Sifu Matthew Cohen
Cultivate clarity, connection with yourself and others, heightened energetic awareness, and physical and emotional balance through Sacred Energy Arts Qigong — a dynamic fusion of ancient and progressive Qigong, breathwork techniques, meditation, and martial arts.
Do you wish you could avoid or diminish the harsher emotions of life — like pain, loneliness, sadness, and even outrage at injustice?
If so, you’re not alone. Yet, when we close ourselves off to life’s toughest feelings, we actually miss out on the golden nuggets that are waiting for us in the shadows.
Qigong expert Matthew Cohen created Sacred Energy Arts Qigong as a framework to help his students around the world embrace both light and darkness through a powerful combination of Qigong techniques (both ancient and progressive), breathwork, meditation, and martial arts.
As you bring yourself back into balance, you’ll expand your capacity to live a full life by welcoming in both personal and collective challenges.
Sacred Energy Arts Qigong empowers you to befriend your dragon — the inner gatekeeper of your full human and spiritual potential — so you can embrace and transmute heavy emotions, shining a light on your fears to move toward your inner wisdom as you tap into your natural well of energy.
Join us for a 7-module course as Matthew guides you through new Sacred Energy Arts wisdom and movement practices each class. You’ll increase your capacity to live peacefully and meaningfully amidst challenge and uncertainty… no longer letting worry, fear, anger, grief, and ego have the final say as you move toward embodied peace, harmony, and your innate power.
Matthew will amplify these teachings with poems, prayers, and other practices to help you cultivate and store vital life force.
As you’ll discover, Sacred Energy Arts Qigong equips you with ancient and leading-edge techniques you can use right away and refine over time — increasing your capacity to regulate your energy and face life’s joyful and difficult moments with ease and clarity.
Join Matthew to deeply explore Sacred Energy Arts Qigong’s three pillars — meditation, Qigong, and breathwork — to connect more deeply to your body and spirit, and your family, friends, and larger community. You’ll learn to easily recognize when you’re stuck, so you can use your new tools and techniques to reclaim your inner power, sovereignty, and a balanced perspective on the challenging aspects of life we all face.
In this healing 7-module course, you’ll:
- Experience how the ancient and progressive techniques of Sacred Energy Arts Qigong can help you balance and optimize your health — and expand your capacity to easefully experience life
- Utilize your breath as an ally to help you increase focus, attention, clarity, and energy — and reduce stress
- Master techniques to train your mind and heart for deeper presence, calm, meaning, and joy — and release negative and false beliefs
- Explore poems, prayers, and practices to cultivate and store vital life force
- Befriend your dragon — your innate inner power, gifts, and capacity to regulate your energy — so you can create a safe environment for growth and healing
- Tend to your practice regularly, encouraging it to flourish and bloom — so your Sacred Energy Arts Qigong practices becomes a source of stability and support
- Cultivate emotional fluency to move beyond your fears to more deeply connect with yourself and others around you
- Explore Medical Qigong practices to cultivate resilience and dissolve the obstacles in your life
- Discover a practice, Carrying the Medicine, to honor and keep ancient knowledge alive so you can share it with others
- Learn a practice to tune your body, mind, and spirit like a musician fine-tunes an instrument, so you can address your specific needs each day
Matthew will guide you to manage your energy so you can hold the full experience of life. You’ll learn to thrive within the wisdom, resilience, and harmony that exist in the interplay of light and darkness — and access your greater potential, authenticity, and gifts.
We all struggle at some point in life, and Matthew will share Sacred Energy Arts Qigong practices to expand your emotional fluency and radiant health for a more joyful, hopeful, connected, and creative way of life.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational course, Matthew will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to embrace and move through your emotions to strengthen resilience and attain radiant health with Sacred Energy Arts Qigong.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Matthew. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to master Sacred Energy Arts Qigong practices for personal growth and transformation.
Module 1: Forging the Circle to Set an Intention & Create a Safe Space for Growth & Healing
Sacred Energy Arts Qigong combines breathwork, meditation, and movement to harness the body’s natural energy.
As the course begins, you’ll learn how befriending the dragon is a deep transformation process that requires intention and focus. By setting the tone and intention, we create a safe environment for growth and healing.
As Matthew will share, energy awareness provides a deeper understanding of the energetic system and its effect on physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. The power of the breath cultivates inner calm and activates natural healing abilities. These practices nourish and support our journey towards radiant health, transforming us from the inside out.
