Interview with Sarina Stone

Sarina Stone is a registered Universal Healing Tao (UHT) Practitioner, a Certified Medical  Qigong educator, practitioner and consultant. She specializes in Taoist (Natural) ways of attaining and maintaining optimal health and extending longevity.  From the Tao Garden in Thailand, she offers a regular health and wellness podcast.  She and her guests share insights on alchemy and the evolution of human consciousness.

Similar to William U. Wei, Sarina is a long-time student of Master Mantak Chia.  As the result, both have grown into teachers who offer unique guidance in areas of Tao healing.

 

Thanks Sarina for responding to this interview conducted as you lead up to your upcoming UHT -Australia CNT course on the Gold Coast.

 

For those unfamilliar with your life and background, please share key experiences that led you to connect with Master Mantak Chia. 

About 28 years ago, I had severe scoliosis.  The double curvature in my spine impeded organ and gland function such that by 5 PM each day I had to lie flat on my back or I was too exhausted to function.  Digestion was horrible and my fascia and lymphatic systems were constantly inflamed or overtaxed.

At that time I was the fairy god manager for a small theater company in Minneapolis. The artistic director came to the studio one day with the garage sale find… he paid $0.50 for a book and a cassette tape by a man I’d never heard of, Master Mantak Chia. The book and tape spoke of bringing the smiling mind inside the body to facilitate change on a molecular level. We, the artistic director and I, begin to incorporate these techniques into massage therapy sessions directed at straightening my spine. About seven months later I was sitting by myself on a stone bridge that overlooked a waterfall and realized I had been sitting up straight, without effort, for about 10 minutes. I wept.

Love synchronicity! As it happens, I had a scoliosis, though not as severe as yours.  Part of growing aware of energy flow certainly changed by relationship to my body. Tears are like peeling the layers away of what we no longer need in order to grow conscious of the next step of our destiny, is that not so? 

It was at that moment that I had an epiphany . I had to meet this master. I had to incorporate these practices into my life. Within a few months I found myself in New York City sitting feet away from Master Chia as he taught the same practices contained in the book and cassette. I asked him how he became so good at Medical QiGong, so powerful. And his reply was,” I became a teacher. I have to practice every day.”  

Daily acts of self-love change how everything is created and experienced. Is this encounter with Master Chia the turning point that prompted you to become a certified UHT practitioner?

All of the above are the key life experiences that lead me to connect with Master Chia and become a certified Universal Healing Tao (UHT) practitioner and educator by 1995.

How have the practices you teach changed the way you see and feel within yourself?

My own digestive issues, my own body aches were the greatest motivators for becoming specialized in the healing arts.  We tend to teach that which we need to learn J

What simple yet life-altering message! We teach what we are meant to learn. Master Chia himself also offers a wealth of insights, such as those during a recent London Real interview on How to strengthen your Chi. It resonates that we draw into our lives exactly what we need with perfect timing.

Your sharing here Sarina, reminds us of the power beyond, how we orchestrate exactly what the Soul needs on its unique path of growth.  When we permit it, intuition is the reliable guide for going with our feelings, embracing the unforeseen shifts in our life purpose and directon. 

As you are returning to Australia for upcoming workshops to follow up on your 2016 and 2017 visits, why is it especially useful for massage therapists and other healers to take this training?

As interest continues to grow in Chi Nei Tsang (CNT), I am coming in July to offer a unique 3 day course.

This trainig is the perfect adjunct to any healing practitioners repertoire. It addresses 70% of the clients immune system, ability to digest, absorb and eliminate, muscular tension and pain, inflammation, organ health, mental health and emotional health…all with one modality!

Let's begin with the basics: what is Chi Nei Tsang (CNT)?  Why do people do it or benefit from it?

CNT abdominal massage is a combination of hands on visceral massage and energy work (QiGong, Chi Kung). Technically, it is a healing branch of Medical QiGong (medicinal energy work). Medicine deals with the health and well-being of the body. Balance and rebalance are important when people feel less than optimium.

Taoist nature is also symbolic, about being without force.  It is the way of allowing.  Please expand on this intelligent energy.

The Soul and Spirit are intelligent energy. They condense energy to incarnate into a body to interconnect, grow and develop the energy. 

Think of Qi (Energy) in its simplest form as “electromagnetic energy”.  The same stuff that sparks throughout the brain and nervous system.  If there is a clear pathway to each part of the body the electromagnetic energy will bring information via that pathway to every organ, gland and cell.  If the pathway gets congested, we simply do not have the energy required to facilitate fullest function or the information the body requires for the constant state of self adjustment and self healing.  If electromagnetic energy is cut off long enough, systems begin failing. 

CNT can assist the body in removing emotional and physical blockages to allow for maximum energetic flow.

And unhindered flow is the natural state of being. The impact of emotional blockages is so often unrecognized and underestimated.  Your Intro to Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) recognizes the flow of energy, how it affects health and points people to learn practices to help localize issues and heal. Many people can appreciate and benefit from the such teachings. 

This said, how does this relate to the flow of Chi and healthy sexuality?What impact does it have on Anti-Aging, cellular regeneration, Restorative energy? 

It takes energy to orgasm.  It takes energy to self heal and stay young.  It takes energy to live fully.  

Ah-ha! mastering energy is key to mastering emotions and mastering oneself.  So many paths available to us.Reminding people sexual energy is simply another channel of flow that can be blocked or open is itself illuminating about so much more happening in and around the body.

On this note, some of our visitors ask if you can expand on the Jade Egg practice. 

