Testimonials*
Healing Yourself
Allergies
Seasonal Allergies
~Brooklyn, NY [excerpt] "I've tried different medicines. They gave relief but didn't cure me. This season I've lived allergy free and I credit it to the [Spring Forest Qigong] Active Exercises I've been doing [for the past six months]. I didn't take even one pill. Since there weren't any other changes in my lifestyle, diet, or anything, I credit the [SFQ] active exercise. Channels were cleared, immune system adjusted and here I am, happy and allergy free."
Arthritis
~Wynnewood, PA Norman Axe has been studying karate for some forty years and teaching it nearly as long. Several years ago, he developed severe pain in his right shoulder. The doctor took an x-ray and told him, "You have arthritis in your shoulder, and you have no cartilage." The doctor didn't offer any hope, so Norman looked into alternatives. He heard about Chunyi Lin, ordered the Spring Forest Qigong home study courses, and started doing the exercises and healing techniques for his shoulder. "I was breathing into the shoulder and seeing the pain turn to air or smoke each night before I went to sleep, and it got better and better and better. I went back to the doctor months later and showed him the improvement. He said, ‘There is no way you should be able to do what you're doing. You should be in excruciating pain. I can't explain how you can do it, but whatever you're doing, don't stop.'" "I'm 76 years old. I have to thank qigong and Master Chunyi Lin. I'm so excited about what he has done for me. I hear a lot of stories about everybody else, but I know what he has done for me, and I am just thrilled."
Brain Stem Bleeding
~Maple Grove, MN [excerpt] "Chunyi Lin and Spring Forest have had an amazing impact on my life. It's given me a way to live life more fully, happier. To me it's a God send. The practice of Qigong is something everyone can benefit from. Once you have had an experience with Qigong you want to keep it a part of your life"
Cancer
~Hammond, WI Kathy Beltrame was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma four years ago in 2007. Her doctor told her they needed to operate and scheduled the surgery. Shortly after that one of Kathy's clients came to her and said, "I'm supposed late reading the book and realized, "This is what I've been looking for." Her client had also given Kathy the Level 1 SFQ video and she started doing the Active Exercises. She went ahead with the surgery as planned and went on to study Level 1 and Level 2 Spring Forest Qigong and practiced daily. Kathy says she healed very quickly and has been cancer free for four years now. Kathy says the big surprise for her was the emotional benefit of her SFQ practice. When she went back to her oncologist for her 2 year check-up Kathy says he said to her, "I remember you. I made a note that you are so joyful." Kathy says that was such a surprise because she was not joyful most of her life. She is now and Kathy says she has been blessed to find Spring Forest Qigong and Master Chunyi Lin.
Breast Cancer Stage 4
~Hastings, MN [excerpt] "I rejected conventional cancer treatments from your classically trained oncologists because they didn't work the first time. This time it was my life that hung in the balance and I was resolved to find alternative measures to find healing. And, fast forward, after six, seven months of both medical treatments and visiting with Master Lin in the Spring Forest Qigong Center I am completely healed. My cancer's gone. My doctors call me a ‘walking miracle'."
Lymphoma - Stage 4
~College Park, MD [excerpt] "I was very ill. The last two hospitalizations I didn't think I was going to live. I really felt I was going to leave this body and move on. [Chunyi's] imagery of the butterflies was the first time I could actually see the cancer cells leave my body. It was the perfect imagery for me. I sincerely feel the first time I heard that I let go my cancer cells. So much so that I had a Pet scan a week ago and all the cancer does not show. I know it's the qigong that's helped me, that's made the difference."
Chronic Pain - Neck injury
~W. Lakeland, MN [excerpt] "I was in a lot of pain. I had a very serious neck injury. At that time I could barely move my neck. I had a severe disc injury. I couldn't turn my head at all to the side, not up or down, and I was in a lot of pain. It was impacting my life very, very severely. Doctors wanted to do a four level fusion on my neck. I started going to the [Spring Forest] Center ... and practicing every day. I never did end up having the surgery. Qigong really has been a miracle cure for me."
Fibromyalgia
Delta Wave Sleep
~Maplewood, MN Fibromyalgia –Spring Forest Qigong Healing Sessions Help Her Sleep Ruth Staus, RN, PhD, is a nurse practitioner. Every Wednesday night she volunteers to provide medical services for low-income people as part of a project called Love Grows Here at First Lutheran Church in St. Paul , MN . Several members of the Spring Forest Qigong International Guild ReachOut team, including Norma Solstad, also volunteer at Love Grows Here providing SFQ healing sessions. Ruth signed up for a qigong session. Had a good experience with the first one and kept signing up every week. Ruth has fibromyalgia and one of the challenges that come with that disease is difficulty sleeping. "Fibromyalgia patients are missing delta wave sleep and that's the sleep that makes you feel restored in the morning and we don't have that. I actually sleep quite well on Wednesday night's after I've had the qigong. It's my little treat for myself." Ruth says she's also developed a strong connection with Norma. "I can actually feel her energy." [At the end of Ruth's interview you can watch an edited version of Norma's SFQ healing session for Ruth. The video was shortened due to time limitations.]
