It’s hard to believe nearly 4 months have passed since we attended the “Qi Revolution” workshop. On one hand it feels like only yesterday, yet also feels like it happened in another lifetime. I think that because the pace of our lives has been steadily increasing, our perception of time feels equally affected. (Cue the Time Warp song!)
Hosted by Jeff Primack and his non-profit Supreme Science Qigong Foundation*, it was 4 days of intense instruction and practice. Although by this time we had an introduction to qi**, we were brand new to the practice of Qi Gong. Neither of us felt particularly called to it, yet the pull to attend the workshop was strong. There were advertisements for it in all of the local New Age magazines that just seemed to leap out at us. Our intuition said it would be a powerful turning point in our lives and we decided to honor those feelings. So despite our non-committal attitude toward Qi Gong itself we felt excited about attending the workshop. It was the first of many workshops/classes we would take on our ascension journey, and it was amazing.
The initial steps of setting aside 4 full days and paying the $140 for us both to attend felt like a victory! Our schedules and finances were a little less flexible 4 months ago. Or more accurately, our confidence in making those kind of self-nurturing decisions was not as strong. At the end of each day we would marvel how very much we gained for the now trivial seeming amount of time/money we put in. It paved the way for making many more decisions like this. “Not enough time or money” is a self-limiting mindset that we don’t operate in anymore, and it is so freeing!
Rather than do a day by day commentary, if you are interested in a very detailed account of the 4 days, I suggest this series of blog posts. The schedule for the San Diego workshop that we attended was the same. Instead, I’m just going to touch on the parts that really rocked us.
On the first day we did a breathing exercise while lying on our backs that they called Breath Empowerment. It’s a good name. We enjoy breath work, but this exercise did seem to break through a mental barrier, enabling us to go deeper with the practice. It’s amazing how intense just breathing can be when you are focused on doing it consciously. This method included a whole lot of rapid, deep breathing to flood your body with oxygen. All sorts of odd bodily sensations happened; tingling, humming, cramping, and feelings of being endlessly huge, strong, and purified. Afterward everyone in the auditorium was tired and hungry and Jeff explained that we could have just burned up to 1,000 calories. Yah, I know… while breathing. It was another tangible realization that we have entered a time where we can choose to receive results from intention rather than hard work. This principle is the same in every aspect of our lives from work to family to how we sculpt our bodies.
On day 2 Jeff did a demo with a badass 3 horsepower blender and showed us how it would easily handle things like avocado seeds, entire fruits and veggies, etc. Oh baby, he had us at the avocado seed. We decided right then that a 3hp blender was in our future. (4 months later, our 3hp Blendtec just arrived in the mail and it RULES. Thank you eBay and your sweet discounted prices.) One detail that was like a lightbulb for us was his comments about apple seeds. He put an entire apple into the machine and commented how each fruit is a whole package deal, meant to be eaten whole. (Excepting for the ones with protective coatings like citrus and pineapples.) As raw foodists we are used to sucking down every bit from a piece of fruit, and actually packed large bags of fruit for us to eat at breaks and at lunch. But what of the cores and seeds? We chucked them like everyone else does, not even thinking that Mother Nature, in her perfect wisdom, might have put those seeds in there for us to chow down on. So now we eat the entire fruit, loving the flavor and texture variance that seeds and cores provide. It was just a comment that he made, but every morning at breakfast I am reminded of it while I devour an apple whole!
By day 2 we were still practicing level 1 Qi Gong forms, and finally getting them down. They’re very simple movements, but the point of Qi Gong, the point of anything really, is to be totally conscious while doing it. The devil’s in the details, as they say. Keeping the breath in sync with the movements, keeping muscles relaxed and learning to let the qi guide the body, watching the instructors while staying aware and in your body, being aware of sensations and emotions that arise, keeping an attitude of gratitude and love… lots of things to do all at once, while it appears that you’re just slowly moving your body! At first it’s like trying to conduct a large orchestra, until it eventually becomes natural and much of it runs on auto-pilot. Each day got “easier” in that way. And it was cool to be moving in harmony with so many people…
I think it was at the end of day 2 that we had the Origins of the Universe presentation. Wow, that was another landmark for our journeys. We had been avidly reading about the various frameworks of philosophies that people have regarding, you know, Everything. We were beginning to piece things together and Jeff’s understanding of where we came from and why we’re here coalesced many things for us. It enlarged our vision, gave us new questions to ponder, and strengthened our budding understanding of a Creator who is endlessly, unconditionally loving. We may have signed up for a “qigong” workshop, but that was just the icing on the cake.