This is an exercise tool that will be discussed during the course. Over 5000 years ago, it was understood that women create energy with their menstrual cycles and do not have to lose that energy (outward).  Jade Egg practice can be used to pull energy upward (in particular, energy in the ovaries and the uterus). The upcoming course will introduce this technique as a step one can move into in more depth as boundaries, use of space and energy are mastered.

What does the upcoming 3-day course curriculum in July 2018 involve exactly?

The Ultimate Training for Massage Therapists-  Items covered for Gold Coast CNT Level One Certification Workshop

Diagnostic tools
At least 2 fascia and skin clearing Chi Nei Tsang protocols
Seated Medical QiGong (Inner Alchemy organs meditation)
At least 3 colon detox Chi Nei Tsang protocols
At least 2 small intestine Chi Nei Tsang protocols
1 Nerve Activation technique for improving organ function
1 psoas release technique
Basic nutrition for intestinal health education
1 acid reflux technique
1 spine release technique (erector muscles)
Multiple abdominal self-massage techniques
Introduction to the Jade Egg exercises for women (men have opportunity to learn as well)
You will leave this course with specific Medical QiGong and Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage protocols and exercises to activate and detoxify the body. You will understand why optimal organ, brain and spine function are the secrets to radiant health and longevity and have a clear understanding of what Chi Nei Tsang and seated Medical QiGong can do to improve physical and mental health.

That sounds jam-packed. I hear Adam Gokmen is also offering some pre-course UHT exercises.

By the way, can you expand on the idea of Tendon power?

We will not be addressing that in depth this time (in the upcoming course).  However, it should be known that electromagnetic energy travels through the nerve and skeletal systems, through the tendons and in to each muscle.  If the tendons are hard and blocked, muscle tissue does not get the signal to respond fully.  Over time the tissue reacts by shortening due to lack of use.  This REALLY hurts J We all need good tendon health to stay young and strong. 

Ultimately, Tendon Power is one secret to strength, youth & suppleness.  If the tendon is too hard, the energy signal cannot penetrate so the muscle will not fire at full capacity.  The muscle will become stiff and this hurts!  Also, hard tendons increase the chance of over stretching, which causes hypermobility or tearing.  Different massage techniques exist to work out the knots.   

Knots do occur in other part of the body as well.  Digestive issues arise for many people that are often poorly understood.  How can a person use abdominal massage to loosen food in the belly (release undigested food) as an option to/ if not doing a colonic?

Daily self-massage, done a particular way, literally breaks up and moves stuck fecal matter in both the large and small intestine.  Done weekly or more, Chi Nei Tsang abdominal self-massage can also induce peristaltic action in the large intestine thus moving food for a lifetime with no unnatural or invasive action. 

Furthermore, Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage is an educational experience that includes conversation that will guide a person to “feel” when something they ate did or did not “agree” with them.  If we avoid foods that inflame the intestines and are conscious about maintaining healthy gut bacteria, we are more likely to digest, absorb and eliminate effectively each day and forego the need for outside sources to clean out.

Your encouragement to feel the way through health and wellness is so powerful. 

Please share some practices to circulate energy to help release tightness in the diaphragm, heart, lungs, kidneys, spleen and pancreas or other organs you view as significant. What can people do to stabilize and eliminate recurrent energetic imbalances?

I will do that and more in class J However the list below has links to specific practices, in a specific order that will energize and detoxify the organs as well as stabilize energetic imbalances over time.

Basic Medical QiGong practices that train us to send smiling energy to the organs, transform negative emotional energy in to positive vitality, circulate, refine and store our own life force are:

The Inner Smile Meditation

The Six Healing Sounds Meditation

The MicroCosmic Orbit Meditation

What would you recommend for people to feel more physically free and clean in their bodies? 

Come to class and begin your Medical QiGong training now.  Don’t wait.  Every day you spend emotionally or physically out of control is a day less appreciated. 

 Whether you are a therapist looking to integrate this into your practice or just looking to improve your own health, this course is for everyone interested in taking health to the next level!

Come learn methods of combining the power of the mind with 5,000 year old techniques (abdominal massage) for improving digestion, relieving toxic illness and opening channels in the body so we may improve the flow of blood, oxygen, cerebral spinal fluid and vital energy to the brain and organs.

If you truly cannot create a space to study with a living teacher, then begin study on line.  Eventually, you will master your thought processes and manifest your living teacher.  Master yourself, master your life.

What is the Healing Love practice?

Healing Love is the name Tao Master Mantak Chia gave to the art of cultivating, refining, circulating and storing reproductive energy for men and women. 

The title is exclusively used by Universal Healing Tao certified educators across the globe and their students.

The Gold Coast course will touch on this briefly as we discus why the Jade Egg practice for women helps strengthen the urogenital diaphragm and the importance of doing so.

How do Chi Nei Tsang and Medical QiGong practices revitalize physical and mental health? 

Since Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage is a branch of Medical QiGong it, like most QiGong forms, addresses the physical, mental and energetic parts of ourselves.  The nature of this particular practice at its root is to simultaneously energize and detoxify.  The practice proves that electromagnetic energy is influenced by human emotion and indeed, human emotions generate their own Qi (Chi). 

Chi Nei Tsang supports not only the body to stay clean and energized, but offers tools to transform negative emotional energy in to positive vitality for health and longevity.

What can people do regularly to strengthen the relationship between humanity, the planet Earth and the universe?

Remember the Law of Attraction is in play 24 hours a day.  The Universe mirrors back what is in your heart and mind promptly…positive or negative.  If your desire is to be connected to your community, your planet and your self, then visualize this daily and make it happen.

Smile.  Accept the things you cannot change…and remember that nine times out of ten the patient on the operating table is ourself J 

What do you see as the connection between humanity and the universe?

