Yi Ren Press
New Release
Internal Energy Refreshment and Upgrade Practice (Traditional Bigu Practice)
Description
Warning: the level of energy emanating from this DVD is so powerful, you may be held spellbound, and simply want to watch the DVD instead of practice along with it! (We are amazed that the camera was able to function in such an enhanced energy field, thus this DVD presents a real opportunity to soak in an energy bath.) DVD showcases exercise review footage during a weekend seminar offering specific Qigong exercises for experiencing an internal energy refreshment and upgrading process. Dr. Sun is practicing solo, narrates the exercises himself, and is at the peak of his power.
Regarding Bigu Practice, this is what Dr. Sun had to say: in the Yi Ren Qigong Practice, one of the goals is to experience the oneness with earth and heaven. According to the Laozi: “human beings follow the earth; the earth follows Heaven; Heaven follows the Dao, the Way, the Way follows its own nature. There are four seasons a year on the earth. Every season has its unique energy. Human body has great intelligence and ability in corresponding to the seasonal energy on the earth. Internal organs respond to the seasonal changes timely and specifically such as liver responds to spring; heart responds to summer; lungs respond to autumn; kidneys respond to winter and pancreas responds to period between seasonal changes. Since pancreas is responsible to the food intake and transformation, it is important to take good care of the pancreas during the seasonal changes. A Taoist tradition to take good care of the pancreas is to give the pancreas some rest and vacation during the seasonal transition period of time, which called “Shi Qi” literally means “Eating Qi” instead of food. In other words, Qigong practitioners produce alternative energies usage practice such as electricity, magnetic energy, warmth, light, etc., to support the body activity instead of using the energy of food. This energetic fasting practice not only nourishes and refreshes the pancreas and stomach, but also refreshes and energizes the whole body. In addition, this practice can help practitioners to increase their awareness of the quality of the food and to develop their own personalized healthy diet after she or he completed this practice and return to normal eating. (Furthermore, this alternative energy usage practice improves the functions of the internal organs for healing eating disorder, food allergies, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, food addiction, yeast/fungal infection, etc.)
Wu-Wei for Dinner: Easy Grain-Free, High-Energy Meals for Bigu and Everyday
by Jill Gonet
Description
Bigu, for some people, means intermittent fasting, and perhaps educating the stomach about what one should be eating to foster one’s cultivation. For others, bigu means abstention from grain, and this cookbook offers a solid collection of delicious and easily prepared meals that are grain-free. The recipes strike a happy medium and include a few poultry dishes and a couple of fish dishes, in addition to vegetarian dishes. All of the recipes in the book come from years of experience in creating simple, satisfying, and economical nourishment that fosters cultivation. Dr. Sun had many favorite dishes, and when he especially liked something, we would note it down, and he would also give that meal a name, so all of the recipes in this book were his favorites and were named by him, over the many years of his service in healing and teaching our community.
Internal Cultivation for Developing the Power of Healing and Love
from 2011 seminar with Guan-Cheng, PhD
Description
This manual includes a wonderful collection of exercises designed to work synergistically to do what the title says. Protocols include: Exercise for Self-Realization and Healing, Wisdom Gate Opening Exercise, Exercise for Exploring the Intent of the Self, Exercise for Exploring the Free Will of the Self, Exercise for Cultivating the Internal Power of Love, Exercise for Cultivating and Developing the Internal Healing Power, and Cultivating the Ancestor’s Home.
Yi Ren Qigong for Stress Management
from 2013 seminar with Guan-Cheng, PhD
Description
Even when we practice regularly there may still be times when the protocols included in this particularmanual would be most beneficial and supportive. Protocols in the Stress Management manual include: Exercise for Peaceful Mind Meditation, Exercise for Releasing Mental Stress, Parasympathetic Nervous System Empowering Exercise for Releasing Excess Stress Accumulations and Restoring the Balance Between the PNS and SNS, Emotional Stress Release with Lungs/Large Intestine Energies, and External Energy Stress Release Exercise.
