Practice for Longevity: The Qigong & Life Guide

🌿 Longevity Qigong Practice Guide

Your path to lasting health, energy, and inner peace

Welcome! This guide is here to support your personal Longevity Qigong practice after training. By following these simple yet powerful principles, you’ll set yourself up for the best possible results—physically, energetically, and holistically.


🧘‍♂️ 1. What to Wear

Choose loose, comfortable clothing that allows freedom of movement. No restrictive gear or tight outfits—let your body move and breathe naturally.

🏡 2. Choose the Right Space

Practice in a quiet place with fresh air and no distractions. Indoors or outdoors is fine, as long as the environment supports calmness and focus.

🌧️ 3. Weather Matters

Avoid practicing in cold, windy, rainy, foggy, or stormy weather, and avoid practice during loud thunderstorms indoors.
Also, avoid cold exposure in all forms:

  • Cold food and drinks
  • Cold showers
  • Cold air/drafts

Coldness drains your life energy and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary (e.g. high fever, heavy bleeding).

⏰ 4. Best Times to Practice

Practice when your body is not exhausted and at least one hour after eating.
Evenings are ideal, but any quiet time that fits your schedule is fine.
After Steelman Qigong is an especially effective time—Steelman circulates energy, Longevity gathers and conserves it.

🌀 5. How to Move

Move slowly, smoothly, and naturally.
Go at your own pace—younger bodies may go slow, older bodies may go even slower.
Aim for about 30 minutes per session.

🌬️ 6. Breathe Naturally

Let your breath flow without control.
Avoid manipulating or watching the breath—this overuses your energy.
Controlled breathing is for fighting and short-term recovery, not for a long, healthy life.

🔄 7. Follow the Sequence

Always follow the energetic order:
Build yang → then pack yin.
If short on time, practice fewer movements—but keep the sequence.

⚖️ 8. Adjust Based on Your Condition

  • Feeling overactive? Focus on the last 4 movements.
  • Feeling tired? Practice just the last few, or even just the final one.
  • Ideally, practice all 8 exercises once or more per day for about 30 minutes.

😊 9. Practice with a Relaxed Mind

Let the mind rest.
No need to count repetitions or think.
Let the body move without effort, without mental control.
The less mind involved, the more the body returns to its natural, efficient state—calm, full of life energy, and able to heal.


🚀 The Next Step: 3 Things to Do for a Long, Healthy Life

1. Practice Longevity Qigong Every Day

Consistency is the key to long life and illness-free living. No matter how simple the movement, daily practice will transform your health over time.

2. Learn Steelman Qigong

Longevity Qigong is for energy gathering—it uses the least amount of your body’s resources while preserving your vital energy.
Steelman Qigong focuses on energy flow and circulation using your inner strength to nourish the body.

Together, they form a complete health system:

  • One gathers energy
  • The other distributes it effectively

Without circulation, energy can’t nourish the whole body. And without energy, circulation has nothing to deliver.
Mr. Zhang practiced Steelman to recover from illness and maintained both forms daily for long-term health.
You should too—especially when dealing with symptoms or aiming for longevity.

3. Care for Your Body in All Aspects of Life

Exercise alone is not enough.
Your food, habits, mental state, and daily actions affect your health just as much.

If you’re constantly harming your body through poor food choices, unhealthy routines, or harmful mindsets, even the best Qigong practice won’t save your health.

Modern health trends and commercial products have misled many people, especially in the U.S.
You don’t need special supplements, diets, or health gadgets.
In fact, the more commercial products you consume, the more harm you may cause.
Our ancestors lived long, healthy lives without any of these.

So what’s the best medicine?
Food and your body’s own healing power.

To support your journey, I recommend my book:
“The Total Life Energy Plan: How to Cultivate Life Energy for Long-Term Health and Vitality.”
It teaches you how to build your own self-healing system through food, lifestyle, energy awareness, and more—tailored to your strengths, weaknesses, and health conditions.

The deeper you understand the book, the better you’ll understand human nature—and how to truly take care of yourself for life.