What I see and what I have felt is an intrinsic relationship between humanity and the building blocks of the Universe.  At some point, unconditional love becomes the most important healing factor.  This is The Way of Nature.  Perhaps, this connectivity is the feeling of spirituality?

What would you like to leave as advice or a vision with our readers?

The secret ingredient to having a great life and a radiant body is love.  Find something to love, respect and appreciate in all situations and you have unlocked the door to paradise on earth and beyond.

Sarina, it is a joy to connect with you.  You can hear more about her extensive work on her website and during interviews such as on Lilou Mace's Juicy Living Tour Chi Nei Tsang and sexual energy of the Tao.

 

Interview with Adam Gokmen

Adam Gokmen is a Universal Tao Healing Instructor,  Healing Tao Australia manager and national coordinator for diverse healing events.  He brings Professor William U.Wei, Grand Master Mantak Chia in for extended workshops.  He invites instructors of healing arts and other serious students to develop or update their skills and spiritual practices in different areas.

I connect with Adam after reading books by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei, and discover colleagues have attended some of their training events. Its exciting to offer glimpses of ways to explore subtle energies, see universal philosophies are gaining momentum and taking root.

Thanks Adam for taking time-out to share some insights.

Which life events prompted you to develop an interest in Tao healing practices? 

Coming from kung fu martial arts background, i could relate to the eastern practices. My kung fu style had a number of internal practices.  As i was advancing in them, i got onto master chia's books to fine tune my practices and help me correct and guide my chi energy more efficiently.

Notable is how frequently martial arts students shift and recognize connections between streams. Aikido and Qigong introduced me to unifying with life energy and were also the stepping stones to explore other eastern traditions and practices.

What prompted you to switch from kung fu and become a Tao Healing Instructor? 

After 6 years of reading all master chia's books and self-teaching myself, i knew it was time to go over to train and get certified by the grand master as my vision was to do so and then bring the Universal Healing Tao system to Australia were we can have access to the wealth and power of the ancient taoist practices made simply to follow and practice by master chia.

Good on you for actualizing that vision to deepen self-understanding and also to serve and empower others.  How has this process affected or changed you?

Qigong, inner alchemy, tai chi and other powerful practices (Tibetan and Indian) are what i have practised.This has changed my life in many ways; my energy and internal strength, work & business, the  different ways one views life and balances me emotionally and spiritually.

Just as the 2Cellos I Will Wait , it is like we are each inviting the experience heaven within (and on Earth) at our own pace, though whatever we are intuitively drawn to create.

This said, its common for martial arts teachers to have muliple income streams, or, to teach healing arts part-time and generate income from other activities.  Do you notice a trend to balance more than one holistic job or healing practice?

  As The Tao is limitless, never closed- or single-minded, same goes with different practices.  We believe you can get the goodness out of all the holistic arts and practices, what works for one may be opposite or different for others as we are all different internally. At the end of the day, its all the same energy and force were working with.

Many people relate to Bruce Lee who viewed himself as an ambassador of chinese martial arts. He offered lectures about the wisdom of masters.  In  A Warrior's Journey, Lee explains "water is the softest substance in the world yet it can penetrate the hardest...water also is insubstantial, you cannot grasp water, cannot punch or hurt it every martial artist is aiming to be like that, soft like water an adapt himself to his opponent."  A warriors journey explains the states martial artists goes through in evolution from ignorance to enlightenment. Bruce Lee echoes, The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. What is the taoist view?

Taoists believe there is an intelligent, guiding force, Tao, permeating the universe. Taoism is a natural philosophy more than a religion, and one that cultivates a keen awareness of the cycles and forces of nature, as well as its myriad and nuanced interrelationships. In Taoism, the forces of the world and those within us are an expression of the binary opposites called yin and yang. Cultivating a clear and empty mind and a body that moves like water are the goals of practice. Indeed, in a very real sense, Taoists worship water as the ultimate example of precisely the spontaneous, relaxed quality they want to see in themselves.

As the world is expanding consciousness, the West is seeing an influx of Eastern healing teachings and related wisdom.  Some say it is part of a process of integration. What stands out to you about Healing Tao Australia? 

The universal healing tao system is a practical system of self-development that enables people to complete the harmonious evolution of there physical, mental and spiritual bodies through a series of ancient Chinese meditative and internal energy excises. Not many ‘systems’ can offer this, as were working with real energies ( internal and external we know its real , we know there’s a force there and we can FEEL it.

Why not get involved in another martial art or healing practice?

Intuition. Our vision is to give the concept of the Tao creating the desire to manifest and practice the Tao in those students who are sincere, humble and deserving to practice the Tao. The humble can only perceive the truth and the truth will set you free. These four practices below will open up your Emotional, Physical, Mental, Energetic- Spiritual bodies if you are wisdom enough to practice them.

Tell us about different styles of tai chi.  
 
There are hundreds of tai chi forms. Master chia put many forms into just a handful to cover most yin and yang elements. His books illustrate tai chi literally means Yin & Yang energy (Duality).

Why are people drawn to this practice? 

The energetic purpose of tai chi is cultivate the qi or life energy within so it flows smoothly and powerfully through the body.  People are drawn to what they are ready for.  Sometimes people are sick and wish to get well.  Other times people are well and wish to sustain or build on this. Different forms of exercise maintain strength, flexibility, and balance.  Different tai chi forms are all versions of meditation in motion. Meditation is a process of re-balancing that goes on.

Right! It is like a conscious re-calibration or shift in vibration when one feels things energetically.

So, while walking through parks, its increasingly common to see older people practicing Qigong alone or in groups. People also gather outside in cities.  Where is it most natural to practice? 

