Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi (IIQTC)

12/30/2025

Discover Breath Medicine: A Path to Natural Healing

The breath is one of the most powerful tools for gathering, circulating, purifying, and directing the body's inner functional resources. With simple adjustments to pace and depth, breathing can activate the body's own natural medicine.

The Breath Medicine Online Course is on sale now, with a free bonus live workshop, click here to learn more: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/iibreath/raja/

In this video, Dr. Roger Jahnke explains how intentional breathing supports the nervous system and stimulates internal healing mechanisms—tools that are always available, anytime and anywhere.

Dr. Jahnke has trained breath practice leaders around the world and developed a comprehensive program that blends practical breath techniques with modern science and time-honored wisdom from yoga, Chinese medicine, and global shamanic traditions.

During the holidays—and in everyday life—busy schedules, long to-do lists, and emotional demands can take a toll. Breath Medicine offers simple, accessible practices to help restore calm, clarity, and balance, one breath at a time.

Enjoy full access to the Breath Medicine Video Library for $85 (regularly $179), including a live Zoom Breath Medicine Review with Dr. Roger Jahnke on January 3rd at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/iibreath/raja/

12/29/2025

Holiday Special Offer! Get Over 50% Off the Breath Medicine Video Library + Bonus Workshop

The start of a new year is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and choose habits that genuinely support your well-being. Instead of forcing resolutions, this is an opportunity to cultivate practices that nourish your mind, body, and spirit—and that you can actually sustain.

For a limited time, get lifetime access to the Breath Medicine Video Library at over 50% off—now just $85 (regularly $179)—plus a bonus live Breath Medicine Review Workshop ($99 value for free) with Dr. Roger Jahnke on January 3rd at 11:00 AM Pacific / 2:00 PM Eastern: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/iibreath/raja/

Breath practice is a simple yet profound way to reset your nervous system, calm the mind, and cultivate clarity, balance, and inner peace. By working consciously with the breath, you support your body's natural processes of self-healing, restoration, creativity, and productivity—setting the tone for a healthy, aligned year ahead.

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12/28/2025

Medical Qigong and the Path of Healing: An Embodied Approach to Health with Dr. Oley Smith

What if healing wasn't something you sought outside yourself, but something you cultivated within—through body, breath, and mind?

🎥 In this episode of How Qigong and Tai Chi Changed My Life, podcast host Susan Axelrod welcomes Dr. Oley Smith, master teacher of Qigong and Tai Chi, for a grounded conversation on Medical Qigong as a practical, embodied path to healing:
https://youtu.be/iOMB8b_hQPo?list=PLnKdvBxH5LId7Ob9g_EXQ04zu7bxVySdu

In this episode, you'll learn about:

• What Medical Qigong is and how it differs from technique-based practices
• Healing as an embodied, lived experience—not just a concept
• Core principles like yin and yang, and how they apply to everyday life
• The three treasures: body, breath, and mind
• Why returning to the foundation supports sustainable health
• Medical Qigong as a self-empowerment practice you can do for yourself
• Alignment, stillness, and awareness as guides for both practice and life

▶️ Click to watch this inspiring conversation between Susan Axelrod and Dr. Oley Smith:
https://youtu.be/iOMB8b_hQPo?list=PLnKdvBxH5LId7Ob9g_EXQ04zu7bxVySdu

Qigong offers practical ways to participate in your own healing and well-being.In this episode of How Qigong and Tai Chi Changed My Life, Susan Axelrod speak...

12/27/2025

The Power of Meditation Summit - FREE Online Event (January 2026)

What if you could fundamentally change your relationship with your own mind? In Season 9 of The Power of Meditation Summit, we'll move beyond surface-level "positive thinking" or quick-fix affirmations and look at how to deeply transform our internal narrative. Learn more: https://kelly-blaser.mykajabi.com/a/2148211044/wjDXVRoM

Join Dr. Roger Jahnke and world-class meditation teachers, yogis, therapists, and spiritual leaders, as we explore Dharma teachings and somatic practices that transform how you relate to your mind, your self, and reality itself.

✅ 30 Expert Interviews
✅ 10 Guided Meditations
✅ 10 Embodiment Practices
✅ LIVE Guided Practice Weekend
Are you ready to change your inner dialogue and free your heart-mind?

RSVP here for "The Power of Meditation Summit" — at no charge: https://kelly-blaser.mykajabi.com/a/2148211044/wjDXVRoM

Healing Self-Talk & Freeing the Heart-Mind Through Dharma and Somatic Practices.

12/24/2025

A Mindful Invitation for the Holiday Season

Holiday stress eases when we slow down and return to the present moment.

