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wudang meditation

november Workshop 2024

Saturday, November 23

Penticton, BC

 
 
 

daoist meditation

We will be leading a short, half-day meditation workshop at our school on Saturday, November 23rd from 1-4 pm. The idea is just to give people a basic introduction to the different forms of meditation in our system:

  1. Standing meditation (zhanzhuang 站桩)

  2. Seated meditation (jingzuo or “sitting in stillness” 静坐)

  3. Walking meditation (taijibu 太极步 or Tai Chi Walking)

  4. Sleeping meditation (zhelongfa 蛰龙法, “hibernating dragon method”)

At the most basic level all four of these types of meditation are ways of engaging in deep rest, the theme for the afternoon. Our retreat will focus on these four techniques and include a handout with detailed descriptions of the practices.

 

meditation in the San Feng Lineage

Every aspect of our training was suffused with meditation during our years in China. Even the most intense kung fu classes would often resolve into a form of walking or standing meditation. And every evening was an hour of seated meditation, beginning with the very simple, restful sitting in stillness we will be covering at this workshop.

Laying down to sleep, you enter into the hibernating dragon practice, reclining on the side, entranced by the swirling light patterns behind your eyelids, you draw your attention inward.

As master Guo used to say, “it doesn’t matter what you are doing now - when you are finished with it, you must let your heart-mind rest, even if it is just 3 or 5 minutes.  If you sit in stillness for 15 minutes, you can cast everything away!  In this way you can slowly work to restore your original pure and clean heart.  This is something that cannot be bought with gold.”

Master Guo sitting in stillness (jingzuo 静坐)

 
 

where is it?

At our school, Okanagan Valley Wudang, right in the middle of the Cannery Trade Centre, 115-1475 Fairview Road, Penticton BC.

what should i wear?

Something comfy. Loose-fitting clothing. We will have meditation cushions and some seating for the seated sections of the retreat.

very nice, how much?

This workshop is $90 CAD