The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom

Thank you, Master Peng, for this excellent book! It was very easy to follow, inspirational, well written and enlightening. Your story is amazing, and I feel like I know Xiao Yao from your descriptions. He was an amazing teacher and human being. Thank you for bringing his teachings to America and around the world. I feel if more people knew of these teachings, our world would transform into humanity's greatest potential. Your work is very valuable. I bought this book in preparation for a workshop I will be taking at Omega in October which you will be teaching - Become a Qigong Healer. I've been practicing Taoism, Qigong, and Tai Chi for over two years now and am really excited about learning more from you as I can tell from your manner and energy that you're the "real deal" and a wonderful human being. I call you "Master" out of deep respect for the information you are sharing and for all you have accomplished. I have been practicing the Hologram Palm Empowerment of the Three Dantiens, Balance and Integration, and Empowering the Central Meridian after I do my daily Tai Chi/Qigong practice and am finding it extremely powerful. It helps me see which areas are weak and need empowering and gives me an overall feeling of balance throughout my day. I plan to continue exercising the Four Golden Wheels and practicing the other Qigongs as part of my own inner work. Again, thank you for this wonderful book. I wish you much success with it!

The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom is beautifully written.Through the first five chapters, Robert describes his journey, meeting his teacher Xiao Yao when he was 8 years old, and practicing 2 - 4 hours a day, first martial arts, and then qigong for healing, while cultivating inner balance and developing spiritual awareness.In the course of his training, he says that he learned hundreds of Qigong practices, and in this book he shares several foundational practices. Through the following 11 chapters, Robert guides you to the process of awakening qi power, using a sword finger, creating a qi ball, empowering three dantiens (lower, middle, and upper), balancing the three dantiens, empowering the central meridian, lotus meditation, and connecting universe exercise.The qigong exercises are illustrated, and there are links to brief videos at SoundsTrue website. While these videos are helpful, they seem to be designed more to give you a preview of what you may expect from the DVDs you can get to get more out of the exercises.Having also purchased the Master Key videos through the SoundsTrue website, just as this book, they are truly professionally created. Robert has a resonant, hypnotic voice and through the video he radiates calm, balanced energy and both the videos and this book are at the same time informative, instructional and enjoyable.The slant of qigong practice presented in this book is primarily on creating inner balance, and becoming spiritually centered in the process, and then transforming inner imbalances and fostering healing through manipulation of energy, as well as through spiritual awareness.Robert has dedicated a good chunk of this book to the cultivation of spiritual awareness, and here he shares a simple practice for experiencing Awakened Awareness.Through the last three chapters, Robert shares guidelines for practicing the exercises; explores how energetic imbalances affect relationships and intimacy, and how you can create a healthier, more balanced relationships by first cultivating inner balance; and has a chapter on the evolution of the self-aware universe.The practices involving the balancing and empowerment of three dantiens and the central meridian are called the Four Golden Wheels, and the practices presented in this book are summed up by Xiao Yao:"Awaken the Four Golden Wheels. Become wiser, more loving, and more capable of taking action in the face of the unknown. Remain centered, balanced, and in a state of open flow. When the four wheels are turning smoothly, you find yourself in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing, with the right people. A clearing appears before you. This path is your destiny, and with every step you take you are happy and the whole world rejoices."

Embodied vitality, love, and wisdom is possible. This is both the perfect Introduction to and a master class in Qigong. If you want to explore what everyone is talking about when they say Presence, this is your book! Robert Peng walks you through a courtship with your energy and The Energy - Qi. Then he teaches you how to keep dancing with this boundless, immediate Life Force. Understand how to engage with your three dantiens and the central meridian for healing and wholeness. Advanced practitioners are invited to deepen their lives and learn to live from true nature with simple and powerful practices that balance and harmonize energy within and without. The Four Golden Wheels, Lotus Meditation and Connecting Universe are fully realized practices for living with and from Presence. I had no experience with Qigong before being introduced to Robert Peng, and I feel fortunate to read (and read again) this gem of a book with a true Master teacher as my guide. You will be inspired by Robert Peng's own life. He learned Qigong living a double life and then committed to integrating Qigong into his life's work and purpose. He was an 8-year-old boy with a curious, lively spirit, unable to attend school because of a heart condition. Indomitable, he kept exploring the world around him and found his Master in an unlikely way, living in an unlikely place. You will love this powerful book arising from a story of love and healing, discipline, and growth during and after China's cultural revolution. You may want to also get the videos. I love to practice along with them. Accessible, deep, and hopeful, a true transmission of Consciousness awakening to Itself.

Well-told story of the author's warm relationship with his martial arts/qigong master. Good details of the training involved, as well as accounts of miracle qigong healings. I knew someone who has met Robert Peng, says he can levitate - indicating that the author possesses ultra high-level skills.