNE
SYSTEM
The immune response involves white blood cells called lymphocytes. The most important are B
and T cells. Each B and T cell is programmed to recognize and respond to one specific protein,
called an antigen. Different antigens are present on cell membranes. When lymphocytes
encounter their specific antigens, they bind in a "lock and key" manner and destroy the cell.
B cells respond by transforming into antibody-secreting cells. Their antibody binds to the
antigen, causing its destruction. Some B cells remain in circulation, carrying the memory of that
antigen. T cells respond by transforming into helper, cytotoxic, or memory cells. T helper cells
help B cells change into antibody secreting cells. Without helper T cells presenting antigens to a
B cell, the B cell does not respond.
Cytotoxic T cells act alone, without B cells. The cells destroyed by cytotoxic T cells are those
infected by a virus or a cancer cell changed by mutation. T cells can become memory cells and
remain in the circulation for years, ready to respond again if their antigen should appear. The first
time B and T cells are exposed to a specific antigen, the response takes weeks. If re-exposure
occurs, B and T memory cells respond immediately to destroy the invader.
Normally, the immune response is well controlled. If not, autoimmune disease may occur, and
self-antigens may be attacked.
ANATOMY
OF
YOUR
RESPIRATORY
SYSTEM
Oxygen is a necessity by all living organisms. Your metabolism, or burning of nutrients, depends
on the oxygen we breathe. It releases the energy needed to grow, reproduce, and maintain life
through many reactions. What we breathe out is a waste product formed by the combination of
carbon from food and oxygen during the metabolism process, also formally known as carbon
dioxide. Your breathing is accomplished through the functioning of your respiratory system. Your
respiratory system is your apparatus for bringing in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide and
water vapor. We take 15-18 breathes per minute, 960 times per hour, 23,040 times per day,
8,409,600 times per year and more than 590 million times by age 70.
Your respiratory system consists of the nasal cavity, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), trachea
(windpipe), bronchi, and the most known one, the lungs. Now, when the process of breathing
begins, air is taken in through the mouth and nose up through the nasal cavity. Breathing through
your nose is best for you since it has a layer of hair in it. This collects any dust or other particles
keeping them from reaching your lungs. After the air has traveled through your nose and mouth
it all comes together in a point of your throat called the pharynx. At this point there are two
routes, one for food and one for air.

CULTIVATING
THE
RIGHT
MIND
FOR
PRACTICE
Right Mind is one of the basic precepts taught by the Buddha as a way to end suffering and
achieve spiritual liberation. Without the right attitude and a wholesome outlook on life, no
practice in the world can bring you peace of mind, physical health, happiness and longevity.
There is a very strong tendency today to believe that everything can be accomplished entirely
through science and technology, modem medicine and diet, physical exercise and various other
external methods, without the slightest consideration for the most important factor of
allconsciousness.
One of the main purposes of Integrative Chi Kung is to cultivate right energy as a functional
basis for "right mind". When our energy systems are deficient and imbalanced, clogged with
stagnant energies, obstructed with toxins and tensions, and out of tune with the forces of nature
and the cosmos, not only does this cause physical disease and degeneration, it also

Above, the Joyous Lake.

Below, the Creative Heaven.
When Yang energy is allow to grow,
fulfillment and true achievement result.

gives rise to mental distress and emotional imbalance. When your energy is pure, strong and well
balanced, so are your body, emotions, mind and spirit. On the other hand, since "spirit commands
energy", it's equally important to cultivate spiritual virtue as a basis for energy work.
As we already know, spirit is the ultimate authority in the human system, and therefore it has the
power to overrule energy. Thus a conscious effort must be made to cultivate spiritual virtue as a
basis for practice. No matter how much energy is harvested from the universe and how well it is
cultivated within the human system, if the human mind deviates from the path of wisdom and
compassion paved by primordial spirit and defies the universal laws of nature and the cosmos,
then energy will heed the same deviant call and manifest the same delinquent activity, for energy
always follows the intention.
Positive thinking includes one's entire outlook on life and cultivates an optimistic point of view,
precluding the cynical attitudes and dark pessimism which have become so fashionable these
days. All too often people discount positive thinking as mere "wishful thinking", because they're
afraid to trust the power of spirit and unwilling to cultivate "right mind" as a basis for life. There
is, however, a tremendous reservoir of transformative power locked inside the mind, and the key
to unleashing this power is a positive attitude towards life. What this basically means is that your
energy is capable of accomplishing whatever you believe it can do, for "spirit commands
energy". A positive attitude always propels energy in a positive direction, and "right mind"
naturally guides energy the "right way."

