The training is valid as Basic Training for Qigong Teacher and includes around 200 hours. Each participant will receive a certificate of participation. You have the choice to participate in a closing examination, comprised of a written and a practical part.

The written part includes answering some essential questions about the issues of Qigong, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Taoism, structure of teachings, composition of forms etc. and it will be given as homework. This material can later on be used as the basics for your own teachings.

The practical examination includes: Performing a Qigong form and the warm-up program, the knowledge about yet another form as well in composition, basic knowledge in TCM, testing the body structure but also leading a meditation or an inner Qigong practice.

Official recognition as a Qigong Course Instructor 

If you want to achieve an official recognition as a Qigong Course Instructor (300 hours over a period of 2-3 years are required), you can follow additional courses. To succeed for the theoretical examination a short manuscript on a special subject will be required – like e.g. “The Structure of the Meridian System”. The practical examination includes performing another Qigong form and a deeper testing of the body structure. We also recommend participating in a seminar “Practice of TCM – Science of Nutrition and Applied Acupressure” with Dr. med. Weihua Dohnke. In Germny for example,the examination for Qigong Course Instructor follows the guidelines of the "Taiji and Qigong Network".

Certain categories of professions like doctors, teachers, psychologists etc. might get a recognition from many health insurance companies with the official certificate of Qigong Course Instructor. This implies that the participants of the course can receive a partial refund from the costs of this seminar by the health insurance companies. Please check the law in your country!

Training for Qigong Trainer

For the certificate of Qigong Trainer, 500 teaching hours are required, around 5 years of practice and also your own teaching experience. On top of a deeper understanding of all underlying areas of Qigong, a long standing involvement in a specialized area will be required for the training to become a Qigong Trainer. This could be e.g. applying Alchemy, silent Qigong, moving Qigong forms or also subjects like “standing in the tree position”. Contact Carsten for more information.

Before I started the first Qigong Training five years ago, I thought that it was just impossible to teach somebody Qigong in one or two years in a way that he or she would afterwards have a basic ability to go out and teach.
By talking to other Qigong and Tao teachers, friends from Taiji, Chinese Qigong Masters and Doctors, it became clear to me that a lot of Qigong beginners and also experienced practitioners don’t really understand what Qigong in essence is. Some of them said themselves that they could “not see the wood for the trees” or they were totally confused about which one of the many Chinese Qigong styles they really should study on a deeper level or where exactly the road would lead them.

This subject contains several important questions. Among others:

-    What is the essence of Qigong?
-    What really distinguishes a Qigong style from a Qigong form?
-    What are the main points and the limits of different styles?
-    Which Qigong is appropriate for whom?
-    When is it important to complement the Qigong practice with special food, Chinese herbs or other therapies?
-    How can I recognize weaknesses in myself or in my students and properly support myself or them?
-    How can I personally make huge steps forwards?
-    What kind of viewpoints in the world or philosophies are hidden behind the different Qigong styles?
-    Which methods in Qigong can be mixed and which can’t?
-    What does Qigong have in common with Taoism and where are the differences?

Then the conversations motivated me to create a Basic Training, which covers all important essential scopes of Qigong and at the same time answers all of the above mentioned questions. This Basic Training – like a basic training at the university – has intentionally been spread out over 1,5 to 2 years. Afterwards every participant has the opportunity, by building on the acquired knowledge and the learned abilities, to walk an individual path and to develop towards a direction according to his personality and constitution.

Which are the basic essential scopes in Qigong?

To practice Qigong as the „Art to cultivate the life force “ mainly includes, besides body exercises and breathing exercises, inner Qigong, where I will lead the Qi with my mind – and this really means with my imagination – and also silent Qigong without visualization. All of these practices are based on the basic principles of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)  or use these principles directly. On top of that Qigong has been developed directly from Taoism.
Out of all of this more essential scopes appear, and for a Qigong teacher understanding them all is fundamental. The individual scopes are each independent. Because, however, they mutually influence each other, together they result in an even bigger wholeness.

Understanding this, and mainly the interaction between the individual essential scopes, is one of the main themes for this Qigong training. This doesn’t only help to understand Qigong on a deeper level, to avoid side-effects or dangers by doing the exercises wrong, or to make it easier to integrate Qigong. It also will make it easier to offer better coaching to people, to discover weaknesses or to compose a special or individual course program. On top of that it will also be easier to develop a personal orientation.