Chaos to Calm
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Chaos to Calm is a show about learning to live in a calm, relaxed and natural state, better able to deal with the challenges of daily life. We’ll introduce you to Ren Xue, a comprehensive path to wellbeing developed by Yuan Tze. Its primary tool is Yuan Gong, an innovative form of Qigong, which is gentle exercise and meditation that integrates movement, posture, breathing, energy and awareness. Ren Xue combines work on the body and energy, or Qi, with work on the mind and heart. The practices are enjoyable and easy to learn and have improved the health and wellbeing of people all over the world. You’ll meet some of the people whose lives have been turned around by Ren Xue, people recovering from physical illness, or who have repaired their relationships, or who have found a deeper meaning through their Ren Xue practice. You’ll get insights into the theory and practical aspects of how the mind, body and Qi can work together to bring about real change.
Location:
United States
Description:
Chaos to Calm is a show about learning to live in a calm, relaxed and natural state, better able to deal with the challenges of daily life. We’ll introduce you to Ren Xue, a comprehensive path to wellbeing developed by Yuan Tze. Its primary tool is Yuan Gong, an innovative form of Qigong, which is gentle exercise and meditation that integrates movement, posture, breathing, energy and awareness. Ren Xue combines work on the body and energy, or Qi, with work on the mind and heart. The practices are enjoyable and easy to learn and have improved the health and wellbeing of people all over the world. You’ll meet some of the people whose lives have been turned around by Ren Xue, people recovering from physical illness, or who have repaired their relationships, or who have found a deeper meaning through their Ren Xue practice. You’ll get insights into the theory and practical aspects of how the mind, body and Qi can work together to bring about real change.
Language:
English
Episodes
Up, up and Away - Taking off With Ren Xue
4/3/2017
Guests Bill McMillan, a retired psychotherapist and Secretary of Ren Xue of the Americas, and Sally Hinds, President of Ren Xue of the Americas talk about how they work with Ren Xue in their communities and around the globe. Sally has a business and systems background, and talks about Ren Xue as a whole, its integrity and efficacy, and some of the changes she has seen in her own life. Bill, talks about the activities Ren Xue teachers do in the Bay area, California, helping people with cancer, in rest homes, with visual impairment and more, and the impact these classes have had on people. They also discuss Ren Xue’s global activities, from Norway to South Africa, including at home learning programmes, online and local classes, and teacher training by DVD or in person in New Zealand and Sweden. Books on the philosophy of balance embodied in Ren Xue are currently being translated into several languages in order to help bring peace and health back into the heart of humanity.
Duration:00:58:15
Making Calmness a Way of Life, Not a Mistake - The nature of practice
3/27/2017
Three Ren Xue teachers talk about how their practice has changed their lives. Shona and Nick give us insights into increasing clarity and creativity of mind, even as we get older, how to have the energy we need, and the delight of sharing a relationship in which both people are bringing love, openness and clarity. They talk openly about conflict, and how they step lightly and create growth and strength out of these opportunities. Natalie talks about the importance of the good state and how to extend it from the practice to everyday life. She describes how this changes her relationships with her family and friends who visit. She talks about the journey from depletion to abundance, from being a busy young mother and feeling her energy going out all the time, to learning how to gather Qi and developing an internal focus of mind, so that there is plenty of energy and Qi available in every moment. And when she forgets, she has tools at hand to bring her back to herself.
Duration:00:56:09
How'd I get in this mess? Mind matters
3/20/2017
Host Dr Jackie Blunt and Vanessa Lukes, a keen gardener and Ren Xue teacher, share a conversation about habits of the mind and how they can be changed. They discuss mind patterns from the perspective of brain science, in particular in relation to the development of the brain in the early years, based on the current understanding of the highly respected Brainwave Trust Aotearoa of which Dr Blunt is a member. Ways of helping the brain are touched on briefly as they share stories of transformations they created in their own lives, health, and relationships, using an ever-deepening understanding of Qi and mind, and their role in life.
Duration:00:56:29
What's Your Fix - Addiction and Ren Xue
3/13/2017
Cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty interview Cathy Fox, an Irish Yuan Gong teacher and Ren Xue practitioner who candidly talks about her experience with alcohol addiction. Cathy shares a very personal and open-hearted story about her struggle with substance abuse and how Yuan Gong and Ren Xue practice has supported her journey. For anyone who has wrestled with the many faces of addiction, this is a show not to be missed.
Duration:00:55:24
Whose Fault is it Anyway? Couples and Relationships
3/6/2017
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion from how we can use Ren Xue to resolve conflict to who does the dishes. Host Jackie Blunt and co-host Bill McMillan are joined by Kelly Snyder, a fulltime Ren Xue teacher from Washington state, and Ana and Manfred Raunigg, a couple practicing Yuan Gong and Ren Xue in Golden Bay, New Zealand. They will share how they have used these practices to improve their relationships and overall energy, and to restore energy after childbirth and breast feeding.
