Incredible Benefits of Qi Gong Revealed: An Interview with Ken Cohen
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- Discover qi gong's healing potential for empowerment and self-cultivation with Qi Gong Master Ken Cohen...
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Kenneth Cohen is a beautiful and deep educator
I am a Quaker first. Silence and meditation are central to my spiritual life and have been for 50 years .(82 yo).
I have enjoyed George's programs and luck at having discovered tai ji early in life. I practice various qigong daily Liu zi jue,
ba duan jin and tai ji short and long forms. Movement is key to the successful practice of qigong. Tao te jin inspires.
thanks for bringing Ken back into my awareness.
Thank you for your support and kind words! 🙏
Look the absolutely stillness that Ken Cohen maintains, so steady and alert. Looking at him is a lesson in itself, completely together. Watching Ken and mirroring his stillness is so illuminating. Amazing how he transmits meaning whilst staying so still.
I could listen to Ken all day. So much wisdom and knowledge in this interview. I'll be revisiting this one for sure. Thank you.
Thanks both of you. English is not my language so I’m learning qigong and English quite at same time, it’s not easy for my brain …so I really appreciate this conversation because you both speaks slowly enough, I’m able to understand but its not just “basic” on surface as you go deeper… I especially enjoyed Mr. Kenneth Cohen deep and soft, grounding voice and yours beautiful smile. Wish you a beautiful day 🙏🏼🪷🐉
Ken is One of The best Qigong Scholars in the world!!
I'm one of the best drivers in the front of my vehicle.
Thank you so much. I get so caught up in my bodybuilding and it takes away so much time and I notice I'm neglecting creative activities, literature and soft arts because I constantly think I have to be outside walking or working out in the gym. Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing your experience. Keep up the hard work, but don't forget to take breaks and explore other interests as well. 🙏
“Balance is even harder to achieve than complete dedication to the hard stuff”. So so brilliant!! I was a workaholic who burned out completely and still struggling to get back on my feet from the shock. Everyone pays in the end
You're so right. I have the opposite problem: I have difficulty getting enough exercise sometimes and my main focus are the arts and more calm ventures. I really liked this explanation. I liked how he spoke about not being snobbish or thinking you're better because you practice qi gong and not regular exercise.
Some spiritual people also adapt that sense of thinking they're on a higher level because they're less focused on the physical. It is all about balance. A stable mind in a fit body.
This is a great interview. I learned a lot. I am going on a year in December of my Qi Gong journey. I love Kenneth’s insight of the mitochondria being Dan Tien. I love it. Powerful interview. 😊😊😊
Wow…Ken Cohen‘s talk is beyond knowledge…i got goosebumps several times and brought tears to my eyes as well…thank you George for bringing him here and had just a beautiful conversation. You effort is really appreciated
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏
Happened to me too …
Dear George, there is a great Qi Gong and Martial Arts Shifu in Austria/Graz by the Name of Oswald Elleberger. He went to China when they openend the country, spent decades to learn in China and now is an old gentleman, who can still outpunsh the youngsters & seems levitating and gliding over this planet, when he walks 😅
Maybe i could Help you reach him for an interview, since I got connections to him. Pleas let me know. All the best from Graz, Austria
Qi is like a flowing stream. Tonifying the Jing and cultivating the Shen replenishes the Qi. Qi is the unification of body and spirit.
🙏 a great teacher and a very nice guy to share tea with!
Ken is beyond description. Wonderful chat.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
In Classical Chinese texts they talked about individuals of virtue as having "big chi" (Dà Qì 大氣), a sort of nourishing presence that filled the room. Generally the presence is calming and helps those in it feel closer to their Self. . . .
Not to give it a description haha
I read this man's book just before I went to study Tai Chi in China. It was incredibly useful. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for your support 🙏
Oh my goodness! Such a treasure of knowledge! Thank you, George, for offering us the opportunity to know Kenneth Cohen. Listening to him describing Qi, I could identify it with Kundalini. It is such a relief to realize there is only one Reality with different names. Namaste 🙏 🙏🙏
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! 🙏
One reality with different names. The Dao and the 10,000 things!
Personal opinion but I don’t think they’re the same. Kundalini is described literally as a serpent and chi is simply life energy. I would never follow yoga as a serious pursuit as well as mind meditation as I think they’re spiritually dangerous for most westerners. I go to yoga once a week and never say “namaste” at the end
A really great conversation! I learned a lot!