The Sacred Energy Arts Qigong provides a powerful toolkit for personal growth and transformation, allowing us to unleash our full potential and live a purposeful life.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How to set a clear, purposeful intention
- Eight ways to increase your energy
- The details of your personal dragons, and why you should befriend them
- Techniques to unlock the power of breathing
- The gift of meditation — how to meditate while lying down, sitting, standing, and making love
- Guided practices, including Counting Breathwork and a Qigong practice called Closing the Gate
Module 2: Touching the Void to Ground in Emptiness & Become More Attuned to Your Inner Self & Intuition
Learning to welcome an unencumbered state can transform your life.
As Matthew will explain, by intentionally shifting from the secular to the sacred, you can access your true radiant nature and gain a fresh perspective. Spending time in this unencumbered state allows you to become more attuned to your inner self so you can be guided by your intuition.
The benefits of this space extend into your everyday life, grounding you and fostering greater peace and fulfillment. Relationships become more harmonious as you connect more deeply with yourself and others.
Intentionally moving into stillness unlocks the transformative power of this state. Through touching the void, you can tap into the power of this unencumbered state and enhance your wellbeing.
In this session, you’ll:
- Experience the power of stillness and emptiness
- Learn how to move from formless to form
- Recall your energy, dreams, and power during an exercise to clarify your intentions and regain power
- Raise and lower Qi (energy regulation) during the Qigong practice of bringing hands up and down
- Discover why less is more
Module 3: Watering the Roots of Your Practice to Develop a Deep Connection to the Earth & Tap Into a Greater Sense of Purpose
Tending to your practice helps you embrace the void and become more grounded in your truth.
As you consistently engage in your practice, it becomes your ally that supports you on your journey...
As Matthew will share, as you cultivate this alliance, you’ll experience a deeper connection to yourself and a greater sense of purpose. The void becomes less daunting, and you become more comfortable with the unknown.
Tending to your practice regularly encourages it to flourish and bloom and helps you develop resilience and cultivate inner strength.
In this session, you’ll explore:
- How your spiritual practice can become a source of stability and support in your life
- How to deepen your roots so you can develop an undisturbed connection to the Earth
- Ways to improve balance in your life and in your practice during a guided exercise featuring gaze, breath, and balance mudra
- A meditation experiential to help you notice when your mind wanders — so you can return to your breath
Module 4: Emotional Fluency to Transform Your Fears & Connect With the Hearts of Those Around You
Patterns of fear, anxiety, and grief can restrict your energy and limit your true expression…
Matthew will explain how, when you live from your truth, you’re free from these constrictions, able to move through the world with kindness and understanding.
Living from a place of truth allows you to connect more deeply with yourself and others as you see beyond your fears and connect with the heart of those around you. You’ll also become more resilient, able to bounce back from setbacks and challenges.
By breaking free from patterns of fear and anxiety, you open yourself up to new possibilities and experiences as you embrace life with greater passion and joy.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How to expand your emotional awareness using breath and emotion so you can locate feelings within the body (scan the body/breath/emotion)
- A guided practice featuring hand positions and mudras to harmonize emotions — so you can experience every feeling without going too high or too low
- How to develop emotional fluency — so you can set your feelings free instead of trapping them
- A training and holding exercise to nourish your heart
- Qigong and breathing practices to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression
Module 5: Energetic Healing — Medical Qigong Practices to Cultivate Resilience & Dissolve the Obstacles in Your Life
Discover the transformative power of self-healing Qigong practices, also known as Medical Qigong.
You’ll explore guided practices for dissolving blockages, cutting cords, and clearing channels — to help you seal your energy.
Through these practices, you’ll learn to identify areas where your energy is blocked and dissolve the obstacles holding you back. You’ll become more in tune with your body and more aware of your energetic state. As you work through these practices, you’ll cultivate greater resilience and radiance.
Self-healing Qigong is a powerful tool for cultivating a deeper connection to your body and energy — so you can overcome obstacles and move through life with greater ease and grace.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- A dissolving meditation to turn your emotions from ice to water to vapor
- How to cut energetic entanglements and discern where your boundaries aren’t in tact
- Qigong for detoxification and aligning energy and emotions
- Poems, prayers, and practices to cultivate and store vital life force
- Qigong practices to clear the channels and meridians in the body and organs
- A practice to help you emit Qi as you send energy through hands
Module 6: Tuning Your Body to Begin Your Day With Presence & Joy
Learn to tune your body, mind, and spirit like a musician fine-tunes their instrument. In this practice, you’ll discover ways to tend to your body and tap into your needs each day.
