Establish Your Qigong Practice
This is where your practice begins
Before stepping into mentorship or training to teach, your own practice needs to be established.
This stage is a self-paced, online program focused on developing a consistent, lived practice. It develops through learning to feel, refine and stay with the process over time.
The focus here is on building something steady and grounded — not something you do occasionally, but something you return to and deepen.
As your practice becomes consistent, your awareness changes. Your relationship with your Qi becomes clearer, and from that, the foundation for teaching begins to take shape.
This isn’t something to move through quickly. It’s the beginning of a way of practising that supports everything that follows.
What this looks like in practice
You move through self-study of Modules 1 and 2 while developing a steady rhythm of practice. This includes foundational work such as standing, posture and alignment, and learning to feel and work with Qi.
This is supported through three months of Yang Sheng Fa membership within the NLQ Online Studio, with most students moving through this stage over that time. Alongside this, we meet one-to-one so I can get a direct sense of how you’re engaging with the practice and how your form is developing.
I also take the time to understand what you’re seeking, what’s drawing you in and what you’re ready to commit to. From there, your practice begins to orient in a way that aligns with both.
This stage asks you to take responsibility for your practice and stay consistent with it. Over time, your understanding deepens, your experience becomes more direct and your relationship with the practice becomes clearer.
What this asks of you
Establishing your practice doesn’t require prior experience, but it does ask for consistency and a willingness to return to it again and again.
You’ll need to practise regularly and apply yourself to the foundations — principles, forms and the development of awareness — refining what you’re doing over time rather than moving quickly from one thing to the next.
This involves learning to feel and work with your Qi, not just following movements, and being open to guidance as your practice develops.
It also asks you to take responsibility for your practice — how you show up, how consistent you are and how it evolves over time.
There’s no pressure to move beyond this stage, but if you do, the next steps will become clear through your own experience.
If you’re ready to begin, start with your practice.
The next stage of training
Once your practice is established, Dao Mentorship is where your training is guided, refined and developed toward teaching.
Through one-to-one mentorship, we assess your practice, identify your direction and support the next stage of your development.
If you already have an established practice or have previously completed Modules 1–2, you may be ready to apply directly for Dao Mentorship.
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