Insomnia
~Vail, CO [excerpt] "I hadn't had a decent night's sleep in several years-- probably close to ten years. I was frustrated and looked for lots of different answers. Finally, when I came to Master Lin's Spring Forest Qigong, I said, ‘That sounds right.' It resonated with me."
Multiple Sclerosis
~San Diego, CA [excerpt] "It [Spring Forest Qigong] gave me my life back. It's been everything for me. So impactful and so important. It certainly was a huge paradigm shift for me. I didn't know anything about energy healing at all. I would certainly say that it's worth checking out. It's been amazing."
Mental Clarity
~Salinas, CA [excerpt] "Somehow the mental clarity I've been getting from qigong practice and the opening of my heart so I can interact better with the other people and give something valuable to them that combination has been really powerful. The last two years I've been probably doing my best work of my whole life."
Migraine Headaches
~Lindstrom, MN Trained in physics and engineering, Julia Froemke found it difficult to accept the concepts of energy healing. But, finding no western treatments that could relieve her migraine headaches and severe allergies she decided to explore alternative medicine techniques. Even then Julia says it wasn't until she learned Spring Forest Qigong that she found the relief and healing she had been seeking for so many years.
Macular Degeneration
~Pickford, MI [excerpt] "I had macular degeneration and at a visit to the doctor he told me it had turned wet and that it was quite severe and that it looked like I was going to lose my vision. He wanted to inject my eye with medication and I asked him to give me 2 months. And he asked me to check the grid everyday because he suspected I could lose my vision any day. During this 2 months I practiced a qigong exercise and used visualization. I visualized the m d leaving. I'd also seen the x-ray showing the color of the macular degeneration and I saw that going away and the clear eye. When I went back in 2 months and the wet macular degeneration was gone. So, then he wanted to see me in 3 months. I continued to do these exercises only the visualization. I visualized him telling me all the macular degeneration was gone. In 3 months when I went back all the macular degeneration was gone."
Pain - From Accident
~ Santa Barbara, CA [excerpt] "Four years ago I fell off a log and shattered my leg in lots of places and it broke in the knee joint, too. The osteo doctor I went to said, "Oh, you're going to have debilitating arthritis. You're going to need a knee replacement within five years. I kind of put out into the universe that I needed help healing my leg and Spring Forest Qigong ended up on my email. I learned about Chunyi through that. I ordered the CDs, Level One and Two and I did those and after four months I had to re-learn to walk again but the qigong helped me tremendously and it turns out that my leg healed perfectly. That joint line is flawless and there isn't anything that I can't do now that I could do before. And, in fact, I'm in better shape now that I've been in probably 25 years."
Parkinson's Disease
~Minneapolis, MN Charlie Blanchard was suffering from Parkinson's disease, lost his job and was sinking ever deeper into major depression when he first learned of Chunyi Lin and Spring Forest Qigong. Charlie says that's where his healing began. Through Chunyi and Spring Forest Charlie found new hope and his depression disappeared. His body began to heal and he opened his heart and mind to all the possibilities the universe holds. Then, he found a new doctor with a new plan. Charlie credits all three, Chunyi, Spring Forest and his new doctor for transforming his health and life.
Helping Others Heal
Assisting a Stage Performer
~Atlanta, GA A friend of Byron Gaskins is a choreographer and performer with the dance group from Dr. Michael Beckwith's Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. They were performing at a conference in Atlanta when Byron's friend, Dawn, became ill but went out on stage as scheduled. "I was sitting stage side so I had a real good close-up shot of what her expression was and it was very pained when she came out. I immediately put my hands under the table so nobody could see me doing Sword Fingers. I found some blockages in her chest and stomach. Went to work and cleared the blockages. When I felt peaceful enough I opened my eyes and she's coming center stage, she's out there by herself and she's just beaming. And I'm like ‘Yes. Yes. Yes!' So, I watched her the rest of the performance and it went perfect. I went back stage and was talking with her and a couple other performers and I pulled her aside and I said when you came out, how were you feeling? She says, ‘Oh, I wasn't. She says ‘As we were passing in the routine everybody said, ‘Smile,' She says, "I thought I was going to fall out. Let alone smile." I told her I sensed that. I went to work on you and by the time you came out center stage you looked like you were in great shape. She says, ‘I was. I felt it. I got it.' And she thanked me, thanked me, thanked me. So, that was my qigong healing experience."
Leukemia
~Long Beach, CA [excerpt] "A couple of years ago ... my mom was diagnosed with Leukemia. It wasn't an advanced stage. It was a mild stage but the doctors had been monitoring her blood. I told her about the qigong and got the active exercises for her and she started practicing. Then, one day I invited her on a telephone healing with Master Lin because they said we could invite in friends and family.. She did the healing and said she felt a lot of energy moving through. And, then, when she went for her blood test the next day, she got the results back and the doctor said she was completely normal. I just want to say thank you Master Lin and qigong really works."
