Part 2
Spiral Body-Spiral Organ
Through spiraling and elongating movements we open up, realign and release accumulated emotions that are held as tension in the body.
5 – 14 February 2025
Wonglepong, QLDÂ Australia
Introduction
Part 2 takes a closer look at the connection between the spiraling of the Dan Tian and the movement of the body. This part includes some more physically challenging movements that teach you to spiral from the inside out. As it helps to loosen-up tension in the muscles and re-align the joints, there is a sense of the emotional release and subsequently opening-up of the meridians and energy channels.
Movements Full of Lifeforce
This segment focuses on integrating the physical body with your emotions and energy, so that all movements, even the more physically challenging ones, become effortless, full of life force and ensure unobstructed blood circulation.
Physical and Emotional Transformation
In this part, you will use the body-mind-organ connection to work with the physical body by elongating, stretching, and strengthening it. Through spiraling and lengthening movements, we can reach deep into the internal organs to release deeply stored tension and blockages. This process facilitates not only physical but also emotional transformation. The practice allows for a natural release of stored emotional restraints and traumas. The spiraling and elongating movements in Part 2 also help realign the body’s structure, ensuring that energy can move freely and without resistance. This alignment supports better posture and overall physical health.
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Preparing for Deeper Energetic Work
All this work serves as a foundation for creating a solid base for deeper energetic work in Part 3. Since the physical body is the vessel through which Qi (vital energy) flows, it is crucial to ensure that the body’s physical structures—muscles, tendons, and joints—are in optimal condition to cultivate and direct Qi effectively. Strengthening and opening the physical body ensures that the channels (meridians) through which Qi flows are unobstructed. Blockages in these pathways can lead to stagnation, manifesting as physical and emotional imbalances. By preparing the body through physical conditioning, we facilitate a smoother, more efficient flow of energy.
Suitable for Everyone
This part is suitable for anyone, and all movements can be adjusted to your own body.
Highlights
- Learn the importance of spiralling and connecting with your Dan Tian
- Connect all sides of the body for the free flow of Qi energy
- Link to your fascia, an important body tissue that connects every organ, blood vessel, bone and muscle
- Clear stagnant energy by moving Qi around the body
- Sculpt your body, increase your strength and flexibility
- Calm your mind for sustained happiness and tranquillity
Participants
- Calligraphy Health training knows no gender boundaries, age limits and body requirements. It requires no equipment and no special place to start – just an open mind and a desire for a balanced life.
- Suitable for both beginners and experienced Calligraphy Health practitioners
This course is for you if you
- Seek to cultivate a deeper connection with your body and mind, fostering overall well-being, inner harmony and self-love.Â
- Are looking to relieve stress, anxiety, or tension, and long for techniques to promote relaxation and rejuvenation.
- Have issues related to the abdominal area, such as digestion, organ removal, or post-operative scars.
- Lack energy and struggle with your immune system.Â
- Want to improve mobility and flexibility, and enhance vitality through gentle yet powerful practices and techniques.
- Are interested in holistic approach to health and longevity.
- Want to elevate your personal practice, whether it be yoga, qi gong, meditation, or any form of movement.
- Want to go beyond physical movement or posture and are interested in internal arts.
- Work with people and want to learn a way of maintaining and expanding your energy.
What to Expect
“It’s not about the movement. It’s about what’s behind the movement.” Master Zhen Hua Yang.
Master Yang’s approach prioritizes personal experience over theoretical learning. This means that there are no books to study or information to memorize, but rather the wisdom of one’s own body to be discovered and a self-healing potential to be activated.
Whether it’s a shorter workshop or a full 10-day course, the goal is to provide you with tools for independent practice.
Throughout the training, you learn a set of movements and forms gradually, with enough time to delve deeper into them in order to understand the principles that extend beyond the movement. You work at your own pace without force or pressure with enough time to learn but also to rest.
Upon completion, you leave equipped with a personal practice that you can continue to develop on your own. By integrating learned movements into your daily routine, you can experience lasting benefits that contribute to a fulfilling and vibrant life. With regular practice, they offer a holistic approach to nurturing physical, mental, and emotional wellness.
Details
CHECK-IN
Please arrive the evening before the practice starts, so that you have enough time to settle down and prepare for the next day’s training.
CHECK-OUT
Check-out is on the last day after lunch time. You’re also welcome to stay an extra night; the same rates apply.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
- Day 1–10:
8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Morning Practice
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Breakfast & Rest
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Lunch
from 4:00 p.m. Free Time
Training times might be adjusted to the group.
