Chinese Medicine Notes

The Heiner Experience- part 1

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Yael

We had a 4 day congress here in Israel- The International Congrees of Chinese Medicine (ICCM), which attracted wonderful guests from abroad such as the ultimate symbol of girl power Barbara Kirschbaum, the wonderful Julian Scott and he-who-speaks-of-mysterious-and-intriguing-matters Prof. Heiner Fruehauf.
My mentor recommended Heiner to me, and my blogshpere friend Eric Grey wrote me “He is a wonderful teacher and will blow your mind, I guarantee it”.
Eric- you were absolutely right!

We had 2 seminars with Heiner and 1 lecture and each was… well, a Heiner (higher) experience.
Those of you who met him and studied with him know exactly what I’m talking about. To those who didn’t meet him yet, first of all- try and hear him talk. Not only will your mind will be blown away, but it will just open your heart, as well as your mind, in ways you didn’t know possible. And not because Heiner is a wonderful man (I’m sure he is, but I just don’t know him that well to write about it), but because of his outstanding knowledge and ability to make you understand what he is talking about.

The whole congress was a huge success, and the other speakers were wonderful and I will soon post about them separately, but to kick things off- we will start with the Heiner Experience- part 1.
I wanted to kick things off with the e-mail interview I had with Heiner a month or so back, but alas- my Inbox was all magically deleted and I don’t have his original answers. I could translate it all, as I have the answers translated to Hebrew, but I rather have Heiner’s own words. So what I’ll do is take some more time to look for the original answers and if I won’t find them, then I will translate it.

But now what? I still have part 1 of my Heiner Experience to write about!
I have to admit, the program promised 30 minutes of QiGong with Heiner. Well, the first time I saw this I rolled my eyes backwards, trying to think of ways to avoid it.
I don’t like QiGong. I had an ok teacher I guess, 9 years ago, during my first year of CM and after 1 semester I stopped. I felt like a lion in a cage after each class. I couldn’t stand it, and vowed never to do it again.
And here I am, going to do another 30 minutes of QiGong?? You’ve got to be kidding me.
This was on Friday, after the lecture and one seminar with Heiner, so he already cast his spell on me. So what do you think happened? I did QiGong, for the first time in 9 years!

This was a very different QiGong than anything I ever did before, Heiner had us all bouncing with our arms and legs flying all over, breathing loudly with eyes closed.
Being the CM reporter than I am, plus the fact that Heiner had his eyes closed so he couldn’t see I was cheating, I did part of it, but then I thought that maybe catching even 20 seconds of everybody bouncing around couldn’t be a bad thing:

What about the seminar itself?
That day we talked about different points and what stands behind their names.
WOW!
I felt like we could go on with the points forever. I also felt like CM is about so many things and not just about healing people, not just about talking about philosophy for days, but it’s about geography all of the sudden, and ancient times and history.
I suddenly realised what a whole subject CM really is, and I never thought about it like this until I studied with Heiner.Finally, I will say that Heiner gave me a lot of things to think about.
That didn’t happen too much with other teachers- except my mentor- and now it happened with Heiner, and not only is it refreshing, it really does open my heart. And you need the heart to be clean and clear in order to accept the Dao.
So I don’t know just how far away I am from my Dao, but now that my heart is so open I can’t be too far.