I am a Quaker first. Silence and meditation are central to my spiritual life and have been for 50 years .(82 yo). I have enjoyed George's programs and luck at having discovered tai ji early in life. I practice various qigong daily Liu zi jue, ba duan jin and tai ji short and long forms. Movement is key to the successful practice of qigong. Tao te jin inspires. thanks for bringing Ken back into my awareness.
Look the absolutely stillness that Ken Cohen maintains, so steady and alert. Looking at him is a lesson in itself, completely together. Watching Ken and mirroring his stillness is so illuminating. Amazing how he transmits meaning whilst staying so still.
32:30 I've only been doing Qigong for a few days now and it doesn't surprise me at all: it's a lot more involved than walking! 37:30-44:00 in these few days of practicing qigong from *youtube* videos (not even "real" training) and I have already felt an improvement in my thinking, suppleness of my mind, my focus, my reaction time, my coordination, my digestion, my emotional aliveness, my intention (I made a list today and actually stuck to it--unheard of for me).
thank you so much for your comment! i used to belly dance and dance a lot and its a lot of work. i also took some Qi Gong in massage school when i studied Acupressure and it was great preparation for massage work. ive been working a lot but not exercising and getting into tai chi and qi gong again using RUclips videos. hey, no shame because they are FREE and easy to do ANYWHERE even in your business clothes. just started again this morning and my mood has skyrocketed! definitely need to move body and keep energy flowing because life is constantly in motion and being sedentary is actually against the laws of nature because nothing ever stays still. yes its more involved than walking. Its been 2 months since you posted this comment, how has your practice been going? Writing a journal of progressing or making a list like you did is inspiring to track progress and be grateful for the transformation. I am listening to subliminals and affirmations while doing my exercises. Also look into a rebounder as well as its great lymph and really good and to do chi gong while bouncing. God Bless in good health.
I read Ken Cohen's book but this is the first time I see/hear him talk. What an incredible person, so much culture, so much peace. Wow. Thank you for a beautiful interview.
Dear George, there is a great Qi Gong and Martial Arts Shifu in Austria/Graz by the Name of Oswald Elleberger. He went to China when they openend the country, spent decades to learn in China and now is an old gentleman, who can still outpunsh the youngsters & seems levitating and gliding over this planet, when he walks 😅 Maybe i could Help you reach him for an interview, since I got connections to him. Pleas let me know. All the best from Graz, Austria
Just watched a few minutes in and found this standing out to me: "Qi Gong is the minimum effort you need to accomplish a task and not a bit more!" Thanks!
Thank you so much. I get so caught up in my bodybuilding and it takes away so much time and I notice I'm neglecting creative activities, literature and soft arts because I constantly think I have to be outside walking or working out in the gym. Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff🙏🏻
“Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff”. So so brilliant!! I was a workaholic who burned out completely and still struggling to get back on my feet from the shock. Everyone pays in the end
You're so right. I have the opposite problem: I have difficulty getting enough exercise sometimes and my main focus are the arts and more calm ventures. I really liked this explanation. I liked how he spoke about not being snobbish or thinking you're better because you practice qi gong and not regular exercise. Some spiritual people also adapt that sense of thinking they're on a higher level because they're less focused on the physical. It is all about balance. A stable mind in a fit body.
الطاقه بالمفهوم الفلسفي الغنوصي التي يؤمن بها أصحاب الديانات الشرقيه بحسب العلم ليس لها وجود فعلي وتبقى من العلوم الزاءفه وأنه لاوجود فعلي حقيقي إلا لطاقه الفيزيائيه التي تم رصدها وتسجيلها من قبل علماء الفيزياء وعلى سبيل المثال لا الحصر الطاقه الكهرومغناطيسية واحده من تلك الطاقات في الكون .أما ما بداخل المرء لاتعدوا كونها قدرات حيويه حينما تتم ممارسة بعض الرياضات البدنيه بمتعه وشغف فإن الدماغ يفرز عديد الهرمونات الحيويه التي تلعب دور مهم في أحداث التوازن الذهني والجسدي والنفسي للمارس مع جعله يتماثل لشفاء مما الم به من علل .
On attaining emptiness @45:00 ish... When someone talks let their words run through your mind, instead of your own thoughts. Sit by a stream or stand where you are and absorb your reality. If by a stream, let the sound of the stream run through your mind like the words of a lover, who pats your head as you rest it on their lap. Feel the density of the air, is it thick and about to rain? Feel the shade upon you, without thinking an internal monologue about the words you would use to describe it to someone else, simply feel. Observe how many sounds you can hear and where they are, what they are, without labelling what they are, simply experience the way the frequencies of its existence is detected by your sense organs. Feel the sensation of the colour red as it hits the cells at the back of your eyes.
