Embody the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes of Qigong using conscious movement, focused intention, and self-mastery practices that energize your personal power, and inspire greater mental, emotional, and physical agility.
Explore how the 5 Elements of Qigong — wood, fire, earth, metal, and water — can help you regulate your energy, balance emotions, and develop functional strength.
How are you priming your mind, body, and spirit for sustained health and wellbeing? If you already have a regular movement practice, are you experiencing benefits on all levels of being?
The archetypes of the three pillars of Qigong — the warrior, healer, and visionary — can help you engage your physical and energetic anatomy as a holistic self-regulation tool...
... one that inspires inner vision, strengthens your functional and spiritual capacity, and expands your ability to pivot with clarity, ease, and courage as you navigate life’s many challenges.
Archetypes are universal energies holding an array of characteristics you can access at any time, and can be powerful allies to your health and life goals.
Cultivating the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes within through Qigong practices that are as multidynamic as you are marks a profound journey into what Qigong teacher Matthew Cohen calls intentional health...
... health that you create by building energy around an intention and moving it through your body with loving awareness.
This insightful 7-week course with Matthew will teach you potent techniques culled from an array of wisdom teachings, Qigong movements, bioenergetic principles, and Matthew’s own Sacred Energy Arts system.
These will help you create intentional health as you awaken and empower the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes within you.
If you’re looking for a movement practice that not only meets you where you are on your journey but also harmonizes the subtle energies of your mind, body, and spirit to help you remain balanced, focused, and calm — you’ll definitely want to join us!
This journey begins with learning how to work with and not against yourself — and the universal forces within and outside of you — to gain resilience and befriend the many challenges and uncertainties of modern living...
... as untapped resources of strength, centeredness, and peace that can positively transform your health and life once integrated into your greater wholeness.
During this archetypal exploration of Qigong, you’ll:
- Explore spiritual, medical, and martial Qigong through 3 archetypes — the warrior, healer, and visionary — to train the warrior mind and body for aligned action, activate your inner physician, and align your inner vision with intention
- Empower the 3 pillars of Qigong through intention — and gain a deeper understanding of how you can modify your intention and empower the healing intelligence of a movement
- Energize the 3 dantians — energy fields of your lower, middle, and upper body — to strengthen your body, open your heart, and focus your mind
- Discover 3 internal Chinese martial arts (Xingyiquan, Taijiquan, and Baguazhang) and their benefits and relationship to Qigong
- Engage in practices that tune into the flow state for optimal performance and a clear state of mind
- Practice a “Primordial Chaos” Qigong exercise that integrates the 3 pillars
- Experience “Dragon Body” practices for detoxification, tonification, and balance improvement
- Activate the wood and fire elements to strengthen the liver, reduce anger, open the heart, release emotional pain, and awaken joy
- Be guided through the microcosmic orbit to balance the yin and yang, increase vitality, and deepen your capacity for meditation
- Discover how to befriend yourself in the stillness to better align your energy, expand presence, and activate your core intention
- Add humming to your practice to down regulate the body and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system for calm
Matthew is known for his expressive, calm, and reassuring teaching style that adapts to all levels of learning.
Through his deep and artful synthesis of Qigong, breathwork, poetry, embodiment practices, and meditation — a grounding and uplifting experience, according to previous students...
... you’ll learn how to enhance your ability to regulate your health through the power of your own internal energy.
The warrior will increase your capacity to flow with life as it comes, inspiring aligned action, focus, and mental, emotional, and physical agility.
Meet your inner physician with the healer archetype and learn movements to optimize and synergize your body systems, strengthening your immune and nervous systems, and detoxifying your liver.
The visionary archetype awakens your spiritual power by cultivating inner vision, energizing it with intention and Qigong practices that harmonize the three dantians and activate the expansiveness of the wood element.
These archetypes are the embodiments of the three pillars of Qigong — spiritual, medical, and martial — and an invitation to embark on a sacred initiation of Self.
