Testimonials

Qi Gong and Meditation are very powerful tools that I have used systematically to improve my physical and cognitive/emotional well-being throughout my long life. Master Situ-Jie and Master Jonathan Snowiss have been very instrumental in teaching and helping me practice these techniques.

L.A.

 

Through studying Tai Chi with Master Jonathon I have come to feel the flow of chi energy through my body and how to utilize it, not only in doing Tai Chi, but in everyday activities.  This is a great boon!  Thanks, Jonathan!    
 K. D.

 

I had been doing qi qong by myself for some time it was not until I found the Wei Tuo Foundation that I was able to harvest the abundance of energy inside a group by doing qi gong with master Snowiss I have found a greater love for the art form that has been a true LIFE SAVER for me. I was having low energy and an abundance of different issues that have been irradiated by becoming one with the universe qi gong truly can heal you and make your life fuller and healthier than any other form of exercises available.
 
Ray Elam
Claremont Ca

 

Dear Jonathan,

Hey its Fitz, the guy with the energy in the head. :)

Last Wednesday, I walked a lot in the mall, walked going to your dojo and back and the entire toe clutching in the qi gong practice might have done something in my right shin muscles. That night I felt some pain and it disappeared in the morning. But while I was at work, the pain suddenly came back and I couldn't walk unless I avoid putting pressure on my right leg.

Suddenly while I was sitting the energy in my head left and went to my leg. It stayed on the pained part, swirling, buzzing and churning there. It took a few more minutes and when I stood up, the pain was gone! Seems like the chi repaired something in my leg. I might be lacking in potassium so I have to eat some bananas lol.

And the point here is I am now a full believer. Chi could heal and could do wonderful things. Until now the chi is on the same spot maybe still doing some few more repairs but so far no more pain. I am eager to learn more about chi and how can it help further in my health.

Thanks for reading.

-Fitz

P.S.

I also noticed when I am hungry, the chi goes into my belly and invade my innards swirling inside. Seems like it is trying to fill it up with something to prevent my hunger doing damage inside me.

 

When asked to write a testimonial about how practicing qi gong has affected my life, it is a little embarrassing because in the external aspect of life, I can't report that my life is a success in the standard measurements of our society and culture. I also can't report any particular results that are measurable, such as that my blood pressure or sugar has dropped so many points or that some condition has been relieved by practicing qi gong. Even when I broke my wrist, my recovery was not special in any way.
Thinking of this caused me to consider testimonials one reads in terms of various health products or spiritual modalities - how they transformed a person's life in some significant way. I think we Americans often seem to need or want to be transformed in a big way and we seem to need or want remarkable results, myself included. We tend to dismiss subtle things as not so important, myself included.
I can only report subtle things after practicing qi gong for 15 years. But maybe if I had focused more diligently and practiced more regularly for those 15 years, I would have more remarkable results to report. Like many people, I get distracted by daily life, work, major events and am not very good at time management either; so at times although I intend to practice qi gong, I don't get to it. Sometimes when I most need to practice qi gong, I neglect it, as well.
So what can I say of any value to let you know that it is worthwhile do this practice, especially when I consider myself to be one of the worst students of qi gong?
It took years before I was able to even feel any qi at all. Then I slowly started being able to feel it in a very subtle way and this experience is something I would not want to live without. It is something like joining with the essence of life and feeling it flow in one's being. Although it occurs only in a very subtle way for me, words fail to convey the wonderfulness of this experience.
Life in general goes better for me when I am practicing qi gong regularly. When my life starts getting difficult and full of turmoil, I notice it is during times when I have not been practicing. I can't tell you how this works and have not charted it, but it has been this way enough times for me to recognize this connection. Sometimes when I am practicing regularly, wonderful coincidences happen; what people call synchronicity.
So knowing all this, why would I not practice more regularly all the time?
This is hard to answer - human nature?  too simple? 
It requires some discipline to become more conscious and I am still working on developing this. For me, the practice of qi gong and meditation is a way to become more conscious instead of being confined to automatic reactions and behaviors, which for me always seem to generate problems and suffering. So qi gong and meditation practice is important to me for all these reasons.
Writing this testimonial as paradoxical as it may be, reminds me that I want to make my practice more regular, to stop putting other chores/activities first and to not let it slip through the cracks of the day.
                                                       - Katy Hertel