气功 - qì gōng - skillful work with qi 養生- yáng shēng - nourishing life 明 - míng - brightness 聰明 - cóngmíng - modern term for clever, intelligent 神明 - shénmíng - very ancient term for spiritual illumination, said to arise from the heart-mind Love that he covers qi gong as life practice, and the notion of cultivating our body intelligence. . . May come back to complete the glossary. . . great work
Wow…Ken Cohen‘s talk is beyond knowledge…i got goosebumps several times and brought tears to my eyes as well…thank you George for bringing him here and had just a beautiful conversation. You effort is really appreciated
This is a great interview. I learned a lot. I am going on a year in December of my Qi Gong journey. I love Kenneth’s insight of the mitochondria being Dan Tien. I love it. Powerful interview. 😊😊😊
George I bought the his book " the way of Qi Gong" . I saw the incation in the master Gu page. The book is wonderful thank you. I intend to do the Master Gu program in july when I When I finish the postgraduate course I'm doing
Spent time learning Taoism/Buddhism at a Temple - in London - with a Master of Feng Shei. Now a qualified ta chi Instructor who teaches. Really enjoyed this chat George. Learnt something! Cultivation is key.
Oh my goodness! Such a treasure of knowledge! Thank you, George, for offering us the opportunity to know Kenneth Cohen. Listening to him describing Qi, I could identify it with Kundalini. It is such a relief to realize there is only one Reality with different names. Namaste 🙏 🙏🙏
Personal opinion but I don’t think they’re the same. Kundalini is described literally as a serpent and chi is simply life energy. I would never follow yoga as a serious pursuit as well as mind meditation as I think they’re spiritually dangerous for most westerners. I go to yoga once a week and never say “namaste” at the end
In Classical Chinese texts they talked about individuals of virtue as having "big chi" (Dà Qì 大氣), a sort of nourishing presence that filled the room. Generally the presence is calming and helps those in it feel closer to their Self. . . . Not to give it a description haha
Thanks both of you. English is not my language so I’m learning qigong and English quite at same time, it’s not easy for my brain …so I really appreciate this conversation because you both speaks slowly enough, I’m able to understand but its not just “basic” on surface as you go deeper… I especially enjoyed Mr. Kenneth Cohen deep and soft, grounding voice and yours beautiful smile. Wish you a beautiful day 🙏🏼🪷🐉
Thanks so much for the interview with Ken Cohen. It was refreshing/ inspiring to listen to someone talk about this practice who has deep experience and knowledge
I purchased Ken’s book back in 2020 and it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me and my wellness fitness facility. Wonderful interview and a great service to humanity. You are both national treasures. Cheers from California.
Yesterday I had an operation, I was speaking to a nurse and he mentioned about Qigong being a key influence on his life. I believe the power in that conversation brought me to listening to this through Universal energy. Thank you for helping me uncover and discover beyond the words. I feel blessed that the operation blood clots were removed but the initial reason varicose vein removal. It’s not by chance, thank you George, Kenneth and everyone reading this.