All true Integrative Chi Kung masters make a strong point of teaching their students that their
ordinary behavior in daily life sets the tone for their entire practice, and that private practice and
public life can never be separated. If you truly understand and accept the view that all
phenomena in life reflect the interplay of universal energies and that all relationships are
governed by the interaction between the personal energy fields of the individuals involved, then
you must realize the truth of the statement that 'no man is an island'. In terms of energy, there are
no concrete boundaries between objects or between people, because all energy fields radiate
outward infinitely, and therefore they ultimately intersect with everything else in the universe.
Thus, if half the people on the planet are suffering and unhappy, that negative energy is bound to
affect the rest of the people on the planet, whether they are aware of it or not. Unhappy minds
project unhappy energies, and unhealthy bodies generate unhealthy energy fields, and those
energies and fields broadcast a miasma of misery out in all directions, producing a planetary pall
that ultimately affects everyone else in the world. Building high walls and installing steel gates
around your home may keep out burglars and protect your material possessions from theft, but
they won't keep out the negative energy of other people's misery nor protect you from its
negative influence.
According to this view, greedy, selfish behavior towards others is always counterproductive
because it causes others to project negative energy that bounces back and harms the perpetrators
of greed. Similarly, whenever we help others and make others happy, we thereby also help
ourselves and make ourselves happy, because the happiness we bring others with our helpful
behavior is projected straight back to us from their minds.
Even if we cannot bring ourselves to be overtly helpful to others, at the very least we should
refrain from being harmful and thereby avoid invoking the negative impact of others' enmity. If
we go one step further and actually go out of our ways to help others, we then earn their
everlasting gratitude. Gratitude and enmity are very different qualities in terms of the type of
energy they generate and project on to others. If you earn the enmity of enough people, there is
no question that the cumulative effects of the negative energy they project to you will have a
strongly negative impact on your life, just as the energy of gratitude can be of tremendous
benefit. This point goes beyond moral considerations: it's a basic fact of life, a universal principle
of energy, and therefore an important point of practice.
It is due to the primacy of energy in life that human relationships provide such fertile ground for
training in energy work. This is especially true of personal family relationships, in which
emotions come into play. As everyone knows, the Chinese put great stock in family relationships,
viewing the family as a microcosm of society, the state, and the entire cosmos. The energy
dynamics between parents and children and among siblings is a training ground for how personal
energy is expressed in the world at large. Relationships between teacher and student, master and
disciple, were also regarded as sacred, because the teacher or master taught younger people how
to harness their instinctive animal energies to serve the higher purposes of Heaven, Earth and
Humanity. All such relationships in life may contribute valuable lessons in Integrative Chi Kung
practice, and all the precepts of balance and harmony which govern Chi Kung may be applied
with equally beneficial results to human relationships.

