HEALTH
Self-Healing and Empowerment
with ZY Qi Gong
Janai Mestrovich interviews Claire Johnson
Claire Guyu Johnson grew up in Beijing and the US in a family of taichi, herbal medicine, acupuncture and qigong practitioners. Through her parents’ Qigong Association
of America, she met and studied with a number of masters including ZY Qigong Grandmaster Xu Mingtang. In 1999, She traveled and studied with Mingtang as he taught
and practiced healing worldwide. In 2000, she set up America’s first ZY Qigong School
and Healing Center in Seattle. Claire met Jerigtu Borjigin in Inner Mongolia, and they
married in 2010. They teach Qigong and Image Medicine internationally.
Janai: Claire, please define what ZY Qi Gong is
and how you and Jerigtu benefit from its practice in maintaining a higher consciousness.
Claire: “ZY Qigong (Zhong Yuan Qigong) is one of
the oldest practices of human kind. It uses simple
forms in service of meditations in order to increase
one’s life force. As life force increases, the busy
mind slows down. Eventually, we connect with our
soul and with the universe.
As our life force naturally
rises up to the upper
energy center (upper dan
tian – collar bone upwards
including neck and head), it
literally starts to light up the
inside of the head.
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In this process as we are strengthening our lower energy center in the abdominal region under
the belly button (dan tian in Chinese). Our physical health is improved and our energy level is increased. The areas of trust, sense of security, and
the ability to persever H\