PEARLS OF WISDOM

Tao Congress 2010

JAMPA STEWART

Jampa Stewart,
Director of the Healing Tao Institute, Texas

Jampa Mackenzie Stewart is the director of Healing Tao Institute, Texas. A Senior Instructor, Certified Medical Qigong Therapist and licensed acupuncturist practicing in Austin, Texas, Jampa has studied and practiced Tai Chi since 1972. He learned Tai Chi Chi Kung directly from Master Chia from 1984 -1994.

Beginning with Cheng Man-Ching's version of Yang style Tai Chi, Jampa studied this style with Maggie Newman, Ed Young, Myles MacVane, John Solberg, Mark Westcott, Mike Milewski and Robert Tangora. He then studied Long Yang style with Shing Perng, and Chen Pan-Ling style Tai Chi with Kai Sung. In 1981 he was with the first U.S. Delegation to learn the original Chen Style of Tai Chi in China with the world's top masters: Chen Xiaowang, Feng Zhiqiang and Ge Chunyan.

Jampa served as founding director and president of the Rochester T'ai Chi Ch'uan Center from 1982-1990. Other major teachers included Ken Cohen, Ray Hayward, T.T. Liang, Stuart Alve Olson, Paul Gallagher, Sam Masich, Yin Chian-Ho, Gunther Weil. He is currently President of the National Qigong Association of the U.S., board member, and chairman of its Standards Committee.

Jampa has taught thousands of students over the past 32 years throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Ecuador, and the Caribbean.

The Microcosmic Orbit: Innovations and Discoveries, polishing the basics

As the doorway to the entire Universal Healing Tao system, the Microcosmic Orbit Meditation encompasses the foundations for the entire path of Taoist inner alchemy, chi kung, martial arts and healing. Advanced practices rely on a continuous polishing, deepening, and perfection of the basic skills and principles.

Jampa Mackenzie Stewart will present an in-depth exploration of the Lower Dan Tian from the Taoist, Zen and Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practice traditions; alternate pathways for Microcosmic Orbit circulation; perspectives of the inner meaning of energy meditation as a practice for true spiritual awakening and returning to the Source – Wu Chi.

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Tai Chi Chi Kung I Revisited

Tai Chi Chi Kung is the dance of the Tao. Through our practice we discover a way for understanding and applying the Taoist core principles of Yin and Yang, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams within the experiential laboratory of our own body.

This simple form is the deepest and most profound of all moving Chi Kung styles. It is a vessel that we can fill with the wisdom and skills from all the other systems that we have learned, condensed into one easy daily practice. In this experiential presentation we’ll explore these meanings and apply our yi – intention to bring them into the flow of our movement and our life.

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