Perhaps the most important element of all in cultivating the right mind for life on the path of
spiritual practice and energy work (Shen Kung) is love. Love, in the altruistic sense of selfless
unconditional compassion for others, seems to have gone completely out of style in the modern
world, and few people today attribute the rapid decline in human health throughout the world to
the absence of love. It is not an accident that all of the world's great religious and mystical
traditions consistently stress the overriding importance of love. The great martial artist Chang
San-feng, who is credited with developing Tai Chi Chuan six hundred years ago, summed up his
entire approach to life by saying, "Therefore, to those who want to know the way to deal with the
world, I suggest, Love People."
This is not a goody-two-shoes, pie-in-the-sky moral injunction to be a nice guy or girl, but rather
a very basic lesson in energy work and spiritual power. The universe from which we harness
power when we practice Integrative Chi Kung is a living organism with spirit, and that spirit is
guided by wisdom and compassion. All of our energy comes from the universe and ultimately
returns to it. In order to fuel our lives, we borrow as much energy from the universe as we need,
or as much as our practice permits, but in order for it to work positively for us, universal energy
must be utilized in accordance with the other two universal virtues with which it is inseparably
linked at its primordial sourcewisdom and compassion. In this pragmatic age of science and
technology, people are prone to overlook the power of love, but it doesn't take much vision to see
very clearly that science and technology, which can be said to represent energy unbridled by
love, have certainly brought neither health nor happiness to the world. If love were taken
seriously as a guideline for utilizing energy, then atomic energy would never have been allowed
to be used to produce weapons of mass destruction. This may seem obvious, and perhaps naive,
but the fact remains that love is the best safeguard against the deviant use of energy, and spiritual
self-cultivation is the best way to understand how wisdom, love and energy are inseparable
triunal virtues that must always be cultivated together.
KOJOSHO

Crane

Kojosho is one of many systems said to derive from the Southern Shaolin that traces
its lineage back to Hua-T'o, the Chinese philosopher, acupuncturist, herbalist, and
Chi Kung doctor. Hua-T'o lived in the third century and is credited with the creation
of a series of exercises based on the movements of animals. The discipline of the
animal postures, breath, and mind was regularly recommended and practice for
strengthening deficient Jing, Chi, and Shen.

The Dao Yin Tu postures silk relic from the King Ma tomb

The Shaolin monks worked Hua-To's original five animal movements adding more
animal and element movements creating the Eighteen Lo-Han PosturesShi-PaSho. The Eighteen Lo-Han Postures were said to be both a means of physical culture
and an effective fighting arta combination of health benefits to the physical,
emotional, mental and spiritual bodies and self-defense applications in the same
exercise.
The original five animal movements create a set of systematic Dao Yin physical training known
as the Wuqinxi (Five Animal Play). These five exercises mimic the various movements and
gestures of the Deer, Bird, Ape, Tiger, and Bear. The initial goal of these five exercises is to help
the practitioner improve his or her health and counteract disease by opening the channels in order
to cultivate Essence (Jing), Energy (Chi) and Spirit (Shen). Each of the original Five Animals
relate to a specific internal organ, function and/or system, for example:

The Deer form stimulates and strengthens the function of the Liver and Gall Bladder,
strengthens the head, brain, spinal cord, and the central nervous system.
The Hawk form stimulates and strengthens the function of the Heart and Small Intestine,
nerves, sensory system, motor system, the sympathetic nervous system, the lower
extremities, the tendons, gallbladder, and liver yang improves balance, opens the joints,
relieves congestion and helps cool the body.

The Monkey form: stimulates and strengthens the function of the Spleen and Stomach,
head and skull, upper back, neck, and shoulders in particular and the joints in general.

The Tiger form stimulates and strengthens the function of the Lungs and Large Intestine,
digestive system, the spleen/pancreas and stomach, the female reproductive system, the
feet and legs, and subcutaneous tissue.

The Bear form stimulates and strengthens the function of the Kidneys and Urinary
Bladder, develops rooted power, strengthens the bones, and helps warm the body.