Outdoors in nature is more energetic, but as your energy gets more refined and strong, it doesn’t matter where you practice.  You will feel the energy inside of you spinning and flowing through your meridians and channels.  Inside is your temple, your cave, your universe, so that’s when you can feel one with the great force. I started outside for the first year of my practices.  Now. I can do it anywhere, any time and for as long or short as I wish.
 
Tai chi and Qigong offer many mental and physical benefits.  Tell us about those and share some examples you have witnessed as an instructor.
 
Seeing students more balanced, more healthy and with more chi is most rewarding, turning tired depleted eyes into bright strong balanced energy windows and unbalanced organs clogged up in emotions into energy centres that produce and store energy is the way.  Some examples include; better mood, with lower levels of depression, stress, and anxiety. greater aerobic capacity and muscle strength. more energy and stamina. enhanced flexibility, balance, and agility.

In a similar light, Harvard Medical School Women's Health Watch offers a thorough article on tai chi benefits. 

 What kind of connection do you see between Tao healing practices and promoting immortality? (reintegrating this idea from possibility to reality into our conscious awareness)

The Immortal Tao is the Highest Inner Alchemy Practice in the Universal Healing Tao System. This is the process of transforming the Physical Body into the Spirit Body. It is a steam process of transformation from the physical form into the spirit form. Once this is completed you can materialize and dematerialize at will, having the ability to travel beyond time and space moving beyond the North Star (Center of our Galaxy) and breaking the Karmic Wheel so you never have to come back into time and space.  The Immortal UHT practices are broken down into Two Levels. The First Level is the Kan & Li Meditations: the Kan & Li (Water & Fire) meditations of Lesser Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Navel), Greater Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Solar Plexus), and Greatest Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Heart). The Second Level is the Sealing of the Five Senses (Cauldron at the Crystal Room), Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Heaven and Man.

What are some changes you notice in yourself (energy, perception, behaviour) as the result of practicing Tao healing arts? How long have you been practicing?  

The benefits there’s to many to list. more internal energy and stronger organs and kidney energy, also slowing down the aging process are all benefits I have personally experienced with balancing my emotional state and opening channels to the higher plane and receiving and sharing energies. I have been doing Qigong for 17 years and the secret is to do just a little bit every day, give yourself 10 -15 mins a day.

Do you see a link between the length of time you practice consistently and the nature of awakening or expanding perception?

As were going deep and changing our DNA through inner alchemy practices we are constantly changing and shifting, perception, behaviour and realisation are shifting to higher planes while securing your love and respect and connection with mother earth.

If you had a piece of advice, something to offer, what would it be?
 
At the start of my practices I was full of questions always constantly asking for external help and support (which is good when your starting off) but I learnt through the years if you just look within and close the monkey mind off (ego) and connect with you true self (consciousness).  All the answers are here and they become available to you to use and learn from. Once you connect with the universe and earth energies you download wisdom, intuition, and power to strengthen your soul and sprit bodies. Trust in yourself, trust in the great force (tao) and feel and watch your life transform. To do this you need to practice , it doesn’t just come from wishful thinking you have to do the hard work and push through the barriers and obstacles like that saying ‘see the light at the end of the tunnel’ well with the tao we can see and feel that light anytime you just have to make that conscious decision when you want to activate it and feel it in this life time. Only through training in meditation can we still our minds to make conscious choices which is not only beneficial to yourself but also others because we are the whole and what affects us affects others. We are the most helpless creatures on the planet when we are born and have to be taught and learn to do everything. By training in the UHT practices, you start to rediscovery what you already know but are not conscious of it. Taoist practices give you time to become conscious. Freedom is the right to became without infringing or hindering anyone else’ right to become. Everyone has a right to be; that is our free will, which is our Divinity. With Freedom we take on great responsibilities for ourselves and our actions. The greatest freedom is discipline. In order to accomplish everything in life you need to focus and discipline yourself to achieve it and without discipline it will never happen. The Tao with its practices teaches you spiritual independence, which is not to be depend on anyone else, or thing for your existence and evolution. It takes great courage to be free and to experience consciously your freedom being divine. You let go of all your conditioning, institutionalization and physical limitation to be free and self-sufficient. All the bodies are just levels of consciousness.

Know that in the tao we are our own healers, own gurus, own doctors, own psychologist and own masters!

Its significant to notice Master Chia is widely respected for his sharing and teaching healing Tao work. As you say, all who are drawn to masters are seeing reflections of what is dormant in themselves.  We each invite ourselves to accept and actualize all we are. All roads lead to Rome. Thank you for offering some insight into what draws you to awaken and share reflections.

Please share any event updates.

We have an upcoming Chi Nei Tsang Workshop in Brisbane, and events with William U.Wei and Master Chia on the horizon.  For more infomation on future events & seminars in Australia please see www.healingtaoaustralia.com/events 

Interview with William U. Wei

It may surprise you to hear that books mysteriously appear to me on library and bookstore shelves or enter my life in other unexpected ways. Such events are signals from the universe of a readiness for new growth, a reminder every action taken has more than one purpose, and layers of motivation are revealed with perfect timing. 

While engaged in spiritual practices, like Tai Chi & Qigong, one book that appeared to me was Sealing of the Five Senses: Advanced Practices for Becoming a Taoist Immortal by Mantak Chia and William U. Wei.  Tuning in to this led to discovering other books by the same authors, including the most recent, The Tao of Immortality. The true impact is immeasurable.

Ancient teachings enter our lives when we are ready for deeper awakening, to grow conscious of and access core knowing that is ever-present.  Thus, this interview is offered as Soulful insight.  

