As you begin your journey, Robert will introduce 4 Cycles Qigong and focus on the first cycle, which is about extending your energy upwards and downwards, as if connecting Heaven and Earth.

This opening movement helps improve posture, alleviate back pain, and establish a strong foundational stance.

Robert will explain how to cultivate a sense of self-empowerment through the activation of what he calls the 4 Golden Wheels — the three dantians and the central meridian.

Learn how to identify these four energy centers in your body, and discuss how you can expand the central meridian to connect with the infinite energy of the Universe.

In this first module, you’ll explore:

• The basic principles of Qigong, including the dantians, central meridian, and more
• Robert’s demonstration of collecting the Qi
• Practicing the Swordfinger mudra to combine the Earth’s Qi with Heaven’s Qi, then blending it with human Qi and the 3 dantians
• How to absorb and project Qi
• The first of the 4 Cycles, “Supporting the Sky, Raising the Earth”
• How to nourish the Qi, a passive way of practicing

Robert will guide you through the second of the 4 Cycles, “Five Damages, Seven Harms, Looking Back” to enhance flexibility and coordination, and bring balance to the nervous system — aiding in the release of built-up tension.

Learn how, by extension of your central meridian and spinal energy, you can refresh your energy and create a strong protective Qi field.

Robert will also introduce twisting and bending movements to stimulate the spine and internal organs.

When you twist and bend in Qigong, you’re reconnecting your mind with your body and releasing stress. These movements send fresh oxygenated blood around the body and up to the brain while gently opening up your spine, back, and shoulders.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• A moving meditation to twist your spine and central meridian together
• The second of the 4 Cycles, “Five Damages, Seven Harms, Looking Back”
• How practicing balance with Qigong can keep you young
• Why the fountain of youth is found in your kidneys with the Melt the Snowy Mountain visualization

Robert will guide you to explore lateral stretching and stance work, moving through the third of the 4 Cycles, “Opening the Window to Admire the Moon, Drive Away Fire From the Heart.”

This movement opens up the chest and lateral body lines, encouraging deeper breathing and promoting an emotional release that can help manage stress and anxiety.

Learn how the concept of energetic heat indicates an imbalance of emotions that results in anxiety and anger. Robert will share a movement to help you get rid of this emotional imbalance — and why it’s important to be open to receiving.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• The “Opening the Window to Admire the Moon, Drive Away Fire From the Heart” movement to stand with more strength and resilience as you calm the mind
• A pushing Qigong movement to “open the window”
• Eagle Claw, a pulling Qigong movement to grasp and move energy
• Combining the bow/lunge stance and breathing to build up a Qi field that can calm your mind
• How to breathe more deeply to feel confident and peaceful

Robert will share exercises — including the last of the 4 Cycles — to build muscle strength, improve Qi circulation, and enhance overall body awareness and coordination.

You’ll practice punching/grabbing nothing to increase your strength and work with your internal Qi, focusing on developing precision, power, and intention in your movements.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• Punching and grabbing the air movement for cultivating vitality
• Connecting with your Guardian Qi to support the immune system
• Becoming more capable at navigating life’s difficult situations
• Training your core of energy in the lower dantian
• The horse stance, to punch and build up an abundance of vital Qi

With all 4 Cycles introduced, Robert will now guide you to refine and integrate all of the movements.

You’ll deepen your practice and begin to link them together into a single seamless flow, enhancing the mind-body-spirit connection.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• Additional fun variations on the 4 Cycles
• Twisting the eye and face of the fist movement for enriching the tendons

As you become more comfortable with 4 Cycles Qigong, Robert will introduce complementary techniques for enriching your practice.

These techniques include meditation, breathing exercises, and self-care massage to amplify your practice and provide tools for self-healing.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How to protect yourself and your energy
• Nourish the Qi with self-care massage
• Use the energy from your fingertips to care for your brain and head

During the final week of the course, you’ll aim to achieve a level of mastery in 4 Cycles Qigong and create a daily practice routine.

Robert will guide you to personalize the practice to fit your specific needs and lifestyle, ensuring a sustainable and impactful practice.

As you’ll experience, Qigong is more than just a physical practice — it’s an invitation to a transformative experience that has been handed down through generations of Shaolin monks.

As you bring 4 Cycles Qigong into your daily life, you’ll become part of a living tradition that will guide you toward a harmonious balance of strength and flexibility… vigor and calm… endurance and ease.

In this module, you’ll explore how to:

• Match your commitment to how much time you have during the day
• Arrange a primary and secondary self-care practice each day
• Protect yourself energetically when you arrive somewhere and it doesn’t feel energetically safe
• Empower your home and workspace with positive energy

100 Days of Darkness & Light
Audiobook Narrated by Master Robert Peng

This 4.5-hour audiobook is part one of the book The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom, published by Sounds True. You’ll hear the remarkable details of Robert’s life story, focusing on his adventures with Master Xiao Yao, who trained him secretly in China during the Cultural Revolution. Robert offers the listener an engaging look at the process he underwent to awaken his extraordinary spiritual gifts and healing power, taking him from a sickly boy to his current status as a world-renowned Qigong master.

Register by April 30 to claim this bonus before it expires.

8 Cycles Qigong Series
Two Video Teachings With PDFs From Master Robert Peng

8 Cycles is a series of gentle exercises that can be safely practiced by anyone to energize the body and calm the mind. As you’ll learn from Robert’s video teachings and accompanying PDFs, through the repetition of simple movements, energy centers are activated and internal organs are massaged, nourished, and invigorated. Over time, as the movements become familiar, they elicit a deep meditative state, transforming the experience into a journey that opens into a vast and mysterious realm of joy and light.

Register by May 10 to claim this bonus before it expires.

Robert will guide you through the “Six Healing Sounds,” one sound each day to clear the stressful energy from each organ, like a spring cleaning for each room of your house. You’ll then learn how to recharge positive energy into each organ, just like reorganizing your house. Each day, by cleansing and rebalancing, you’ll harmonize your body and mind and balance your yin and yang.

Listen in on this lively 33-minute conversation between two of The Shift Network’s most popular Qigong faculty, Master Robert Peng and Ken Cohen. They’re both incredibly well-versed in the traditions of Qigong’s origins, masters, and variations — ranging from the simple to the complex. To understand current Qigong, it’s important to understand the past and what it’s been used for — from war and martial arts to health, royalty, and as a way to live a long, fruitful life. Receive deep insight into this history, and important tips on how to incorporate Qigong into your life’s journey.