INCLUSIONS
- Training: 60 hours of in-person training with Master Yang
- Meals: Two meals per day and snacks
- Spa: Access to a private pool, spa and bushwalking tracks
EXCLUSIONS
- Transportation: To and from the venue
- Insurance: Personal travel & health insurance
Accommodation
- Accommodation:
$75 per person / per night (in a shared room/unit for two)
limited spaced available
We have available shared accommodation in the main house and in the cabins. As well there is available a camping site for house trucks or those who want to bring their own tent or a van. It is also possible to book accomodation outside of the venue. Contact us for details and booking. - Transportation: To and from the venue
- Insurance: Personal travel & health insurance
How to Get here
The best way to get to the retreat center is to fly into Brisbane airport. From there take the Airtrain, located inside the terminal, to Nerang. We can pick you up from Nerang – just remember to notify us first. There is no direct train or bus to Wallaby Ridge Retreat.
Join the course
- Date: 5 – 14 February 2025
- Venue: Wallaby Ridge Retreat, 88 Bambling Rd, Wonglepong QLD 4275, Australia
- Price: 3,000.00 AUD (including meals, excluding accommodation)
Receive a BONUS discount of 1000 AUD by booking two courses: Part 1 + Part 2. Available on the next step, after clicking on the BOOK THIS COURSE button below.
Calligraphy Health Process
The human body is a collective of trillions of individual cells, each possessing qualities analogous to a person. It’s not the movement that heals the mind and the body. Movement serves as a bridge between the mind and the body cells. Movement is used to deliver positive information and energy to each and every cell in the body, especially to those that are suffering, unhappy, traumatized, or sick. For these purposes, Calligraphy Health employs movement with breath, intention, vibration, and organ service.
1. BREATH: Ignite the Fire
The human body, in order to function and produce energy, needs oxygen. Calligraphy Health practice begins with breath and synchronizing it with movements.
2. MOVEMENT: Move Your Blood
Oxygen is distributed in the body by red blood cells, which also carry nutrients and information to all cells in our systems. We use movements that stimulate the meridians to support and enhance blood circulation in the body for overall vitality, balance, and well-being.
3. ATTENTION: Reconnect With Yourself
During the movements, we turn our attention inwards, rebuilding the connection with ourselves. We work towards reconnecting the mind with the internal river that nourishes the entire body – our blood. We learn to ‘talk to our blood cells,’ conveying feelings of love, warmth, happiness, and freedom through the bloodstream to every cell in the body.
4. ORGAN SERVICE: Support Your Body’s Engine
Once the internal connection is established, we gain access to our internal organs, akin to the engine of the body. Similar to the regular servicing required for a car engine, our organs also need proper maintenance. Organ servicing can be likened to a self-visceral massage.
5. REPETITION: Reeducate Your Cells
Having a single conversation is not enough to build a strong relationship, and the same principle applies to our connection with ourselves. By consistently repeating the learned movement sequences, we gradually develop a deeper relationship with ourselves. This ongoing process of reeducation, cell by cell, helps cleanse us of negative past experiences, transforming our body into a warm, positive, and thriving environment.
6. FREEDOM: Find Home Within
A home symbolizes feelings of safety, warmth, freedom, and happiness. When the majority of cells in our body embody these qualities, we, as human beings, feel like we have found a home within. In this state, we are no longer burdened by past experiences. Regaining solid roots, we navigate life with a sense of internal safety and warmth that naturally radiates to those around us.
“Calligraphy Health is about your blood flow moving your body, not your body
moving your blood.”
Master Zhen Hua Yang
Moving like a fish in water
The art of calligraphy draws from nature, emphasizing the fluid, seamless, and unrestrained movement of the brush. This movement mirrors the graceful descent of water down a mountainside, naturally following the shortest and most direct path.
Master Yang applied this concept to the human body, where that water is human blood. Calligraphy Health is about moving like flowing water, effortlessly cascading down a mountain – fluid, uninterrupted, and instinctual, without force or pressure. This movement can be likened to that of fish swimming in water or the elegant motions of an octopus – imbued with a sense of joy, freedom and space.
The Internal Art
of Nei Gong
Nei Gong as taught by Master Zhen Hua Yang is focussed upon reconnecting with the wisdom of the body through the regulation of three main circulations within the human body: blood circulation, nervous system and digestive system. These circulations are the pillars of longevity and good health.
Calligraphy Health through enhancing these three circulations increases the longevity of internal organs while making the body soft, supple and elastic. It produces a physical lightness, setting the environment for self-healing. It also brings deep calm and peace, grounding us and producing a happiness that is internal, void of external conditions.Â
Master Zhen Hua Yang
Master Yang’s true skills are shown in his ability to share the complicated Nei Gong methods and practices in a simple and comprehensible way.
Master Zhen Hua Yang is an energy expert. Backed by his family lineage of over 400 years, Master Yang’s knowledge is steeped in ancient internal systems and techniques, his teachers’ influence as well as personal experiences and realisations.
Master Yang’s healing journey started when he was just a boy, suffering from the debilitating effects of asthma. His first teachers other than his grandfather and father, who were also Masters, were the martial arts and energy Masters from the Shaolin and Wudang Temples: Hai Deng from Shaolin, famous for his one-finger stand, and a Daoist monk from Wudang who taught Master Yang about Yinyang balance, Qi/energy and human longevity.