JIAOSHI ANDREA'S BLOG 

When we start a spiritual path, be it Buddhist, Christian, etc, most of the time we get too much involved with the external aspect of it. We don’t realize that the rituals, the story behind the religion, the clothing, a particular mantra, and so on, represent only the “tools”, not the end game. If we get too attached to a system or a belief, we forget that we are something more than all of that. We might forget who we truly are. We become rigid, with many opinions and ideas,

Enlightenment is an escape. It's a concept we believe in when we have conflict within ourselves. We try to find a solution, an appealing solution, in some kind of world that is not this. A world that is not within our perception. We have conflict inside and we create more conflict by looking for something outside of ourselves. We resist life. We resist what we perceive. How can this bring the enlightenment that we are hoping for? That's a kind of nonsense, isn't it? If we wou

Working with ourselves means also encountering our limits. It means to see our negative tendencies and transform those lower tendencies into a greater aspect of ourselves. It's about knowing ourselves on a physical, emotional, and mental level. The Nei Qi Gong path can transform our minds and turn bad habits into good ones. As long as there is mind movement, we will never find that natural blissfulness that we have as human beings when we relax. Nature is a beautiful space to

Today I’m clarifying a very important aspect of the Nei Qi Gong: who can teach it and why the system is protected by copyright. Nei Qi Gong is not some sort of course or training you follow for a couple of days to then become a teacher. It's a very serious, efficient, and powerful system created by my teacher Shifu Costantino Valente. He is the founder of the Nei Qi Gong Fu school. This is a practice that can only be taught by an authorized instructor, like me for example, an

Spirituality has become a mess nowadays and let’s be frank about this: we’re cheating each other! It’s a shame and it’s sad to see people that do business out of something they don’t really know anything about. They take advantage of people’s confusion, fragility, and insecurity. Unfortunately this happens quite often. The web is full of spiritual retreats of all kinds: for the feminine, the masculine, ayahuasca retreat, and so on. A popular one is the tantra retreat where pe