Sifu Matthew Cohen – Sacred Energy Arts Qigong 2023

In this healing 7-week course, you’ll:

• Experience how the ancient and progressive techniques of Sacred Energy Arts Qigong can help you balance and optimize your health — and expand your capacity to easefully experience life
• Utilize your breath as an ally to help you increase focus, attention, clarity, and energy — and reduce stress
• Master techniques to train your mind and heart for deeper presence, calm, meaning, and joy — and release negative and false beliefs
• Explore poems, prayers, and practices to cultivate and store vital life force
• Befriend your dragon — your innate inner power, gifts, and capacity to regulate your energy — so you can create a safe environment for growth and healing
• Tend to your practice regularly, encouraging it to flourish and bloom — so your Sacred Energy Arts Qigong practices becomes a source of stability and support
• Cultivate emotional fluency to move beyond your fears to more deeply connect with yourself and others around you
• Explore Medical Qigong practices to cultivate resilience and dissolve the obstacles in your life
• Discover a practice, Carrying the Medicine, to honor and keep ancient knowledge alive so you can share it with others
• Learn a practice to tune your body, mind, and spirit like a musician fine-tunes an instrument, so you can address your specific needs each day

Sacred Energy Arts Qigong combines breathwork, meditation, and movement to harness the body’s natural energy.

As the course begins, you’ll learn how befriending the dragon is a deep transformation process that requires intention and focus. By setting the tone and intention, we create a safe environment for growth and healing.

As Matthew will share, energy awareness provides a deeper understanding of the energetic system and its effect on physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. The power of the breath cultivates inner calm and activates natural healing abilities. These practices nourish and support our journey towards radiant health, transforming us from the inside out.

The Sacred Energy Arts Qigong provides a powerful toolkit for personal growth and transformation, allowing us to unleash our full potential and live a purposeful life.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to set a clear, purposeful intention
• Eight ways to increase your energy
• The details of your personal dragons, and why you should befriend them
• Techniques to unlock the power of breathing 
• The gift of meditation — how to meditate while lying down, sitting, standing, and making love
• Guided practices, including Counting Breathwork and a Qigong practice called Closing the Gate

Learning to welcome an unencumbered state can transform your life.

As Matthew will explain, by intentionally shifting from the secular to the sacred, you can access your true radiant nature and gain a fresh perspective. Spending time in this unencumbered state allows you to become more attuned to your inner self so you can be guided by your intuition.

The benefits of this space extend into your everyday life, grounding you and fostering greater peace and fulfillment. Relationships become more harmonious as you connect more deeply with yourself and others.

Intentionally moving into stillness unlocks the transformative power of this state. Through touching the void, you can tap into the power of this unencumbered state and enhance your wellbeing.

In this session, you’ll:

• Experience the power of stillness and emptiness 
• Learn how to move from formless to form
• Recall your energy, dreams, and power during an exercise to clarify your intentions and regain power
• Raise and lower Qi (energy regulation) during the Qigong practice of bringing hands up and down
• Discover why less is more

Tending to your practice helps you embrace the void and become more grounded in your truth.

As you consistently engage in your practice, it becomes your ally that supports you on your journey…

As Matthew will share, as you cultivate this alliance, you’ll experience a deeper connection to yourself and a greater sense of purpose. The void becomes less daunting, and you become more comfortable with the unknown.

Tending to your practice regularly encourages it to flourish and bloom and helps you develop resilience and cultivate inner strength.

In this session, you’ll explore:

• How your spiritual practice can become a source of stability and support in your life
• How to deepen your roots so you can develop an undisturbed connection to the Earth
• Ways to improve balance in your life and in your practice during a guided exercise featuring gaze, breath, and balance mudra
• A meditation experiential to help you notice when your mind wanders — so you can return to your breath

Patterns of fear, anxiety, and grief can restrict your energy and limit your true expression…

Matthew will explain how, when you live from your truth, you’re free from these constrictions, able to move through the world with kindness and understanding.

