Ken Cohen
Explore the unique benefits of the ancient Qigong style that underlies Kung Fu and Tai Chi to refine your posture, align your breathing patterns, and replenish your energy reserves — for optimal mind/body/spirit wellness.
Have you been intrigued — but perhaps also a bit intimidated — by the powerful healing and enlightening practices available to you within the Chinese wisdom lineage?
China has 3,500 years of written history, deeply layered with cultural achievements and multiple storylines, yet when approached with humility, respect, and mindfulness…
… its wisdom culture reveals itself to us through a treasure trove of timeless insights and wisdom — a global heritage that is everyone’s birthright.
These wisdom gifts from China connect you with the “breath of life” (Qi) and the way (the Tao) of being in the world that leads to harmony with all that is.
Ken Cohen is a Qigong and Tai Chi grandmaster, and winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy Medicine who has practiced Chinese healing, plus contemplative and martial arts, since 1968…
He is one of the most significant ambassadors of the Taoist perspective in our generation, known for his friendly and engaging teaching style which makes ancient healing arts easy to understand and a joy to practice.
Join Ken for this hour-long immersion in exploring and experiencing the stillpoint-tapping power of a Yi Quan Qigong standing meditation.
Yi Quan (pronounced YEE-CHUEN) consists of brief, easy-to-learn postures, exercises, and meditations that improve skills used in Tai Chi, Qigong, sports and everyday life.
Like Tai Chi, Yi Quan is both a healing art and a vocabulary of martial arts skills. Yet, unlike Tai Chi, it does not require learning a long and complex choreography. Rather, the founder of Yi Quan, Wang Xiangzhai, took a radical approach to healing, body energy management, and athletic training by asking a simple question:
What is the quickest and most direct way to help people realize their innate potential, without imposing a “system” or a new form of conditioning that might limit awareness and expression?
Through strategic and powerful standing and walking meditations, animal movements based on the bear and the turtle, and other simple flowing exercises, you release dysfunctional habits, preserve the health of your joints, improve balance and coordination, deepen your breath, and mobilize hidden resources of strength.
However, body training is only half the answer. Yi Quan includes sophisticated methods of healing imagery to train mental focus, relaxation, inner peace, and connection with nature.
Ken will introduce this dynamic system to you with a blend of story, Qigong insights, and standing meditation exercises to refine your posture, align your breathing patterns, and replenish your energy reserves.
In this 60-minute free online event, you’ll:
- Learn how Yi Quan combines meditation and Qigong in a series of simple motions based on animals, water, and ancient martial arts
- Experience a guided standing practice — emphasizing the elements of properly aligned posture, distributed weight, balanced breathing, and relaxed (slightly bent) joints — to feel rejuvenated and activated
- Connect with the archetypal energy of the bear through mythos and posture as a symbol of nature’s vitality and healing power that come from grounding in a solid stance
- Explore a brief history of Yi Quan — and how Ken transmits authentic knowledge by virtue of his tutelage by teachers who trace back to the style’s originator, Wang Xiangzhai
- Discover how you can apply this easy-to-learn Qigong practice into your daily life for health and wellness
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Join this FREE video event with Ken Cohen and discover the many unique benefits of this ancient Qigong style that underpins Kung Fu and Tai Chi to refine your posture, align your breathing patterns, and replenish your energy reserves — for optimal mind/body/spirit wellness.
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What People Are Saying About Ken Cohen...
“Ken Cohen is a rare combination of expert practitioner, gifted scholar, and lucid writer.”
Ken Cohen is a rare combination of expert practitioner, gifted scholar, and lucid writer. He manages to convey not only techniques, but wisdom. His work nourishes the clinician, the scientist, and, most importantly, the average individual looking for practical ways to enhance life and health.
— Elmer Green, PhD, author of Beyond Biofeedback
“Ken Cohen is a healer who knows how to help the body heal itself.”
Ken Cohen is a healer who knows how to help the body heal itself. He works with his clients to ready them to participate and take charge of their own healing. He studied with Chinese Masters and in their own language: he has become an embodiment of the Tao in his movement and work.
— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, author of From Age-ing to Sage-ing
“Ken is a warm and remarkable man and a true enlightened teacher of great magnitude.”
Ken is a warm and remarkable man and a true enlightened teacher of great magnitude. A lover of truth and one who is doing something valuable with his “enlightenment.” For me, Ken is the embodiment of the ancient saying, “Do not look only at the flask, look at what it contains.” He is a walking-invisible-observer with a heart full of humor and joy. He is a precious warrior of the heart to those who encounter him.
— Samuel Avital, director of Le Centre Du Silence Mime School
“Ken Cohen’s mastery of Chinese healing arts is rooted in a deep understanding of Chinese language and culture...”
Ken Cohen’s mastery of Chinese healing arts is rooted in a deep understanding of Chinese language and culture, giving him an extraordinary ability to express these arts from the perspectives of East and West.
— Madame Chu Xingyan, former professor at the Beijing Academy of Music
“[Ken Cohen’s] movements express true mastery and a deep cultivation of the spirit of China.”
Without actually being in Ken Cohen’s presence, it would be very hard to believe that an American could have such a profound and detailed understanding of traditional Chinese culture. His movements express true mastery and a deep cultivation of the spirit of China. Ken Cohen’s dissemination of Chinese culture to the Western World is an enormous work and a glorious achievement.
— Tu Xinshi, editor of The Chinese American Post
About Ken Cohen
Kenneth S. Cohen (Gao Han), MA, is a world-renowned Tai Chi and Qigong Grandmaster with more than 50 years of experience. A former collaborator with Alan Watts, he’s the author of the internationally acclaimed book, The Way of Qigong, and more than 200 journal articles on spirituality and health. Ken received his teaching certificate from the William C. C. Chen School of Tai Chi Chuan in 1974 and continued training with B. P. Chan and Madame Gao Fu. He eventually became the apprentice of Taoist Abbot Huang Geng Shi (1910-1999), an acupuncturist, Qi healer, and martial artist from China’s sacred Xi Qiao Mountain.
A leader in the dialogue between ancient wisdom and modern science, Ken was one of the first to teach Qigong in North American medical schools. His sponsors have included the Mayo Clinic, the Menninger Institute, the American Cancer Society, and numerous cultural organizations. He is the recipient of the Alyce and Elmer Green Lifetime Achievement Award in Energy Medicine. Ken is known for his friendly and engaging teaching style, making ancient healing arts easy to understand and a joy to practice.