Before the celebrations begin, take a moment to arrive fully in this season. Mindfulness invites us to slow down and simply be—breathing deeply, releasing stress, and appreciating what's already here.

Gratitude reminds us of the people and moments that truly matter.

And if your energy feels stretched, it's okay to set boundaries. Protecting your peace is not selfish—it's necessary.

Wishing you a calm, meaningful, and heart-centered season.

Team RJ / IIQTC

12/23/2025

New! Primordial Wuji Qigong Online Workshop (January 2026)

Are you ready to experience Qigong not just as movement—but as a gateway to profound inner transformation?

Click here to join us online on January 14, 21, 28, 2026 for the Primordial Wuji Qigong Online Workshop: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/26-005/raja/

These are the powerful benefits of Primordial Wuji Qigong:

1. Explore and develop Inner Alchemy (Neigong or internal skill) in your Qigong practice.
2. Perceive energy within and around your body -- Feel the Qi, Direct the Qi, Transform the Qi.
3. Develop, deepen and refine your own personal practice -- for your unique life, as you are, for who you are and who you might become.
4. Learn and practice the Primordial ~ Golden Elixir Qigong form.
5. Learn to discriminate various states of mind/consciousness and their practice uses.
6. Rehabilitate your cells and your DNA; Primordial Qigong Practice has profound physiological and energetic benefits.
7. Refine "ordinary" awareness to develop your extrasensory perception and work with the energetics of the mental and emotional bodies.
8. Learn and practice "Tapping Primordial" a version of tapping acupressure which releases the primordial energy of the universe within.
9. Participants receive a training manual and have exclusive access to a web-based library of audio and video materials.

Wuji Qigong creates a spacetime neutralizing vortex! It is a portal to a deepening of connection with your immortal self.

Click here to learn more and sign up for the Primordial Wuji Qigong Online Workshop: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/26-005/raja/

12/22/2025

Prepare Your Digestion Before the Holiday Feast

Holiday eating doesn't have to come with digestive discomfort.

Traditional Chinese Medicine emphasizes supporting digestion before large or rich meals, rather than waiting to manage discomfort afterward. The tips below come from a shared article that highlights simple, time-tested ways to help the body handle holiday feasting with greater ease:

Acupuncture/Acupressure — Acupuncture or self-massage before holiday events can "activate" your digestive system, improve circulation, and regulate the gut-brain connection – the pathway responsible for cravings, stress eating, and fullness signals.

Herbs — Herbs are one of the easiest ways to support digestion – gently, naturally, and effectively. Consume before meals for better digestion, or after to ease bloating.

Pre-Event Tips — Simple pre-meal habits like eating a small protein-fiber snack, sipping warm apple cider vinegar water, staying hydrated between meals, and practicing mindful eating can help prevent overeating and support digestion.

Managing stress — Holiday stress can slow digestion, increase bloating and heartburn, and trigger cravings—but even 1–2 minutes of calming practices like slow breathing, warm tea, or gentle stretching before meals can significantly support digestion and comfort throughout the season.

A little preparation can make a big difference.

👉 Read the full article here: https://kokinhealingcenter.com/2025/12/prepare-your-body-for-holiday-feasts-acupuncture-herbal-detox-pre-event-tips/

Empower your health the natural way!

The Tai Chi & Qigong Way Free Library is your gateway to ancient energy practices for modern healing. Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/free

12/21/2025

✨ Jump Start 2026 with the Power of Breath ✨

What if your breath could become your reliable tool for vitality, clarity, and healing—for life?

Breath Medicine with Dr. Roger Jahnke is available with an extraordinary holiday offer. Click here to learn more: https://healthaction.isrefer.com/go/iibreath/raja/

The easiest way to activate the medicine within is to modify the breath. Breath Medicine can help prevent disease, increase vitality, and support healthy longevity.

For a limited time, the Breath Medicine Video Library is available at over 50% off, with a live bonus workshop on January 3rd.

✅ Full Breath Medicine Video Library for just $85 (Regularly $179)
🎁 BONUS Live Breath Medicine Review via Zoom
📅 Saturday, January 3rd
⏰ 11:00–12:30 pm PST | 2:00–3:30 pm EST

When you sign up for the Video Library, you'll be automatically registered for the bonus Breath Medicine Review with Dr. Roger Jahnke, receive reminders, and gain access to the recording.

In this experience, Dr. Jahnke shares breath practices drawn from global wisdom traditions—simple, profound, and accessible practices you can use and share for the rest of your life.

