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Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC)

The Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC), founded in the spirit of the new millennium in 2000, by Dr. Roger Jahnke.

The Institute's Qigong and Tai Chi training programs make Qigong and Tai Chi enjoyable and accessible for everyone.

09/10/2025

Ancient Secrets of Qi Cultivation Accessible to All - The Healing Promise of Qi

Over thousands of years, the ancient Qi (Chi) masters discovered many treasures that we in the West are only now beginning to appreciate. They knew that the most profound medicine costs nothing; it is created naturally within the human body. Unfortunately, we in Western cultures have been slow to understand and use this extraordinary medicine.

Discover one of the world's most powerful healing arts: Qigong and Tai Chi, through Dr. Roger Jahnke's groundbreaking book The Healing Promise of Qi. Click here to learn more: http://www.feeltheqi.com/taichi_qigong/healing_promise.htm

Whether your focus is to heal yourself, help others, connect with nature, accelerate performance, maximize intuition and creativity, attain inner peace, or intimately touch the mysterious fabric of the cosmos, these ten phases, with their roots in ancient tradition of Qi cultivation, are tools with extraordinary power to release your inner potential. And, the good news is these practices are accessible to everyone.

Ten Phases of Cultivating and Mastering Qi

1. Discover Qi Practice "Forming the Ball of Qi"
2. Gather Qi "Gathering Qi from Heaven and Earth"
3. Circulate Qi "Inner Rivers Flowing"
4. Purify Qi "Clearing the Small Universe"
5. Direct Qi "Trace the Yin-Yang Channels"
6. Conserve Qi "Watching Clouds Pass"
7. Store Qi "Bathing the Marrow"
8. Transform Qi "Immortal Dragon Cultivating Golden Elixir
9. Dissolve in Qi "Dissolve Into Light"
10. Transmit Qi "Qigong Methods to Transmit Qi"

'The Healing Promise of Qi' unlocks the secrets of one of the most powerful of Chinese healing arts. Click here to learn more: http://www.feeltheqi.com/taichi_qigong/healing_promise.htm

09/09/2025

Calming Down Practice: Mindful Breathing for Anxiety

In this guided practice, Dr. Roger Jahnke demonstrates a calming movement sequence that emphasizes flowing hand motions synchronized with the breath.

The practice encourages slow, mindful movement and present-moment awareness—inviting participants to notice distractions without following them.

Looking for more simple and mindful practices?

We invite you to explore the Tai Chi & Qigong Way Free Library — a free membership filled with resources to support your health, vitality, and peace of mind. Click here to join: http://iiqtc.org/free

09/07/2025

The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body's Own Medicine

Health agencies have agreed that several diseases are preventable and adults do not get enough exercise and are, therefore, at risk for premature death.

"Body, Mind, and Spirit cooperate to produce the most profound medicine ever known in the history of the human race, right within you."
— The Healer Within by Dr. Roger Jahnke

Transform your personal energy for health, inner peace, and quality of life with the Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Program.

The Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library offers essential Medical Qigong practices for daily self-care based on our book 'The Healer Within.' Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

The program includes the following videos for streaming and download:

• Video Preparation Practice
• Video Movement Basket
• Video Breath Basket
• Video Self-Applied Massage Basket
• Video Meditation/Mindfulness
• Video General Practice
• Video Physiology of Qigong
• Syllabus Page
• Resources (PDF)

Dr. Roger Jahnke suggests that engaging in a brief daily Qigong practice can provide benefits that your body will appreciate. Feel the transformative power of Qigong as it nurtures your inner medicine, creating a sense of well-being that radiates throughout your entire being.

Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

09/06/2025

Discover Breath Medicine: A Path to Natural Healing

The breath is one of the most powerful tools for gathering, circulating, purifying, and directing inner functional resources. Learn more: https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/

In this video, Dr. Roger Jahnke introduces his program, Breath Medicine, and explores the deep healing benefits of breath practice.

He emphasizes that by simply adjusting the pace and depth of breathing, the human body can activate its most powerful internal medicine.

Dr. Jahnke has trained breath practice leaders globally and designed this program to include five breath techniques, the science behind their benefits, and insights from ancient traditions such as yoga, Chinese medicine, and global shamanic practices.

