Qigong Xi Breathing: Connect to Your Inner Joy – Free Workshop with Robert Peng
When life feels heavy or disconnected, it can be easy to lose touch with the simple sense of joy, vitality, and inner spaciousness that makes you feel fully alive. Qigong offers a way to work with breath, movement, and awareness so you can explore your relationship with your own life-force energy.
Qigong Master Robert Peng will introduce Xi Breathing, a practice for opening the flow of Qi and working with the body’s three dantian energy centers. His approach brings together breath, meditation, and graceful movement as a practical way to explore greater harmony between body, heart, and mind.
You’ll also be guided through Eight Cycles, a simple Qigong practice that combines flowing movement with the gathering of heavenly Yang and earthly Yin energy. Along the way, Robert will explore how the dantians, Central Meridian, and free movement of Qi relate to vitality, loving presence, wisdom, and inner joy.
Whether you’re curious about Qigong or looking to deepen an existing practice, this free video event offers an opportunity to learn directly from a teacher who has spent decades practicing and sharing this ancient Chinese healing art.
Why Attend “Connect With Your Inner Joy Through Qigong’s Xi Breathing”
Priorities can change when life becomes uncertain, and what once seemed important can give way to a deeper desire for connection, contentment, and meaning. Qigong offers a way to explore those qualities from within by bringing attention to breath, movement, meditation, and the flow of Qi.
Robert Peng’s approach centers on opening energy flow and working with the body’s three dantians: centers associated in Qigong with vitality, loving spirit, and wisdom. Through Xi Breathing, he will explore how these centers relate to one another and how the Central Meridian connects them within the larger energetic framework of the practice.
Robert brings decades of training and teaching experience to this work, beginning with his childhood apprenticeship under the Buddhist monk Xiao Yao in Hunan, China. His teaching style has developed through years of sharing Qigong with people from different cultures, making this an opportunity to explore traditional principles through clear, guided practice.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll begin with Xi Breathing and its role in Robert’s Qigong practice, so you can explore how conscious breathing relates to the movement of Qi and the three dantian centers. You’ll learn how the lower, middle, and upper dantians are associated with vitality, loving spirit, and wisdom within this system.
From there, Robert will introduce the Central Meridian, which connects the three dantians and forms an important part of the energetic framework he teaches. You’ll also explore how breathing and meditation work together, so the concepts are connected to direct practice rather than remaining purely theoretical.
Along the way, Robert will guide you through Eight Cycles, a graceful Qigong movement practice, and then bring attention to the relationship between heavenly Yang and earthly Yin energy. The combination of movement, breath, and focused awareness offers a practical way to explore greater fluidity, energetic harmony, and inner connection.
- The foundational principles of Xi Breathing and how Robert uses it in Qigong practice
- How the lower dantian is associated with vitality
- Why the middle dantian is connected with loving spirit
- How the upper dantian relates to the wisdom mind
- The role of the Central Meridian in connecting the three dantians
- How breath and meditation can be combined within a Qigong practice
- The flowing movements of Robert’s Eight Cycles practice
- How heavenly Yang and earthly Yin energy are brought together in the practice
- Ways Qigong works with the idea of clearing energetic blockages and encouraging freer Qi flow
- How breath, movement, and focused awareness can support a deeper exploration of inner joy
Who This Is For
This event may resonate if you’re looking for a more embodied way to reconnect with joy, vitality, calm, and a sense of inner meaning. It is especially relevant if you’re curious about how Qigong works with breath, energy awareness, meditation, and gentle movement.
Robert has developed a way of teaching Qigong that people from different cultures can understand and follow, making the session relevant both to newcomers and to those who already have experience with Qigong, meditation, energy practices, or other contemplative traditions.
- People curious about Qigong and traditional Chinese energy practices
- Those interested in using breath and movement as part of a spiritual practice
- Anyone drawn to exploring Qi, dantians, Yin and Yang, or the Central Meridian
- Beginners seeking an introduction to Robert Peng’s approach to Qigong
- Experienced practitioners interested in Xi Breathing and Eight Cycles
- People wanting to explore a stronger connection between vitality, loving presence, wisdom, and inner joy
About Robert Peng
Robert Peng is a Qigong Master, healer, and author who was born and raised in Hunan, China. At age eight, he began an intensive apprenticeship under the guidance of the monk Xiao Yao, whose training included martial arts, healing arts, and spiritual practice.
At age 15, Robert undertook a 100-day water fast in a small dark room at a secluded monastery in the mountains of Hunan. He continued his training while attending university in Changsha and later began teaching publicly at age 29.
Within five years of beginning his public teaching, Robert had trained more than 150,000 students across China, Australia, and the United States. His teaching approach combines deep Qigong practice with extensive experience introducing this ancient Chinese art to people from a variety of cultures.
Robert is the author of The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom and its DVD/CD companion series. He has also presented at organizations including the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Esalen Institute, and the Integrative Health Symposium.
In 2013, Spirituality & Health magazine honored Robert among its Top 10 Spiritual Heroes for his contribution to bringing Qigong to contemporary audiences.
Endorsements
“Robert… healed my body and spirit with his extraordinary gift.”
“My understanding of Eastern medicine has grown immensely since studying with Robert.”
“Robert Peng is one of those rare individuals whose light shines just by being present.”
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- Nov 16 2026
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Nov 16 2026
- Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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