Thank you so much for sharing this, and I’m so glad to hear that your operation went well. It’s truly beautiful how those conversations can lead us to deeper connections. Wishing you a speedy recovery and continued strength on your journey! 🙏✨
Hi George,great interchange with great sifu Ken wich I did notknow,I appreciate very much his infinite knowledge like the infinite tao, thank you very much to both of you,for your effort to spread this beautiful practice,☯️☯️☯️🙏from Sardinia,have a good day 👏
@@thesobrietyplaybook 😁🤝 and The Force runs strong with you too i see my friend 🖖 ☯️ i bid you good luck on the beginning of your Spiritual & Healing Journey🍀May The Force be with you😁
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Thanks George for sharing your greatest findings with us and spreading the ancient knowledges! Very glad to see your channel is growing and more people get benefit from it. :)
Wow, this is amazing. So grateful I found this. Very interesting at around 57mins regarding the dan tiens. I had been taught shen was related to heart middle chamber. Everything was very clear in explanation. 😊🙏☯️
33:333 11/3/23 My girlfriend at that time and myself were living @119N 20th st phila penn in 1981 where we saw information about a weekend seminar with Kenneth Cohen in NYC at a college on sat 8 am -4pm and sunday dito. He gave us a light blue stapled book on Xerox paper explaining the seminar information. I still practice regularly. Taoist institute and Sanctuary, Netherlands, Colorado. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hi George and thank you so much for bringing all this knowledge here on youtube! I've been following you for a while, came across your channel when I was also going through a lot of existential anxiety and I absolutely love it, it's such a gift to be able to be transported to Master Gu's presence but also to view everything from the lens of a very relatable and open person (you)! This is the first time I am commenting here, as I was particularly drawn to the concept of linking the ancient Eastern practises of Chi Gong to some of the slightly more open minded efforts of western science. I happen to have spend many years (in London) doing a PhD and researching in cell biology and genetics and I loved the parallel between the mitochondria and the Chi! I've been thinking about such parallels for a while now, more I guess for personal reasons of wanting to reconcile my training with all these incredible new things that I've been scratching the surface of on eastern practices. I think you would love a podcast series by Andrew Huberman, if you don't follow him already, he has several episodes and has done some research with his group in Stanford on characterising in a cell and molecular level the impact of certain breathing practices. Thanks again for your channel! Eleni
* I should clarify, by more open minded efforts I mean that historically western science and medicine have been dismissive of eastern practices, for many reasons, some of which include western science being build on a capitalist framework that centres pharmaceutical interventions, but that is a whole other conversation :) Recently, there have been some slightly more progressive efforts in eg understanding how the "placebo" effect works and trying to address the idea of mind over matter. In this context, the impact of Eastern practices has been studied with a slightly more open mindset
I studied integrative medicine with a naturopath and acupuncturist, and some of his life's work was in making these correspondences as precise as possible. In the more modernized "traditional Chinese medicine" (Actually an amalgamation of traditions in that came together in communist China as an attempt to fit the conventional western mode) there are different kinds of vital substances, and chi is just one of them. Qi is often equated to the nervous system and the functions of an organ(What innervates the organ); and yang with metabolic function and warmth (in this case of organs it is the arterial blood flow; and it is also mitochondrial activity; which plays into the breakdown of fuel of which a byproduct is warmth). You might like the channel I started with him; where we go into some of these correspondences. . . . This is one of the biomedical and anthroposophical correspondences to the vital substances in Chinese Medicine ruclips.net/video/oD5RPY0bWIM/видео.html e.g. Liver Chi (how is it's ability to circulate water and nutrition, and to detoxify); vs. Liver Yang (how is blood circulation to that particular organ, and mitochondrial activity within it) Of course in Chinese medicine we measure the quantity and quality of these substances through the pulses tongue, channel diagnosis and the assessment of signs and symptoms; but there are maybe functional medicine tests (and certainly liver enzyme tests in this example) that might measure the biomedical factors; certainly we can scan for thermal activity in an organ (and given a norm to base our work on) ad have some understanding about it's yang activity; or the mitochondrial function. Cheers,
For those unsure, the quote mentioned at 24:57 is from James Boswell's biography of his friend Samuel Johnson, the literary critic and man who wrote the English dictionary.
I read one of Ken's books many years ago. Well written and interesting. Was struck by his comments during this podcast about Alan Watts. Perhaps I misheard, but I thought that he said that he was a collaborator, having met Alan in 1973? Since Watts sadly passed in November of the same year, it seems improbable that Ken would have become so close to one of the great Zen/Taoist scholars in his early 20s? Perhaps I've missed something... or perhaps this was recorded many years ago?
Thank you. I understand your thoughtful question. I first met Alan Watts in 1968, attended various workshops and lectures, was accepted as one of five scholarship students to study Taoism with him at his home library in the summer of 1973. At that time I already had working knowledge of classical Chinese. Alan passed in November of that year. I wrote about this in my article "You can tell a yogi by his laugh: reminiscences of Alan Watts' last summer" published in Self & Society: An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology.
Talking about sending energy to your hands... dunno if it helps.. but I found that simply putting my attention to my hands when moving them somehow relaxes and in some way "changes" them.. like they become more smooth and flexible.. sometimes even warmer.
A new respect for Ken Cohan is kind words for my mentor Alan Watts, since 1980, my only regret in life is to never met Alan Watts although I did receive a certificate of enlightenment from Alan’s son Mark Watts. May you all be safe from tigers.
