Comments on: The Proper Dosage of Qigong

By: Jenny Ellert

Jenny Ellert — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 11:51:00 +0000

I got your book in October last year and felt so inspired, starting with a daily practice of 2 minutes a day of ‘Lifting the Sky, and went on to look at your book bonuses. This practice became fully automatised. like brushing my teeth. Later on this led to a 3 minute daily practice and later still, a 4 minute daily practice. Never missed a day because I always looked forward to it.
Signed up for Qigong 101 at the beginning of the year, and continued my daily morning practice which by now had progressed to a daily morning session of the 5 Phase routine, and this has continued every single day, only missing out twice. Once when flying abroad on a long haul flight, resorting instead to a 3 minute routine on that day, and on another occasion while abroad, when I had a severe attack of vestibular migraine, for which I am currently seeing a vestibular physiotherapist, working with eye movements and balance exercises for a few minutes twice a day, making good progress.
I absolutely love my daily Qigong and it has become my gold standard for the day.
Now I am ready to upgrade my practice to twice a day, starting with a 3 minute guided meditation in the evening and gradually building up to a full 5 Phase Routine.
Thank you Sifu Anthony for your inspired teaching.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:20:05 +0000

I practice 5 phase 2 times daily. At the moment I’m testing out 2 minute drill with 5 phase at night to prepare for vacation. I will be replacing 5 phase for a week. So far I notice that I still have full qi flow. I just won’t get the privacy necessary during vacation, so testing out how I feel with just 2 minute drill practice is very important. Testing how it feels so I know that it will work out.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:14:16 +0000

In reply to Sifu Anthony Korahais. Ha ha, I hear you, thanks. I'm going to shoot for three-a-day for 30 days and then go from there. I just had a wild (in a good way) Flowing Breeze Swaying Willow experience, so things are going great so far (although I think I freaked our dog out a little!).

By: Sifu Anthony Korahais

Sifu Anthony Korahais — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:34:27 +0000

In reply to Paul. If it's easy for you to do 3 sessions per day, and if you can enjoy them and keep the quality high, then go for it! But be prepared to get a lot of results!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:27:41 +0000

Hello Sifu Anthony! Is it possible to have too high a dosage of qigong? For example, if doing qigong twice a day is three times better than doing it once a day, is it even better to do qigong three times a day? I work at home, so it’s easy for me to take three 15-20 minutes breaks to do the 5-Phase routine (I’m doing the one from your Battling Depression course).

By: Sifu Anthony Korahais

Sifu Anthony Korahais — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:31:33 +0000

In reply to ROBERT MARKOSKI. Hi Robert. Where did you learn this "chi flow"?

By: ROBERT MARKOSKI

ROBERT MARKOSKI — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:02:15 +0000

Hello Sifu Anthony, Can there be a problem from doing too much Qigong for certain people? I myself suffer from Chronic Fatigue and depression. I started doing Lifting the Sky and chi flow 15 minutes once a day for a week and I am feeling very tired and fatigued. Could practicing everyday for my condition be counter productive. I have the same problem whether i meditate, workout etc it seems my nervous system is too weak.

By: Dion Short

Dion Short — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:21:46 +0000

Great article! It cleared up a few questions that I had swirling around in my head for sometime. I am glad I read it. It must have slipped by me. This is an article I will certainly hang on to. It should be REQUIRED READING for people who are practicing qi gong. Thanks a MILLION!

By: Harpreet Mudhar

Harpreet Mudhar — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:36:32 +0000

I was like this so enthusiastically i jumped straight into 5 phase routine twice a day…

And i had a massive healing crisis detox episode. I messaged about it here but cant remember where. I was totally fatigued and started feeling dizzy in bed and work. I had to sleep like 12 hours a day. I had to cut back and i removed lifting the sky from routine. A qigong woman said i might have been lifting to much qi too fast into my head. I was really hot too. (No i didnt have a cold).

Anyway a month later or so i have stuck to once a day and the dizziness has more or less gone….ive reintroduced lifting the sky again now and only 6 reps slowly building.

Fatigue seems to be going too.

By: Sumathi

Sumathi — Sat, 20 Apr 2019 07:16:59 +0000

In reply to Sifu Anthony. I have just started doing Qigong. Thanks for the guidance