Kojosho works a series of exercises based on the Eighteen Postures (Shi-Pa-Sho). Oral Kojosho
tradition maintains that the Eighteen Postures of Kojosho are derived from the Eighteen Postures
of the Shaolin as taught at the Cai Ji Quan (Kojo Family Dojo) in the port city of Fuzhou, Fukien
Province China.
The core training involves two primary features: the first being the solo-form, a slow sequence of
movements which emphasize a straight spine, relaxed breathing and a natural range of motion;
the second being the two-man-form or pushing-hands a styles of pushing hands for training the
reflexes through various motions from the forms in concert with a training partner in order to
learn timing, distance, intersection, leverage, and coordination and positioning when interacting
with another. Pushing-hands is necessary not only for training the self-defense skills, but by
demonstrating the forms' movement principles experientially.
The solo-form takes the students through a complete, natural, range of motion over the body's
center of gravity, the lower Dantian. Accurate, repeated practice of the solo-form retrains
posture, encourages circulation, opens energy chakras, maintains flexibility through joints and
further familiarizes students with the martial application sequences implied by the forms.
The International Kojosho Karate Federation is directed by Dr. Fred Absher, Hanshi , Rank: 9th
Dan. This organization has twenty-seven clubs located primarily in the western United States and
representatives in fourteen countries. In 1973 Dr. Fred Absher was named Captain of the United
States team to the First World Tae Kwon Do Championships in Seoul, Korea.
Dr. Fred Absher was officially inducted into the Taekwondo Hall Of Fame in the most
prestigious event in United States Taekwondo history in April of 2007.
SHI-PA-SHO CHI KUNG
Grace is the economy of motion
Shi-Pa-Sho translates as Eighteen Postures originally created by the Shaolin monks in China
based on the observation of animal motion as they evolved in the survival of each species.
Conscious training of the Eighteen Postures teaches us to move with this graceeffortless
beauty.
Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung training is intended to teach awareness of one's own energy balance. It
creates an appreciation of the practical value in one's ability to moderate behavior and attitude at
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. This applies to effective self-healing principles
maintaining health, beauty, endless youth and spirituality.
Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung studies the application of Yin/Yang energy flow in the internal body as
well as the surroundings. Chi Kung is, in literature preserved in the oldest schools, said to be a
study of yin (receptive) and yang (active) principles in all thingsfemale/male, passive/active,
dark/light, yielding/forceful. As yin (dark) grows inside yang (light), yang grows inside yin. The

eternal change creates/becomes its opposite. Internal Chi Kung is the practice of gathering
energy, where external Chi Kung is the practice of projecting energy. Internal Chi Kung is selfhealing, where external Chi Kung is healing others.
In ancient Daoism, the Dao creates Yin and Yang, which in turn give birth to further subdivisions
of Yin and Yang, manifesting as four phases of universal energy (Great Yang, Lesser Yang, Great
Yin and Lesser Yin). These four phases of universal energy form the energetic bases of the
Prenatal and Postnatal transformations, manifested in the form of eight
energetic actions. The eight energetic actions (also known as the Bagua
Trigrams) act as a template for all creation and can further be manifested
through the ever-changing energetic form of the 64 Hexagrams of the
Yiling (I-Ching).
The later symbol for Yin and Yang (which became popular in the Song
Dynasty) still expresses the energetic concept of the Dao transforming into
Yin and Yang. However, unless an individual has received competent
instruction, the subtleties are easy to overlook.
Taiji
Successful practitioners who train and master the art of balancing the
body's Yin-Yang energies were considered "Tian Shen" or "Xian,"
meaning "immortals." They were able to harmonize the body with the mind, the mind with the
will, the will with the breath, the breath with the spirit, the spirit with motion, and finally, motion
with the surrounding environment (Earth), the universe (Heaven), and the divine (Dao).

Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung, as it is practiced in the West today, can perhaps best be thought of as a
moving form of Yoga and Meditation combined. There are a number of forms which consist of a
sequence of movements originally derived from the natural movements of animals. Similar to
T'ai Chi, they are performed slowly, softly and gracefully with smooth and even transitions
between them.