Amazing interview so much knowledge and depths of understanding i can see my self watching this so many times like looking at a beautiful piece of art 🙏🙏
Our lives need more balance now because of what has been going on lately Being sometimes seems contradictory to the things that happen in life especially if extreme However being born of non-being also means not being afraid completely What I find difficult is to believe I am a functional part of life when life doesn't seem to be listening? You know? We are not connected to life we are unplugged as you have told us to life itself Knowing is the culprit Yet again for me how can I be functional at all this way? Can you help? I think too I need to be there and again where in this dizzying presentence where do I start sometimes?
@Apologies for the confusion. The observation of motion and change in the world around us is like watching a river flowing. Just as the river constantly moves and changes, so does our existence. From the gentle ripples to the powerful currents, the river reminds us of the ever-changing nature of life. By observing and understanding the river's flow, we can learn to adapt and navigate through its twists and turns with grace and resilience. Similarly, art acts as a window through which we can witness and appreciate the beauty of motion and change. Just as we stand by the riverbank and marvel at its dance, let us open our eyes to the perpetual dance of life and embrace the wisdom it offers. Now, we can start from here. 😮😊🤐🫡
Lol the stillness could not be more perfect, ahaha I did not think it was possible to be that still but I guess individual potential is sometimes overseen
Perhaps you misunderstood. Zhuang Zi was Lao Zi's disciple only in the way we might say that Saint Francis was a student of Christ. There is no evidence that Zhuang Zi met Lao Zi . Rather Zhuang Zi clearly expands on ideas that are found earlier in the Dao De Jing.
I am a Quaker first. Silence and meditation are central to my spiritual life and have been for 50 years .(82 yo).
I have enjoyed George's programs and luck at having discovered tai ji early in life. I practice various qigong daily Liu zi jue,
ba duan jin and tai ji short and long forms. Movement is key to the successful practice of qigong. Tao te jin inspires.
thanks for bringing Ken back into my awareness.
Thank you for your support and kind words! 🙏
Kenneth Cohen is a beautiful and deep educator
Look the absolutely stillness that Ken Cohen maintains, so steady and alert. Looking at him is a lesson in itself, completely together. Watching Ken and mirroring his stillness is so illuminating. Amazing how he transmits meaning whilst staying so still.
Ken is One of The best Qigong Scholars in the world!!
I'm one of the best drivers in the front of my vehicle.
32:30 I've only been doing Qigong for a few days now and it doesn't surprise me at all: it's a lot more involved than walking! 37:30-44:00 in these few days of practicing qigong from *youtube* videos (not even "real" training) and I have already felt an improvement in my thinking, suppleness of my mind, my focus, my reaction time, my coordination, my digestion, my emotional aliveness, my intention (I made a list today and actually stuck to it--unheard of for me).
thank you so much for your comment! i used to belly dance and dance a lot and its a lot of work. i also took some Qi Gong in massage school when i studied Acupressure and it was great preparation for massage work. ive been working a lot but not exercising and getting into tai chi and qi gong again using RUclips videos. hey, no shame because they are FREE and easy to do ANYWHERE even in your business clothes. just started again this morning and my mood has skyrocketed! definitely need to move body and keep energy flowing because life is constantly in motion and being sedentary is actually against the laws of nature because nothing ever stays still. yes its more involved than walking. Its been 2 months since you posted this comment, how has your practice been going? Writing a journal of progressing or making a list like you did is inspiring to track progress and be grateful for the transformation. I am listening to subliminals and affirmations while doing my exercises. Also look into a rebounder as well as its great lymph and really good and to do chi gong while bouncing.
God Bless in good health.
Keep doing it! That's the key. 🤗
WoW, the definition of QIGONG is so beautiful. Mr. Cohen articulates so clearly. thank you for this learning. thank you for this channel
I'm so glad you found it valuable 🙏
I read Ken Cohen's book but this is the first time I see/hear him talk. What an incredible person, so much culture, so much peace. Wow. Thank you for a beautiful interview.
Dear George, there is a great Qi Gong and Martial Arts Shifu in Austria/Graz by the Name of Oswald Elleberger. He went to China when they openend the country, spent decades to learn in China and now is an old gentleman, who can still outpunsh the youngsters & seems levitating and gliding over this planet, when he walks 😅
Maybe i could Help you reach him for an interview, since I got connections to him. Pleas let me know. All the best from Graz, Austria
Just watched a few minutes in and found this standing out to me: "Qi Gong is the minimum effort you need to accomplish a task and not a bit more!" Thanks!