Migraine Headaches
~Novato, CA Severe Migraine Headaches & Helping her Dog to Heal [excerpt] “Having had migraines for six years, I mean absolutely debilitating migraines and two phone sessions with Chunyi Lin they’re gone. That’s pretty major. [The migraines were] Horrible pain, I mean you can’t get out of bed. You don’t even want to look at the light, vomiting. I mean, uck. I wanted somebody to be able to heal me and be healthy and it turns out to have been Master Lin.”
Seizures
~St. Croix, MN In 1997, when Skyler Krull was seven years old, he began having seizures. When an MRI and EEG were unable to point to a cause, Skyler's neurologist recommended anti-seizure medication. But after trying several medications, still the seizures continued.
Just after starting seventh grade, as he was about to turn 13, Skyler's seizures became extremely severe. Subsequent hospitalization and testing revealed a brain tumor. Skyler's doctors felt confident that once the tumor was removed the seizures should stop. However, after a high-risk yet successful surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Skyler's seizures actually increased to nearly continuous episodes 18 or more hours a day. Skyler was unable to attend school for two years and required around-the-clock care.
His parents continued to seek answers and took him to the best neurologists they could find who continued to recommend trials of various anti-seizure medications. This led to Skyler at one point taking more than 30 pharmaceuticals each and every day and even more in the form of rescue or emergency meds. His doctors considered Skyler's case the most serious of all the cases at their clinic. Since both surgery and medication were ineffective, they didn't know what to do next.
It was at that point, in 2004 that Skyler's mother, Lisa Proctor, learned of a Spring Forest Qigong practitioner named Lesley Vincent.* From that very first meeting with Lesley, Skyler started to improve. Using the SFQ techniques she had learned from Master Chunyi Lin Lesley helped Skyler realize that he was born with the ability to help heal himself. As Skyler explains it, "Lesley gave me my power back. Until then I was powerless and I had no life."
It took a year to safely wean Skyler off of the more than 30 drugs he had been taking. Skyler kept improving, kept following Lesley's guidance and as he puts it, "Lesley taught me to transform my epilepsy with love." At Lesley's recommendation both Skyler and Lisa studied SFQ Levels 1&2 with Master Chunyi Lin.
It took time but with Lesley's help and guidance Skyler has grown into a happy and healthy young man who is in college studying eastern healing modalities. His goal is to help others to heal themselves as Lesley helped him.
*In 2010, Lesley Vincent became only the second person Master Lin has ever certified as a Spring Forest Qigong Master.
Helping Animals Heal
Nancy Robbins
~Vail, CO Nancy Robbins came to Spring Forest Qigong looking for help with her chronic insomnia. Finding the relief she was hoping Nancy began using the SFQ techniques she learned to help others, including "a little bitty dog" named Mushu. [excerpt] "She came into the veterinary clinic I'm the business manager for and the vet took one look at her and said, "Well, you know, she's on death's doorstep. She had fallen and had a concussion and had some improper treatment and by the time the people brought her into the office she was not doing so well. Two years old. And, so the vet went to work on her right away and I came in and used qigong and we had a chiropractor doing some cranio-sacral work and between the three of us in two days she went home in perfect health. And I got the final tune-up. I got to give her a send off treatment of qigong. And she was running around. Saying hello to everybody. We've heard from her family since and she's in great health. So that really, really moved me to be able to help her. (What did the vet think about all this?) She's all for it. She has a holistic practice with nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, and when I come back and I'm ready she has a room for me to practice qigong on the animals."
Judy Cameron
~Novato, CA Judy Cameron came to Chunyi Lin and Spring Forest Qigong for healing of her debilitating migraine headaches. Finding the healing she was praying for Judy used the techniques she learned in SFQ to help her pet Pug and wants to do more to help animals. [excerpt] "The story I wanted to share though is basically I've been a veterinary nurse for 30 years. My Pug dog in the last month and a half developed a mass of cellulites under his chin and it was pressing on his trachea. So I took him to the emergency vet clinic and they had to do a tracheotomy. He spent the first three days on antibiotics and tracheotomy care and all that. He could breathe better than he's ever been able to breathe because he's Pug but this mass was not going down. I didn't think about qigong because I've been so programmed in the other direction. But then I went, ‘this is my opportunity. My dog might die. My beautiful dog might die. What am I doing? Of course, qigong.' And for four hours I meditated and I did qigong. The next morning I woke up. The vet called and said, ‘Gosh, you know what, overnight the mass went down 40%.' It was enough to take the tube out and he's been on antibiotics for awhile to do the main stay of western medicine. But it was incredibly clear to me that it works. It works remotely. It doesn't matter if you're right here or a hundred miles away."