Neigong. Internal Work for Transformation & Growth.
Ancient Daoist practices that cultivate strength, healing, and human potential from the inside out.
What is Neigong?
Neigong literally translates as Internal Work or Skill. It is a collection of energy techniques that transform the body physically and energetically from the inside out.
Practitioners develop resilience, balance, and vitality - enhancing every aspect of human potential.
At Water Neigong, we train Neigong as a path for health, healing, and spiritual development.
The 16 Components of Neigong
The Water Method of Neigong is built on sixteen interconnected components. According to oral tradition, the 16-part Neigong includes the original energy cultivation techniques that came out of the Kunlun mountains in China some 4000 years ago.
The Water Neigong Lineage
The Daoist Internal Arts of the Water Tradition have been passed down in an unbroken chain from master to disciple for millennia, preserving their authenticity and depth.
Liu Hongjie (Liu Hung Chieh) - recognised as enlightened within the Tien Tai Buddhist School and holding lineages in Bagua and Wu Taijiquan, he travelled to the mountains of Sichuan in the 1940s. There, he studied with Daoist elders for ten years, becoming a lineage holder of the Water Daoist Tradition of Meditation and was declared an Immortal.
Bruce Kumar Frantzis - in the 1980s, Liu Hongjie passed on the complete Water Method of Neigong and Daoist Meditation to Bruce Frantzis, recognising him as a lineage holder and encouraging him to bring this system to the West for the first time.
The Neigong Circular Learning Path
The Water Method Neigong is a whole, fully integrated Internal Arts system, where all the components feed each other synergistically.
Following a step by step progressive path to embody the material, the learning approach is circular rather than linear. Each of the 16 Neigong components is a segment of a continuous circle.
The Daoist Neigong Programme
Training in Neigong begins with foundational internal components, associated with the energies of Water and Wood.
Water Element Energy Flow - cleansing and releasing, it clears tension and energy blockages throughout the body.
Wood Element Energy Flow - expanding and circulating, it opens and reorganises the musculoskeletal and fascial systems, while mobilising energy within.
Water is soft Yin and Wood is soft Yang. Together, these create a balanced yin-yang foundation for safely progressing into the more advanced Neigong components of the Water Method.
The embodied Neigong is then used as the internal engine for Taiji or Bagua.
As Master Bruce Frantzis says:
“Neigong is the alphabet, Taiji is the writing.”