Thank you so much. I get so caught up in my bodybuilding and it takes away so much time and I notice I'm neglecting creative activities, literature and soft arts because I constantly think I have to be outside walking or working out in the gym. Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing your experience. Keep up the hard work, but don't forget to take breaks and explore other interests as well. 🙏
“Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff”. So so brilliant!! I was a workaholic who burned out completely and still struggling to get back on my feet from the shock. Everyone pays in the end
You're so right. I have the opposite problem: I have difficulty getting enough exercise sometimes and my main focus are the arts and more calm ventures. I really liked this explanation. I liked how he spoke about not being snobbish or thinking you're better because you practice qi gong and not regular exercise.
Some spiritual people also adapt that sense of thinking they're on a higher level because they're less focused on the physical. It is all about balance. A stable mind in a fit body.
الطاقه بالمفهوم الفلسفي الغنوصي التي يؤمن بها أصحاب الديانات الشرقيه بحسب العلم ليس لها وجود فعلي وتبقى من العلوم الزاءفه وأنه لاوجود فعلي حقيقي إلا لطاقه الفيزيائيه التي تم رصدها وتسجيلها من قبل علماء الفيزياء وعلى سبيل المثال لا الحصر الطاقه الكهرومغناطيسية واحده من تلك الطاقات في الكون .أما ما بداخل المرء لاتعدوا كونها قدرات حيويه حينما تتم ممارسة بعض الرياضات البدنيه بمتعه وشغف فإن الدماغ يفرز عديد الهرمونات الحيويه التي تلعب دور مهم في أحداث التوازن الذهني والجسدي والنفسي للمارس مع جعله يتماثل لشفاء مما الم به من علل .
Qi is like a flowing stream. Tonifying the Jing and cultivating the Shen replenishes the Qi. Qi is the unification of body and spirit.
On attaining emptiness @45:00 ish...
When someone talks let their words run through your mind, instead of your own thoughts. Sit by a stream or stand where you are and absorb your reality.
If by a stream, let the sound of the stream run through your mind like the words of a lover, who pats your head as you rest it on their lap.
Feel the density of the air, is it thick and about to rain?
Feel the shade upon you, without thinking an internal monologue about the words you would use to describe it to someone else, simply feel.
Observe how many sounds you can hear and where they are, what they are, without labelling what they are, simply experience the way the frequencies of its existence is detected by your sense organs.
Feel the sensation of the colour red as it hits the cells at the back of your eyes.
气功 - qì gōng - skillful work with qi
養生- yáng shēng - nourishing life
明 - míng - brightness
聰明 - cóngmíng - modern term for clever, intelligent
神明 - shénmíng - very ancient term for spiritual illumination, said to arise from the heart-mind
Love that he covers qi gong as life practice, and the notion of cultivating our body intelligence. . .
May come back to complete the glossary. . . great work
Thank you for adding to the conversation and for watching the video! 🫶
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I could listen to Ken all day. So much wisdom and knowledge in this interview. I'll be revisiting this one for sure. Thank you.
Wow…Ken Cohen‘s talk is beyond knowledge…i got goosebumps several times and brought tears to my eyes as well…thank you George for bringing him here and had just a beautiful conversation. You effort is really appreciated
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏
Happened to me too …
This is a great interview. I learned a lot. I am going on a year in December of my Qi Gong journey. I love Kenneth’s insight of the mitochondria being Dan Tien. I love it. Powerful interview. 😊😊😊
So good to see you, Ken. What a wonderful interview! You look fantastic, and you sound great! I’m still doing my daily standing routine. 😉
George I bought the his book " the way of Qi Gong" . I saw the incation in the master Gu page. The book is wonderful thank you. I intend to do the Master Gu program in july when I When I finish the postgraduate course I'm doing
I read this man's book just before I went to study Tai Chi in China. It was incredibly useful. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for your support 🙏
‘It’s the mountain speaking through the poet’ - Mind blown 😮😊☯️
Spent time learning Taoism/Buddhism at a Temple - in London - with a Master of Feng Shei. Now a qualified ta chi Instructor who teaches. Really enjoyed this chat George. Learnt something! Cultivation is key.
Oh my goodness! Such a treasure of knowledge! Thank you, George, for offering us the opportunity to know Kenneth Cohen. Listening to him describing Qi, I could identify it with Kundalini. It is such a relief to realize there is only one Reality with different names. Namaste 🙏 🙏🙏
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! 🙏
One reality with different names. The Dao and the 10,000 things!
