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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Dena Saxer, MA, co-author of Emotional Wisdom: Daily Tools for Transforming Anger, Depression and Fear with Mantak Chia published by New World Library. Dena Saxer, MA, has been teaching the Universal Healing Tao System internationally for twenty-six years. With Mantak Chia, she cowrote Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality and Chi Self-Massage. She lives in the Los Angeles area. Visit her website. Visit KD Booksellers for affordable quality fiction and non-fiction books online

Footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching an I-Ching Immersion course. While the exact historical origin of Ba Gua is a mystery which has not been completely solved, Bruce explains both the pre-existing and unique structural components of Ba Gua Zhang and where each comes from. This leads to an escapable conclusion, the changes and spirals existing within it (a unique mark of the Martial Art of Ba Gua) could have only come from the monastic Ba Gua practices.

Footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching an I-Ching Immersion course. Bruce concludes explaining the sitting hand exercise. This allows you to start connecting to the environment around you.

Opening footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis s I-Ching Immersion Course in El Cerrito CA. In this clip Bruce discusses common perceptions of the I-Ching, what is represents, its history, how to begin to learn it, and the core concept it represents; the space which everything emerges from and the essence of change. Lastly he begins showing how the I-Ching s conception of change links to our everyday lives.

Opening footage from Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis s I-Ching Immersion Course in El Cerrito CA. Bruce discusses the meditation of the I-Ching, Circle walking, the basis for Ba Gua-both an advanced meditation practice and martial art.

Opening footage from lineage master Bruce Frantzis s I-Ching Immersion Course in El Cerrito CA. Bruce discusses the need to be able to smoothly flow through both meditation and everyday life.

Taoist Lineage Holder Bruce Frantzis discusses the importance and effects of meditation during his eight-part I Ching Immersion Meditation Course.

Taoist Lineage Holder Bruce Frantzis discusses the importance and effects of meditation during his eight-part series, the I Ching Immersion Meditation course.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. One of the most core principles of Ba Gua as a martial art is to change combat angles to your advantage. This clip gives an excellent introduction to this concept along with a martial demonstration.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching Ba Gua at a retreat. In this clip, Kumar demonstrates one of the early exercises to become able to fluidly change direction at any point without hesitation, the practice of Diamond Walking. Along with explaining some of the implications for the state of mind created by this art, Bruce also shows basic fighting applications associated with its usage.

Bruce Frantzis discusses his upcoming event, the I Ching Immersion Meditation Course, in February in Berkeley, California.

Archive footage of lineage master Bruce Frantzis teaching ba gua at a retreat. In this clip of ba gua Bruce Frantzis explains the importance and necessity of being able to drop your mind and energy into your feet as you practice.

In this clip from a Ba Gua retreat, Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis explains how each ba gua step can radically alter where you are in combat, and that the key to success lies within being able to smoothly flow through each ba gua movement.

Archive footage of Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis teaching ba gua postures (pakua) and ba gua single palm change at a retreat. In this clip, Frantzis demonstrates some of the core ba gua hand postures, preparing the group for the single palm change.

Join Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis for a unique and challenging 28-hour, four-week course, where he will teach methods to reduce stress and improve overall physical and emotional health. During the month of February the TAO Meditation I Ching Immersion course will encompass sitting meditation every Tuesday, from 7:00-9:30 pm and Circle Walking moving meditation every Saturday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm. Students may attend each session as a stand-alone course or take the entire series.

At a retreat on the meditation components of Tai Chi and Ba Gua, Taoist Meditation Master Bruce Frantzis explains how individuals are conditioned by visually focused minds to focus only on what they can directly see ahead of them.

For Tai Chi and Ba Gua to be done properly, both from an internal martial arts standpoint and a meditative perspective, the forward and back energies of the practitioner must be balanced(and eventually in all aspects of life).

Here simple exercises are done to demonstrate how to incorporate forward and back energy into simple Tai Chi and Ba Gua hand movements, which can eventually lead to both increasing martial power and becoming more balanced in Meditation.

Lineage Master Bruce Frantzis explains the concept of the Tai Chi space, something fundamental to both Taoist Meditation and the entire practice of Tai Chi.