Chi Kung Instructor Miguel Sarria

UCLA August, 2007

One of the aims of Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung is to foster the circulation of this Chi within the body
enhancing health and vitality. This Chi circulates in patterns that are related to the chakras,
nervous and vascular system and thus connected with that of the practice of Acupuncture, Pranic
Energy Healing and other oriental healing arts. Activating the Chi opens all the body's chakras
allowing the release of congested energy and replenishing them with fresh clean energy.
This techniques foster a calm and tranquil mind, focused on the precise execution of these
exercises. Learning to execute them correctly provides a practical avenue for learning about
balance, alignment, fine-scale motor control, rhythm of movement, distance, timing and
intercession. Thus the practice of Shi-Pa-Sho Chi Kung contributes to a better body posture,
cleaner energy and overall health. Furthermore, the meditative nature of the exercises is calming
and relaxing in of itself. It develops lean muscle and sinew, nourishing the internal organ.
The meditative state produces a remarkable reaction in the hormonal system. Instantly, the
alkaline enzyme chyle is released throughout the body via the lymphatic system. Chyle alkalizes
the the body, strengthens every muscle, and organizes the thought processes. This will make you
both relaxed and empowered. The chyle enzyme is, in my opinion, the major alkalizing substance
created in the physical body.
Breathing exercises Nei Kung are designed to develop Chi or "breath energy" in coordination
with physical movement and the form postures, and combinations of the two. These forms were

formerly taught only to disciples as a separate, complementary training system. In the last 50
years they have become better known to the general public.
PRINCIPLES OF MOTION ECONOMY
Use of the Human Body

The two hands should begin and complete their motions at the same time
The two hands should not be idle at the same time except during rest periods

Motions of the arms should be made in opposite and symmetrical directions and should
be made simultaneously

Hand and body motions should be confined to the lowest classification

Momentum should be employed to assist whenever possible to reduced muscular effort

Smooth continuous natural motions of the hands or body are preferable following the
shortest distance from point A to point B

Ballistic movements are faster, easier, and more

accurate than restricted (fixation) or "controlled"
movements

Rhythm assists a smooth and automatic performance

HEALTH
BENEFITS
Recognizing that the body heals itself is the basis to
understanding that enhancing the flow of Chi by opening the
chakras promotes any and all healing process.
The Norman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at
UCLA studied the effects of regular T'ai Chi practice on a
group of older adults who carry the Varicella virus. The virus is
left over from chickenpox and causes shingles in one of five
adults when their immune systems weaken with age. The group
was separated in half, and one half was given tai chi instruction
for two hours a week.
T'ai Chi is an offshoot of Integrative Chi Kung and operates on
similar principles. It is often more complex with some forms
containing over one hundred-eight movements, and is
generally geared for martial arts applications. T'ai Chi usually
takes more time to learn and to become proficient.

Chi Kung Instructor Miguel Sarria

UCLA August, 2007

The results of the study will not be surprising to those who have seen the abundant literature and
research on the incredible health benefits of Chi Kung and T'ai Chi. The T'ai Chi group, before
taking a Varicella vaccine, showed a positive immune response comparable to younger adults

who had taken the vaccine. After taking the vaccine the tai chi group's immunity continued to
improve by 40%, reaching nearly twice the strength of the non-tai chi group.
This rigorous new study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. It is the
first of many more to come that will examine health benefits of T'ai Chi. The LA Times reported
on it here and the National Institutes of Health reported on it here.Researchers have also found
that long-term Integrative Chi Kung practice had favorable effects on the promotion of balance
control, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness and reduced the risk of falls in elders. The studies
also reported reduced pain, stress and anxiety in healthy subjects. Other studies have indicated
improved cardiovascular and respiratory function in healthy subjects as well as those who had
undergone coronary artery bypass surgery. Patients who suffered from heart failure, high blood
pressure, heart attacks, arthritis and multiple sclerosis have also benefited from Integrative Chi
Kung and T'ai Chi.
Integrative Chi Kung and T'ai Chi reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
The gentle, low impact movements of these practices surprisingly burn more calories than
surfing and nearly as many as downhill skiing. Integrative Chi Kung and T'ai Chi has clearly
boosts aspects of the immune system's function very significantly, and has been shown to reduce
the incidence of anxiety, depression, and overall mood disturbance.
A pilot study has found evidence that T'ai Chi and related Integrative Chi Kung helps reduce the
severity of diabetes.