Before We Talk About Medical Qìgōng, We Need to Talk About Qì

Before we can understand Medical Qìgōng, we need a clear sense of what Qì actually is — not the mystical idea, but the modern, grounded explanation.

Your body is made of tissues that conduct electricity, which means you live inside a constantly moving electromagnetic field. This field is created by your own biology — your breath, digestion, and cellular activity generate energy that circulates throughout your body like an internal current.

At the same time, your energy is always interacting with the world around you: the earth’s electromagnetic field, weather patterns, and the environments you move through. All of this shapes how balanced, tired, clear, or overwhelmed you feel.

This is Qì — the natural, electrical, biological energy that keeps you alive, focused, and emotionally steady.

When you understand Qì this way, Medical Qìgōng becomes much more accessible: it’s simply the art of learning how to work with your own energy so your system can function with more strength, ease, and clarity.

More than a practice, Qìgōng becomes a relationship with your energy, your body, and the way you listen and move through the world.

What Is Medical Qìgōng?

If you’re here, you’re likely interested in the energetic arts — but you may not know what Medical Qìgōng truly is.

Medical Qìgōng is not simply slow movement or breathwork. It is a classical healing system rooted in Chinese medicine, developed over more than 3,000 years alongside acupuncture, herbal medicine, and therapeutic bodywork.

In China, Medical Qìgōng is practiced as a medical specialty.

To understand Medical Qìgōng, we begin with the word itself.

Qì (氣)
Vital energy · breath · life force
The body’s animating electromagnetic force that supports physical, emotional, and neurological function.

Gōng (功)
Cultivation · disciplined practice · skill
The ongoing refinement required to develop mastery.

Medical Qìgōng is the skillful cultivation and regulation of Qì within the body.

How It Works

At its foundation, Medical Qìgōng works with posture, breath, and focused intention.

Posture aligns the body’s energetic channels.
Breath moves and regulates life force.
Intention directs energy flow.

When these three are coordinated correctly, the nervous system settles, the meridians regulate, and the body begins to restore balance from within.

When practiced correctly, Medical Qìgōng functions much like an internal acupuncture treatment.

Instead of external needles stimulating specific meridian points, posture, breath, and focused awareness activate and regulate those same energetic pathways internally.

This is why the practice is precise. It is not random movement. It is structured energetic regulation.

Medical Qìgōng Within Chinese Medicine

Medical Qìgōng is not symptom-focused. It is designed to identify and regulate the root energetic patterns underlying illness and imbalance — working holistically with the interconnected physical, emotional, and neurological systems of the body.

In the classical medical tradition, Qì must be regulated before true healing can stabilize. Physical symptoms, emotional states, and mental patterns are understood as expressions of deeper energetic imbalance.

As a Physician of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (MTOM, L.Ac.) and a Doctor of Medical Qìgōng (DMQ, China), my training bridges both perspectives. While I am trained in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, my clinical focus and specialization is Medical Qìgōng — working at the level of energetic regulation that precedes and supports all other healing modalities.

Where acupuncture regulates energy externally, Medical Qìgōng teaches individuals how to regulate energy internally.

Why This Matters

Many people today are trying to bring more energy into their lives — more creativity, more purpose, more intuition — without strengthening the body’s ability to support it.

Medical Qìgōng builds capacity first.

It strengthens the lower dāntián — the body’s energetic foundation.
It regulates the nervous system.
It teaches the safe movement and processing of emotion.
It fortifies the body’s protective energetic fields (Wei Qì).

When the root is strong, expansion becomes sustainable.

My Approach

A central part of my work is not only supporting healing, but teaching people how to regulate and move energy within their own bodies — through breath, emotional processing, and focused awareness — so they can develop the capacity to sustain healing from within.

Treatment supports healing.

Skill sustains it.

Medical Qìgōng offers a structured, time-tested framework for both.

If you’re ready to experience this practice consistently, you can explore:

→ The Art of Tuning In® Studio — Monthly practices, tools and expansive support
→ Soul Centered Sessions — Private transformation tailored to your unique energy patterns.

Root and radiate,
Dr. Maria