Baoding Balls & Magnetic Energy
We have updated a new video where Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates his unique take on the ancient practice of Baoding Balls, or Chinese Therapy Balls.
We have updated a new video where Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates his unique take on the ancient practice of Baoding Balls, or Chinese Therapy Balls.
Editor’s note (updated September 2026): This long essay by Sifu Dan Ferrera remains the clearest statement of what Develop Your Energy is about: real internal training over marketing. If you are new here, read the Start Here guide first, then come back to this when you have time to sit with it. As Develop Your…
A new advanced Tai Chi Ruler course has been posted with accompanying password protected video from Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrating the techniques written about in the course.
We sat down with Tim, a student of Sifu Dan Ferrera for just over a year. He also works on the website. In this sit down interview he talks about some of the benefits he has had through some of the courses on DevelopYourEnergy.net, not to mention being able to train under Sifu Dan’s guidance.
We’re still hard at work trying to make available as much information as we can and as easy to navigate as possible. Check out our new Qigong video page.
Our next installment of our Chi Kung Q&A with Sifu Dan Ferrera is now available. In this interview he answers the following questions: What are the effects of practicing Qigong? Does one gain “special powers” by practicing Qigong? Is Qigong medical or spiritual? Is Qigong religious?
Sifu Dan Ferrera recently published this article at CoSozo about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and how Yin and Yang affects one’s health. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the body’s internal organs or, more properly, “organ systems” are classified as being either Yin or Yang, which is somewhat analogous to electricity or magnetism. For example a…
Quick answer: Breathing is the fastest lever you have on your energy, health and lifespan. Slow, deep, diaphragmatic breathing raises oxygenation, calms the nervous system and is the first skill every Qigong system trains. The article below collects the research and the reasons; the practice is taught step by step in Qigong 101. Updated September…
First off Happy New Year to you all! Thank you so much for your support and your patience as we really ramped up DevelopYourEnergy.net in 2010. We hope to provide more resources in the near future. Stay tuned. We now have our first private area video for those who have purchased the Shaolin Nei Jing…