Please share a bit about yourself and how you connected with Master Chia. 

William U. Wei also known as Wei Tzu (and The Professor).  This pen name for this instructor allows anonymity and continuing to become a blade of grass in a field.

Its like we grow into our names to give them meaning and detach to view self not as personal, but rather, as a vessel to allow universal energy to flow.  This awakening involves losing what one thinks is important in order to merge with what truly is. Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity", or key shift of focal point.

Being has no form, no name. To stabilize in that beingness gives access all knowledge.

Please expand on the Professor's background. 

The Professor was born after World War I, growing up in the Midwestern United States. In 1984, this student of the Tao started studying directly under Master Mantak Chia.  In August 1993, became a Senior Instructor of the Universal Healing Tao. He specialized in one-on-one training to over 500 students. In December 1994, after liquidating all his US assets, this Senior Instructor moved to Tao Garden, Thailand, and assisted Master Mantak Chia in building Tao Garden Taoist Training Center.  During the next six years, this student of the Tao traveled to over 30 countries teaching with Master Mantak Chia and serving as Marketing and Construction Coordinator for the Tao Garden.

What stands out is feeling the truth prompts instant shifts in priorities.  That feels like true dedication to the Universal Healing Tao. Mark Twain echos the two most important days in life are the day one is born and day one discovers why.

Precisely. When ego is no longer directing action, Soul is consciously guiding it.  After ten years finally coming out from his Southern Oregon Mountain Retreat Sanctuary, the Professor has agreed to teach all the instructor techniques on the Basic UHT (I-III), Iron Shirt (I-III), and Kan & Li (I-III) practices learn directly from Master Mantak Chia.  The instructors and serious students will learn all technical aspects of the formulas directly from the Universal Healing Tao books, why we practice the formulas and how to properly practice and teach the formulas to the students so they will continue to practice them. This information comes from over thirty years of daily practice after personally taking over 600 of Master Chia’s Workshops and teaching over 500 individual students and over 5,000 students in group workshops while teaching on tour with Master Chia from 1994 through 2000.

What led to collaborating on Tao Healing books? 

Upon completion of Tao Garden in December 1998, the Professor became Project Manager (winters) for Universal Tao Publications’ books and products (coordinating the completion of an additional 48 book titles). With the purchase of a mountain having four waterfalls in Southern Oregon, USA (6/15/1998), this practitioner is presently (summers) completing a Taoist Mountain Sanctuary for personal cultivation, Higher Level Immortal Tao practices and ascension. 

Through this process acting as Universal Healing Tao Publications’ Project Manager, the Professor has managed the formatting, layout, coordinating, editing and writing the completion of 60 Universal Healing Tao Books with another fifteen books to go to complete the Universal Healing Tao System.

The Professor also personally wrote out the over 240 formulas from the Universal Healing Tao books into the Chi Cards format (Six Decks of twenty cards each on 3x5 cards) for his personal practice and teaching his fellow students and for their daily practices as well.

Which books has 'The Professor' co-wrote with Master Chia?

This student of the Tao is the co-author of twelve Universal Healing Tao books with Master Chia as follows: Living in the Tao, Sexual Reflexology, Cosmic Detox, Cosmic Astrology, Cosmic Nutrition, Emerald River, Universal Healing Tao Formulas I, Prostate Chi Kung, Uterus Chi Kung, Chi Nei Ching, Multi-Orgasmic Teen, Sealing of the Five Senses, The Tao of Immortality and co-creator of the Universal Healing Tao Formula Cards, Chi Cards (6 sets of over 240 formulas) with Master Mantak Chia under the pen name the “The Professor - Master of Nothingness”, the Myth that takes the Mystery out of Mysticism.

These books reveal feeling one's way into harmony with Source Energy is an awakening process. Chinese philosophers echo all experience inward and outward is the product of two opposing principles: Yin and Yang (female and male, dark and light, receptive and creative)  One way to harmonize these forces is through directed activity. Tai Chi and Chi Kung are powerful activities used to balance yin- yang and vital force (chi.)  

Please offer insight into other projects in progress.

The Professor is also presently working on the future UHT books with Master Chia as follows: Universal Healing Tao Formulas II”(Book II of the Chi Cards), Ending into the Beginning (personal ascension book) and an additional 6 sets of Chi Cards with over 240 formulas with Master Mantak Chia in completing the Universal Healing Tao System.

Chi-Nei-Tsang-Microcurrent-Therapy is another Mantak Chia project in the works to be released in August 2018 with co-author Aisha Sieburth. This is another example of bringing energy insights into the present to be made available for those who are ready to take their experience to new levels of expansion.

For anyone not yet familiar with Tai Chi & Chi Kung, share how this practice stimulates expansion of consciousness and immortality. How does it relate to energy fields, bringing more light in? 

The Tao of Immortality reveals that Tai Chi, which literally means Yin & Yang (Duality), is just a small but important part of the UHT practices leading to Conscious Immortality. This is Tai Chi Chi Kung not Tai Chi that is just a form of movement. The added Chi Kung means working the internal energy as you are moving in the form implementing the Iron Shirt I (Structural Alignment and Rooting to the Earth Force and being pulled by the Heaven Forces) and Iron Short II (Whip Movement, Chi Pressure and Tendon Power). This is a simple Yang Style Form with Thirteen Movements in Four Directions starting in the North moving counterclockwise 360 degrees then clockwise 360 degrees to the original position.

How does this affect cellular memory?

Once you learn the form, which is the ten thousand-practice rule (You do it 10,000 times), you know it completely activating your molecular memory. Then you do not know if you did it or if you did not do it because it has become a meditation and has become a part of you.  You have built up a complete defense system energetically through its practice with the postures and strikes (Ward Off, Rollback, Press, Push, Single Whip & Single Hand Push) with your muscle memory.

