Introduction

After over fifty years of sharing Chi Kung daily practices for women’s health through the Universal Healing Tao system, we find it hard to believe that 60 percent of women after the age of thirty suffer from some form of gynecological malfunctioning or cancer, which can lead ultimately to death. The simple techniques of Chi Kung for women enable every woman to literally get in touch with her urogenital area and eliminate such problems and discomforts by just simply touching herself with the proper intentions. At the suggestion of Ehud Sperling, the publisher of Inner Traditions/Destiny Books, we have gathered together in this book a series of Universal Healing Tao techniques and daily exercises that will support the health of the female reproductive system and sexual vitality.

Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells, which feed off the body to maintain this growth. When a cell is damaged or altered without repair to its system, it usually dies. However, cancer cells, also termed malignant cells or tumor cells, proliferate and a mass of cells develops. Many cancers and the abnormal cells that compose the cancer tissue are further identified by the name of the tissue that the cells originate from, such as lung cancer, breast cancer, uterine cancer, or colon cancer.

There are five main types of cancer that affect a woman’s reproductive organs: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar. As a group, they are referred to as gynecologic cancer. (A sixth type of gynecologic cancer is the very rare fallopian tube cancer.) Uterine cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in the United States and it is the most commonly diagnosed gynecologic cancer. All women are at risk for uterine cancer, and the risk increases with age. Uterine cancer usually occurs during or after menopause. The risk is increased by obesity and by taking estrogen-alone hormone replacement therapy (also called menopausal hormone therapy). Each year, approximately 35,000 women in the United States get uterine cancer.

The symptoms of uterine cancer include unusual vaginal bleeding or discharge, trouble urinating, pelvic pain, and pain during intercourse. Generally, the tumor grows slowly and remains confined to the area for many years. During this time, the tumor produces little or no symptoms or outward signs (abnormalities on physical examination). However, all uterine cancers do not behave similarly. Some aggressive types of uterine cancer grow and spread more rapidly than others and can cause a significant shortening of life expectancy in women affected by them. A trained pathologist observing uterus biopsy specimens under the microscope can calculate a measure of uterine cancer. As the cancer advances, however, it can spread beyond the uterus into the surrounding tissues. Moreover, the cancer also can metastasize, spreading throughout other areas of the body, such as the bones, lungs, and liver. Symptoms and signs, therefore, are more often associated with advanced uterine cancer.

When uterine cancer is found early, treatment is most effective. Treatment varies depending on your overall health, how advanced the cancer is, and whether hormones affect its growth. Many low-risk tumors can be safely followed with active surveillance. Through conventional medicine, curative treatment generally involves surgery, various forms of radiation therapy, or, less commonly, cryosurgery; hormonal therapy and chemotherapy are generally reserved for cases of advanced disease. The age and underlying health of the woman, the extent of metastasis, appearance under the microscope, and response of the cancer to initial treatment are important in determining the outcome of the disease. The decision whether or not to treat localized uterine cancer with curative intent is a patient trade-off between the expected beneficial and harmful effects in terms of patient survival and quality of life.

Food and sex are humankind’s greatest appetites. From a Taoist’s point of view they also offer opportunities for our greatest healing exercises, if we have the proper understanding of how use them to heal our bodies. From the Universal Healing Tao system, as demonstrated in the Destiny Books editions of several Universal Healing Tao publications—particularly Healing Love through the Tao, Bone Marrow Nei Kung, Cosmic Detox, and Cosmic Nutrition—we have assembled a sequence of Chi Kung for women daily practices that will balance and maintain the sexual organs, while rejuvenating your sexual vitality.

The internal egg exercises, genital massage techniques, and Chi Weight Lifting are all aspects of what is known in the Universal Tao system as Bone Marrow Nei Kung. Nei Kung means “practicing with your internal power,” and Bone Marrow Nei Kung is a Taoist art of self-cultivation that employs mental and physical techniques to rejuvenate the bone marrow, thereby enhancing the blood and nourishing the life force within.

Bone Marrow Nei Kung overlaps with three primary Taoist approaches to sexual energy: Healing Love, Sexual Energy Massage, and Chi Weight Lifting. These three methods are used to increase sexual energy and hormones in the body, providing the means to achieve great personal power and health.

The Healing Love practices enable a person to retain sexual energy, stimulate the brain, and rejuvenate the organs and glands to increase the production of Ching Chi (sexual energy). The techniques reverse the usual outward flow of sexual energy during the orgasmic phase of sex, and draw the Ching Chi upward into the body, thereby enhancing internal healing capabilities. The release of Ching Chi into the body through the Sexual Energy Massage or Chi Weight Lifting methods presupposes that it is already abundant within the sexual center. If one suffers from weakened kidneys or any internal dysfunctions, the Healing Love methods should be mastered to accumulate Ching Chi before attempting the other two methods.

In this book, exercises derived from the Healing Love practice are used as nonsexual techniques that help to rejuvenate the internal organs and glands with sexual energy. The Healing Love practices of Ovarian Breathing, Ovarian Compression, and the Power Lock can be found in chapter 1, “Exercises for the Female Reproductive System.”

While Healing Love prevents the loss of Ching Chi and rejuvenates the internal system, the Sexual Energy Massage, presented in chapter 2, releases higher concentrations of Ching Chi into the body for cultivating the bone marrow and stimulating the endocrine glands. Chapter 2 also presents the Internal Egg Exercise, which strengthens the sexual region and aids the transformation of raw sexual energy into life-force energy. When used together, the two practices constitute a safer method of disseminating sexual energy than Chi Weight Lifting.

Chi Weight Lifting, presented in chapter 3, is the ultimate practice for releasing sexual energy into the body. Its practice provides the greatest abundance of Ching Chi for healing and rejuvenation. It also releases maximum quantities of sexual hormones, which stimulate the pituitary gland to prevent aging. In addition, the technique exercises the fascial connections between the sexual and other internal organs, thereby strengthening the organs and glands.

However, Chi Weight Lifting is an advanced practice and should not be attempted without the proper training. After having received Universal Tao instruction, a student may proceed with caution to lift light weights attached to a stone egg held in the vaginal canal. At this level, the Sexual Energy Massage is used before and after Chi Weight Lifting, first to prepare the genitals, and afterward to replenish the circulation in the sexual center.

A woman’s health and her sexual vitality are also supported by proper nutrition and thorough cleansing of the body, especially its “front and back doors.” These topics are covered in chapter 4.

Chapter 5 offers a summary version of all of the exercises, for your ready reference.

All of these practices will aid you in breaking up any energetic blockages in the pelvic region, opening up the energetic pathways, and preserving optimum gynecologic health, supporting sexual vitality and your ability to maintain your sexual life well into advanced age without discomfort, pain, or malfunction.