🧭 Final Note

Keep practicing Longevity Qigong.
Learn and integrate Steelman Qigong.
Build your own health and healing system through daily living.

If you need help, you have my number or contact me here
I offer private consultations at half price for existing clients.

Stay steady, stay natural, and let your body guide you toward lasting health and vitality.

Why You Should Practice Life Energy Exercise Over Any Others, Part 3: Our Daoist Qigong Healing Master Julia H. Sun

Meet Julia H. Sun, Your Teacher and Healer

Julia’s personal health journey uniquely qualifies her to guide you in Life Energy Exercise, drawing from her transformative experiences. For example, after suffering from debilitating bodily pain, fatigue, fainting, and even battling cancer, Julia turned to Life Energy Exercises, particularly Steelman Qigong, and experienced remarkable recovery and vitality. Born during the Great Starvation in China, she overcame fragile health and a series of illnesses through qigong and all-natural self-care.

Julia’s Healing Journey

After practicing various exercises, Julia discovered that only Life Energy Exercise—particularly Steelman Qigong—restored her health. Drawing on her research and personal healing experiences, she developed an all-natural health and healing system that includes Life Energy Exercise.

Why Julia Is the Best Teacher for You

  1. Personal Healing Experience: Julia’s journey gives her unique insight into the transformative power of these exercises.
  2. Deep Knowledge: Her understanding of nature’s laws, the human body, and its energy system ensures effective teaching.
  3. Healing Expertise: With decades of qigong healing and teaching, Julia has helped people recover from severe and terminal illnesses.
  4. Comprehensive System: Her self-healing system integrates Life Energy Exercise for maximum impact.
  5. Passion for Helping Others: Julia’s mission is to share her knowledge to transform lives.

Julia’s Teaching Philosophy

Julia emphasizes the importance of understanding the principles behind the exercises. This depth of knowledge enhances the effectiveness of practice, empowering students to achieve profound health transformations. Whether you are healthy and seeking optimal performance or facing chronic illness, her guidance can make a life-changing difference.

Julia’s unparalleled expertise ensures that no other class provides the same depth of knowledge and effectiveness. Whether in-person or online, her teaching empowers you to take charge of your health and live your best life.


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Why You Should Practice Life Energy Exercise Over Any Others, Part 2: The Most Sophisticated and Effective Healing Exercise for Complete Health

Unlike martial arts or sports-focused exercises, which prioritize performance or entertainment, Life Energy Exercise is purposefully designed and most effective exercise for complete health and long life. Its sophisticated design offers unparalleled health benefits.

Why Steelman Qigong Stands Out

Steelman Qigong activates and strengthens all organs and meridians, achieving balance and promoting health. It also addresses addictive behaviors such as sugar, caffeine, and gambling. Its profound ability to address deep-rooted health imbalances makes it unique among all exercises.

What Life Energy Exercise Is NOT

  1. Not Energy-Draining: Unlike many exercises, it doesn’t overuse life energy, preserving it for longevity.
  2. Not Breath-Dependent: It avoids deep or abdominal breathing techniques that deplete energy.
  3. Not Mind-Driven: It doesn’t rely on intense mental control, which can overtax the body’s resources, leading to both physical and mental health problems.
  4. Not a Long-Term Subscription: Life Energy Exercise offers lifetime benefits after learning it once.
  5. Not Muscle-Centric: It focuses on systemic health rather than muscle-building.
  6. Not Isolated: It addresses the whole body rather than isolated symptoms or parts.

Comprehensive Health Benefits – most effective exercise for complete health and long life

Steelman Qigong’s sequence of eight exercises is meticulously designed to strengthen every organ and balance the entire body’s energy system. By addressing the root causes of discomfort, fatigue, and imbalance, it delivers complete health restoration and prevention.

Unlike exercises developed for martial arts or sports, Life Energy Exercise is specifically crafted, most effective exercise for complete health and long life. It is a one-time investment in learning, providing a lifetime of health benefits. Join our class and experience its transformative power.

