If you are new to qigong, you most probably have lots of questions about what is qi and what is qigong. In this section, you’ll find everything you need to know about qi (chi 氣) and qigong (Chi Kung, Qi Gong 气功). We cover qigong basics for beginners. We also have qigong advance if help you deepen the knowledge. Onenergy Qigong is based on Zhineng Qigong’s scientific theory and method, which you will find in our qigong history section.
Some people sit down to meditate and feel worse, not better. This is a real phenomenon — documented in both modern research and the ancient contemplative traditions. Here is why it happens, and how a movement-first approach addresses the root cause.
In 1968 the Beatles flew to Rishikesh to study meditation, and seven years later a Harvard cardiologist published The Relaxation Response — the true story of how the practice most people do today got deliberately stripped down to a clinical tool.
Is too much exercise bad for you? The honest answer is no — but most people training without a refilling practice are depleting a reservoir they cannot see. Here is the 70% reframe that changes the whole equation.
If sitting meditation has never worked for you, the problem almost certainly was not your mind — it was a mismatch between the tool you were given and what your system actually needs.
The word meditation covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is why so many people feel they chose the wrong path or failed at the right one.
Zhan zhuang — standing like a tree — registers as nothing on a fitness watch. Inside, it does something cardio was never designed to do: replenish the foundational reservoir that every workout spends. Here is why standing meditation benefits run deeper than most people expect.