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have reverence for, he’s no longer alive, was Weizhao Wu. I studied with him for many years. I did a lot of styles of Qigong and what I learned was how the chi works. Through my own daily practice, I could feel it in my body as a magnetism in my hands. I could feel it more and more each year. I sought to develop the forms deeper, so I designed my own with breathing techniques based on pranayama from India.

     I was teaching twenty people at a time back in 2003. In 2005 we did the first four day seminar for $99 and two hundred people came. Everybody loved it and we were showing them these breathing techniques that in 45 seconds gave them a full body vibration. People that had been doing energy work for a very long time had never experienced the energy to this degree of intensity before. That’s the story of Supreme Science Qigong. It came about as an experience of so many types of Qigong and was distilled into a simple format that the Western audience can run with. As of today, fifteen thousand people have taken the seminar, so it’s grown a lot.


GS: Across the board, it’s time for all of these kinds of things to be

made more accessible. I think that’s a hallmark of the paradigm shift that we’re going through. It’s interesting to watch it happen in all the different areas of spirituality, metaphysics and even religion.


JP: There’s so much happening now. Qigong is just one part of everything that’s happening. The thing that Qigong brings to the table, that’s so unique, is a biological experience of spirit, of God, whatever we want to call it. It’s a biological experience that even the most skeptical person can’t deny and because of that, it changes lives on a very profound level. I think that all the energy work that’s going on is very important for that reason.


GS: Experience is the teacher. You can keep it theoretical and learn everything intellectually, but eventually you’ve got to get down and do it. Give us a working definition for Qigong.


JP: Qigong is a system of breathing techniques to harness the energy that’s in the air, increase the amount of oxygen in the blood and use the flow of chi, using movements, meditation, and visualization. Chi is what really

needs to be explained. That’s where the most misunderstanding occurs. Chi is the body’s metabolic energy. If I was to say, you have a high metabolism, I would in fact be saying, you have a high chi vibration.


GS: When you say metabolic, it starts to sound like a physical thing.


JP: Chi is physical. Chi is what moves the blood in your body. According to classical Chinese Medicine, chi is the mother of blood. What it’s saying is that the chi rules the blood. When a person has a chi blockage, or an area where the energy can’t go, that’s a very real phenomenon. Western medicine would say that this is an area that the blood cannot go, or go fully. So if, for instance, somebody has a shoulder injury and they do some Qigong exercises, then they can bring blood, bring chi, into that area. There’s a kind of pulsation of blood that accompanies chi, so when you raise your chi, the body, or your chakras for the yogis out there, they start to pulse. So Qigong is the art of increasing the digestive process, the metabolism, the vibration, the energy of life, and