Living from a place of truth allows you to connect more deeply with yourself and others as you see beyond your fears and connect with the heart of those around you. You’ll also become more resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks and challenges.

By breaking free from patterns of fear and anxiety, you open yourself up to new possibilities and experiences as you embrace life with greater passion and joy.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• How to expand your emotional awareness using breath and emotion so you can locate feelings within the body (scan the body/breath/emotion)
• A guided practice featuring hand positions and mudras to harmonize emotions — so you can experience every feeling without going too high or too low
• How to develop emotional fluency — so you can set your feelings free instead of trapping them
• A training and holding exercise to nourish your heart
• Qigong and breathing practices to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression

Discover the transformative power of self-healing Qigong practices, also known as Medical Qigong.

You’ll explore guided practices for dissolving blockages, cutting cords, and clearing channels — to help you seal your energy.

Through these practices, you’ll learn to identify areas where your energy is blocked and dissolve the obstacles holding you back. You’ll become more in tune with your body and more aware of your energetic state. As you work through these practices, you’ll cultivate greater resilience and radiance.

Self-healing Qigong is a powerful tool for cultivating a deeper connection to your body and energy — so you can overcome obstacles and move through life with greater ease and grace.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• A dissolving meditation to turn your emotions from ice to water to vapor
• How to cut energetic entanglements and discern where your boundaries aren’t in tact
• Qigong for detoxification and aligning energy and emotions
• Poems, prayers, and practices to cultivate and store vital life force
• Qigong practices to clear the channels and meridians in the body and organs
• A practice to help you emit Qi as you send energy through hands

Learn to tune your body, mind, and spirit like a musician fine-tunes their instrument. In this practice, you’ll discover ways to tend to your body and tap into your needs each day.

By becoming more attuned to your body, you’ll identify areas where you need to focus your attention. You’ll learn techniques for addressing these needs and nourishing your whole being for optimal health and balance.

Tuning your body is a lovely way to start your day that evokes presence and joy. With daily practice, you’ll be able to fine-tune your instrument and experience greater harmony in your life.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• A radiance meditation focusing on light and frequency
• Mind-streaming meditation to watch your thoughts unwind without judgment, allowing you to be more present
• Box breathing for relaxation and focus
• Tuning into your body like an instrument via a morning practice and meditation to prepare your body for the day

As this course comes to a close, you’ll integrate new wisdom into your life and create lasting, positive change. You’ll learn how to develop habits that support your growth and keep your knowledge alive.

By practicing these gifts, you’ll gain valuable insight into yourself and the world around you. You’ll become more resilient and adaptable, able to navigate life’s challenges with simplicity and elegance.

By keeping these practices in circulation, you’ll be able to share your knowledge and inspire others on their own journeys of self-discovery.

It’s a great opportunity and honor to keep ancient knowledge alive. Carrying the Medicine is our chance to remember our teachers and mentors — those people who were kind enough to share some of their knowledge and experience with us, and for us to do the same for others.

In this final session, you’ll explore:

• How to apply everything you’ve learned to anchor a regular practice 
• How to create lasting positive change — as you start small, over time you’ll build a habit that takes permanent hold in your life
• The importance of remembering your ancestors, teachers, and wayfinders 
• How to carry the medicine so you’ll stay in alignment with core intention
• Ways to be generous, pay it forward, live an authentic life — and help others do the same

Breath Inside the Breath: Unlock Your Power
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen

In this hour-long video class, Matthew teaches you how to use Qigong and breathing practices as your allies — your dear friends that can offer clarity of mind and ease of spirit while invigorating your body. You’ll learn ways to focus your mind… build resilience and emotional harmony… and reduce stress and tension using breath, Qigong, and potent visualizations.

Sacred Energy Arts Practices
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen

In this 53-minute video class, you’ll learn the Stalking Scout Meditation to hone your perception and intuition and to nourish and heal your body and spirit. Several yin and yang balancing practices from Dragon Qigong and martial arts as well as mudras will help you attain balance and emotional fluency.