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12/20/2025

Calm the Holiday Rush: Prepare Your Mind with Qigong

The holidays can be joyful—and overwhelming. Before the rush of gatherings, errands, and expectations, take a moment to prepare your mind.

Qigong is a moving meditation that begins not with posture or breath, but with focused awareness. By gently quieting daily stressors, releasing lingering regrets, and softening future worries, the mind settles into the present moment—where balance can return.

Dr. Roger Jahnke reminds us that when the mind becomes steady, the breath and movement naturally support the nervous system, shifting us out of stress chemistry and into rest, recovery, and restoration.

This weekend before the holidays, start small. Slow the breath. Focus the mind. Let your practice become a calm anchor during the busiest time of year. ✨

12/19/2025

The benefits of gentle, therapeutic exercises for health enhancement

This article, called "Physiology of Qigong and Yoga", co-written by Dr. Jahnke, shares some insight about the potential health benefits of having more oxygen in the body:

"In both vigorous and moderate exercise, the body produces a powerful mix of metabolic resources. However, in vigorous exercise, this energy production serves as endogenous fuel to support muscle activity and is spent to feed hungry muscles.

In the less intense fitness systems of ancient cultures, this inner resource has historically been considered therapeutic or medicinal and is conserved, so it can be circulated throughout the body as an internal healing resource referred to in ancient China as "the inner medicine" or "the healer within."

This resource is not completely expended but is circulated internally and utilized as a reserve of self-repair factors to sustain and heal tissues, organs, and glands in support of optimal function, recovery, and longevity. Increased oxygen availability from the practice of therapeutic exercise offers at least three potential benefits:

• Support for energy production,
• Cellular and intracellular hydration, as a by-product of energy metabolism, and
• Enhanced immune function."

Source: https://www.townsendletter.com/article/437-physiology-of-qigong-and-yoga-dr-jahnke/

Do you experience pain, limits to flexibility, signs of aging, malfunction of organs, problems of digestion, stress or sleep problems?

The Healer Within Qigong Program is designed with these challenges and more in mind. All the Healer Within Qigong practices enhance the function of all the bodily systems — called COHERENCE – to maximize healing potential within by coordinating body, breath, and mind to produce an amazing inner medicine — know as "The Body Elixir."

Click here to learn more: http://iiqtc.org/mqlibrary

12/18/2025

Embracing Winter with Traditional Chinese Medicine

Winter is a great time for pausing, reflecting, and renewing your energy. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), winter is related to the Water element and your kidneys. Some simple diet changes and self-care habits can help replenish your energy and keep it flowing, warming you through the cold months.

An article called "Embracing Winter with Traditional Chinese Medicine" shares some easy ways to keep you warm through nutrition and reflection:

"To start, you can take a look in your kitchen.

So much of our health begins with the food we put into our bodies. It's found best to avoid cold, raw foods and to instead focus on warming foods that will help generate energy, rather than deplete it. Eating cold foods in cold seasons means your body will be working extra hard to generate warmth...

Take a deep breath. It's okay to rest.

Winter is the time for inward energy, for self care and reflection. The quietness is welcoming to our strung out senses. We are now at the beginning of a new cycle, getting ready to blossom into spring. It can be hard to let go of our work stress and overstimulation in exchange for quiet inward reflection.

Our nervous systems are overwhelmed and ready to slow things down. Some ways to help strengthen and grow your energy can be as simple as a nourishing oil hair mask and warm bath, or tuning in with meditation. Slow, stretching exercises pair well with winter, as it's best to avoid too much strenuous activity.

Just let your body move freely. Book that deep tissue massage you've been dreaming of and lean into relaxation. KI3 is one of the best winter acupressure points as it's said to be the source point for the kidneys' energetic system."

Read the full article to learn more and get nutrition tips: https://innerstrengthacupuncture.ca/embracing-winter-with-traditional-chinese-medicine/

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12/17/2025

From Grief to Wellness: How Qigong Changed Linda Anne Goulet's Life

Growing up in a family affected by pulmonary fibrosis, Linda Anne Goulet's shares her personal journey of coping with lung health awareness and grief.

Discover how Qigong and Tai Chi transformed Linda's approach to health and wellness in this insightful episode of How Qigong and Tai Chi Changed My Life, hosted by Susan Axelrod: https://youtu.be/Zd0Sc4u-5jA

She explains how practices like Reiki, Tai Chi, and especially Qigong became a powerful tool for meditation, breathwork, and movement, helping her enhance lung function and overall well-being.

🎥 Watch the full podcast to learn how attending to the depth of your breath and embracing meditative movement can be a complete game changer for personal health: https://youtu.be/Zd0Sc4u-5jA