Click here to learn more about Dr. Jahnke's "Breath Medicine Program" which includes 26 videos, each is fairly brief and loaded with useful guidance and insight: https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/

09/05/2025

Unlock Your Inner Medicine with Qigong

In this clip, Dr. Jahnke explains that Qigong is a practice that helps us generate "medicine" within the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Unlike activities that require equipment or gyms, Qigong is simple, free, and can be done at home.

In Qigong, breathwork, movement, and self-massage are combined with a calm, undisturbed mind. By pressing on areas of the body, often where soreness is found, we can guide the body's own healing power.

Experience the benefits of Qigong for yourself. Explore the Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library and start unlocking your body's natural healing power today: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

09/04/2025

From Research to Practice: The Benefits of A52 Breathing

Breathwork is gaining scientific attention as a simple yet powerful tool for stress regulation and mental health.

A recent narrative review published on the National Library of Medicine (PubMed.gov) analyzed 30 studies on slow, diaphragmatic, and nasal breathing techniques, highlighting consistent benefits such as improved heart rate variability, vagal tone, emotional control, and reduced anxiety, cortisol, and PTSD symptoms.

From this evidence, researchers proposed the A52 Breath Method, a structured pattern of a 5-second inhale, 5-second exhale, and 2-second hold that integrates the most effective elements of breathwork into one accessible practice.

With its potential applications in high-stress professions and everyday life, the A52 Breath Method represents a promising, cost-effective approach to building resilience and emotional well-being, warranting further clinical research to confirm its long-term benefits.

Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40792649/

Research confirms what ancient traditions have taught for centuries: breath is medicine. In the Breath Medicine program, Dr. Roger Jahnke guides you in bringing this science-backed wisdom into your daily life in simple, practical ways.

Click here to see how conscious breathing can change the way you experience daily life: https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/

09/03/2025

Breath Medicine: Activate Your Inner Healing Capacity

"Breath medicine is life force medicine."
— Dr. Roger Jahnke

Your first act at birth is to inhale. Your final act in this life is to exhale.

In between, you will take an average of 672,768,000 breaths—that's 672 million, 768 thousand—if you live to 80. If you live to 90, that number grows to 756,864,000 breaths.

What if breath practice could transform those breaths into doses of inner medicine?

What you do between your first inhale and your last exhale has everything to do with your quality of life.

The intention of breath practice is to calm the mind and deepen relaxation, activating powerful effects on your neurochemistry. This enhances the body's innate mechanisms for self-healing, restoration, creativity, productivity, and inner peace.

The breath is the most powerful tool for gathering, circulating, purifying, and directing inner functional resources—known as Qi and Prana in ancient traditions, and as the body's natural homeostatic capacity in modern biological science.

Once you learn how to use Breath Medicine, you can continue to use it for the rest of your life—and share it with friends and loved ones.

Dr. Roger Jahnke offers a program, "Breath Medicine: Activate the Most Profound Medicine", to help you discover how to awaken the Medicine Within by simply modifying your breath. Learn more here: https://9mm4bsz2.pages.infusionsoft.net/

09/02/2025

Is Qigong and/or Tai Chi enough for daily exercise or do we need to do other exercises?

Dr Roger Jahnke answers...

Tai Chi and Qigong are gentle, low-impact practices that offer deep benefits, especially when done regularly. Qigong is accessible to those who are sick, fragile, or elderly, making it a wonderful daily self-healing practice. If you're healthy and strong, you might wonder whether you also need more strenuous activities like running or lifting weights. But in today's busy, overstimulated world, many of us are already running on empty. That's why practices that restore energy and calm the nervous system can be such a gift.

While cross-training with other exercise styles, or even adding something as simple as walking, can certainly be beneficial, it isn't always necessary. It really depends on your goals. Here, Dr. Jahnke offers a comprehensive perspective on this topic:

"According to Chinese tradition, Tai Chi and other forms of Mind-Body practice — Qigong — along with a healthy lifestyle are enough. Traditional thinkers in Chinese Medicine feel that Tai Chi and Qigong are sufficient for wellbeing sustainability — with right nutrition, right rest, etc.

One of my favorite teachers said both aggressive European/American exercises AND Asian calm exercises are very good.

But — if you have to choose one, choose Qigong and Tai Chi. I personally pursue some European style strength training plus Tai Chi and Qigong.

There are many experts from Europe and America that would argue that Tai Chi is not enough. Some experts from Asian would probably argue that Tai Chi is plenty.

