The 5-Day Daoist Bigu (Fasting) Workshop with Dr. Chen in July

World Institute for Self Healing, Inc.

Daoist Bigu (fasting), a healing-longevity practice from China , may be your best investment in health, wellness and longevity

<ul><li>Do you feel your life is mixed up and can use a shut-down and restart?</li><li>Have you heard about mariculous stem-cell therapy, but cannot afford one?</li><li>Can you use a through detoxification for your digestive system?</li><li>Are you looking for an effective way to lose weight without side effects?</li><li>Do you want to slow down aging process with returned youth?</li><li>Are you looking for an affordable way to beautify your face and body figure?</li><li>Do you want to activate your self-healing potential to curb all chornic conditioins?</li></ul>Come join us for a five-day Bigu workshop to possibly achieve all of above....For the sixth year we continue offering the teaching and practice of an ancient Daoist practice — Bigu (避谷 energetic fasting) — online by Zoom, in response to the overwhelming demand for better health, wellness and longevity. This is probably the best way for you to invest in your own health and longevity through Bigu and mind-body integrative training.Daoist Bigu (避谷) has long been a tradition for health and longevity in Daoist &amp; Buddhist practice. There are many documented benefits from reduced calorie-intake and fasting, especially in terms of slowing down aging process, detoxifying body, cleansing digest system, and increasing bio-energy balance.The significant difference between Bigu and regular fasting is that Bigu is a skill or practice that you will not feel hungry without eating anything for a period of time......A recent research reported that fasting for 2 days could promote cell regeneration of the immune system. The 2016 Nobel Prize for medicine (Autophagy) supports the health benefits of fasting. A recent review of fasting studies in scientific literature <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413113005032" title="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413113005032" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">(Longo &amp; Mattson 2013, Cell Metabolism)</a> came to the conclusion that “fasting has the potential to delay aging and help prevent and treat diseases while minimizing the side effects caused by chronic dietary interventions.”Some recent studies (Cheng et al. 2014; Brandhorst et al. 2015) reported that fasting can regenerate the entire immune system, here is how: <a href="http://themindunleashed.org/2015/01/fasting-can-regenerate-entire-immune-system-heres.html" title="http://themindunleashed.org/2015/01/fasting-can-regenerate-entire-immune-system-heres.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://themindunleashed.org/2015/01/fasting-can-regenerate-entire-immune-system-heres.html </a>Brandhorst et al (2015) claims that “A periodic diet that mimics fasting promotes multi-system regeneration, enhanced cognitive performance, and healthspan.Dr. Michael Mosley made a documentary on “Eat, Fast and Live Longer” for BBC. Here is a link to view the entire documentary: <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms" title="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms</a>. It is not surprised that scientists have long been interested in the relationship between fasting and longevity.What?With years of personal experience and study of Bigu, Dr. Kevin Chen from University of Maryland School of Medicine will offer his unique teaching of Daoist Bigu. The class or workshop will teach (and practice) the following:<ul><li>The basic theory and principles of Daoist Bigu,</li><li>The Bigu mindset — how to synchronize with the higher power, the immortals, and Gods</li><li>Physical and mental preparation skills for Bigu fasting</li><li>Information leading to Bigu status (信息辟谷）</li><li>The specific techniques on Bigu, including turtle breathing, skin-breathing meditation, gulping Qi fasting (服气辟谷), Five-element Bigu Qigong, Exchange energy with the trees, and a set of fasting Qigong exercises</li><li>In-take fasting pill skills</li><li>Acupressure for fasting</li><li>Introduction to the health benefits of Bigu,</li><li>Scientific exploration of where energy come from during Bigu</li><li>How to assess if you are doing it right, and what to do if you feel very hungry</li><li>How to break the fasting (resume normal eating)</li><li>How to keep the positive outcomes after Bigu workshop;</li><li>Daily Q&A session</li></ul>Dr. Chen will share techniques on how to cleanse and purify your body, including your heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, and spleen, how to generate and practice Jing (essence), Qi (energy) and Shen (spirit) during Bigu fasting, and lead a daily qigong practice during the training; as well as explain where life-energy comes from when you are not eating food. Cleansing your body and blood of toxins with Bigu helps balance your energy! The class will not only make your fasting easier, but it will also inject some ancient wisdom on diet and detoxification into your daily life. With appropriate guidance and careful monitoring, Qigong Bigu or fasting can be a safe and effective way to encourage health and healing and increase the benefits of Qigong practice.When: July 16-20 2025 (Wednesday to Sunday)<ul><li>July 16 (Wednesday): 7:00 to 9:30pm EST -- Introduction, opening ceremony, teaching of Daoist Bigu qigong, Q&A</li><li>July 17 (Thursday) -- July 19 (Saturday): 9:30 to 11:30am (EST) Qigong practice; 7:00 to 9:30pm (EST) Lecture &amp; Q&A, key issues for Bigu practice. (note: we start later so that people from West coast can attend easily)</li><li>July 20 (Sunday): 11:00am –1:30pm (EST) -- how to break the Bigu, and how to maintain the positive outcomes and lifestyle modification.</li></ul>Note: (1) you have the option to start Bigu on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, depending on your schedule and availability; so Thursday morning qigong is optional. (2) if you have to miss 1 or 2 classes due to work or other commitments, we will have video-recordings of all classes available for late catch-up.Where: Online with Zoom PlatformYou can attend the workshop online, from the comfort of your home. You will need a computer (desk-top or laptop) with multi-media capabilities (camera, speaker and microphone) or an iPad (or other tablet) to attend the Zoom sessions and to see the Power Point presentations. If you don’t have computer, a smart phone can also be used. Please email to us if you have any questions on what is needed to attend the workshop online. Note: The conditions that may not be appropriate to go through energetic fasting (Bigu) at this moment:<ul><li>Those who is currently having mental disorders, or a history of mental illness.</li><li>Extreme physical weakness, or those who are so ill that cannot take care of themselves.</li><li>Patients with following severe symptoms: internal bleeding or vomiting blood, ulcer perforation, serious infarction particularly, severe heart disease and angina pectoris, severe kidney disease, and the stage 2-3 pulmonary tuberculosis.</li><li>The patients who have long-term use of insulin or epinephrine, or the liver, kidney and other organ transplant recipients.</li><li>Growing children (under 17) and adults with less than 85 lb. in weight.</li></ul>Please email Dr. Kevin Chen at Qigong4us at hotmail.com for more detailed information or any questions. Thanks!Group discount available upon request!For more Information: <a href="http://yang-sheng.com/?p=12394" title="http://yang-sheng.com/?p=12394" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://yang-sheng.com/?p=12529</a>