They are also the trinity of energies that you need to remain healthy, joyful, and able to face the many experiences of life with fortitude, resilience, and grace.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Matthew will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to embody the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Matthew and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Matthew’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Matthew. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to actualize intentional health through the conscious movements, wisdom teachings, and energy arts of Qigong.
Module 1: Access Clear Vision & Power Within and Strengthen Your Body, Open Your Heart & Focus Your Mind With the Visionary Archetype (March 12)
Explore the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes as embodiments of the three pillars of Qigong — spiritual, medical, and martial — as you embark on a path to holistic health...
... through a fusion of Qigong, breathwork, poetry, embodiment practices, and meditation.
Matthew will guide you on a transformative journey to develop inner vision, meet the inner sage, and establish clear intentions — and will share five insightful ways to heighten your focus.
Discover the symbiotic relationship between breath and mind — and how they can be used to inspire clarity and purpose.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore the visionary archetype’s relationship to Qigong — and how it can be harnessed to forge new paths of intention
- Meet your inner visionary to access clear vision and power within
- Energize the 3 dantians — energy fields of your lower, middle, and upper body — to strengthen your body, open your heart, and focus your mind
- Discover 5 ways to hone and heighten attention
- Develop an intimate relationship with your mind and breath — two of your greatest allies
Module 2: Use Spiritual Qigong to Expand Your Intuition, Increase Receptivity & Optimize Your Goals (March 19)
Enter into an extensive exploration of spiritual Qigong as you delve into the visionary archetype — and learn about tailored nuanced practices to meet your unique needs and aspirations.
Matthew will provide an in-depth overview of spiritual Qigong, and how it can help you develop your intuition and be more receptive to opportunities.
Explore the intersections of spiritual, martial, and medical Qigong, receive an introduction to the wood element of Xingyiquan, and learn how you can make practice adjustments for optimal resonance with your goals.
In this session, you’ll:
- Listen to the 3 dantians for deeper coherence and empowerment in the decision-making process
- Understand how your Qigong practice can be adapted through your intention, awareness, and body to your needs — and amplify energy
- Discover how listening to your body can help you remain open and aligned with your goals — and strengthen your practice
- Explore the intersections of spiritual, martial, and medical Qigong to gain a deeper understanding of how these arts speak to each other
- Be guided in a practice of the wood element of Xingyiquan to strengthen the liver, reduce anger, promote clear sight, and tonify the tendons and ligaments
Module 3: Awaken the Healer With Medical Qigong & the 5 Elements to Cleanse & Regulate Your Body Systems, Reduce Pain & Optimize Your Organs (March 26)
This session unveils the profound principles of medical Qigong, one of the five branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Explore techniques ranging from off-body healing and bioenergetic field work to physical movement, healing sounds, light and color therapy, visualization, meditation, and breathwork.
Beyond personal practice, medical Qigong is a potent tool for supporting others on their healing journeys.
Benefit from the practice’s capacity to regulate the nervous system, reduce pain, strengthen the immune system, optimize organ functions, and enhance circulation.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore medical Qigong as a viable path for regulating your health and enhancing wellbeing
- Learn about the 5 elements of Qigong and their healing power in relation to the body, mind, and emotions
- Learn how the wood element can be harnessed to cleanse and purify the liver, stabilize the emotions, and dispel chronic aches and pains
- Harness the fire element to open the heart, release emotional pain, and awaken joy
- Be guided through the microcosmic orbit to balance the yin and yang, increase vitality, and deepen your capacity for meditation
- Add humming to your practice to down-regulate the body and stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system for calm
Module 4: Use Medical Qigong to Balance the Liver & Heart, Regulate Emotions & Consciously Empower Your Intention (April 2)
Your potential for healing, love, forgiveness, and creation is immense.
Meet your inner physician and explore exercises specifically designed to strengthen and balance the liver, heart, and subtle energy pathways.
This session goes beyond the ordinary as you learn how to approach your practice with intention and stillness...
... and gracefully integrate movement into stillness for mental, emotional, and physical balance.