Many American and European experts have been surprised at the benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong.

In the end it comes down to what you seek. All exercise produces fuel for metabolism and self-regulatory function.

In western style exercises the fuel gets spent to produce muscle - that is worthy. In Asian style exercises that fuel produces a kind of resiliency. Worthy too."

— Roger Jahnke, OMD

Discover the healing power of Tai Chi and Qigong by joining the Tai Chi & Qigong Way Free Library, an inspiring resource filled with videos, audios, and tools to support your wellness journey. Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/free

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-type-of-exercise-is-Tai-Chi/answer/Roger-Jahnke

09/01/2025

Seated Qigong Practice: Honoring Heaven and Earth

In this practice, Dr. Roger Jahnke guides "Honoring Heaven and Earth," a Qigong movement that balances upward and downward energy.

He explains that even a short daily practice can provide benefits your body will thank you for.

This brief seated routine can be done right at your workstation. Feel free to share it with friends and family.

Take the next step toward radiant health and longevity. Access more of Dr. Jahnke's teachings for free here: http://iiqtc.org/free

08/31/2025

Simple Facial Tapping Technique to Lift and Refresh Your Face

In this guided practice, Dr. Roger Jahnke introduces a simple "facelift" routine designed to refresh and energize the face.

The session begins by rubbing the hands together to generate warmth and activate Qi. He highlights common areas of concern such as smile lines and the corners of the eyes, noting that tapping these points helps stimulate circulation, release tension, and revitalize facial energy.

For more practices with Dr. Roger Jahnke, explore the Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library.

This comprehensive collection is more than just a set of videos. It is an instructional and training resource designed to support lifelong health and vitality. Inside, you'll find practical teachings that you and your family can benefit from for years to come. Learn more here: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

08/30/2025

What is mindfulness practice, and how does it impact mental health?

Over time, many people have turned to natural methods to ease anxiety and reduce stress. One approach that has gained increasing attention is mindfulness practice. The discussion paper "Mental Illness and Wellbeing: The Central Importance of Positive Psychology and Recovery Approaches" describes it this way:

"Mindfulness is a form of meditation which involves attending non-judgmentally to all stimuli in the internal and external environment but avoiding getting caught up in (i.e., ruminating on) any particular stimulus."

The paper states that mindfulness plays a positive role in improving mental health:

"The pay-off in terms of wellbeing is high. Mindfulness has the potential to lead to a reconstructed, more complex identity in which self and thought are separated. The development of a watching self gives a different means of responding to and working on experiences of mental illness. Developing habits of greater occupation of the available attention reduces rumination and increases being in the moment.

Overall, the personal qualities cultivated through mindfulness practice are nonjudging, non-striving, acceptance, patience, trust, openness, letting go, gentleness, generosity, empathy, gratitude, and lovingkindness - qualities which are highly relevant to the personal recovery journey of people with mental illness."

Interested in more articles on natural health and well-being?

If you liked this resource, sign up for a free Tai Chi & Qigong Way membership to get access to similar articles and resources on natural healthcare, including those authored by Dr. Roger Jahnke. Click here: http://iiqtc.org/free

Source: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-10-26

08/29/2025

From Stress to Serenity: Heal with the Healer Within

Practicing Qigong, the cultivation of your vital energy, is a way to support your optimum well-being and invest in your own health, healing, and happiness. You can heal your pain, reduce stress, become happier, healthier, more positive, more creative, and more joyful.

Have you tried it for yourself?

Transform your personal energy for health, inner peace, and quality of life with the Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Program. Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

The Healer Within Medical Qigong Video Library offers essential Medical Qigong practices for daily self-care based on our book 'The Healer Within.'

The program includes the following videos for streaming and download:

• Video Preparation Practice
• Video Movement Basket
• Video Breath Basket
• Video Self-Applied Massage Basket
• Video Meditation/Mindfulness
• Video General Practice
• Video Physiology of Qigong
• Syllabus Page
• Resources (PDF)

The Healer Within has been utilized in programs at hospitals, universities, corporations, social service agencies, school systems, faith-based institutions, the military, and more.

Dr. Roger Jahnke suggests that engaging in a brief daily Qigong practice can provide benefits that your body will appreciate. Feel the transformative power of Qigong as it nurtures your inner medicine, creating a sense of well-being that radiates throughout your entire being. Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

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