Qigong App

This app offers qigong instruction over video and follow-me audio practice sessions.

What is Qigong?

Qigong is the Chinese practice of aligning breath, movement, and awareness for exercise, healing, and martial arts training, extends back more than 4,000 years.

Qigong can be described as a mind-body-spirit practice that improves one's mental and physical health by integrating posture, movement, breathing technique, self-massage, sound, and focused intent. There are likely thousands of qigong styles, schools, traditions, forms, and lineages, each with practical applications and different theories about Qi (“subtle breath” or “vital energy”) and Gong (“skill cultivated through steady practice”). Source: National Qigong Association.

There are four dimensions of qigong practice: A relaxed and focused mind and body, breathing, movement, and self-massage and acupressure.

What are the benefits of Qigong?

Qigong and Tai Chi initiate the “relaxation response,” which is fostered when the mind is freed from its many distractions. This decreases the sympathetic function of the autonomic nervous system, which in turn reduces heart rate and blood pressure, dilates the blood capillaries, and optimizes the delivery of oxygen and nutrition to the tissues.

Qigong and Tai Chi alter the neurochemistry profile toward accelerated inner healing function. Neurotransmitters, also called information molecules, bond with receptor sites in the immune, nervous, digestive, endocrine and other systems to excite or inhibit function to moderate pain, enhance organ capacity, reduce anxiety or depression, and neutralize addictive cravings.

Qigong and Tai Chi enhance the efficiency of the immune system through increased rate and flow of the lymphatic fluid and activation of immune cells. Resistance to disease and infection is accelerated by the elimination of toxic metabolic by-products from the interstitial spaces in the tissues, organs, and glands through the lymphatic system.

Qigong and Tai Chi increases the efficiency of cell metabolism and tissue regeneration through increased circulation of oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the brain, organs, and tissues.

Qigong and Tai Chi coordinate and balance right/left brain hemisphere dominance promoting deeper sleep, reduced anxiety, and mental clarity.

Qigong and Tai Chi induce alpha and, in some cases, theta brain waves which reduce heart rate and blood pressure, facilitating relaxation, and mental focus; this optimizes the body’s self-regulative mechanisms by decreasing the activity of the sympathetic nervous system.

Qigong and Tai Chi moderate the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and pineal glands, as well as the cerebrospinal fluid system of the brain and spinal cord, which manages pain and mood as well as optimizing immune function.

Source: Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi

Why learn Qigong?

Simple to learn,

Easy to do.

Triggers physiological mechanisms which speed up natural self-healingSself-regulative responses which reduce need for medications and medical procedures.

Can be done by anyone; old or young, sick or well.

The Healer Within by Roger Jahnke, O.M.D.

Who created this app?

My name is David Burch.

I’m a former Information Technology Professional, turned certified Tai Chi & Qigong Instructor.

I am a Certified Teacher of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi Easy™, which is recommended by the National Counsel on Aging (NCOA).

I have attended over 500 hours of in-person, intensive training in Qigong and Tai Chi.

I’ve been interesting in Qigong since I was a teenager.

In midlife, I encounter two healing crises: First, my liver shut down. A few years later, I was diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease, formerly known as End Stage Renal Failure.

Striving to improve my health, I rediscovered Qigong and I’ve been practicing daily now for well over 10 years.