Access the Medicine Within Through Medical Qigong – Free Class with Roger Jahnke
We’ve become remarkably skilled at treating disease, yet many of us were never taught how to actively cultivate health. Medical Qigong offers a different starting point: learning how movement, breath, awareness, and self-care practices can help you work more intentionally with your own MindBody system.
Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, has spent decades bridging classical Chinese medicine and modern mind-body practice. In this free event, he’ll introduce a practical four-dimensional approach to Medical Qigong that brings together gentle movement, conscious breathing, focused awareness, and therapeutic self-massage.
You won’t only hear the ideas explained. Roger will also guide you through a simple Medical Qigong practice so you can experience how these four dimensions come together in the body and explore a more active relationship with vitality, resilience, and wellbeing.
The central invitation is simple: health is not only something to think about when something goes wrong. This session explores how everyday practice can become a way of cultivating the internal conditions associated with repair, renewal, and resilience.
Why Attend “Medical Qigong: Activate Your Body’s Innate Healing Intelligence”
Many wellness conversations begin after a problem appears, but Roger invites you to consider a different question: How can you actively cultivate health before everything becomes about fixing what has gone wrong? Medical Qigong approaches wellbeing as an ongoing practice that engages movement, breath, attention, and self-care.
Stress and modern routines can make it difficult to feel connected to the body’s natural capacities for repair, renewal, and resilience. Roger’s four-dimensional framework gives you a clear way to explore how gentle physical practice, conscious breathing, focused awareness, and therapeutic self-massage can work together.
Roger has spent more than 40 years helping bridge classical Chinese medicine with modern science and mind-body practice. His teaching is especially useful if you want an approach that is experiential as well as conceptual, because the session includes a guided practice rather than asking you to understand Medical Qigong only as an idea.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll begin with Roger’s distinction between treating disease and actively cultivating health, so you can explore Medical Qigong as a practice for working with the body’s own capacities for balance, repair, renewal, and resilience. You’ll also see why this perspective has remained meaningful to healers, physicians, wellness practitioners, and students of mind-body practice.
From there, you’ll be introduced to the four dimensions Roger uses in Medical Qigong — movement, breath, awareness, and self-massage — which means the practice can be understood as an integrated system rather than a collection of isolated techniques. Along the way, he’ll connect these dimensions with practical ways of cultivating greater vitality and wellbeing.
You’ll then be guided through a simple Medical Qigong practice, so the principles become something you can experience directly in your own body. And then Roger will place that experience in a broader context, including how Qigong can deepen a personal practice, support professional healing work, and prepare those who feel called to teach others.
- Why cultivating health is a different orientation from waiting until disease or imbalance demands attention
- How Roger’s four dimensions of Medical Qigong bring together breath, movement, awareness, and self-massage
- What chronic stress can mean for the conditions that support the body’s natural repair and renewal processes
- How gentle movement can become part of a broader mind-body approach to vitality and resilience
- Why conscious breathing is treated as a central dimension rather than an afterthought
- How focused awareness helps connect intention with physical practice
- The role therapeutic self-massage plays within Roger’s Medical Qigong framework
- What it is like to put the four dimensions together in a guided Medical Qigong practice
- How Medical Qigong can enrich a personal practice, professional healing work, or a path toward teaching others
Who This Is For
This event is a fit if you’re curious about Medical Qigong and want a practical introduction to movement, breath, awareness, and self-massage. It may also appeal if you already practice Qigong, Tai Chi, yoga, energy medicine, or another mind-body discipline and want to deepen your understanding of a systematic health-cultivation approach.
Roger’s teaching also speaks to healthcare professionals, healers, wellness practitioners, and people who want to support the wellbeing of loved ones. Whether your interest is personal practice, professional integration, teaching, or simply feeling more connected to your own body, the session offers a grounded entry point into his four-dimensional framework.
- People who are completely new to Qigong and want an accessible introduction
- Qigong and Tai Chi students looking to deepen an existing practice
- Yoga practitioners interested in another body-centered contemplative discipline
- Healthcare professionals exploring mind-body approaches to wellbeing
- Healers and wellness practitioners interested in practical self-care methods
- People who want to support the wellbeing of family members or loved ones
- Practitioners considering how Medical Qigong could complement their professional work
- Those interested in developing teaching skills or a more service-oriented path
About Your Teachers
Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, is a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine who has dedicated his professional life to sharing the holistic healing traditions of China. He is director and chief instructor at the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi in Santa Barbara, California, and his 35 years of clinical practice and 10 research tours to China have informed his work as a teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice. He is also the author of The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi.
Rebecca McLean is a board-certified holistic transformational life and health coach, Qigong teacher, energy medicine practitioner, and occupational therapist who has worked in healthcare, energy medicine, and human potential since 1974. She co-founded Health Action, Inc. with Roger in 1983 and created the Circle of Life Holistic Coaching System in 1984, later training and certifying more than 1,500 coaches in the approach.
Jennifer Weiss is a Senior Trainer with the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi and a certified Circle of Life Wellness Coach and Breathwork Detox Facilitator. She has been teaching self-healing methods since 2012, holds a black belt in Kokoro Shorin Ryu Karate, is certified in Reiki, and has studied in China’s Wudang Mountains as part of her ongoing work in consciousness, wellness, and the somatic arts.
Dr. Oley Smith is a Certified Senior and Integral Trainer with the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi and a Master Teacher in the Liu Family lineage of Medical Qigong and at Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School. He has taught Qigong for the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, earned a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts, and has practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine while teaching Qigong and Tai Chi in Durango, Colorado, since 2005.
Endorsements
“Qigong has the power to transform your life! Dr. Jahnke lives the values of the Qigong Way. His teaching is pure and potent, combining mind and heart to give you insight and practices to benefit you for the rest of your life.”
“Some of the greatest miracles occur when people are informed and inspired. Dr. Jahnke does a splendid job informing us of the marvel of the healer within the Qi, providing us with selfhealing tools that are easy to use, and then telling us the amazing stories that provide the inspiration.”
“Dr. Jahnke trained me to move my practice into the flow of the day instead of taking a specific time out. For example, to be doing the Three Treasures waiting in line or on the phone. This technique has had a very big impact on my personal stress level and makes me feel like I am actually practicing my health throughout the day as a healing being instead of as a health task.”
“Roger Jahnke… brings ancient Eastern wisdom and modalities into our hectic Western lives.”
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- Sep 19 2026
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Sep 19 2026
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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