Oregon Medical Qigong

Provide the highest quality Medical Qigong instruction and client care.
Provide a compassionate, nurturing environment that listens deeply. We offer a wide range of tools to engage the process of prevention and healing. We support discovering and living from the core of one's own life meaning and mission.
Inspire clients in self-healing of mind, body, emotions, and spirit.

In ancient times, genuine societies and their heroines and heroes possessed tools like medical qigong and sitting meditation to heal, clarify, and strengthen themselves in order to offer service. Given the current condition of confusion and suffering in the world, we would like to participate in a broad re-infusion of these healing and strengthening skills into the virtuous people and cultures of today.

At Oregon Medical Qigong (OMQ) in Eugene, we offer client care and medical qigong instruction. IIMQ curriculum courses, medical qigong workshops, and private instruction offer a wide range of opportunities for healing and learning.

Anyone can jump start a new health perspective with a series of three medical qigong healing sessions. An individual session can also serve as an introduction to holistic medicine that has traditionally offered symptomatic care, vibrant health, mental clarity, and longevity training for

The Director of the Oregon Branch of the IIMQ

Eric Shaffer, DMQ (China) offers client care and instruction in medical qigong. His vision as a practitioner and faculty member is to maintain the high standards of the IIMQ while spreading its knowledge. “Our energetic medicine is compassionate, effective, affordable, and ‘green’ (virtually free of side effects, technology and infrastructure)”.

His doctoral degree from the Chinese Government, called "Doctor of Medical Qigong" and his license to practice medical qigong are from the Western District Medical Qigong Science and Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute (Beijing, China), License # 98026.09. His specializations are oncology, gerontology, and integrating sitting meditation with medical qigong for healing.

Secular sitting meditation for health is offered privately or in a group setting at OMQ as an adjunct healing method (for those who are interested). The same method may be learned from any authorized Shambhala Buddhist meditation instructor at over 160 centers in the world. The presentation of sitting meditation at OMQ is highly secular, and nearly always combined with qigong. The results of sitting meditation are peace/stability, clarity, and strength.

Training

Medical Qigong Training

Doctoral specialization: 1) Medical Qigong Oncology; 2) Combining sitting meditation with medical qigong internal energy training.
Post-doctoral: 1) Gerontology; 2) Advanced Skills for Treatment, Neigong, Dao Yin, Yi Chuan; 3) Curiculum Design and Teaching Methods; 4) Advanced sitting meditation retreats and meditation instructor training.

Spiritual Training

Shambhala Buddhism with Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and various Acharyas (teachers) including Pema Chodron.
Daoist qigong with Dr. Eva Wong (she is a lineage carrier of Xiantianwujimen and Yi Chuan qigong, Hsuan-k'ung feng shui).
Magical Daoism: Professor Jerry Alan Johnson and Dr. Bernard Shannon.
Eric has been an authorized mindfulness and awareness meditation instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage since 1984. He also trained as a ngondro (tantra preliminary practice) instructor in 1990.
Spiritual Direction training at the Mt. Angel Benedictine Sister's Monastery, Mt. Angel, Oregon, Program Director Sister Joan Pokorny. Graduates Spring 2010.

Martial Training

Psychological Training

Contemplative Psycholgy BA: Naropa University 1993. Undergraduate thesis on Carl Jung and the Western Alchemy tradition, including 3 years of Jungian alchemical dreamwork and analysis.

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The International Institute of Medical Qigong

The IIMQ was inspired by the Medical Qigong College of the Hai Dian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (in Beijing, China). The Chinese Ministry of Health honored the IIMQ in 2005 as meeting or exceeding the Chinese standards for academic and clinical instruction. In 2006, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine authorized the IIMQ to be its Overseas College of Medical Qigong.

For over 20 years the IIMQ has been educating Westerners in Chinese energetic medicine. With clinical branches in 8 countries and 13 states, it has authorized instructors in 4 countries and 8 states.

Professor Jerry Alan Johnson is the Founder of the IIMQ, and Dr. Bernard Shannon, DMQ is the Executive Director. I am especially indebted and grateful to them for my training in internal energy medicine.

I am also grateful to Dr. Seth Lefkowitz, DMQ, DC, for his internal energy training, and to my fellow practitioners in the IIMQ, who have always contributed knowledge and support when needed.