This reminds us that humans cannot express non-physical dimensions logically. Much like the Universal Tao practice shifts energy, Sadhguru explains our perception can be expanded beyond the physical when the focal point shifts from lower chakras to see through the Third eye.  This is about allowing energy to flow from a limited perception to receive and process energy from a higher vantage point, where expanded life experience comes as the result new clarity. 

One can be intellectually-realized without being experientially realized. Many paths exist to go from limited to more expanded awareness.

Why do so many people speak of peace as the end point?

Only when all methods are dropped does ecstasy happen. From here to here, there is no journey. 

More and more people are interested in astral travel. Those engaging in out-of -body experience (OBE) and astral travel are eager to hear more about this in terms of Ying-Yang and an analogy. 

Through your daily practice you have incorporated the form into your energy body and when you leave the physical body (Ascension) you take the form (Postures and Strikes) with you to the next plane. You have formed your Energetic Yang Body (Dense Spaceship) to travel in the realms of Infinity as opposed to a Yin Body (Astral Travel). It is like a baby (Yin Body) going into the jungle (Infinite Space) or a Yang Body (Armored Tank) going into the jungle.  There are big tigers in the jungle; so, would you rather be a baby or a tank in the jungle?  Every time you do your practice (Fusion/Spinning Pakuas & Tai Chi/Strikes) you are building your energetic tank and its energetic defense system for safe travel into the great beyond.

Its interesting that different cultures have different afterlife ceremonies, different preparations for travelling to and and for visions of residing in other worlds.  Those who know Near Death Experiences (NDEs) also gain insight into the energetic journey. 

Still, immortality remains a mystery to many. Different cultural groups and religions suggest it is something to work toward or earn through experience in this life for the next life. Still other teachers, such as yogis, monks, fakirs, echo other perspectives. How is your view of immortality changing through your practice of Taoist Meditation and other healing arts?

The Immortal Tao is the Highest Inner Alchemy Practice in the Universal Healing Tao System. This is the process of transforming the Physical Body into the Spirit Body. It is a steam process of transformation from the physical form into the spirit form.

Some people also describe this as evolution of the carbon-based body into a crystal or light body.

Once this is completed, you can materialize and dematerialize at will, having the ability to travel beyond time and space moving beyond the North Star (Center of our Galaxy) and breaking the Karmic Wheel so you never have to come back into time and space. 

That said, some beings do choose to return to this world of time and space as Masters or other teachers. Please expand on specific Immortal UHT practices.

The Immortal UHT practices are broken down into Two Levels. The First Level is the Kan & Li Meditations: the Kan & Li (Water & Fire) meditations of Lesser Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Navel), Greater Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Solar Plexus), and Greatest Kan & Li Enlightenment (Cauldron at the Heart). The Second Level is the Sealing of the Five Senses (Cauldron at the Crystal Room), Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Heaven and Man.

You have co-authored a number of books with Mantak Chia. Why is the time ripe to write and release: The Tao of Immortality? 

In today’s Global Society, people have lost sense of morality, respect for life or decency with the senseless killing and wars. They have lost their way. All spiritual paths seek the natural flow of the universe, the Tao. The Tao is one of balance and harmony with everything in the universe. Taoism is a real practice of body, mind and spirit. Not just a philosophy of mind only. When we have the true sense of its meaning, the true knowledge and wisdom, we will be able to make the right decisions in our lives. All spiritual goals lead to the truth of the universe. The Tao is the study of the technology of how to seek the truth of the universe, nature and humans. Its focus goes beyond any one single path or viewpoint. The Tao is not a religion and requires no initiations or ceremonies. The Tao is the outcome of all religions, while it leaves them behind just like the clothing of different seasons and different places. The Tao is the goal of serious science, but it leaves behind all sciences as partial and temporal descriptions of the integral truth.

What is special about advanced Taoist teachings?

Advanced Taoist teachings are like a master key that unlocks all doors. Taoism includes all religious subjects, yet its breadth and depth go far beyond the limits of religious devotion. The teachings of the Tao assist people in their lives like religions do; yet the Tao transcends all religions while still containing their essence. Taoism explains or demonstrates the truth directly, not on the emotional, thought or belief level. It leaves no room for skepticism or endless searching. Philosophy, science and religions all contain a part of the universal truth, the Tao. The Tao reflects the center of the ultimate truth (you) and helps you to reach it for yourself. Through the practices of the Universal Healing Tao System you will discover the Tao within yourself and our way back to peace and harmony with a Global Consciousness Transformation which is the only way to solve the upheaval on the planet today.

The book presents 5 infant spirits that exist within every human being and also states, “you want your infant spirits to gain wisdom and that is something that cannot be attained in school. Wisdom is only acquired in the stars. Your goal then is for your collective spirit and soul to become educated, grow up, and recognize your oneness with the universe.”

What advice do you offer souls who come to Earth never consciously disconnecting from this oneness of the universe, but struggle to ground? Their goal seems to be to grow downward. 

Only through training in meditation can we still our minds to make conscious choices which is not only beneficial to yourself but also others because we are the whole and what affects us affects others. At birth, we are the most helpless creatures on the planet and have to be taught to learn and remember everything.

How do UHT practices facilitate expanding consciousness?