Companions in the Tao: A Guidebook for Companions on the Taoist Path
by Jill Gonet
Description
The idea for this newly released work originally was suggested by a fellow Yi Ren Qigong practitioner back in 2000, who thought that the person partnered to Dr. Guan-Cheng Sun might be able to share what is involved in nurturing a relationship in the context of Taoist cultivation.
Many years and many drafts later, Yi Ren Press is now releasing Companions in the Tao: A Guidebook for Companions on the Taoist Path. This work (in 2 volumes, for a total of 158 pages) encompasses diverse topics and considerations, which when successfully negotiated, add up to big differences.
In spite of the largeness of the subject, the writings are presented under subject headings, and most are quite crystallized and not very lengthy; thus, the reader will find an engaging and nicely paced text, with plenty of white space and full color illustrations, and be able to pick up and put the book down without easily losing the thread of the ideas and suggestions.
Fun to read, Companions in the Tao is sure to strike some major chords in those who have committed themselves to Yi Ren Qigong practice and internal energetic cultivation, as well as to their Companion in the Tao!
Tribute to Sifu
by Jill Gonet
Description
Tribute to Sifu presents a portrait in poetry of Master Guan-Cheng Sun at work, with stories from his youth, with vivid descriptions of Authentic Qi in his classes, and with a view into the Master’s lineage connection that permeates his life, often in supernatural ways. This book is meant to encourage and inspire wonder, and to instill a sense of connection to a very advanced state of cultivation. The collection offers a series of verbal pictures resonating with the vitality and spirit of a beloved modern Internal Elixir Master. Tribute to Sifu opens a window into another perspective on reality, and another orientation altogether − one that participates in the panoramic and magical possibilities available to those who have dedicated themselves fully, and at all levels, to the cultivation of the Tao.
Seventy-Seven Rules for Taoist Internal Cultivation Manual
by Jill Gonet
Description
Conserving the Qi and Expanding the Elixir Fields: Seventy-Seven Rules for Taoist Internal Cultivation addresses the larger project of internal energetic cultivation for those practitioners interested in taking their practice to another level. And while there are no specific energetic practice protocols included in this manual, it does contain an abundance of candid, practical, and frank guidance.
This manual has been in the works for quite some time. Dr. Guan-Cheng Sun reviewed it twice over the years, and suggested the addition of the present Rule #52. He had been considering this manual for use as a text book for Yi Ren Qigong practitioners. This new manual is now available to help practitioners to stay on track with their cultivation process in his absence. The manual is 92 pages long.
Affinity with Immortals – Poetry on Internal Cultivation
by Taoist Masters Wang Chongyang, Ma Danyang, and Qiu Chuji
Translation and Commentary by Jill Gonet
Description
Affinity with Immortals presents poems on Taoist cultivation by three great Jin Dynasty adepts- Masters Wang Chongyang, Ma Danyang, and Qiu Chuji. All three founded important Taoist schools: Master Wang Chongyang established Quan Zhen, or Complete Reality school; his student, Ma Danyang, assisted him in doing so, and then later founded his own school, the Yu Xian Pai (Meeting with Immortals) school; Qiu Chuji, who was a student of both of the other two Masters, ultimately became a great Chinese cultural hero in the years just prior to the establishment of the Yuan Dynasy, and founded the Dragon Gate school.
This selection of the three Masters’ poetry on cultivation presents a host of teachings and touchstones to interested students of the Tao, conveying lifetimes of practice and teaching experience in instructional poems that are also resonant and successful lyrics.
Ms. Gonet’s translations succeed in rendering each Master’s personal style, and the additional commentaries demonstrate the connections between the Masters, as well as highlight some of their differences, offering the contemporary student of the Tao an inspiring immersion into the evolution of the Complete Reality Taoism.