Personal opinion but I don’t think they’re the same. Kundalini is described literally as a serpent and chi is simply life energy. I would never follow yoga as a serious pursuit as well as mind meditation as I think they’re spiritually dangerous for most westerners. I go to yoga once a week and never say “namaste” at the end
Thank you for sharing. I discovered Dao a week ago and know it will change my life forever.
I'm so glad you found it valuable 🙏
Ken is beyond description. Wonderful chat.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
In Classical Chinese texts they talked about individuals of virtue as having "big chi" (Dà Qì 大氣), a sort of nourishing presence that filled the room. Generally the presence is calming and helps those in it feel closer to their Self. . . .
Not to give it a description haha
The Master speaks of Qigong. Wow!
Im so glad Master Cohen referenced Adi Shankaracharya when discussing the Self.
He is clearly well versed in many spiritual traditions and practices.
🙏 a great teacher and a very nice guy to share tea with!
Laoshi Cohen is legendary !.So much information was made clear! George, you have done it again - well done!
Thank you for the kind words, Peter! 🙏
Thanks both of you. English is not my language so I’m learning qigong and English quite at same time, it’s not easy for my brain …so I really appreciate this conversation because you both speaks slowly enough, I’m able to understand but its not just “basic” on surface as you go deeper… I especially enjoyed Mr. Kenneth Cohen deep and soft, grounding voice and yours beautiful smile. Wish you a beautiful day 🙏🏼🪷🐉
I would give ten thumbs up - if only I could. 😊 Thank you both!!
Thank you Johannes! Appreciate you 🙏
Nurturing Life is beautiful definition, this puts a very right spin to the practice. Thanks for that alone.
Thanks so much for the interview with Ken Cohen. It was refreshing/ inspiring to listen to someone talk about this practice who has deep experience and knowledge
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏
I purchased Ken’s book back in 2020 and it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for me and my wellness fitness facility. Wonderful interview and a great service to humanity. You are both national treasures. Cheers from California.
Yesterday I had an operation, I was speaking to a nurse and he mentioned about Qigong being a key influence on his life.
I believe the power in that conversation brought me to listening to this through Universal energy.
Thank you for helping me uncover and discover beyond the words.
I feel blessed that the operation blood clots were removed but the initial reason varicose vein removal.
It’s not by chance, thank you George, Kenneth and everyone reading this.
Thank you so much for sharing this, and I’m so glad to hear that your operation went well. It’s truly beautiful how those conversations can lead us to deeper connections. Wishing you a speedy recovery and continued strength on your journey! 🙏✨
@@George-Thompson, bless you! Connection is everything! I appreciate life but I do even more now.
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What a beautiful time i had listening...being with the pair of you❤...Here's to ❤️🔥
Great info and interpretation and better understanding of functionality of Qi Kung & Tai Chi; thank you
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Hi George,great interchange with great sifu Ken wich I did notknow,I appreciate very much his infinite knowledge like the infinite tao, thank you very much to both of you,for your effort to spread this beautiful practice,☯️☯️☯️🙏from Sardinia,have a good day 👏
I'm really glad you are enjoying and getting something from the videos - it's my privilege! Sending warmth
What a phenomenal conversation! I smiled throughout & learned so much. Excited to learn more about Ken’s work!
Thank you for this lovely interview. I delete deliberately listened slowly over a few days, to take in as much as possible.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
God bless you all🙏
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@@thesobrietyplaybook 😁🤝 and The Force runs strong with you too i see my friend 🖖 ☯️ i bid you good luck on the beginning of your Spiritual & Healing Journey🍀May The Force be with you😁
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@@George-Thompson thank you Brother 🙏☯️
Thank you for such an informative and inspiring interview
Our pleasure! ❤️
George, thank you for this wonderful conversation with Master Ken Cohen! ❤ Loved it!
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You are one excellent young man at your age. Very intelligent With Special Arts.
Thanks George for sharing your greatest findings with us and spreading the ancient knowledges! Very glad to see your channel is growing and more people get benefit from it. :)
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Awesome interview, well done George.
Wow, this is amazing. So grateful I found this. Very interesting at around 57mins regarding the dan tiens. I had been taught shen was related to heart middle chamber. Everything was very clear in explanation. 😊🙏☯️
I’m so glad you found it valuable, Lisa 🙏
33:333 11/3/23 My girlfriend at that time and myself were living @119N 20th st phila penn in 1981 where we saw information about a weekend seminar with Kenneth Cohen in NYC at a college on sat 8 am -4pm and sunday dito. He gave us a light blue stapled book on Xerox paper explaining the seminar information. I still practice regularly. Taoist institute and Sanctuary, Netherlands, Colorado. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you both for your time and content. I enjoyed this video greatly.