Life Energy Exercise is suitable for both men and women. It can be practiced by individuals of any body type, regardless of whether they are thin or overweight, healthy or ill, and it can be done indoors or outdoors.

  • Young practitioners will benefit from enhanced wisdom and strength while older practitioners will experience improved longevity and vitality;
  • Healthy individuals will see an increase in energy and strength while those with illnesses will find relief and healing from the root cause of their ailments;
  • Overweight individuals will achieve healthy weight loss and underweight individuals will experience weight gain.

Why You Should Practice Life Energy Exercise Over Any Others, Part 1: The Phenomenal History of Life Energy Exercise

Discover the Origins of Life Energy Exercise

Understanding the origins of Life Energy Exercise highlights its remarkable benefits and transformative power, especially as you learn it with Qigong Master Julia H. Sun. Let’s delve into the remarkable history of Life Energy Exercise.

The Fundamental Principle of the Universe and Humans

Humans are an inseparable part of nature. The universe, including the human body, is composed of energy. The energy that animates life and connects us to the natural world is called life energy. Achieving optimal health requires aligning with natural laws and cultivating this life energy.

Daoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) are grounded in these principles, applying nature’s laws to human health to enable us to live harmoniously and healthily.

Fascinating Facts About Daoists and Health

  • Nature’s Lifestyle: Daoists typically live self-sustained lives in mountain settings, grounded and healthy. This means they cultivate a deep connection with nature, maintain balanced lifestyles, and engage in practices that promote physical vitality and inner peace.
  • Traditional Healers: Nine out of ten Daoists practice as traditional doctors without a degree. Their mastery of nature and the human body enables them to heal illnesses deemed incurable by medicines.
  • Longevity: Daoist masters often live beyond 90 years, among the longest-lived groups on Earth.

The Origins of Life Energy Exercise

Life Energy Exercise incorporates three types of exercises:

  1. Standing Meditation: This no-movement meditation taps into the body’s natural healing abilities.
  2. Longevity Qigong: Effortless movements conserve, acquire, and pack energy, promoting lifelong health.
  3. Steelman Qigong: Active movements acquire and circulate energy, boosting vitality and strength.

Steelman Exercise originated during China’s Tang Dynasty over 1,400 years ago, developed by Daoists and practiced for health and healing. It remained a closely guarded secret throughout its history, with only one person in each generation entrusted with its knowledge. While public imitations like Eight Brocade Qigong became widespread, Steelman Qigong was finally revealed in detail in 2006 by Master Zhang. Today, it is recognized as an unparalleled exercise for transformative healing and extraordinary health.

Mr. Zhang
Mr. Zhang (1912-2015)

Longevity Qigong, even more closely guarded, has:

  • No comparable imitation.
  • Hidden meanings behind its exercise names, such as “Drinking Immortal Wine in the Kunlun Mountain.”

Standing Meditation has thousands of years of history, practiced throughout China and globally recognized.

Join us in uncovering the profound power of Life Energy Exercise and transforming your health journey. Start the journey with learning Steelman Qigong with our free YouTube videos:

The whole set of Steelman Qigong

Steelman Qigong play list for the warmup, 8 core exercises, and concluding exercise.

How Popular Exercises Can Diminish Our Life Energy

In our pursuit of health and wellness through movement, we often gravitate toward popular exercise programs such as yoga, aerobics, Pilates, Zumba, strength training, stretching, treadmills, and running, all of which promise transformative results. From cardiovascular workouts to muscle building, these trends captivate us with claims of weight loss, improved vitality, and overall well-being. However, beneath the surface, some of these approaches may unintentionally deplete our life energy—the vital force that sustains our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Let’s explore how this can happen and what alternatives we can consider.

The Appeal of Popular Exercise Programs

Popular dietary, exercise, and wellness programs attract us with promises of quick fixes and visible results. Whether it’s shedding pounds rapidly or achieving a heightened sense of wellness through intensive training and lifestyle adjustments, many embark on these paths with hopeful expectations.

