Energiebewegung · Michael Goddard

Reference Materials

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Reference Materials

This page collects practices, arts, and traditions that have shaped Michael’s path over more than 30 years of study and teaching. These materials are not part of the formal Trust & Transform or Taoist Magnetic Body curriculum — they are offered here for reference, exploration, and personal enrichment.

Michael has taught classes in these disciplines across the United States and Europe for three decades. The videos and documents here draw from that teaching archive.

External martial art with internal effects

Bagua Zhang

Eight Trigram Palm

Bagua Zhang is a Chinese martial art built around continuous circular walking and constant spiral directional change. It trains the body to move as a unified energetic field — developing sensitivity, structural power, and the capacity to redirect force without meeting it directly.

Michael began his Bagua Zhang training in Hawaii under traditional lineage teachers and has taught the art for over 30 years in the US and across Europe. Bagua’s principles of spiraling, circular movement and yin-yang alternation run through much of the Taoist Magnetic Body curriculum.

Standing Postures

I Chuan

Standing Postures · Yi Quan

I Chuan (Yi Quan) is a Chinese internal martial art and health practice built entirely around standing meditation postures. The practitioner holds a series of positions — sometimes for extended periods — developing structural alignment, Chi refinement, and whole body-mind-spirit unity through stillness.

Michael has practiced and taught I Chuan standing work for over 30 years in the US and Europe. The stillness and internal Chi cultivated in I Chuan directly supports the energy circulation work in the Taoist Magnetic Body curriculum.

Movement practice

Rope Flow

Spinal articulation · Rhythm · Flow states

Rope Flow is a modern movement practice using a weighted rope to develop full-body coordination, spinal articulation, and rhythmic flow states. It bridges martial arts, dance, and athletic conditioning in a single accessible practice.

Michael uses Rope Flow as a warm-up and coordination tool. Like Bagua, Rope Flow moves cranial sacral fluid, lymph and blood to clean and energize the body. The wave patterns of Rope Flow through the spine complement the energy circulation work in the Taoist Magnetic Body curriculum.

Energy healing

Reiki

Channeled healing · Mikao Usui lineage

Reiki is a Japanese energy healing system developed by Mikao Usui in the early 20th century. It works through the laying on of hands to channel healing energy through the practitioner’s field into the recipient’s body.

Michael is trained in Reiki and has integrated its principles of channeled intention into his broader energy work across 30 years of practice and teaching in the US and Europe. Once Chi is cultivated and refined in the body, healing energy projection outwards through methods such as Reiki is a next logical step.

Although Reiki is not a main theme of the Taoist Magnetic Body curriculum, it is presented here as a foundational reference for students exploring the applied use of healing energy generated from the content of the curriculum.

Contemplative practice

Meditations

Taoist · Buddhist · Hawaiian · Shamanic · Somatic

A collection of meditation practices from various traditions that Michael has worked with over more than 30 years — Taoist, Shingon Buddhist, Hawaiian, Shamanic, and somatic. These are offered as standalone resources for personal practice alongside the formal curriculum.

Healing the Land

The Summer of Applied Spirituality

Berlin · Sachsenhausen · Hirsenheim · Bratislava · Hong Kong

After teaching in Berlin for several years, Michael and his students applied Bagua energy generation, Mikkyo exorcism techniques, and Reiki to clear dark energies from places of death and trauma — Nazi concentration camps, deportation rail stations, and other such places. They also visited places of health and positive energy to experience the contrast.