In this session, you’ll:
- Gain a deeper understanding of how you can modify your intention and empower the healing intelligence of a movement
- Discover how to befriend yourself in the stillness to better align your energy, expand presence, and activate your core intention
- Explore how stillness and presence can move with you as you move through your Qigong practice — and how it evolves into grace as your body, mind, and heart align
- Experience a newfound ability to regulate your emotions and consciously empower your intention
Module 5: Empower Self-Healing & Awareness With the Warrior Archetype to Activate Strength, Aligned Action & Mental Agility (April 9)
Explore the profound traditions of martial Qigong and energetic practices, long embraced by Taoist and Buddhist monks — and discover their impact on the body and mind.
Across centuries, martial artists have harnessed the power of Qigong to fortify themselves for the demanding path of becoming true martial practitioners.
Walk this same path as you discover the essence of martial Qigong through Matthew’s favorite exercises...
... and uncover the secrets of training the warrior mind as you engage in “Martial Arts Heavenly Body” practices, activate your Qi, and receive an introduction to the three internal Chinese martial arts.
Cultivate a “ready” mindset that can pivot and face anything that comes your way in life through this holistic and empowering experience.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How to train the warrior mind for aligned action to meet life with courage and ease
- “Martial Arts Heavenly Body” changing practices for improved body control and precise energy regulation and expression
- How to activate your Qi, or life-force energy
- The 3 internal Chinese martial arts (Xingyiquan, Taijiquan, and Baguazhang) and their benefits and relationship to Qigong
Module 6: Activate Flow, Presence & Precision With Martial Qigong to Navigate Obstacles & Optimize Mental, Emotional & Physical Performance (April 16)
Use martial Qigong techniques this week to sharpen your mind, fortify your body, and align your energy to gracefully navigate uncertainty and life’s many challenges.
Experience the power of the flow state practice, including the nuances of getting into the flow...
... and learn to identify obstacles that are hindering your flow and take actionable strategies to overcome them.
Matthew will share body-changing practices that unlock your full potential — and insights, tools, and practices to embrace life’s flow with resilience and vitality.
In this session, you’ll explore:
- Practices to tune into the flow state for optimal performance and a clear state of mind
- How to free yourself from your limiting beliefs and blockages to experience more freedom
- Your inner warrior, sharpening your mind and fortifying your spirit
- Ways to condition your body through Taoist practices that will help you effortlessly navigate life’s journey and embrace each moment with radiance and grace
- “Dragon Body” practices for detoxification, tonification, and balance improvement
Module 7: Integrate the Wisdom and Movements of the Visionary, Healer & Warrior for Sustained Health & Wellbeing in Your Qigong Practice (April 23)
Discover the art of bringing spiritual, medical, and martial Qigong together harmoniously — not just in practice, but also within your body and mind — and gain insights on how to merge them with your daily life.
Qigong practice is an ally in health and a profound teacher in your ongoing journey to live with greater capacity, clarity, and authenticity.
By integrating the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes, create a holistic path to sustained health and wellbeing that you can call upon as needed.
Explore how to embody and sustain the powerful wisdom of these archetypes in your daily practice and life.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore how the warrior, healer, and visionary strengthen each other and become your allies
- Learn how to carry this medicine into your daily life, with continuous practice for lasting change
- Listen to your body and tune your practice to what you need the most
- Explore a “Primordial Chaos” Qigong exercise to integrate the 3 pillars
The Three Archetypal Pillars of Qigong Bonus Offering
In addition to Matthew’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Explore the Many Faces of Meditation With Sacred Energy Arts
Video Practices From Matthew Cohen
In this video teaching by Matthew, explore meditations of various traditions done while lying, sitting, standing, walking, and moving. These practices build mindfulness and energy in different positions and with a wide variety of movements. Discover meditation as an effective way to reduce stress, calm the nervous system, sharpen the senses, promote radiant health, and help to balance and harmonize destructive emotions.
Register by February 24 to claim this bonus before it expires.
