Recently years Yoga has become popular in China. Many middle class office workers go to Yoga classes and training after work. And Yoga practice in China is becoming widely accepted just like Qi-Gong. Many Yoga practice houses are more or less fusion of Chinese Qi-Gong and Yoga.

LINHAO Family Foundation decided in 2016 to explore in this venue and research to see if this is another way to expand Qi-Gong in US. So Foundation made a trip to Beijing and Xi'An China to visit a few Yoga-Qi-Gong fusion places in order to study the underlying connection of the two self-healing practices. We visited Elegant Yoga, Red People Club, and some Yoga clubs where you could also feel the existence of Qi-Gong.

Yoga was originated from India, the highest state of unity with the universe itself. China is well-known for qi-gong. Qigong is a "energy" and "work" to form the word. A combination of both, the unity of energy and body at highest level.

Art of yoga from India, is now popular around the world. In the US, many people only know of yoga, do not know Qi-Gong. Yoga's popularity swept the world while Chinese Qi-Gong is much less well-known. Yoga training methods very unique, not only physical health, and ultimately to achieve inner peace through meditation, the highest level of unity of energy and body. 

What does yoga do? Let's look at some information about yoga. Yoga, In Sanskrit, yoga means appropriate integration. What should practioners interact with? Or what practioners get into? Yoga said: individual's consciousness with the universe to link up the upper body, the ego and the universe to meet and unite into a so-called body-spirit unity.

Yoga's ultimate goal, is the highest state of consciousness and the universe in one individual body, and to achieve this only through meditation, visualization or meditation to achieve, there is no other way. Yoga is an art that makes an individual exit from present existence, so as to achieve pure, original awareness. Yoga's most central part is to adjust people's body posture, breathing, focus on a particular point, so as to achieve the purpose of the ego reject distractions into the trance state, and therefore detached sensory awareness and name awareness phase, experience the ultimate state of consciousness. Yoga method is the most critical place for trainers put their focus on a sense, this is really a great way for your own sense of purification. When your consciousness to focus on one, any care for all kinds of objects and the relationship between consciousness and false consciousness will be nothing to rely on but gradually rest. So, in India, the famous "Yoga Sutra" there is a book of Proverbs says: "Yoga, that is conscious control emotions and tendencies." But there are a lot of people do not understand this, they mistakenly think that yoga is just training asana , pranayama, clean purification method, etc., but in fact, these are the lowest level, the main part of exercise, but not the highest goal. Socially popular so-called "health Yoga", "Yoga Beauty", etc. belong to this level.

Yoga is a very special training method different from the general physical exercise, physical fitness, but also from Willpower workouts, but also different to reflect on a comprehensive analysis of rational thinking and moral conscience, it is not based any concept. It is actually beyond any concept of modern Western philosophy category. Yoga is designed to get rid of all illusions of our hearts, all for distorting the original and ultimate modification; that is, everything from the illusion of our senses, emotions, experience, education, occupation, behavior and so on; that is the framework of our society where the shackles imposed on all of our consciousness on. Because of these phantom presence, split people, especially a person with himself in a deep split among themselves in a constant struggle with their crossfire, endless. Because of this split, the individual can never be free. Ancient Indians believe: Only through yoga, rather than what to think, religious worship, and do good turn deserves another to get rid of the illusion. In ancient Indian view, it is the highest yoga method, the highest method of seeking the truth, there is no other way.

Yoga has been able to get the trust of the ancient Indians, but because yoga is a technique, not a fantasy, but can be practiced, the operation can be repeated and verified. In ancient India, yoga is the only way to pursue the highest wisdom, its authority can not be doubted. Although there are many factions of yoga, for examplke Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and etc. But they are yoga. Their goal is the same. In ancient India, yoga has Domination status.

That was what we have discovered about Yoga during our trip. On the other hand, let us look at Chinese Qi-Gong. In ancient China, there was not a single practice in dominating status, although Chinese's respect to the ultimate unity is the same as the Indian's. The so-called mainstream Taoist alchemical, Dan Law's breathing method, Confucianism's sitting stance, and Buddhism's even more approaches like meditation, incantations, visualization, and so on. In modern times, this one word qi-gong unifies all these different versions, this is a trend of the times move. Qigong, the ancient Chinese to modern man after being called guided breathing, alchemical Dan, visualization, meditation and so much more physical and mental exercise unified method used to say. Let us first analyze the "Qi-gong". It's a word. To do so is absolutely necessary, because when people have to explore what is qi-gong, when qigong community and non-community discuss qi-gong, but they ignore the most basic concepts of analysis.

Qigong literally understood as the "energy" and "work" to form the word. What is the "energy", it can be understood as "material", "spirit", "field", even "radiation", etc., are not always able to make meaning, are not able to express its true meaning. Energy strength, yin and yang, the air, the momentum, the throttle, upright, moral integrity, luck, Reiki, courage, five elements of air, anger, etc., etc., from the use of extremely rich "energy" of the word, we can see the "energy" has the word carries the implication of much of Eastern philosophy. Whenever the ancient Chinese people express a mysterious thought, whether mental or physical, people are accustomed to using the expression "energy" the most handy. "Qi" is an exercise in "Tao" in the most recent analogy metaphor. Learn energy is only the surface, but, after the goal, then let us look at what is "Taoism", look at the history of Chinese philosophy, you can understand, "Taosim", but the existence of the ultimate, is unity of body and spirit, piece of mind to see the highest level of peace.Taosim is our conscious extreme, and it is pure consciousness. "Work" i.e. Qong in the structure of the word "Qi-gong" in the word represents a operability. It shows that: Qigong not illusory or imaginary, but real; it shows: people through constant training, you can achieve the "Taosim" level.

So we come closer to what we are exploring here. In terms of average people's exercise, what is the difference between Qigong and yoga? By analyzing their concepts can actually understand qigong and yoga, yoga is qigong, or Qi-Gong is Yoga, Qigong and yoga actually are sharing the same philosophy, and essentially one exercise at the bottomline, in fact they are two expressions of one thing, one thing is under development in the two civilizations. Because the truth is, there is only one truth, only one door toward the truth, qi-gong, and yoga is the door leading to the truth. In yoga, the truth is called "Vatican", "Big I", "Atama" and so on; in Qigong system, the truth is called "Taoism", "sincere" and so on. When we set out for this trip, we had this "doubt" in mind and began the exploration.

Through our discussion with Beijing Yoga practice club, we took a closer look at the qigong and yoga training methods. Qi-Gong pays closer attention to the "three tone", which is "to regulate the body", "pranayama", "self-aligning" by adjusting the body's posture, breathing, conscious to reject distractions so achieve "Taoism" realm. Yoga training method is in the same philosophy. We have already said: the most central part of yoga training is to allow people to adjust their body posture, breathing, focus on a particular point, and thus reject the ego and thoughts into the trance state. Yoga and Qi-gong are actually the same thing, there is no essential difference, there are only some small differences in appearence, forms, and equipment requirements.