Don't Rush It:

• How can you experience any benefits? It is called a practice
  
• In order to develop an optimal state of total well-being that encompasses the body, mind and spirit, a solid foundation is required

Find a Teacher or Join a Class:

• When guided by a certified instructor, you may accomplish these steps with less effort

A Warning:

• During the initial stages of practicing Sitting Chan you may experience few rewards while ending up with numb legs and sore backs. This is normal and happens to everyone
  
• Please don't be discouraged.
  
• The initial phases are really for us to be "detoxed" from our habitual indulgences in physical comforts
  
• Only then could we renew ourselves, rejuvenate our health, revitalize our spirit and be enlightened

_There are many methods and forms of meditation.

Meditation is focusing while maintaining a state of detachment from thought and ideas.

The more you practice, the easier it gets. The thing about meditation is you have to work at it to see improvement and there is no quick and easy short cut.

Lie everything worth having, you get out of it exactly what you put in.

There are many techniques throughout the world and across many cultures that invoke a variety of methods for calming thought and focusing the mind into a calm centered place...

Just by practicing nothing else but belly breathing for a month or two you will witness improved sleeping, better moods & a positive outlook.
Learning to conquer our own desires to be comfortable is always the most difficult of task in our lives.

People generally breathe with their chest. As a result, we breathe only into the upper half of the chest and inhale about half the amount of air. This kind of breathing limits the functional capacity of our lungs and allowing an inadequate amount of oxygen to exchange.

Breathe with your belly, also known as reverse-breathing, is to inhale the air into your belly slowly but continuously and fill it up like a balloon. Then hold your breath for about three seconds to give your lungs time to function optimally with fresh air in them. Then, contract this balloon as you exhale.

Follow the path of your breaths. Sense the qi as it passes through your nostrils, into your throat, passing through your lungs and into your belly. Do not count your breaths because counting is a conscious activity that must be eliminated.

Slowly and continuously, Softly without noise, Deeply into your belly and lung, Take your time (SSDT)

Healthy breathing is silent. When breathing is noisy, it is either a sign of blockage in the windpipe or possibly an indication of a health-related problem

_As you breath in, picture in your minds eye  energy rising  up along your spine  from the tip of the tail bone and send it up to the top of the crown of your head. This is the Yang Energy of the Governing Channel.

As you breath out, picture the energy cascading down the front of you following the mid-line as it sinks deep, rapping down around to the perineum. This is the yin energies in the Conception channel.

By repeating the cycle up the spine & down the front with your breath 3-9 times, you can bring balance & harmony to your breath & body, yin & yang, activity & rest.

Taiwan Chan Educational Foundation was founded by Chan Master Teacher Wujue Miaotian in 1988 with the mission to help everyone live a life of health, harmony and happiness.

There are presently more than thirty Chan centers and several other facilities throughout Taiwan offering courses teaching a Chan lifestyle  to people of all religions and vocations in society.

Chan classes are also offered in several other countries, among them are U.S., Canada, New Zealand and mainland China.

Chan Retreats For Students: We now operate Chan Clubs in 52 universities in Taiwan as well as at USC in Los Angeles , UC Davis and UC Berkeley.

Chan Living is a non-profit organization dedicating itself to share a way of life that is stress-free, illness-free and worry-free.  In other words, Chan Living will show you:

• A life style to attain perfect health documented and proven in China for over 2,500 years.  It will make you illness free, which includes but not limited to energizing yourself, rejuvenating your inner organs, balancing your hormonal immune system.
• A proven Chinese meditative practice, already benefiting hundreds and thousands, to de-stress your mind, so that you become truly worry-free.
• A way to enhance your focus and awareness, so that you can execute what you know is beneficial and necessary for you, instead of being enslaved by external events or your internal habitual excuses or inner struggles.  
  

Chan Center is a registered non-profit educational organization operating in California under the IRS code 501(C)3 since 2000.

Initially, we began with only one teacher from Taiwan Chan Educational Foundation and two students from Los Angeles. We have since conducted numerous activities with the support of a team of volunteers and reciprocating instructors serving primarily the Chinese community until 2010.

Taiwan Chan Educational Foundation was founded by Chan Master Teacher Wujue Miaotian in 1988 with the mission to help everyone live a life of health, harmony and happiness.

There are presently more than thirty Chan centers and several other facilities throughout Taiwan offering courses teaching a Chan lifestyle  to people of all religions and vocations in society.

Over 100,000 people have benefited from the Chan lifestyle and improved their lives.

In addition to these Chan centers, we have also established over one hundred Chan clubs in different private and public organizations, including major corporations, schools and universities, government agencies, drug and alcohol rehabs and community centers.