Appreciate you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Your support means a lot to us. 🙏
Grateful for sharing so much wisdom.
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Good job , George , thanks 🙏
thank you both - timing was just perfect for me much appreciated 🙏
You're welcome. I'm glad it resonated with you! 🙏
Fabulous! Many thanks indeed!
What a wonderful video. I have been hoping to learn more about the backstory of Qi gong and this video answered many of my questions. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for the kind words! Glad the video was helpful 🙏
Hi George and thank you so much for bringing all this knowledge here on youtube! I've been following you for a while, came across your channel when I was also going through a lot of existential anxiety and I absolutely love it, it's such a gift to be able to be transported to Master Gu's presence but also to view everything from the lens of a very relatable and open person (you)! This is the first time I am commenting here, as I was particularly drawn to the concept of linking the ancient Eastern practises of Chi Gong to some of the slightly more open minded efforts of western science. I happen to have spend many years (in London) doing a PhD and researching in cell biology and genetics and I loved the parallel between the mitochondria and the Chi! I've been thinking about such parallels for a while now, more I guess for personal reasons of wanting to reconcile my training with all these incredible new things that I've been scratching the surface of on eastern practices. I think you would love a podcast series by Andrew Huberman, if you don't follow him already, he has several episodes and has done some research with his group in Stanford on characterising in a cell and molecular level the impact of certain breathing practices. Thanks again for your channel! Eleni
* I should clarify, by more open minded efforts I mean that historically western science and medicine have been dismissive of eastern practices, for many reasons, some of which include western science being build on a capitalist framework that centres pharmaceutical interventions, but that is a whole other conversation :) Recently, there have been some slightly more progressive efforts in eg understanding how the "placebo" effect works and trying to address the idea of mind over matter. In this context, the impact of Eastern practices has been studied with a slightly more open mindset
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! 🙏
I studied integrative medicine with a naturopath and acupuncturist, and some of his life's work was in making these correspondences as precise as possible. In the more modernized "traditional Chinese medicine" (Actually an amalgamation of traditions in that came together in communist China as an attempt to fit the conventional western mode) there are different kinds of vital substances, and chi is just one of them. Qi is often equated to the nervous system and the functions of an organ(What innervates the organ); and yang with metabolic function and warmth (in this case of organs it is the arterial blood flow; and it is also mitochondrial activity; which plays into the breakdown of fuel of which a byproduct is warmth).
You might like the channel I started with him; where we go into some of these correspondences. . . .
This is one of the biomedical and anthroposophical correspondences to the vital substances in Chinese Medicine
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e.g. Liver Chi (how is it's ability to circulate water and nutrition, and to detoxify);
vs. Liver Yang (how is blood circulation to that particular organ, and mitochondrial activity within it)
Of course in Chinese medicine we measure the quantity and quality of these substances through the pulses tongue, channel diagnosis and the assessment of signs and symptoms; but there are maybe functional medicine tests (and certainly liver enzyme tests in this example) that might measure the biomedical factors; certainly we can scan for thermal activity in an organ (and given a norm to base our work on) ad have some understanding about it's yang activity; or the mitochondrial function. Cheers,
I love your enthusiasm! and learned a lot from your videos:)
Thank you for your very kind comment! ❤️
Thank you so much for this wonderfull treasure of knowledge!
Wow. So much great information. I need to listen to several more times.
Great video guys . I learned a lot. Thank you
Thank you so much! Much! Glad you enjoyed it. Much warmth 🙏
For those unsure, the quote mentioned at 24:57 is from James Boswell's biography of his friend Samuel Johnson, the literary critic and man who wrote the English dictionary.
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@@George-Thompson np mate x
I read one of Ken's books many years ago. Well written and interesting. Was struck by his comments during this podcast about Alan Watts. Perhaps I misheard, but I thought that he said that he was a collaborator, having met Alan in 1973? Since Watts sadly passed in November of the same year, it seems improbable that Ken would have become so close to one of the great Zen/Taoist scholars in his early 20s? Perhaps I've missed something... or perhaps this was recorded many years ago?
Thank you. I understand your thoughtful question. I first met Alan Watts in 1968, attended various workshops and lectures, was accepted as one of five scholarship students to study Taoism with him at his home library in the summer of 1973. At that time I already had working knowledge of classical Chinese. Alan passed in November of that year. I wrote about this in my article "You can tell a yogi by his laugh: reminiscences of Alan Watts' last summer" published in Self & Society: An International Journal for Humanistic Psychology.