The Master speaks of Qigong. Wow!
God bless you all🙏
May the Force be with us 💚☯️🍀
The force is strong with this one ⚔️
@@thesobrietyplaybook 😁🤝 and The Force runs strong with you too i see my friend 🖖 ☯️ i bid you good luck on the beginning of your Spiritual & Healing Journey🍀May The Force be with you😁
Thank you for watching! 🙏
@@George-Thompson thank you Brother 🙏☯️
Thank you for sharing. I discovered Dao a week ago and know it will change my life forever.
I'm so glad you found it valuable 🙏
I would give ten thumbs up - if only I could. 😊 Thank you both!!
Thank you Johannes! Appreciate you 🙏
As a Christian, I would say, Qigong is a gentle physical exerscises. All exerscise , physical exerscise is healthy. God bless everyone.
If you weren't a Christian, what would you say?
Im so glad Master Cohen referenced Adi Shankaracharya when discussing the Self.
He is clearly well versed in many spiritual traditions and practices.
气功 - qì gōng - skillful work with qi
養生- yáng shēng - nourishing life
明 - míng - brightness
聰明 - cóngmíng - modern term for clever, intelligent
神明 - shénmíng - very ancient term for spiritual illumination, said to arise from the heart-mind
Love that he covers qi gong as life practice, and the notion of cultivating our body intelligence. . .
May come back to complete the glossary. . . great work
Thank you for adding to the conversation and for watching the video! 🫶
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Awesome interview, well done George.
Great interview -love ro you borh xxx
Thanks so much for the interview with Ken Cohen. It was refreshing/ inspiring to listen to someone talk about this practice who has deep experience and knowledge
Thank you for the kind words! 🙏
Thanks for this video. Love you.
Great info and interpretation and better understanding of functionality of Qi Kung & Tai Chi; thank you
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Thank you so much.
Fabulous! Many thanks indeed!
Good job , George , thanks 🙏
thank you for sharing. great video
What a phenomenal conversation! I smiled throughout & learned so much. Excited to learn more about Ken’s work!
Great. Thank you.
Laoshi Cohen is legendary !.So much information was made clear! George, you have done it again - well done!
Thank you for the kind words, Peter! 🙏
Awesome definition of Qi Gong! I wrote it down ❤
Thank you so much❤
Thank you
Thankyou❤
Thank you so much for this wonderfull treasure of knowledge!
Wow. So much great information. I need to listen to several more times.
What a beautiful time i had listening...being with the pair of you❤...Here's to ❤️🔥
You are one excellent young man at your age. Very intelligent With Special Arts.
Brilliant
Nurturing Life is beautiful definition, this puts a very right spin to the practice. Thanks for that alone.
On attaining emptiness @45:00 ish...
When someone talks let their words run through your mind, instead of your own thoughts. Sit by a stream or stand where you are and absorb your reality.
If by a stream, let the sound of the stream run through your mind like the words of a lover, who pats your head as you rest it on their lap.
Feel the density of the air, is it thick and about to rain?
Feel the shade upon you, without thinking an internal monologue about the words you would use to describe it to someone else, simply feel.
Observe how many sounds you can hear and where they are, what they are, without labelling what they are, simply experience the way the frequencies of its existence is detected by your sense organs.
Feel the sensation of the colour red as it hits the cells at the back of your eyes.
Our lives need more balance now because of what has been going on lately Being sometimes seems contradictory to the things that happen in life especially if extreme However being born of non-being also means not being afraid completely What I find difficult is to believe I am a functional part of life when life doesn't seem to be listening? You know? We are not connected to life we are unplugged as you have told us to life itself Knowing is the culprit Yet again for me how can I be functional at all this way? Can you help? I think too I need to be there and again where in this dizzying presentence where do I start sometimes?
Fantastic. Thank You.
Thank you for watching, Peter! 🫶
interesting blue shirt
Thank you both for sharing so much.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Spent time learning Taoism/Buddhism at a Temple - in London - with a Master of Feng Shei. Now a qualified ta chi Instructor who teaches. Really enjoyed this chat George. Learnt something! Cultivation is key.
Thank you for such an informative and inspiring interview
Our pleasure! ❤️
Love this.
Appreciate you 🙏
Good episode. You should invite Sifu Mark Rasmus on your Podcast for sure😊
Thank you for watching! 🙏 and good idea!
