1st International retreat

Jitka Masek Born in Czech Republic, I have spent most of my life in other countries. I am married and I go with my husband since more than 50 years happily through life. We have two adult children and three grandchildren. I studied architecture and worked as freelanced architect until 2017. The mystery of life has moved me greatly since my youth. I felt very connected to everything and everyone and felt a need for harmony, peace and well-being for all beings since childhood. Over the course of my life, the sense of connectedness has steadily deepened and the Life was leading me in a very natural way to support the well-being of people and animals. Therefore, beside my profession as architect, I was - and I am supporting people in difficult situations or illnesses to recover – using my hands to heal, homeopathic remedies and Bach flowers and, last not least QG. Since youth, we were also practicing yoga with my husband- and I was teaching yoga too. In 1986 – the life has led me - led us to Qi. I discovered a Tai Chi workshop with Master Kobayashi in Munich and although I did not really know what Qi was, it has drawn me into its miraculous power so strongly, that I signed up for the workshop straight away. After few hours of practice, I began to feel the flow of Qi all over my body and it felt like I had been practicing Tai Chi for ages. In the same time, we discovered “Silent Qi Gong” with my husband and we both embarked on the wonderful path of Qi. In 2005, I have completed a two-year training of Gyro kinesis with a final certification directly from the founder of this method, Julio Horvath. It is a system, which combines elements from Yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, dancing and other methods. It is also a recognized rehabilitation technique in Germany. In 2009, we met ZHQG and it inspired us deeply through its profound synthesis of the Eastern concepts of life, and the deep insight of dr. Pang Ming in the mysteries of life. For me it is particularly touching and valuable to see, that ZHQG leads people to do something for themselves, to take responsibility for themselves in order to get into a peaceful, clear and healthy state and to merge in pure Hun Yuan Qi. In order to deepen ZHQG directly at the source, we travelled to China in 2009 to the Qi Gong Center of Jian She Liu on Hainan. After our stay on Hainan, very intensive practice and the encouragement of the teachers there to teach ZQHG, I decided to start to teach ZHQG. In the time that followed, I completed several Zhi Neng Qi Gong certifications. Since 2010, I am teaching ZHQG and organizing ZHQG workshops with various teachers from China, Malaysia and Europe in Czech Republic. With joy and enthusiasm I share, what I have learned, my experiences and I am happy when the participants go home relaxed, relieved, smiling and happy after the workshop, or after the practice. In 2012, I started to study Qi Gong therapy with the teacher Ooi Kean Hin and with teacher Sew Pei See from Malaysia. First online and then graduating during a long stay in Malaysia in 2015. In 2013, I founded a ZHQG school for Instructors in Czech Republic "Qi Gong for Health and Vitality and ZHQG ". To ensure the quality of teachings, I am inviting experienced teachers from Europe and Asia to teach and give lessons for instructors with me. I am especially grateful to the contribution of teacher Tilla van Opstal from Belgium to teacher Tao Qin Gyu from China - who were coming and teaching and certifying instructors Level 1, 2 and 3 ZHQG with me twice a year (first Tilla and then Tao). I am also grateful to teacher Sew Pei See from Malaysia and teacher Wei, who were also coming, giving workshops and supporting me. In between, we have a wonderful small group of ZHQG teachers and Qi Gong friends in Czech Republic and our Qi family is growing. I am also a member of ZHQG Verein Germany. Very important on my life path was and is the wise healer and homeopath Manfred Seehofer from Austria. During our more than 30 years of friendship, I could learn and experience a lot about the depth of life, about healing and homeopathy from him. Since 2017 - as I have stopped working as an architect, I am teaching even more ZHQG. My main activity are health consultations, healing with help of Qi Gong and Qi Gong therapy, homeopathy and Bach flowers. ZHQG wonderfully complements my ”heart matter”: HEALING. Due to the pandemic situation, presently I also teach online twice a week and on the weekends and I organize and translate online workshops with teachers from China. Beside all these activities - I am also painting, I make ceramics and stone sculptures and I write poems that spring from the depths of my being.... Qi Gong – especially ZHQG is a very valuable contribution to my – to our way of life and it is a gift of life, that we are sharing it and practicing it with my husband together. I am very grateful for it. I am also very grateful that in the course of my life, I could go through some beautiful experiences of Oneness, which gave me the certainty of our deep connection, of being ONE with everything and everyone and of the omnipresence of LOVE. I am very happy and grateful to be a part of the great project of teacher Wei – of the World Consciousness Community, with all of you - on the path to Unity, Oneness and Ming Jue LOVE and Peace in the world. Jitka Masek