Explore the Beneficial Nuances of Qigong
Video Dialogue With Matthew Cohen and Qigong Teacher Faye Li Yip
In this rich dialogue between Matthew and Qigong teacher Faye Li Yip, explore the beneficial nuances of Qigong practice learned firsthand throughout their journeys. They’ll share potent insights, personal experiences, and the impact of ancient disciplines, breathwork, meditation, and Qigong on the powerful Qigong teachers they are. Matthew and Master Faye also share examples of simple yet powerful exercises that offer a taste of the peace, vitality, and spiritual connection that these practices can bring to your life.
Register by March 8 to claim this bonus before it expires.
Discover the Beauty & Healing Potential of 5 Elements Qigong
PDF Guide From Matthew Cohen
Neijia (Taoist internal arts), or 5 Elements Qigong, is one of Matthew’s favored Qigong methods. This system is akin to a precious jewel, embodying rarity and beauty. Discover its multifaceted components in this 14-page PDF, including its cultivation of intent, heightened awareness, and how each element dynamically influences specific organs, harmonizes emotions, and balances energy channels. Through a sequence that combines standing postures for stillness and movement for strength and flexibility, the practice enhances focus with potent visualizations and acupressure tapping techniques for holistic healing, making this guide a comprehensive and valuable approach to your wellbeing.
Into the Stillness & Versatility of Meditation
Video Dialogue With Matthew Cohen and Ming-Dao Deng
In this insightful video interview between Matthew and Chinese martial arts teacher Ming-Dao Deng, explore the diverse facets of meditation and its profound applications in every realm of life. Meditation can be practiced in various positions, including sitting, standing, moving, and lying down. This conversation contemplates concepts like stillness, its relevance to the meditation practice and the misconceptions surrounding it.
What Graduates of Matthew’s Courses Are Saying...
— Deborah Geffner: “There Is an Immense Well of Kindness in Matthew”
— Blake Abramovitz: “Mathew Is a Brilliant Practitioner Who Pours Himself Into His Teaching”
“It was wonderful to attend this course!”
It was wonderful to attend this course! I have learned many things about energy and how it can be accessed to control or bring about a state of wellbeing in various adverse contexts. This energy exists, even if it is invisible and is felt in the form of cold or warm air currents, tingling or fullness in the palms. It’s nice to be able to experience this energy.
— Bianca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
“This is life-changing guidance for all.”
Sifu Matthew Cohen has collected gems and is now sharing them. His guidance for Wu Ji is worth the price of admission and there is so much more. This is life-changing guidance for all. I am so very grateful for his teaching.
— Cathy, Portugal
“This was one of the best classes ever with The Shift Network and I hope Matthew will do a follow-up.”
This was one of the best classes ever with The Shift Network and I hope Matthew will do a follow-up. I loved his mix of meditation, poetry, philosophy and some movement. And he is the first teacher ever to explain why and how you do certain movements.
— Ann
“[Matthew’s] wealth of knowledge is presented in a kind and thoughtful way that takes the big mystery out of Qigong and brings it into the realm of normal and doable.”
This course gave me the push to get back to a regular and meaningful Qigong practice. Due to certain circumstances in the last year, I have been unable to get myself motivated to practice internal forms — and Matthew’s course has really inspired me to do just that. His wealth of knowledge is presented in a kind and thoughtful way that takes the big mystery out of Qigong and brings it into the realm of normal and doable. This course was absolutely inspiring. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with such kindness and grace.
— Susan, Winnipeg, Canada
“The shift in my energy and emotions after practicing these ancient techniques was profound and unexpected.”
The shift in my energy and emotions after practicing these ancient techniques was profound and unexpected. Some I was particularly drawn to, such as the microcosmic orbit breathing coupled with the visualization; I was immediately able to “drop in” to a calm and mindful state. I now have resources to draw on whenever I need; even in the space of one breath if needed! Absolutely transformative and highly recommended.