By training in the UHT practices, you start to rediscovery what you already know but are not conscious of it. Taoist practices give you time to become conscious. Freedom is the right to became without infringing or hindering anyone else’ right to become. Everyone has a right to be; that is our free will, which is our Divinity. With Freedom we take on great responsibilities for ourselves and our actions. The greatest freedom is discipline. In order to accomplish everything in life you need to focus and discipline yourself to achieve it and without discipline it will never happen. The Tao with its practices teaches you spiritual independence, which is not to be depend on anyone else, or thing for your existence and evolution. It takes great courage to be free and to experience consciously your freedom being divine. You let go of all your conditioning, institutionalization and physical limitation to be free and self-sufficient. All the bodies are just levels of consciousness.

This new book talks about nine levels of alchemy. What relationship do you see of these levels have with the first 9 chakras? How is the process of cleansing and purifying the chakras related to working and ascending through the nine levels of alchemy? 

This is just in that area with the chakras. The Taoist focus on the five vital organs, three minds & three bodies for the nine levels of alchemy. You can achieve the Tao alone (all-one) with the universe but with the proper instruction the instructor will give you the Taoist concepts, guidelines (formulas) and feedback sharing their personal experiences with the formulas to give you direction for your own self-discovery in the Tao.

Why is having a teacher important? Why can one not do this properly alone?

Feedback is important and makes all the difference in world to one who sincere and deserving which is the way the Tao was traditional presented and taught.

How does the Universal Healing Tao system relate to other healing modalities?

Our vision is to give the concept of the Tao creating the desire to manifest and practice the Tao in those students who are sincere, humble and deserving to practice the Tao. The humble can only perceive the truth and the truth will set you free. These four practices below will open up your Emotional, Physical, Energetic and Spiritual bodies if you are wisdom enough to practice them.

In the West, the Tao healing practices are used by people diagnosed with different illnesses as part of a healing regimen. Which practices can you suggest to feel and balance inner energy?

Four practices are detailed here; Inner Smile, Cosmic Detox, Chi Nei Tsang and Taoist Cosmic Healing-

Inner Smile: The first step in this Inner Alchemy process is to feel the internal energy. The only way to understand the Tao is to feel it inside yourself. You need to feel the internal energy before you can cultivate it. Through the Inner Smile Formula, you literally get in touch mentally with your five vital organs and related-organs (Functional Channel - Front Line), digestive tract (Digestive Channel - Middle Line) and your crown and spinal cord (Governor Channel - Back Line) by using your eyes and smiling down each line connecting with each part of your body.  By doing this on a daily basis you will start to develop a personal relationship with yourself on the physical, emotional, mental and energetic (spiritual) levels. By using the autonomic nervous system internally through your eyes with a para-sympathetic (positive) response you create a good feeling of love in your body.  Your heart generates this smiling energy when you focus your eyes into your heart with positive thoughts. When you smile down your body, your body will respond with positive loving energy.  This is how we learn to generate love within ourselves instead taking it from others; the abundance of that love within us will spread to others energetically across time and space without trying to give love to anyone. It is like greeting someone with a hand shake, hug or smile: they will respond the same, except now you do it internally to all your internal body parts and you feel relaxed, calm and at peace.  By doing so you have created the proper internal environment to proceed with the next step in cultivating your internal energy in a systemic pattern. You always start each following formula with the Inner Smile creating the proper environment for your internal transformation; this is always the first step of your daily practice.

This Inner Smile practice you recommend resonates.  Its benefits are also backed up by Dr. Isha Gupta, a neurologist from IGEA Brain and Spine who explains a smile initiates a chemical reaction in the brain, releasing certain horomes including dopamine and seratonin.  "Dopamine increases our feelings of happienss.  Seratonin release is associated with reduced stress.  Low levels of  seratonin are associated with depression and aggression.  Low levels of dopamine are also associated with depression." (cited from Gaiam tv special on 'You Are the Medicine' -Psychedlica, April 2018) 

Cosmic Detox: In our modern world we live (awake & sleeping) in unnatural environments with artificial lighting, commercialized homes, drinking chemically charged water, and eating commercialized foods, which causes severe and fatal conditions in our bodies that are not natural to our body internally. The process starts from birth to our graves as we are exposed to these artificial environments consuming artificial foods, air and water, which block our nine openings (mouth, anus, genitals, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils) and the largest organ (skin) of the body. As we get older the toxins (poisons) continue to multiply causing insurmountable blockages in our bodies if we do not periodically clean them out with systematic techniques to maintain our health and longevity. Through the Cosmic Detox formulas (Colonics, Cell, Eye & Rectal Cleanses, Liver, Gall Bladder & Kidney Flushes, Facial Sponge Washing, Sexual & Chi Self-Massages, Nasal Douching, Dry Skin Brushing & Solar Bathing) and proper diet you can begin to release blockages. Without daily and periodic practice or living in natural environment 24 hours a day and 7 days a week the toxins will again build up and further wear out the body which is your temple where you do all your Inner Alchemy practices. We need to develop a systematic process to clean and clear out the built up toxins in our bodies or we will drown in them. Without unblocked openings in our bodies we will not have complete success with our Inner Alchemy practices because we are dealing with very subtle energy in those practices, which these blockages affect dramatically. With Cosmic Detox formulas this can be accomplished depending on the severity and maintained over our lifetime.

