Welcome to our online program, The Five Keys to Taoist Energy Arts.

This qigong course features Energy Arts Senior Instructor Paul Cavel who has been teaching for nearly 20 years. He has created a program that takes five specific exercises that every serious student must learn and master to be good and eventually great at qigong, tai chi and bagua.

You could also call these Five Key exercises the Secrets to Longevity or the Secrets to Great Qigong, Tai Chi and Bagua.

Paul is a gifted teacher who is fully dedicated to these arts, teaching and traveling full time in Europe. I have seen him help others build extraordinary energetic foundations in their bodies. Paul is able to embody the arts and break them down into easy steps, so that you have the best chance of success and progress to great depths with these powerful Taoist energy arts.

The Five Keys take one core exercise from each of my foundational qigong sets, applying the Pareto principle states that 80 percent of the results come from 20 pecent of the work. With these Five Keys you will learn practices that are at the core of each qigong set, tai chi and bagua. This program also serves as an excellent introduction to see what Tao arts and qigong sets you are naturally drawn toward studying.

There is an old saying, “It is better to do one thing well then a thousand things poorly.” I truly believe this program can help you learn core fundamental principles, that if done well, will better your practice. This is true for beginners and especially if you are interested in advancing to the highest levels. If you already practice any of the sets that are part of this program, you will discover deeper and deeper layers, rooting out your weaknesses and growing your potential each week.

Whether you want to recharge your current practice or learn the fundamentals for the first time, The Five Keys to Taoist Energy Arts is great way to create a daily practice ritual now to keep your body energetically fit and healthy.

Enjoy the course,

For over 25 years I’ve studied Tao arts in-depth, including qigong, tai chi, bagua, Tao meditation and qigong tui na. Through my own courses, one-to-one coaching and assisting my teacher on international instructor trainings, I’ve helped train thousands of students since 1995. After years of teaching, I noticed that senior executives, lifetime martial artists and other athletes were often coming to me to boost performance and heal their bodies from injuries sustained from their sport. So I became a certified sports injury and deep tissue therapist to better integrate Eastern training methods with the Western mindset.
Over the years of training with my teacher, I’ve always focused on the questions, “What components are at play to create the synergy and fluidity that only masters seem to embody?” and “How can I train component pieces and integrate them in ways that improve my overall forms?” As a teacher totally committed to helping my students develop methods for achieving their goals, I’ve searched relentlessly for the most efficient and effective methods for creating positive change in body, mind and qi.

I came to realize that five key exercises from my teacher Bruce’s qigong program form the foundation of all other exercises, including highly sophisticated and refined Tao arts like Gods Playing in the Clouds, tai chi, bagua and even Tao meditation. I’ve found that a concentrated, in-depth focus on these five exercises, the “Five Keys,” as I like to call them, often lead to personal development in my clients and students beyond my and, more importantly, their expectations.

For many years, I have emphasized these component practices in just about every course I teach, and the results people have achieved have ranged from overcoming debilitating injuries, restoring balance in their bodies to improving focus and mind-body awareness to being able to concentrate better, especially for prolonged periods. I’ve watched as stress and tension has melted away and been replaced with a vibrancy and sense of life that is becoming too rare in the modern age.

Two important factors make the Five Keys so powerful. The first is that once you develop skill in one key, you can put that key into any energetic practice. A qigong set or movement form is just a container for internal techniques, called neigong in Chinese, which translates as “internal power development.” The beauty of the keys is that the benefits you achieve from practice can be applied to any exercise you train. Whether you practice healing, martial arts, qigong, tai chi, yoga or meditation, by mastering the Five Keys you will increase the quality of your movement and potential qi power.

The second big realisation that I found both in my own body and in working with my students is that when you put two keys together, the result is not addition, such as 2+2+2+2=8. Instead, the results multiply, like 2x2x2x2=16, creating exponential qi power in the body. Over time and with dedicated practice, you can seriously boost qi development in a progressive yet safe manner. This is particularly remarkable because the exercises are so simple, just about anyone who can stand up and walk around can do them.

My Five Keys program is particularly suited to two types of students. The first is those who want to learn qigong from the ground up. If you’re learning Tao arts for the first time, you’ll walk a dramatically easier path by focusing on the fundamentals right from the start. You will learn the best methods and techniques to feel and cultivate your qi. However, this program is equally suited to experienced internal arts students and instructors who want to deepen their internal technique and energetic level. This program can help you release the tension and subtle blockages in your body, so you can accelerate your learning and attain a much higher skill level. It will also help teachers build lesson plans to help their students do the same.

I’ve designed the program, so that in just 10 weeks you can experience real results in your body, mind and qi. Of course, what you can achieve always depends on the accuracy and consistency of your practice. My program will teach you methods for precise training that yields benefits with just a few minutes of daily practice.

I look forward to training with you over the next 10 weeks in The Five Keys to Taoist Energy Arts course.

Keep your practice alive and well, and it’ll do the same for you,