The Center for the New Age
Walk the streets and gaze up at the mystical formations towering above you. Feel the strident energy of the healing vortexes. Walk into most any shop and exclaim over the New Age collections. Where are you? Of course you are in Sedona, home of the red rocks, spiritual vortexes, and the center of the New Age movement.
At the heart of Sedona, is the Center for the New Age located on Oak Creek directly across from Tlaquepaque. Here you will find the most prominent psychic readers and healers in Sedona. These psychic personalities will help you to discover your life path. Here also are the most talented Vortex tour leaders to make your vortex tours a most memorable experience.
The Center for the New Age has the largest collection of New Age goods in Sedona. Considered the metaphysical super store in Sedona, the New Age Center hosts the largest collection of New Age music, New Age books, New Age crystal and jewelry, as well as a significant collection of deities important in New Age practices.
Open seven days a week, the Center for the New Age can satisfy your interest in the psychic experience, vortex tours and every phase of the New Age movement.
Qigong
Qigong is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention.
In 300 BC, Chuang Tzu wrote, “The ancients breathed down to their heels.”
This passage suggests that the breath, in the form of the body’s vital energy is projected and circulated throughout the body. In Oriental Medicine, Chi or Qi circulates through channels that have branches connected to bodily organs and functions. Illness is attributed to imbalance or interruption of this energy flow. Qigong restores the balance of this crucial force.
The word Qigong (Chi Kung) is made up of two Chinese words. Qi is pronounced
‘chee’ and is usually translated to mean the life force or vital energy that flows through all things in the universe.
The second word, Gong, pronounced ‘gung’ means accomplishment or skill that is cultivated through steady practice. Together, Qigong means cultivating energy.
A person practices Qigong to develop this energy to maintain health or enhance healing and increase vitality.
Qigong practices can be classified as martial, medical or spiritual. The martial gong enhances the strength, endurance and spirit of the warrior. The medical gong is used to maintain health and heal disease. Spiritual Qigong is focused on ethical development, longevity and immortality, or refinement of mind, transcending the world of illusion and salvation of all living things.
All styles have three things in common. They all involve a posture (whether moving or stationary) breathing techniques, and mental focus. Some practices increase the Qi. Others circulate it; use it to cleanse and heal the body; store it; or emit Qi to help heal others.
Qigong creates an awareness of and influences dimensions of our being that are not part of traditional exercise programs. The gentle, rhythmic movements of Qigong reduce stress, build stamina, increase vitality, enhance the immune system and improve cardiovascular, respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic and digestive functions.
Whereas the optimum way of learning Qigong is with a Master Teacher as your instructor, we offer you a basic Qigong exercise as your introduction to this ancient source of Asian magic.
“Sinking the Turbid, Washing the Organs”
This exercise helps to relieve tension and pain in the body by increasing circulation as well as energizing the body.
Always do things slowing and comfortably and take advantage of the slow movements to breathe deeply and clear your mind. The most important principle of Qigong is qi follows intent, so whether or not you can feel the qi is unimportant so long as your mind is present and your intention is set.
Breathing is natural in Qigong: in and out of the nostrils into the belly. As you inhale, the stomach expands; as you exhale, the stomach contracts inward. Be sure the breaths are deep into the belly as this practice massages all the internal organs.
Standing with feet parallel about shoulder width apart, raise the arms above the head in a fluid motion. Once the arms are raised, imagine that you are gathering fresh qi.
Begin to lower the hands, drawing fresh invigorating qi through the top of the head and all the way down the body. Imagine this fresh qi as a white, bright light relaxing and nourishing each part of the body as the hands lead the energy all the way from the top of the head to the toes.
At the same time you are drawing in this fresh energy, imagine that any unwanted stale energy – whether it be physical, spiritual or emotional – is being pushed out of the body through the feet. Imagine this unwanted energy as a dark grey color. If any part of the body is in pain or tense, spend a little extra time floating the hands over that part of the body.
Make sure that as fresh energy is pulled in, the grey stale qi is pushed out, traveling all the way down the body through the legs and out of the feet into the earth where the energy is transformed.
Repeat this exercise 18 times.
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The Center for the New Age has 15 Psychics and Healers who are available for consultations and readings on a daily basis. Please call our Concierge at 928-282-2085 to book an appointment or for further information.