Taoist Alchemical Training: Restoring Vitality and Adapting Personality (Xing and Ming Training) 

2 day course 7 & 21 April 2024, subscribing for one day is not possible!

Practicing Taoist Alchemy can be described in several ways. One of these ways is to look at it as a work to enhance the body's resilience and naturalness. Using techniques that improve and restore the body's functions you can better resist factors that cause disease, but you can also deal with the challenges of the world of man in a better way. This is called minggong or working on life's possibilities. At the same time your body's functioning is depending on the way you think and feel and it is influenced by you personality. The outside world, its impulses, your internal reactions to these and what you learn often determine your life. Taoists doubt whether this behaviour reflects who you really are and whether this allows you to live a spiritually rich life. That is why it is essential for a Taoist to deal with these matters. For this we use xinggong or restoring and transforming the (acquired) personality. Both practices are inseparable. They are the practical application of what Laozi tells us in the Daodejing (the Book of the Way and Its Power): “empty xin (the body's government) and fill the belly”. How do you start and achieve this? That's what we take on in this course.

Practical information: 

• where: China Arts College, Ballaarstraat 114, 2018 Antwerpen
• time: 1 pm – 5 pm (door open from 12:45 pm)
• fee: early bird (pay before March 7): € 160,- ; from March 7: € 176,-
• register: fill out the registration form and pay the fee
• shoes: see terms & conditions
• for all; attending the lectures is advised