On a couple of the days we watched a high definition version of the instructional “Press on Qi” DVD series that Jeff has created. These were amazing. They added digital animations so that you could see a representation of the qi energy. Until we humans are more easily able to literally see energy, I think these animations will make a very effective teaching tool. Qi is called “subtle energy” for obvious reasons, and I’ll admit that it was helpful to be able to visually see the direction of the energy in each of the qi gong postures. The production value was just really top notch overall. Well worth the cost.
The hugest thing for day 3 was the 9 Breath circle. Our chairs were all snaked around the auditorium and 300 or so people all joined hands to do the breathing for the purpose of sending healing energy. We sent it to everyone! Our loved ones, our “enemies”, children of the world, leaders of the world, to the city, the state, the entire planet, to ourselves, and to a woman on stage. We were to send loving energy to her with the intent that she reach her life’s purpose. With complete sincerity Jeff told us, “If she achieves her purpose, we all do. For All is One.” Yah, there were a lot of tears during the 9 Breath circle.
Day 4 was just plain fun. We learned how to qi walk in stealth mode (not pulsing your arms sideways and looking odd), as well as Wuji Style. The latter is freeform Qi Gong, and using several main movements, you just piece it together in whatever way feels organic and right for you. (The swimming move is so fun, especially when you SLOW it down and do the twist!) He cautioned that Wuji is “desert” and should be done after the “dinner” of level 1/2 qi gong, but I gotta say… Wuji feels good and it calls to me while structured qi gong did not, and still does not. OK I said it! I really liked trying Qi Gong, but as a practice for cultivating energy and consciousness, it simply does not appeal to me. So I go Wuji style sometimes, and that “desert” is wonderful for me on it’s own.
The workshop closed with a presentation which sparked so many new interests and questions for us. The topic was Sacred Geometry, and as I hope will become evident in future articles, Sean just gravitated to this study and has an amazing knack for it. We learned how Fibonacci numbers and the Fibonacci spiral show up EVERYWHERE in nature and in sacred sites like the pyramids. We heard about an experiment where Nissan tried to recreate a 1/3 scale pyramid in the 1970’s and failed so hard, yet the Coral Castle was said to have been easily built by 1 man using the “technology” that built the Egyptian pyramids. Jeff told us about the healing to be found in drawing and coloring your own mandala. With each new piece of information, our world expanded like a flowering lotus. It was a perfect ending to an incredibly transformational 4 days.
*Supreme Science is a non-profit and that’s why their events are CHEAP. It was only $70/each for the entire 4 days workshop! The goal is to get everybody to the workshops to introduce them to the forms and concepts, then if they feel guided and have the money, they can purchase instructional DVDs and books… which are not so cheap, yet worth the cost 
**”Qi” has been known by many names throughout the world and over time. Chi, life force energy, cosmic energy, mana, prana, are just some of them.
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Where this movie really excelled for us is it’s accessability. Sean’s and my mind work similarly: very logical and analytical, yet appreciating the right brain stimulation of a fun “how to”. We both latched onto the format of having quite detailed interviews being interspersed with scenes of “drama” that gave examples of how the concepts looked in real life. The visualizations it provides for concepts that felt impossible to understand otherwise were also invaluable! The colorful blobs of emotion really brought the point home about the chemical dependency we all exist in with respect to our emotional states. The Dr. Quantum in Flatland cartoon at the end was invaluable for helping us wrap our head around 5D. We know what height, width, depth, and time are like, but what will the 5th dimension look like? (Answer: we don’t know. We can’t even imagine yet, but it’s going to be amazing.)
