Zi Fa Gong: Natural flow qi gong
20 Years ago I started my practice of natural flow qi gong. It is part dance, part journey work and completely spontaneous movements meant to connect with my energy and body.
I remember clearly in my mind the feeling of falling into this practice. I pulled in energy around me. I was filled with light and joy. I personally think of the energies as: ancestors, archetypes, animal/plant and rock spirits, the Great All, fairies. I ask the energy to assist me. I always thought of it as cleansing first then “activate” or open channels.
Fast forward to only a few years ago, I was studying in a book and read about natural flow. I was truly astonished!! I call it the Divine Feminine Way. Primordial, ancient, shamanic, unbound by structure it seeks internal equilibrium for that moment. Truly present in the now. I love the structured Divine Masculine form as it enables me to really practice the forms until my body recognizes the movement. Often, I will incorporate my version in a natural flow.
A Thousand Suns
A few years ago I was feeling sparky and ask for the energy of a “Thousand Suns”. I reached out and inward cultivating, visualizing and feeling the massive connection of something I never played in before. I don’t do it much as it seems quite past abundance and I immediately started sneezing as my nose was dripping. I felt a strange fever and a pulsing dizziness. My eyes started to water. I felt nauseous. I layed in bed the following days and was inundated with strange dreams unfolding. Interesting thought forms emerging. It took me on a journey for sure, but I think its quite intense! It is not a coincidence. It was a very very real intention and I felt the energy pulsing through my whole being.
Journey Work with Natural Flow
I start this practice usually attending ecstatic dance but not always. I go into my particular moves that I have names for. I start letting go. Emptying my bones. Dripping with sweat, my whole self activated and ready to receive. The great Yin yawn. There is usually a sense of fog or mist. A figure forms and we become one. We soar and I am taught stories. Sometimes there is no mist but an abrupt realization that I am something “other”. I keep going trying to figure out, what am I? Sometimes I don’t know until after the bond is released. I always ask the Spirit, what do you think of this human form? What would you express in this form? The exchange. They are giving me something, I offer up my form to allow experience to be reciprocal. It’s often met with jubilance. Serpent was excited to play with limbs, Worm felt stuck with a spine, plants are curious and poke fun at sensations that are so foreign to them. I leave these encounters with a greater perspective and expanded empathy.
Further Reading:
https://tcm.nz/articles/natural-flow-qigong/
“Our body holds thousands years old silent knowledge of how to restore its balance, and by letting go of the acquired patterns this knowledge is surfaced into being”
Letting go
trusting the Universe and intuition
playing and feeling joy