By becoming more attuned to your body, you’ll identify areas where you need to focus your attention. You’ll learn techniques for addressing these needs and nourishing your whole being for optimal health and balance.
Tuning your body is a lovely way to start your day that evokes presence and joy. With daily practice, you’ll be able to fine-tune your instrument and experience greater harmony in your life.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- A radiance meditation focusing on light and frequency
- Mind-streaming meditation to watch your thoughts unwind without judgment, allowing you to be more present
- Box breathing for relaxation and focus
- Tuning into your body like an instrument via a morning practice and meditation to prepare your body for the day
Module 7: Carrying the Medicine to Gracefully Navigate Life’s Challenges as You Keep This Ancient Knowledge Alive
As this course comes to a close, you’ll integrate new wisdom into your life and create lasting, positive change. You’ll learn how to develop habits that support your growth and keep your knowledge alive.
By practicing these gifts, you’ll gain valuable insight into yourself and the world around you. You’ll become more resilient and adaptable, able to navigate life’s challenges with simplicity and elegance.
By keeping these practices in circulation, you’ll be able to share your knowledge and inspire others on their own journeys of self-discovery.
It’s a great opportunity and honor to keep ancient knowledge alive. Carrying the Medicine is our chance to remember our teachers and mentors — those people who were kind enough to share some of their knowledge and experience with us, and for us to do the same for others.
In this final session, you’ll explore:
- How to apply everything you’ve learned to anchor a regular practice
- How to create lasting positive change — as you start small, over time you’ll build a habit that takes permanent hold in your life
- The importance of remembering your ancestors, teachers, and wayfinders
- How to carry the medicine so you’ll stay in alignment with core intention
- Ways to be generous, pay it forward, live an authentic life — and help others do the same
The Sacred Energy Arts Qigong Bonus Collection
In addition to Matthew’s transformative 7-module online course, you’ll receive this special bonus collection to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Breath Inside the Breath: Unlock Your Power
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen
In this hour-long video class, Matthew teaches you how to use Qigong and breathing practices as your allies — your dear friends that can offer clarity of mind and ease of spirit while invigorating your body. You’ll learn ways to focus your mind… build resilience and emotional harmony… and reduce stress and tension using breath, Qigong, and potent visualizations.
Sacred Energy Arts Practices
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen
In this 53-minute video class, you’ll learn the Stalking Scout Meditation to hone your perception and intuition and to nourish and heal your body and spirit. Several yin and yang balancing practices from Dragon Qigong and martial arts as well as mudras will help you attain balance and emotional fluency.
What People Are Saying About Sifu Matthew Cohen…
— Deborah Geffner: “There Is an Immense Well of Kindness in Matthew”
— Blake Abramovitz: “Mathew Is a Brilliant Practitioner Who Pours Himself Into His Teaching”
“Matthew is a master teacher who has a rare capacity to reach people exactly where they are, whether they are beginners or long-time practitioners.”
Matthew is a master teacher who has a rare capacity to reach people exactly where they are, whether they are beginners or long-time practitioners. He brings a wealth of lived experience to his teaching that’s palpable and offers this wholeheartedly to his students, each and every time he teaches in a way that is clear, direct, and authentic. Matthew is without a doubt, the real deal.
— Celeste Young
“I’ve never before seen such a drastic shift — both physical and mental.”
When I began practicing yoga with Matthew eight years ago, as a dancer, I believed that I was fairly in-tune with my body. However, after my first two weeks of classes with Matthew, I felt like a completely different person. I’ve never before seen such a drastic shift — both physical and mental. The Sacred Energy Arts method has been revolutionary for me.
— Jesse Holcomb
“Working with such an extraordinary teacher is a privilege and a blessing.”
For years I suffered from chronic back pain and couldn’t do even the simplest core exercises in other classes. Matthew helped me build a core strengthening practice that felt safe and helped me heal and build confidence. He is tireless and will give as much as his students can take. Working with such an extraordinary teacher is a privilege and a blessing.
— Evan Kopelson
“It was so amazing how relaxed and renewed I felt after Matthew’s session.”