Grateful for sharing so much wisdom.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
George, thank you for this wonderful conversation with Master Ken Cohen! ❤ Loved it!
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Superb presentation. Thank you so very much
Thanks for the appreciation, Janet 🫶
I love your enthusiasm! and learned a lot from your videos:)
Thank you for your very kind comment! ❤️
Thanks George for sharing your greatest findings with us and spreading the ancient knowledges! Very glad to see your channel is growing and more people get benefit from it. :)
Appreciate you 🫶
Great questions and enlightening answers! :-) Thank you for this! And please do more conversations with Ken :-)
Thank you for the kind feedback 🙏
Hi George,great interchange with great sifu Ken wich I did notknow,I appreciate very much his infinite knowledge like the infinite tao, thank you very much to both of you,for your effort to spread this beautiful practice,☯️☯️☯️🙏from Sardinia,have a good day 👏
I'm really glad you are enjoying and getting something from the videos - it's my privilege! Sending warmth
What a wonderful video. I have been hoping to learn more about the backstory of Qi gong and this video answered many of my questions. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for the kind words! Glad the video was helpful 🙏
ive been learning condensed breath to clutivate the jing by lifting/contracting the pelvic floor esentially doing a kegel on exhilation
Love your videos. Where did you get those swirl wall hangings from? Having inspiring wall art is great
Thanks a lot my friend George, very nice and important mensage!!🙏🎉💐
Best wishes!! 🙏🎉🎉🤗
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Wow, this is amazing. So grateful I found this. Very interesting at around 57mins regarding the dan tiens. I had been taught shen was related to heart middle chamber. Everything was very clear in explanation. 😊🙏☯️
I’m so glad you found it valuable, Lisa 🙏
Thank you for this lovely interview. I delete deliberately listened slowly over a few days, to take in as much as possible.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Sir, plz teach Wi gong step by step for curing diseases and getting healthy and fit.
33:333 11/3/23 My girlfriend at that time and myself were living @119N 20th st phila penn in 1981 where we saw information about a weekend seminar with Kenneth Cohen in NYC at a college on sat 8 am -4pm and sunday dito. He gave us a light blue stapled book on Xerox paper explaining the seminar information. I still practice regularly. Taoist institute and Sanctuary, Netherlands, Colorado. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
70! He is living proof that this practice is the real deal.
Indeed! 🙏
For those unsure, the quote mentioned at 24:57 is from James Boswell's biography of his friend Samuel Johnson, the literary critic and man who wrote the English dictionary.
Thank you for sharing! 🙏
@@George-Thompson np mate x
Hi George and thank you so much for bringing all this knowledge here on youtube! I've been following you for a while, came across your channel when I was also going through a lot of existential anxiety and I absolutely love it, it's such a gift to be able to be transported to Master Gu's presence but also to view everything from the lens of a very relatable and open person (you)! This is the first time I am commenting here, as I was particularly drawn to the concept of linking the ancient Eastern practises of Chi Gong to some of the slightly more open minded efforts of western science. I happen to have spend many years (in London) doing a PhD and researching in cell biology and genetics and I loved the parallel between the mitochondria and the Chi! I've been thinking about such parallels for a while now, more I guess for personal reasons of wanting to reconcile my training with all these incredible new things that I've been scratching the surface of on eastern practices. I think you would love a podcast series by Andrew Huberman, if you don't follow him already, he has several episodes and has done some research with his group in Stanford on characterising in a cell and molecular level the impact of certain breathing practices. Thanks again for your channel! Eleni
* I should clarify, by more open minded efforts I mean that historically western science and medicine have been dismissive of eastern practices, for many reasons, some of which include western science being build on a capitalist framework that centres pharmaceutical interventions, but that is a whole other conversation :) Recently, there have been some slightly more progressive efforts in eg understanding how the "placebo" effect works and trying to address the idea of mind over matter. In this context, the impact of Eastern practices has been studied with a slightly more open mindset
Thank you for watching and for the kind words! 🙏
I studied integrative medicine with a naturopath and acupuncturist, and some of his life's work was in making these correspondences as precise as possible. In the more modernized "traditional Chinese medicine" (Actually an amalgamation of traditions in that came together in communist China as an attempt to fit the conventional western mode) there are different kinds of vital substances, and chi is just one of them. Qi is often equated to the nervous system and the functions of an organ(What innervates the organ); and yang with metabolic function and warmth (in this case of organs it is the arterial blood flow; and it is also mitochondrial activity; which plays into the breakdown of fuel of which a byproduct is warmth).
