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.