The Impact on Life Energy

  1. Energetic Depletion: Extreme exercises, such as intense sports or rapid weight loss programs, place significant strain on the body, depleting its energy reserves. This leaves us feeling drained and lacking vitality, which can ultimately shorten our lifespan. The heart requires substantial energy to circulate blood throughout the body, and intensive exercise demands even more circulation, leading to excessive sweating. Sweat places additional strain on the heart, as it controls both circulation and sweating. This is why many athletes—especially those in sports like football and basketball, which put tremendous pressure on the heart—suffer sudden heart failures on the field or right after practice. Exercises like running, aerobics, and cardiovascular workouts do not build life energy; rather, they deplete it, overusing the body’s energy reserves, which can lead to a shorter life. This is one reason athletes often live shorter lives than the general public. Running hard is meant for survival or emergency situations, not for health and recreation.
  2. Energetic Imbalance: Intense exercises can disrupt the body’s natural energetic balance, leading to erratic energy levels, mood swings, and difficulty maintaining mental clarity—all signs of disrupted life energy flow. This includes some forms of yoga, strength training, and Pilates. For example, practitioners of Bikram yoga, which encourages excessive sweating for detoxification, often experience heart problems. Exercises that focus solely on balance, without considering life energy cultivation, are less effective for overall well-being.
  3. Lack of Vitality: While some exercises improve circulation, they may not provide sufficient life energy to sustain it. Exercises that disperse too much energy can leave us feeling weak, reducing the vitality needed for daily activities. Mental functions, such as clear thinking, require higher levels of energy. A lack of vitality can impair cognitive function, leading to mental health issues.
  4. Stress and Energetic Blockages: Certain exercises place significant stress on specific parts of the body—such as muscles, tendons, the heart, and the spine—leading to blockages in the flow of life energy through the body’s meridians. These blockages can obstruct the smooth flow of energy, ultimately impacting overall well-being. For instance, muscle and tendon injuries in the arms and shoulders from extreme stretching can lead to heart and lung problems. Exercises that can cause this type of stress include certain yoga practices, strength training, and Pilates.

As we discussed in a previous blog post, diet also plays a significant role in our life energy.

Cultivating Life Energy for Optimal Health

To truly benefit from exercise, we should focus on practices that consider life energy and its cultivation. These exercises should not waste your vital life force but rather conserve and gather it, using it only for healing when necessary. Life Energy Exercise, along with certain Qigong practices, are specifically designed to achieve this.

Healthy Exercise Practices

Life Energy Exercise stands apart from other forms of exercise because it integrates three key practices to support optimal health: Active Qigong, Instinctive Qigong, and Static Qigong.

  1. Static Qigong (no physical movement): This practice uses the body’s inherent ability to collect energy and promote self-healing. Meditation falls under this category. My book, The Total Life Energy Plan: How to Cultivate Life Energy for Long-Term Health and Vitality, highlights Standing Meditation (or Standing Post) as the most effective form of static Qigong. Many people practice meditation incorrectly, which can lead to health problems instead of healing. My book provides detailed instructions on how to meditate properly.
  2. Instinctive Qigong (effortless movements): This form involves spontaneous, natural movements of the body, guided not by the conscious mind but by the innate instincts built into humanity over generations. The Longevity Qigong falls under this category, using minimal resources while allowing the body to conserve and collect energy, promoting long-term vitality.
  3. Active Qigong (active movements): This practice uses active movements to acquire and circulate energy, stimulating bodily functions and supporting healing. The Steelman Qigong is one example of Active Qigong. It harnesses the body’s inner strength to improve circulation and nourishment, helping heal a variety of ailments.

Together, these three forms of Qigong help retain the body’s life energy, support its energetic needs, and promote long-term health and vitality. Practicing all three forms of Qigong daily is essential for achieving optimal health, especially when symptoms are present and for longevity.

Healing and Longevity

Practicing Standing Meditation, the Steelman Qigong, and the Longevity Qigong can help heal numerous health problems and contribute to a long, vibrant life. For example, I personally used Standing Meditation to overcome breast cancer. The Steelman Qigong is well-known for addressing complex health issues, while the Longevity Qigong has extended the lives of individuals who were deemed terminally ill by doctors.

