Fabrice Piche is doing Qigong Teacher Training and I Selfishly Hope No One Signs Up
WTF? You ask? Why?
Because he’s brilliant. Seriously. I have studied with qigong teachers in the US and China. Not just a little, but really in depth over 20 years. I have never seen this attention to detail and full understanding of diagnosis and theory from both a traditional and biomedical vantage point. The folks who are at his level are usually fucking weird and want you to swear an oath to them for life or join a cult of personality. No thanks. Fabrice just breaks it all down so it’s common sense simple. He can help you adjust a shoulder blade and you can feel your entire channel light up. He can tell by looking at you where the pressure is on your foot.
This is us on the beach in Los Cabos a few years ago. Now that he’s Mr. Famous fancy pants it’s harder to get time to see him.
He also has that crucial part that makes someone an expert: He is constantly in a position where he can fail.
People come in with impossibly complicated side effects from medications. He has an hour to help alleviate suffering to get a proof of concept.
Oh shit.
Yeah, he does so with Chinese medicine diagnosis. Powerful external qigong, and by teaching them to do it themselves so they don’t need him in the long run.
He works at Stem Aid as the head of the Chinese medicine department. This is a cutting edge Stem Cell Clinic I’ll speak on more in the future because it made me feel a decade younger. He works with some of the most influential people in the US who come to this clinic and work with him.
I think he could be making a bigger impact by not teaching clinicians and just working with his fancy pants clients removing medication side effects and getting older people looking beautiful and having great sex.
Just in his neighborhood alone he’s busy as hell. An MD clinic down the street has him treating their well heeled clients.
The neighborhood he’s in. Household income is around 4 mil. The neighborhood nearby? hundreds of millions.
People with more money than time left on earth and he gets them having sex when viagra stops working and then seeing him for more serious health concerns.
So yes he’s in demand. Yes he can name his price.
He speaks French, English, and Spanish fluently and draws from a large international market.
I think he should ignore teaching, unfortunately he comes from a family of teachers (like me) who brainwashed him into thinking it’s a fulfilling vocation.
His driving passion is teaching people who can diagnose because that is the only responsible way to teach advanced qigong practices. He loves to teach acupuncturists as it helps them clinically the fastest both with needles and with clients via zoom.
He assures me he has plenty of time and energy for both. Plus his classes are fun and he connects deeply with the people he helps.
He’s the main western disciple of Prof. Lin Housheng. He was one of the most researched qigong masters in China.
So yes if you learn from him your understanding of Chinese medicine will deepen and become more visceral in a way that opens the most obscure Chinese medicine theory and brings it down to earth. Your quality of life will go up and you will have a lot of fun.
But I kind of want him to take on the high end erectile dysfunction clients because I want him to get this huge ass beach house we checked out last time I was studying with him in Cabo. This way we can party with a better view and we can all stay in the same place.
But yeah, fine, whatever follow your calling Fabrice. Have a great time.
I’ll just walk a few blocks to the beach. Like some sort of peasant.
Serfs up!
So yeah, become his student. It will be a blast. He won’t have as much time for me, but whatever. I’m fine.
You are going to love him. He’s objectively lovable.
I get it we already know qigong or at least we think we do. That was my thought to be honest. This is an entirely different level of detail and he wants you to get it as deeply as he does as soon as possible.
Also he gets more 1:1 qigong work than he can handle so he refers to his students. Then they have round table discussion on diagnosis and treatment. Pretty nifty.
This is going to detract from some amazing projects I want to do with him so we can get that beach house, but you guys will have a great time and your quality of life will be forever improved.