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Acupuncture? Qi Gong?


What do I choose?
What's the difference?

Understanding the difference these two healing arts can be challenging. Sometimes I even ask myself, "Am I an Acupuncturist?" "Am I a Qi Gong Instructor?" My goal is to teach you how to use acupuncture and qi gong to heal yourself from within. Let's start by clearing up this confusion, then you can determine what is best for you.

To understand how these forms work together, you first need to understand the concept of qi, and how each uses the power of qi to heal.

Acupuncture treatments allow a practitioner to facilitate your qi flow, while qi gong practice helps you to cultivate and direct the qi yourself. These two healing arts go hand in hand and are both under the umbrella of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It's challenging to practice one without the other.

Angela Lee offers licensed acupuncture and qi gong classes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 
Qi is energy, or life force

Acupuncture is the application of needles into channels in the body to facilitate the flow of qi


Qi Gong is the practice of generating energy (gong = practice).

 

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