We offer training classes for all three exercises:

  • The next Steelman Qigong virtual class starts January 8, with sessions on Wednesday evenings from 6:30–7:30 pm.
  • The next Longevity Qigong training starts March 7, for 6 weeks on Thursday evenings at 6:30 pm.

Sign up for the Steelman Qigong for healing and optimal health. You don’t want to be one of the many who must endure ill health, drugs, surgeries, doctor visits, supplements, gym memberships, medical expenses, or medical bankruptcy. You can avoid this path and take control of your health.

I look forward to seeing those who have already registered for the Steelman Qigong class in a few weeks.

Life-Saving Qigong

My Qigong healing can save lives. After practicing our Qigong exercises, you might even be able to do the same—save lives. If you know any children or young adults who are terminally ill, feel free to refer them to me.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I hope you gain valuable insights from it. If you have any questions or need further help with your health, I’ll be happy to assist you in a private consultation. I wish you all the best on your journey toward health and vitality.

Embracing Transformation: Your Journey with Steelman Qigong

Greetings, Transformative Souls!

As we reach the culmination of our exploration into the world of the Steelman Qigong, this blog post serves as an invitation to reflect on your personal journey with this ancient practice. Embrace the change, the wisdom, and the transformative power of Steelman Qigong. Join us as we celebrate the journey you’re about to embark on and the positive shifts that await.

The Unveiling of Personal Transformation

The Steelman Qigong is not just a series of movements; it’s a path to personal and health transformation. Reflect on how, typically after 100 days to 4 months of practice, you should feel the difference within yourself. Explore the subtle yet profound changes that take place as you commit to this ancient qigong journey.

The Ripple Effect on Your Surroundings

Transformation isn’t isolated; it ripples outwards, touching the lives of those around you. Consider how the people in your life may witness and appreciate the positive changes in your health, energy, and overall well-being. The Steelman Qigong becomes a gift not only to yourself but to your community.

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Choose Wisely: The Pitfalls of Other Qigong Practices

Hello, Discerning Practitioners!

As we delve deeper into the world of qigong, our focus now shifts to the potential negative effects of practicing alternative exercises. This blog post serves as a cautionary guide, shedding light on why choosing wisely is essential for your well-being. Join us as we explore the pitfalls of practicing other qigong exercises and why the Steelman Qigong stands out as a superior choice.

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Navigating the Imitations: The Copycats of Steelman Qigong

Greetings, Wisdom Seekers!

Our journey into the realm of the Steelman Qigong exercise has unveiled not only its transformative power but also its historical significance. The copycats of Steelman Qigong are more popular because of easy access. In this blog post, we dive into the intriguing tales of counterfeit copies and imitations in Chinese history, exploring how discerning the authentic Steelman Qigong from imitations is crucial for unlocking its true potential.

The Allure of Ancient Wisdom

Throughout Chinese history, the allure of ancient wisdom has inspired many to seek the secrets of practices like the Steelman Qigong. However, with great wisdom comes the risk of counterfeit teachings. Uncover the stories of those who, driven by the desire for quick gains, attempted to replicate the transformative power of the authentic Steelman Qigong.

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The Consequences of Neglecting Steelman Qigong Exercise

Greetings, Health Guardians!

As we continue our exploration of the transformative Steelman Qigong, we must now confront an essential aspect of this ancient practice – the potential consequences of neglecting Steelman Qigong. In this blog post, we delve into the hells that individuals may face if they choose to turn away from the healing and revitalizing power of the Steelman Qigong.

The Hells of Physical Stagnation

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Unveiling Profound Healing Power of Steelman Qigong

– It’s Phenomenal Impact on Chronic Illnesses

Hello, Health Pioneers!

Our journey into the realm of the Steelman Qigong has brought us to a pivotal point – the exploration of its profound healing power. In this blog post, we dive into how this ancient qigong practice becomes a potent tool for addressing chronic illnesses, offering a holistic approach that renews both the body and the spirit.

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