Duration:00:57:15
Show title The Mind, the Body and Self-healing - I Gotta Feeling
2/27/2017
In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty converse with guest Diana Lion who had struggled with Lyme disease, chronic migraines and severe multiple chemical sensitivities for about 15 years before applying the tools she has learned in Yuan Gong style Qigong and Ren Xue to heal herself. Diana is now healthy and shares the insights she has garnered along the way to health and wellness.
Duration:00:55:25
Death, Breath and Harmony
2/20/2017
In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty listen as Helen Greenspan, a Hospice Nurse (care for the dying) for 25 years, gives a candid reflection of her work with the dying and the precious insights she has gained as a result of this work. Helen shares what she feels is needed at the bedside of someone who is dying, intimately discusses the challenges she personally has experienced and talks about how her hospice work has changed since incorporating Ren Xue’s five essential heart qualities of trust, openness, love, gratitude and true respect. Helen wraps up the interview with a beautiful song that she often sings at the bedside of someone who has just died.
Duration:00:56:43
Intentional Healing - You can do It
2/13/2017
In this episode, Kathy Fogarty, a Seattle naturopath interviews Dr. Mark Libow, a retired cardiologist, about intentional healing and the relationship between consciousness and healing. Dr. Libow shares a variety of studies culled from medical literature in support of various intentional healing modalities, and discusses why he believes the theory of quantum entanglement may validate intentional healing.
Duration:00:53:08
Taking a Dive and Coming Up
2/6/2017
In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty speak with Dale Mirmow, a Yuan Gong/Ren Xue teacher who survived a life-threatening accident while hiking. Dale shares a riveting story of how she begins healing herself using Qi and positive information infused with the five essential qualities of the heart. While her story begins in the great outdoors on a hiking trail, her path to healing ultimately leads her on an internal exploration into the meaning of trust and openness and the importance of these qualities for true healing.
Duration:00:54:31
When the World Gets Turned Upside Down - Trauma and Shock
1/30/2017
In this episode three Ren Xue teachers talk together about the effects of sudden shock or trauma from earthquakes, accidents, and death. They explore how feelings and mind activity can transform into a positive and uplifting state, and give examples of how they have done this, and the effects it had on their own mental and physical wellbeing, and on the world around them. Host Jackie Blunt talks to guests Dorrie van Roij, a holistic lifestyle, and animal healing and communication expert living in Auckland, New Zealand, and Shane Ricketts, an osteopath from Melbourne, Australia.
Duration:00:55:06
A Way Home from Chronic Illness - thinking outside the box
1/23/2017
In this episode, Kathy Fogarty, a Seattle naturopath interviews two Yuan Gong/Ren Xue teachers, Bill McMillan, a retired psychotherapist and Diana Lion, who has taught various forms of social and individual healing since 1975. Both guests have spent many years assisting people with chronic illnesses and life-threatening conditions, including cancer. Bill speaks about his current classes with cancer survivors. Diana shares how living with chronic illness can be traumatic, chaotic and disruptive to one’s life and that to begin the healing process, it is important to cultivate tools that bring the body/mind back into a calm, centered place. Using Yuan Gong style Qigong and Ren Xue practices, individuals with chronic illness can learn to develop that sense of calm.
Duration:00:56:18
Grow your Life with Qi - life force
1/16/2017
In Grow Your Life with Qi, guests and life partners Ollie Clifton and Vanessa Lukes, describe how life has changed since they began using Ren Xue and Yuan Gong. Ollie, a project manager, ex-mountaineer, Ren Xue teacher and tiny house enthusiast, tells the story of how he became involved in Yuan Gong through the experiences of his partner, Vanessa Lukes, as she recovered from cancer. Vanessa, a keen gardener, ex-mountaineer and Ren Xue and Yuan Gong teacher, describes the shock she felt at being diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty, while leading what she considered to be a fit and healthy outdoor life.
Duration:00:55:43
Calm: An essential nutrient for modern life
1/9/2017
Our guests throughout the series will be talking about how they have used Ren Xue to bring peace and harmony to their relationships, lightness and wisdom when facing the transition through death, vitality to their bodies and lives, release from trauma and addiction, and positive transformation to many other aspects of human life. Today, we will talk about Yuan Gong, an innovative and contemporary Qigong method where body, mind and Qi (life force) work together to transform life from dis-ease to ease and health. We will hear from co-host Kathy Fogarty about the transformation she experienced in her own and her clients’ health, when they practiced these techniques, and from our guest Cathy Fox, about her incredible transformation from chronic pain to wellness.
Duration:00:54:41