You might like the channel I started with him; where we go into some of these correspondences. . . .
This is one of the biomedical and anthroposophical correspondences to the vital substances in Chinese Medicine
th-cam.com/video/oD5RPY0bWIM/w-d-xo.html
e.g. Liver Chi (how is it's ability to circulate water and nutrition, and to detoxify);
vs. Liver Yang (how is blood circulation to that particular organ, and mitochondrial activity within it)
Of course in Chinese medicine we measure the quantity and quality of these substances through the pulses tongue, channel diagnosis and the assessment of signs and symptoms; but there are maybe functional medicine tests (and certainly liver enzyme tests in this example) that might measure the biomedical factors; certainly we can scan for thermal activity in an organ (and given a norm to base our work on) ad have some understanding about it's yang activity; or the mitochondrial function. Cheers,
Amazing interview so much knowledge and depths of understanding i can see my self watching this so many times like looking at a beautiful piece of art 🙏🙏
Thank you for watching! 🙏
Thank you
you should list his links as well
Was there a recording of that class. Damn i missed it totally.
Talking about sending energy to your hands... dunno if it helps.. but I found that simply putting my attention to my hands when moving them somehow relaxes and in some way "changes" them.. like they become more smooth and flexible.. sometimes even warmer.
Lol wrote a comment before hearing the whole video.Srry 😅
I would like to go to china for one year to learn
Any recommendations
Is there a specific all inclusive Qi Gong rutine ? I see all these youtube videos that I am not sure if they are any good.
Dear Master,
Is there any practice to overcome Asthma? Or completely cure Asthma?
Lol the stillness could not be more perfect, ahaha I did not think it was possible to be that still but I guess individual potential is sometimes overseen
@ 1:59 This is not part of the. But is required Communication. 🎉 3:40 😊
Can qigong help me get women and stop approach anxiety?
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Prático a pouco tempo aqui no Brasil e os benefícios já apareceram. É incrível.
Great Interview George, Would love to connect one day, peace.
I go live here on TH-cam every Wednesday! Hope to see you there 🙏
I have to make a correction to Ken’s book. Zhuang Zi was not Lao Zi’s disciple.
Other than that it is a very good book.
Perhaps you misunderstood. Zhuang Zi was Lao Zi's disciple only in the way we might say that Saint Francis was a student of Christ. There is no evidence that Zhuang Zi met Lao Zi . Rather Zhuang Zi clearly expands on ideas that are found earlier in the Dao De Jing.
Didihear that qi gong can help etc Parkinson’s?😊
Alan watts passed away in 1973
chi is spirit ?
do we have to be a vegetarian to practice qigone George Thomson
No. I don’t think so.
Sash Guru is a better reprised version of Osho or previously known as Shri Rajneesh
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Well, "Who you are is not who you think you are", isn't right, if you've done the introspective work, and know who you are, warts and all.
Not everyone is an oblivious beginner.
Perhaps what you are isn't important - that's still ego. Perhaps it's what we are together that's more important. Just saying...
Incredible? You mean to say _remarkable_ because *incredible* means non-believable
Ken is a master in his own mind. He is a certified Taoist by the CCP, so you know he's legit. And he's got a document that says so, like every other real Taoist. (George takes the cows to market to sell them for a good price so his parents can prepare for the winter time.)
Mother: So, I see you sold our cows. Did you get a good price? How much did you get?
George: I got something better than money mother. The man told me so.
Mother: What man?
George: Kenneth, Kenneth Hokum.
Mother: No money?! What did you get George? A box of silver? A box of gold?
George: Better than that Mamma. I got beans, three magic beans!
😅😆🤣Peace
zen stink
All this guy does is talk about himself - ridiculous.
@Apologies for the confusion.
The observation of motion and change in the world around us is like watching a river flowing. Just as the river constantly moves and changes, so does our existence. From the gentle ripples to the powerful currents, the river reminds us of the ever-changing nature of life. By observing and understanding the river's flow, we can learn to adapt and navigate through its twists and turns with grace and resilience. Similarly, art acts as a window through which we can witness and appreciate the beauty of motion and change. Just as we stand by the riverbank and marvel at its dance, let us open our eyes to the perpetual dance of life and embrace the wisdom it offers.
Now, we can start from here. 😮😊🤐🫡
Thank you so much.
No, thank you for your support! 🙏