Chi Nei Tsang: In the rivers of the forest, leaves of the tree branches fall into the water clogging it up at the bends of the river.  When they stop the flow of the river stagnation sets up in the river and a new organism forms called a swamp. The same happens in our body with the energy channels (rivers). They become blocked with debris (toxins) and form a new organism called cancer when stagnation happens.  The Chi Nei Tsang formulas are a hands-on application to manually remove any branches (debris) from your energy rivers (energy channels, lines and meridians). Through the Chi Nei Tsang Internal Organ Massage techniques (Healing Hands Meditation, Fanning, Venting, Flushing, Opening and Chasing the Wind Gates and Winds) the practitioner activates and opens the channels and energy lines releasing the Sick Energy and Winds. The Chi Nei Tsang formulas (Navel Diagnosis & Release, Skin & Intestines Detoxify, Organ (Diaphragm, Lungs, Liver, Pancreas, Spleen, Heart, Kidneys, Lymph System, Psoas Muscle, Nerves, Ovaries and Prostate) detoxify the whole body removing the blockages one at a time over a period of time depending on the extent of the stagnation. Common aliments (Headaches, Leg Pain (Sciatic Nerve) and Pulse Balancing) are also healed by these formulas and healing is further attained by the Tree Chi Kung formulas (Tree Palming on Yin & Yang Sides) using nature’s Immortal Healers. You will learn how to diagnosis your body and its toxic levels and obstructions and stress from the inside out through the assistance of the CNT practitioner with periodic sessions and how to maintain your body’s balance with your daily hands on practice.  This is a safe, practical way to connect physically with and balance your body on a daily basis using these simple healing hands-on techniques to open up, release and detoxify your body for health and longevity.

Taoist Cosmic Healing: To connect with the energy channels we need to open them up consciously in the body. Through the Universal Healing Tao techniques (Bone Marrow Washing, Earth & Heaven Channeling, Tiger Mouth and Open Index Finger) we activate these energy lines, channels and meridians. This opens up our body to our consciousness.  These Cosmic Healing techniques will assist you in connecting with your vital organs consciously to grow and experience the internal energy while healing your body. Through the Cosmic Chi Kung formulas (Grabbing the Moon, Bridge & Regulator Channels, Yin (Functional) & Yang (Governing) Channels and Planets to Organs) you can activate the negative and positive channels in the body.  Cosmic Chi Kung (formally known as Buddha Palm) utilizes hand energy line techniques that connect with vital organs opening your body up to be healed by the Cosmos. With daily Taoist Cosmic Healing practice, you will activate and open up the body’s channels to the Cosmic Forces of Heaven and Earth and cultivate them in your body. By growing this Cosmic Energy and incorporating the Elemental and Color Forces (Earth/Yellow, Fire/Red, Metal/White, Water/Blue and Wood/Green) internally you will set in motion the total body healing process for your health and longevity and healing others who are open to this energetic healing.

People who hunger or thirst for truth, come to realize the human being is a transmitting station of forces. In which ways is awakening triggered or accelerated by spiritual practice like meditation and chi kung?

Truth is your own reality. It is what you perceive that resonates deep within you to be the truth for you. It is your truth that applies to you not necessarily to anyone else but we are so good at manifesting our truths and they resonate so deeply within us that we think they are for everyone or apply to everyone else. That is the problem that leads to conflict or wars with others. Plus, the factor your truth today maybe not be applicable on a future date because everything around us is changing and is subject to change so what apply for today may not apply in the future. That is the truth.

It is felt that a person knows and feels only through direct experience, and that one has to be willing to die to be reborn and grow in new directions.   In your experience, do students practice meditation & Chi Kung to move beyond the ego? To experience timelessness? For other reasons?

A person knows and feels only through their years of gather information and years of direct experience of utilization of that gain knowledge. The dying is letting go of the ego which obstructs the Flow of the Tao and its mystical way by learning and practicing the UHT practices. Space and time are an illusion created by the imprisonment of our consciousness using the perception of our five senses. When you move beyond our five senses you move beyond time and space.

The idea that man cannot “do” and that everything is already done in him can seem confusing. Only those that are being are in fact doing consciously. Please comment.

Within each our cell of our bodies (DNA) you find all secret truths of the Universal all you have to do is learn to slow down your mind (meditation) they will be revealed to you. That is the art of doing nothing, Wu Wei. To understand Wu Wei, you cannot give your ego, or monkey mind as the Taoist call it, anything positive or negative. Your ego is a parasite because it lives off your energy, positive or negative. When you resist the ego you give it the power to overtake you and if you support the ego it overtakes you. So, what do you do? Wu Wei, you do nothing by not giving it any positive or negative energy. Now this is an art and it takes many years of practice to develop it as the art of doing nothing because when you succeed you will not obstruct the flow of Tao and you will become the Tao.

If you could offer our readers some advice, what would it be?

Life is simple and complete once you have the concept of what you are doing which creates the desire to manifest what you want. Concept, desire and manifestation is the whole process of becoming from the initial manifestation of the physical realm to every thought we have. It is all the same process for all of us. Just think it and you will become it. So, become your own reality and this final note will help you on your journey and the realization of the Tao. As you learn to let go, the energy (Chi) flows through you and eventually, by practicing the UHT Formulas (correct action) you will connect with that energy and become one with it.  And that is the Tao.

Please share anything else you wish to add. 

In 2019, The Professor is offering a 10-day workshop. The date is to be determined. It is the second time this will be available to the UHT instructors who will learn how to upgrade their certifications from the Professor who helped design the Universal Healing Tao Certification system. It is the Professor's wish to share these understandings of the Universal Healing Tao System to his fellow instructors and serious student of the Universal Healing Tao (UHT) before he retires from active teaching and go into his cave for his personal Immortal Ascension.

Also Master Chia is planning to teach in Sydney, Australia in April 2019

Blessings from the Universe & may the Chi be with you.  

Love knowing we are each a version of Life Force or a dormant jedi like those portrayed as separate from us in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and other Star Wars movies.  Story Waters offers a relevant view on The Meaning of Life.  Teachings of the Masters in this world and beyond, invite us to grow more intimate with what is real.