What a wonderful two energies, thank you ❤
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏
@@George-Thompson Thank you 🙏
Thanks a lot my friend George, very nice and important mensage!!🙏🎉💐
Best wishes!! 🙏🎉🎉🤗
Thank you for watching! 🙏
A really great conversation! I learned a lot!
Talking about sending energy to your hands... dunno if it helps.. but I found that simply putting my attention to my hands when moving them somehow relaxes and in some way "changes" them.. like they become more smooth and flexible.. sometimes even warmer.
Lol wrote a comment before hearing the whole video.Srry 😅
A new respect for Ken Cohan is kind words for my mentor Alan Watts, since 1980, my only regret in life is to never met Alan Watts although I did receive a certificate of enlightenment from Alan’s son Mark Watts. May you all be safe from tigers.
Awesome definition of Qi Gong! I wrote it down ❤
Amazing interview so much knowledge and depths of understanding i can see my self watching this so many times like looking at a beautiful piece of art 🙏🙏
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Thank you
Great questions and enlightening answers! :-) Thank you for this! And please do more conversations with Ken :-)
Thank you for the kind feedback 🙏
This was phenomenal!
Thank you! 🙏
ive been learning condensed breath to clutivate the jing by lifting/contracting the pelvic floor esentially doing a kegel on exhilation
70! He is living proof that this practice is the real deal.
Indeed! 🙏
Great interview -love ro you borh xxx
Sir, plz teach Wi gong step by step for curing diseases and getting healthy and fit.
thank you for sharing. great video
Thanks for this video. Love you.
Superb presentation. Thank you so very much
Thanks for the appreciation, Janet 🫶
Our lives need more balance now because of what has been going on lately Being sometimes seems contradictory to the things that happen in life especially if extreme However being born of non-being also means not being afraid completely What I find difficult is to believe I am a functional part of life when life doesn't seem to be listening? You know? We are not connected to life we are unplugged as you have told us to life itself Knowing is the culprit Yet again for me how can I be functional at all this way? Can you help? I think too I need to be there and again where in this dizzying presentence where do I start sometimes?
18:51 sorry who is master wang? Can you share the spelling? My lineage is from toishan and I find this fascinating. Wonderful talk, thank you.
Thank you so much.
@Apologies for the confusion.
The observation of motion and change in the world around us is like watching a river flowing. Just as the river constantly moves and changes, so does our existence. From the gentle ripples to the powerful currents, the river reminds us of the ever-changing nature of life. By observing and understanding the river's flow, we can learn to adapt and navigate through its twists and turns with grace and resilience. Similarly, art acts as a window through which we can witness and appreciate the beauty of motion and change. Just as we stand by the riverbank and marvel at its dance, let us open our eyes to the perpetual dance of life and embrace the wisdom it offers.
Now, we can start from here. 😮😊🤐🫡
Fantastic. Thank You.
Thank you for watching, Peter! 🫶
Good episode. You should invite Sifu Mark Rasmus on your Podcast for sure😊
Thank you for watching! 🙏 and good idea!
Lol the stillness could not be more perfect, ahaha I did not think it was possible to be that still but I guess individual potential is sometimes overseen
18:12 Doaist Abbott Dr Wang ~ having trouble finding info on line. Can anyone help ?
Love your videos. Where did you get those swirl wall hangings from? Having inspiring wall art is great
Great. Thank you.
Thank you
@ 1:59 This is not part of the. But is required Communication. 🎉 3:40 😊
Brilliant
Thank you both for sharing so much.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Love this.
Appreciate you 🙏
Was there a recording of that class. Damn i missed it totally.
Thankyou❤
Thank you so much.
No, thank you for your support! 🙏
I have to make a correction to Ken’s book. Zhuang Zi was not Lao Zi’s disciple.
Other than that it is a very good book.
Perhaps you misunderstood. Zhuang Zi was Lao Zi's disciple only in the way we might say that Saint Francis was a student of Christ. There is no evidence that Zhuang Zi met Lao Zi . Rather Zhuang Zi clearly expands on ideas that are found earlier in the Dao De Jing.
you should list his links as well
Is there a specific all inclusive Qi Gong rutine ? I see all these youtube videos that I am not sure if they are any good.
Prático a pouco tempo aqui no Brasil e os benefícios já apareceram. É incrível.
I would like to go to china for one year to learn
Any recommendations