— Louise, Southampton, United Kingdom
Join the Global Community
Three Archetypal Pillars of Qigong offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Sifu Matthew Cohen will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Sifu Matthew Cohen
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from founder of Sacred Energy Arts Sifu Matthew Cohen — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to activate the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes within you to actualize intentional health and enhanced self-mastery. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Three Archetypal Pillars of Qigong Bonus Offering
- Explore the Many Faces of Meditation With Sacred Energy Arts
Video Practices From Matthew Cohen
- Explore the Beneficial Nuances of Qigong
Video Dialogue With Matthew Cohen and Qigong Teacher Faye Li Yip
- Discover the Beauty & Healing Potential of 5 Elements Qigong
PDF Guide From Matthew Cohen - Into the Stillness & Versatility of Meditation
Video Dialogue With Matthew Cohen and Ming-Dao Deng
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Three Archetypal Pillars of Qigong
We feel honored that Sifu Matthew Cohen has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of Sacred Energy Arts whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning how you can co-create your health through the warrior, healer, and visionary archetypes of Qigong, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE 3 Archetypal Pillars of Qigong — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before March 26, 2024 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Sifu Matthew Cohen...
“Matthew’s teaching deepened and strengthened my practice on so many levels.”
Matthew’s teaching deepened and strengthened my practice on so many levels. The rare addition of Qigong has added a profound stillness to my life and is an inspiring, moving meditation. Most teachers I’ve known articulate their knowledge in a steady and cerebral way. Matthew takes it a graceful step further by connecting that knowledge through the emotional, physical, and spiritual, and allowing it to settle without force.
— Minnie Driver, actress
“Matthew has an incredible ability to blend many of the internal arts such as yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong together in one seamless flow.”
Matthew has an incredible ability to blend many of the internal arts such as yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong, together in one seamless flow. If you’re looking for something grounding as well as lifting energetically, go and check it out, and keep an open mind.
— Stefan Storace, Garden of Yoga
“I recommend Matthew to anyone who seeks to strengthen his or her physical and spiritual muscles.”
Over the past five years, Matthew has become my good friend, my yoga teacher, my spiritual mentor, and my training partner. Whether I’m kicking him during our training sessions or stretching in a yoga pose in his class, I always feel present when I’m in Matthew’s company. I recommend Matthew to anyone who seeks to strengthen his or her physical and spiritual muscles.
— David Grunwald, CEO, American Sunrise Communities
“Matthew Cohen is one of the most inspiring teachers on my yoga journey.”
Matthew Cohen is one of the most inspiring teachers on my yoga journey. I feel very lucky to have taken his training and have had the privilege to assist his teacher training many times since. He keeps inspiring me and delivering rich knowledge. Matthew’s teaching draws from multiple methods and wisdom. He is very creative and motivates and challenges the body’s potential. His teacher training offers a full range of teaching skills, and I consider his training to be one of the “must take” trainings if you want to become an excellent yoga teacher!
— Sean Ren, Yoga Yard China
“Working and training with Matthew is a joy and a deep exploration of strength, personal power, resiliency, and grace.”
Matthew is an incredible instructor of yoga, meditation, Qigong, Tai Chi, and martial arts. And, he is more than that. He is a genuine, fierce, and gentle spirit. Working and training with Matthew is a joy and a deep exploration of strength, personal power, resiliency, and grace. He offers a safe and courageous space that allows me to release obstacles in the way of ease in my practice and my life. Thank you, Matthew, for sharing your courage and presence, and offering your gifts, expertise, and Sacred Energy Arts — your unique blend of healing work — to the world. I am truly grateful.
— C. Pete Lee, yoga teacher
About Sifu Matthew Cohen
Sifu Matthew Cohen is the founder and creator of Sacred Energy Arts — a unique, integrated system of health and self-development drawing from the teachings of Qigong, martial arts, and yoga. Matthew developed this method after recognizing that Qigong, yoga, and the internal martial arts stand alone as great health systems. Together, the practices create a powerful and transformative experience. Matthew has been fully immersed in the study and application of martial, yogic, and healing arts for over 40 years, and has taught in more than 15 countries.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage with live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is any connected device. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
Q: Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this training?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is March 26, 2024. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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