CesamQ 

Concept of Educational Standards for Medical Qigong,

 

The organisation CesamQ was founded by Marcus Bongart 1994, after his presentation of the concept to World Academic Society of Medical Qigong in Beijing.

                                                                          Qigong

Qigong is a uniqe method that unifies movements, breathing and concentration.

It prevents diseases, can restore loss of health and is said to prolong life.Qigong arose as a result of ancient knowledge among the Chinese people who studied the connection between nature and the process of human life.

 

Qigong spands over several areas, from medicine to martial arts and religion. The qigongmethods which are used to prevent and cure deseases rest on the thought that will can affect our organism and by that improve physiological functions of the inner organs. Qigong can also give us

access to unused recources of defence and regeneration. Qigongtraining and its philosophy affect the practioner in many different ways, in a somatic way as well as mentaly and spiritually, that is why it is of vital importance that the practioner or patient meets a qualified teacher or therapeut.

 

                                                                      Medical Qigong

There is a great deal of confusion in the qigongfield when it comes to the terminology. We find that the term medical qigong is used more and more frequently in the media and marketing, often in completly wrong situations and often without the least substantion of the subject. The term medical qigong arose in the1930s and describes a modern kind of Chinese traditional theraphy. Medical qigong is a part of Chinese medicine and is used as a therapeutic treatment, also called qigongtheraphy. It is built in the knowledge of meridians, acupuncturepoints, energycenters, inner organs, the flow of energy and energytransformation in the body. The purpose of this method is to cure illnesses and prolong life. A lot of qigongtechnics and methods have been or are being adapted to medical qigong to eliminate illnesses. Most of them are based on knowledge of various oriental philosophies.

Qigongtherapy consists of three parts.

 

1. Diagnosis – the patient is diagnosed by means of a thorough examination in order to find symtoms and select suitable individual qigongexercises. The diagnosis is important to secure the benefit of the treatment.

 

2. Selftraining – means oriented qigongtraining on the recommendation of and in consultation with a qigongtherapeut. The recommended movements are not necesseraly limited to a certain part of the body.

 

#. Fa gong – means balancing of energy, performed by a qigongtherapeut in order to strengthen qi and eliminate qidisturbances in the patient.

 

                                       Concept of Educational Standards for Medical Qigong

 The CesamQ-concept gives qigongpractioners access to professional knowledge of qigong.

The concept includes several steps for vocational qigongeducation with varying lenghts and contents, as well as quality assurances of  active qigongprofessionals, through further training and licensing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                Qigongcoach

                Two semesters (one year) training, 136 hours in total.

 

The qigongcoach should work independently as a qigongteacher and be familiar with different qigongsystems that can be used for example in Spas, adult studyassociations, conferences, workplaces.  

 

                                                          Qigonginstructor

Four semesters (two years) training, 360 hours in total. (TCM-studies included)

Previous qualifications: training as qigongcoach and one year of verified teaching experience.

 

The qigonginstructor should teach and lead medicaly adapted qigongsystems that stimulates, strengthens and controles the  flow of qi- and blood with the main purpose of improving health. 

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                                                           Qigongtherapeut

 Three semesters (one and a half years) training, 290 hours in total.

Previous qualifications: training as qigonginstructor and one year of verified teaching experience.

This training should be completed with documented studies in Western medicin.

 

The qigongtherapeut should administer treatment by, if necessary, making a diagnosis, select a suitable system for training by oneself

and/or use a purposeful (fa gong) energetic influence in order to regulate and influence the course of an illness up to improvement and healing.

Quality assurance

The assurance is performed annually by further training and licensing of protected qigongsystems.