I’m very happy to have had the chance to meet with Master Matthew Cohen and have a private session with him. As an athlete, I do high intensity exercise every day, which causes great fatigue and stiffness in my body — plus many injuries. It was so amazing how relaxed and renewed I felt after Matthew’s session. During the entire session, Matthew kept observing my body and my energetic state being able to adjust the practice specifically to me. His adjustments were exactly what my body needed as I felt myself slowly open. After the session, I felt better communication between me and my body — and hope I can remember and keep the feeling in the future.
— Liu Shiwen, Olympic gold medalist of table tennis, China
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Sifu Matthew Cohen
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from founder of Sacred Energy Arts, Sifu Matthew Cohen — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and will guide you to explore new Sacred Energy Arts Qigong practices each class.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
The Sacred Energy Arts Qigong Bonus Collection
- Breath Inside the Breath: Unlock Your Power
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen - Sacred Energy Arts Practices
Video Teaching With Sifu Matthew Cohen
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Training, Sacred Energy Arts Qigong: Befriending the Dragon
We feel honored that Sifu Matthew Cohen has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online training. This is a unique opportunity to learn from the founder of Sacred Energy Arts, whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about embracing and moving through your emotions to strengthen resilience and enjoy radiant health, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Sacred Energy Arts Qigong: Befriending the Dragon — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form 2 weeks from your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Sifu Matthew Cohen…
“Matthew’s teaching deepened and strengthened my practice on so many levels.”
Matthew’s teaching deepened and strengthened my practice on so many levels. The rare addition of Qigong has added a profound stillness to my life and is an inspiring, moving meditation. Most teachers I’ve known articulate their knowledge in a steady and cerebral way. Matthew takes it a graceful step further by connecting that knowledge through the emotional, physical, and spiritual, and allowing it to settle without force.
— Minnie Driver, actress
“Matthew has an incredible ability to blend many of the internal arts such as yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong together in one seamless flow.”
Matthew has an incredible ability to blend many of the internal arts such as yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong, together in one seamless flow. If you’re looking for something grounding as well as lifting energetically, go and check it out, and keep an open mind.
— Stefan Storace, Garden of Yoga
“I recommend Matthew to anyone who seeks to strengthen his or her physical and spiritual muscles.”
Over the past five years, Matthew has become my good friend, my yoga teacher, my spiritual mentor, and my training partner. Whether I’m kicking him during our training sessions or stretching in a yoga pose in his class, I always feel present when I’m in Matthew’s company. I recommend Matthew to anyone who seeks to strengthen his or her physical and spiritual muscles.
— David Grunwald, CEO, American Sunrise Communities
“Matthew Cohen is one of the most inspiring teachers on my yoga journey.”
Matthew Cohen is one of the most inspiring teachers on my yoga journey. I feel very lucky to have taken his training and have had the privilege to assist his teacher training many times since. He keeps inspiring me and delivering rich knowledge. Matthew’s teaching draws from multiple methods and wisdom. He is very creative and motivates and challenges the body’s potential. His teacher training offers a full range of teaching skills, and I consider his training to be one of the “must take” trainings if you want to become an excellent yoga teacher!
— Sean Ren, Yoga Yard China
“Working and training with Matthew is a joy and a deep exploration of strength, personal power, resiliency, and grace.”
Matthew is an incredible instructor of yoga, meditation, Qigong, Tai Chi, and martial arts. And, he is more than that. He is a genuine, fierce, and gentle spirit. Working and training with Matthew is a joy and a deep exploration of strength, personal power, resiliency, and grace. He offers a safe and courageous space that allows me to release obstacles in the way of ease in my practice and my life. Thank you, Matthew, for sharing your courage and presence, and offering your gifts, expertise, and Sacred Energy Arts — your unique blend of healing work — to the world. I am truly grateful.
— C. Pete Lee, yoga teacher
About Sifu Matthew Cohen
Sifu Matthew Cohen is the founder and creator of Sacred Energy Arts — a unique, integrated system of health and self-development drawing from the teachings of Qigong, martial arts, and yoga. Matthew developed this method after recognizing that Qigong, yoga, and the internal martial arts stand alone as great health systems. Together, the practices create a powerful and transformative experience. Matthew has been fully immersed in the study and application of martial, yogic, and healing arts for over 40 years, and he has taught in more than 15 countries.
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